Step 1 | Clear and Measurable Goals
A team of Smith consultants meets with your company's contacts to define clear and measurable goals to be achieved through development of a customized leadership development program for female executives or managers.

Step 2 | Formal Business Proposal
Findings from this meeting are presented back to your organization in a formal business proposal, along with suggested timelines for program design, testing and rollout.

Step 3 | Key Stakeholder Interviews
Smith curriculum designers and consultants interview key company stakeholders. Typically this involves interviews with crucial business executives, internal organization development and training consultants, appropriate human resources representatives, and others. During this period, it is vital to identify important internal owners and champions of the program that will support it as development proceeds. During this data-gathering phase it is also important to interview prospective women candidates for the program to determine leadership development needs from their perspective.

Step 4 | Preliminary Program Design
A preliminary course or program design is created, based on the in-depth interview process.

Step 5 | Design Review and Modification
A review of the initial training design is conducted with the corporate or organizational client. Input is used to modify the preliminary design, and create a finished design.

Step 6 | Faculty
A final training design is submitted to the client organization. Upon approval, formal design of the program is instituted, and a faculty of instructors is assembled in accordance with program components and identified learning objectives.

Step 7 | Inaugural Delivery and Evaluation
Full program rollout proceeds within your company. During initial delivery of the program, participants are asked to act as both participants and evaluators of the program design. Input gathered is then used to refine program components and learning objectives, based on identified needs (if any.)

Step 8 | Feedback Loop
Ongoing evaluation and assessment are used to continuously refine and modify program design and content, based on changing client requirements, or the need to modify the program to meet new program goals.

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