The Leadership Habit for New Leaders
Get off to a good start with your team and never build bad habits in the first place.

 Master the skills, tools, strategies, and mindset needed to have impact in your new leadership role
 Build foundational habits from the start 
 Have the conversations you need to be having with your team
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Soft skills are everything.

Conversations and habits are the way.

70%

On-the-job practice

With SkillsGym's unique Habit Method, participants build skills quickly and effectively; by practicing micro-habits that fit into daily activities.
20%

Through conversation

We don't build skills on an island. 90% of our habits are the result of our environment, so in building new habits, it's smart to involve those around you. 
10%

Formal learning

Our live sessions are bite-sized, exciting, interactive activities designed to activate people toward impactful and measurable behavioral change.

Build key skills as a new leader

Step into your leadership role with confidence and competence with this powerful training program designed to ensure new leaders hit the ground running. Setting the stage for success, this comprehensive program equips you with essential leadership tools, techniques, and strategies to make an immediate impact and build a strong foundation for long-term growth. Don't miss this transformative opportunity to launch your leadership journey on the right trajectory and achieve outstanding results from day one.

Our approach to skill development makes it easy and effective by breaking down each skill into 3 foundational sub-skills, allowing you to focus on building each sub-skill for two weeks, and by the end of the sprint, you'll have mastered the skill as a whole.

1 skill - 3 sub-skills - 6 weeks

#1 Join the live session

Follow the live session on each skill, our expert trainers will help you get started and set you up for success!

#2 LEARN IT

Learn more about each sub-skill on the platform.

#3 TALK ABOUT IT

Have a conversation on-the-job about each sub-skill.

#4 MAKE IT A HABIT

Build a daily habit to practice each sub-skill in daily activities.
Program overview

The leadership habit for new leaders - fundamentals

Build key habits around 5 fundamental leadership skills during the 8-month program
  • 5 skills - 5 live training moments 
  • 5 on-the-job development programs
  • Kick-off, peer-coaching and habit helpdesk 
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01

Giving feedback

Learn how to give feedback that directly impacts your (team members) growth and success.

02*

Practicing empathy

Use tactical empathy to listen to your new team and built rapport to get off to a good start.

03

Check-in conversations

The consistent habit of focused and frequent check-in conversations is the single most important habit for building high-performing teams.

04

Goal setting - basic

Build a regular cadence of setting and reviewing goals as a proven way to achieve results. 

05

Creating a feedback culture - basic

One of your first jobs as a leader is to install an effective feedback culture, providing yourself and all team members with the feedback needed to grow.
* Practice lab ('deep dive' training including 1/2 day session with business actor)
Program overview

The leadership habit for new leaders - advanced

Build key habits around 5 more advanced leadership skills during the 8-month program
  • 5 skills - 5 live training moments 
  • 5 on-the-job development programs
  • Kick-off, peer-coaching and habit helpdesk 
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01

Leading with vision

Take the first months on the job to develop a strong vision for the team - it's purpose, success, and focus for daily activities.

02*

Situational leadership

Adapt your leadership approach to the needs (in terms of skills and motivation) of your team members.

03

Accountability

Holding yourself and others accountable sets the standard for your team's culture from the start.

04

Asking the right coaching questions

Don't come in like you know everything. Ask lots of calibrated questions in daily activities to coach yourself and the team through the first months. 

05

Engagement and motivation

Don't assume you know what motivates people. Build the proper habits to build engagement and commitment in your first months.
* Practice lab ('deep dive' training including 1/2 day session with business actor)

1% better every day.

Conversations and habits are the way.

What's included in each program?

The duration of both programs (fundamentals and advanced) is 8 months, including the following activities:

#1 Monthly live sessions

Energize & activate

  • Kick-off keynote 'How to build new habits and skills'

  • 5 live 90-minute kick-start sessions

  • The sessions are delivered by our leadership experts and are designed to get people started with building new habits and having more and better conversations on-the-job

#2 Practice lab

Train new skills

  •  'Deep dive' training session (3 hours online or full day on-site)

  •  Includes a 1/2 day session with a business actor to simulate real-life conversations and get personalized feedback and development suggestions

#3 Skills development programs

Master 5 key skills, step-by-step and habit-by-habit

  •  5 evidence-based skill development plans to build skills on your own/in team (self-led learning and team-learning)

  •  Access to our platform (or scorm files hosted on your LMS)

