WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ken Blanchard Companies, the world’s premier leadership development and engagement consulting firm, announces a breakthrough pricing opportunity for federal agencies to elevate leadership capacity and address workforce disengagement and dissatisfaction, which are paralyzing our nation’s most critical workforce and impairing mission success.

Blanchard’s Core Solutions License Package allows all agencies to meet their missions with greater flexibility and effectiveness by offering a tiered-pricing model based on headcount. The package enables agencies to leverage combined government-buying power and have greater access to training solutions at the individual, team and executive levels than ever before. The train-the-trainer qualification process quickly moves agencies to self-reliance, an important ingredient to reducing dependency on outside consulting fees.

“With the current continuing resolution expiring December 11 and the likely continuation, these solutions allow for unprecedented savings and training advancements to make a tangible, substantial impact and enhanced return on investment where it’s needed most – our federal workforce,” said Paul Wilson, vice president of federal solutions at Blanchard. “We shaped this package to make it easier for agencies of all sizes to meet missions and achieve measurable, lasting change.”

Core Solutions License Package

There are more than 400 human resource leadership solutions used across government, but the 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) revealed engagement and satisfaction to be at an all-time low. The annual licensing solution allows agencies to implement a proven, affordable, award winning end-to-end Leadership Development Maturity curriculum, resulting in more than $1 billion in savings if adopted government-wide. To view the full suite of solutions, visit www.kenblanchard.com/licensing-package-for-gov. The package also includes:

• Training for Trainers model qualifies up to one trainer per 1,000 employees on the included Blanchard Core Solutions, allowing agency leaders to own the instructional process that has succeeded for some of the highest-performing organizations today, including companies such as Eli Lilly, Proctor & Gamble and Walmart.
• Unlimited Course Materials Reprint License permits agencies to print and distribute proprietary materials throughout their organization. This allows agencies to firmly establish and instill one common leadership language and framework that is understood at all levels. Blanchard is the only company that can provide the opportunity to rapidly and broadly scale a complete Leadership Maturity Curriculum Continuum through a reprint license.

New Demands, New Solutions

“The low level of employee engagement may be the single biggest challenge to government leaders and, frankly, the workforce has very little confidence that the 2014 FEVS results will be used to make his or her agency a better place to work,” said John Pereira, retired Chief of Corporate Learning at Central Intelligence Agency. “We need to reverse that thinking and invest in our workforce to directly connect training, performance and other aspects of professional development with mission excellence. This is a chance to re-stoke the passion for public service, greatly increase the engagement of each government employee and ensure strong leadership capacity at every level.”

Applying a value-based, people-centric tool that is comprehensive at all levels gives agencies the ability to realize a common passion and accountability throughout an organization. As accessibility to training is a primary success factor for many government organizations, Blanchard’s solutions package grants agencies a transformative approach to motivate and evolve the nation’s most critical workforce.

“With a common language and framework, agencies are able to communicate across siloes, thereby strengthening workforce engagement, instilling a sense of confidence and accelerating mission performance,” Pereira said. “Altogether, strong operational performance and efficiencies are achieved when employees are able to move up, across or outside their own silo with a shared leadership framework, and Blanchard is giving them the opportunity to do just that.”

To learn more about the Blanchard Core Solutions License Package available under the General Services Administration Schedule 874-1, 874-4 and 874-5 contact Paul Wilson at paul.wilson@kenblanchard.com or (703) 430-7145 and visit www.kenblanchard.com/government.

About The Ken Blanchard Companies^®

With more than three decades of helping leaders and organizations, more than 18 million books in print, programs offered in more than 12 languages, and clients across six continents, The Ken Blanchard Companies is recognized as one of the world’s foremost leadership, organizational and engagement consulting firms. The company’s groundbreaking thinking and memorable learner experiences create lasting behavioral change that has measurable impact on the organizations with which it works. Blanchard has partnered with federal, state, local and military agencies to develop leadership capacity, improve workplace cultures and drive organizational change and strategic alignment. Using a collaborative diagnostic process, Blanchard helps identify each agency’s unique needs and business issues, and then helps to develop an appropriate leadership strategy to increase employee engagement and organizational performance.

As the innovator of Situational Leadership® II—the most widely used leadership development system in the world—the company’s behavioral models add a situational context to the training experience so individuals learn to be more productive in real-world scenarios and make the shift from learning to doing more quickly and effectively. Learning takes place through multiple modalities, from virtual to instructor-led experiences.

To view Blanchard’s GSA Schedule catalog, please visit: www.kenblanchard.com/government