What we actually learn about method: structuring a executive leadership initiative in Bern over 90 days
A CFO from a watch group called me on a Tuesday evening. "We've got a thing." In Bern as elsewhere, that's often how it begins. A executive leadership transformation doesn't play out in two days or two years. Ninety days is the window in which an observable, measurable change can be produced without exhausting the organisation. Here is the sequenced method we use in Bern.
Days 1-15: diagnosis and framing
Five internal interviews, two field observations, one document review. Goal: produce a one-page framing that precisely names the target behaviour, the linked business stake and the responsible sponsor. Without this document, what follows drifts. One figure stayed with us: an average CHF 12,800 per executive in Bern, with measurable impact in just 4 out of 10 cases.
Days 16-30: sponsor and collective alignment
The sponsor publicly states the stake to the team. Short (20 minutes) but the moment that legitimises everything that follows. We systematically prepare it together — message, tone, formulation of expectations.
Days 31-60: guided practice
Two 4-hour collective workshops three weeks apart, complemented by individual coaching for key profiles. The phase where executive leadership shifts from declared to practised.
Days 61-80: anchoring through rituals
We install the new behaviours into existing rituals: weekly team review, one-to-ones, steering committee. No new meeting — we transform meetings that already exist. That's what makes the change sustainable. (our executive and employee training programmes)
Days 81-90: impact review
Honest measurement: follow-up interviews, field observation, business indicators. We separate what genuinely changed from what stayed declarative. This review produces the next decision: extend, deepen, or stop.
What stays with us
What strikes us in Bern is the loneliness of the leaders carrying these issues. They often have no one to talk to without political stakes. Creating that space is sometimes more useful than an entire training programme. To go further: explore the Executive Leadership training in Bern, or browse our executive and employee training programmes in Switzerland.
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