#4 On-the-job conversations

Have more and better conversations on-the-job

  •  The skills development programs include 15 guided conversations to have with your boss, colleagues, and team to include them in your skills development journey

#5 Peer-coaching program

Achieve your first coaching successes

  •  Method for peer-coaching to build in a system for social accountability and practicing coaching skills throughout the program

#6 Masterclass 'How to build new skills'

Master the meta-skill of learning to learn

  •  Evidence-based method for accelerated mastery of skills through focus on sub-skills and micro-skills

#7 Masterclass 'How to build new habits'

Master the meta-skill of building new habits

  •  Evidence-based method for building habits

  •  Build foundational habits as a new leader

  •  Learn how to coach others in building new habits

#8 Habit helpdesk

Get extra support

  •  30-minute habit helpdesk after the live sessions for Q&A

Why choose us?

Use our experience, habit method and proven tools (80+ skills development programs and 400+ guided (team) conversations) to build your own leadership development program.
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Proven track record

SkillsGym is powered by CUTESolutions, that has been designing successful leadership programs for 20 years (Cargill, Deloitte, Proximus, IKEA, Mediafin...).

Evidence-based habit method

Good leadership programs go beyond awareness and skills development. With our habit method, your leaders will build transformative and measurable habits.

Real impact

Together we decide how we will measure real impact on engagement, performance, talent development and retention.

Agile & flexible approach

We can build a complete leadership program for you, or use SkillsGym Plug-in (using our habit method and development programs) to add habit design to your existing programs.
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The Leadership Habit for New Leaders

Basic program

Hybrid training program that consists of 5 live sessions + 5 on-the-job programs
  • Duration: between 5-8 months
  • Max. 50 participants per journey
  • 1 Kick-off session (2 hrs)
  • 5 Kick-start sessions (90 min)
  • Practice labs (max. 8 participants per group - 1/2 day)
  • Access to our platform (5 skills per program)
  • Access to online master classes (for peer-coaching, How to build new habits, How to build new skills)

Basic + advanced

Hybrid training program that consists of 10 live sessions + 10 on-the-job programs
  • Duration: between 10 - 15 months
  • Max. 50 participants per journey
  • 2 Kick-off sessions (2 hrs)
  • 10 Kick-start sessions (90 min)
  • Practice labs (max. 8 participants per group - 1/2 day)
  • Access to our platform (5 skills per program)
  • Access to online master classes (for peer-coaching, How to build new habits, How to build new skills)

SkillsGym Enterprise

Pricing based on #skills and #users
Hybrid training program (live training activities, online learning, on-the-job activities) that consists of building key skills.
  • Scale SkillsGym to your entire organization
  • Train the Train approach possible
  • Solution for team-coaching
  • Give training credits to your managers and let them book trainings directly

Client success

Whether it's a full SkillsGym membership or by using SkillsGym learning elements to plug into and reinforce existing learning programs, below are just a few of our most recent success stories.

SAMSUNG

For Samsung's Talents of the Future program, we used SkillsGym Plug-in to build a customized learning platform for them.

PROXIMUS

For Proximus' Pro Track leadership program, we used SkillsGym Plug-in to build a customized learning platform for them.

EUROCLEAR

With SkillsGym, 40 key soft skills are being built by 3000 employees.

DEGROOF PETERCAM

Using SkillsGym Plug-in, we support this investment bank in building awareness and habits around diversity and inclusion.

ALD AUTOMOTIVE

With SkillsGym, their managers have built new key leadership habits and strengthened their management community.

ANTWERP POLICE

With SkillsGym, their managers have built new key leadership habits and strengthened their management community.

BNP PARIBAS

Using SkillsGym Plug-in, we delivered the session "Overcoming Imposter Syndrome" for 300 employees on Internal Women's Day.

LINEAS

With SkillsGym, their managers have built new key leadership habits and strengthened their management community.

KBC

Using SkillsGym Plug-in, KBC employees are building critical skills around ownership, accountability and decision making.

BOORTMALT

With SkillsGym, their managers have built new key leadership habits and strengthened their management community.

CORESO

With SkillsGym, their managers have built new key leadership habits and strengthened their management community.

MEDIAFIN

CUTESolutions designed and delivered a customized leadership program for Mediafin leaders, and used SkillsGym Plug-in to support more and better leadership conversations on-the-job.
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