Inspiring Leadership

Building a team of leaders

ERDMAN / INSPIRING LEADERSHIP

Leadership at ERDMAN shows up in our behaviors regardless of titles. ERDMAN invites constructive leadership at all levels through a culture that asks everyone to grow, learn, and become their best selves. We invest in our people’s development inside and outside of our workplace.

We believe we must continue to grow as people and want each of us to reach our fullest potential while helping others develop along the way.

At ERDMAN, we believe growth and development starts with a strong sense of self awareness at the individual level. We provide team members with a variety of tools to inquire about their personal styles and effectiveness, ranging from DiSC to emotional intelligence assessments. Such resources determine a baseline of how each person can thrive in our constructive culture. It also sets the stage for success and coachability, while cultivating a collaborative team with strong relationships.

We inspire leadership at ERDMAN in various ways:

Monthly 1:1

Our team members and leaders connect at least once a month to discuss ideas and learning opportunities. ERDMAN’s unique approach to this dedicated time focusing on what the team member wants to explore presents many opportunities to learn and share information.

Career Development

ERDMAN’s people development philosophy is simple. Our focus is on the entire person and creating opportunities to develop. We take a holistic approach to foster both personal and professional growth, giving the responsibility to team members to understand and drive toward their passions and biggest impact. We achieve this through intentional efforts such as career paths, development plans, mentorship opportunities, and a variety of tools and training to understand and develop ourselves first.

Community Impact

ERDMAN is actively involved in community service, as both a company and as individuals, inside and outside of the workplace.

INSPIRE is ERDMAN’s distinguished and customized 12-month program of workshops and small-group coaching sessions. It develops leadership skills, identifies and resolves business challenges, builds relationships, and makes a positive impact in what our people do. Our INSPIRE graduates exemplify leadership effectiveness and commit to Integrative Thinking^™ to accomplish our best work together. The program also calls on past graduates to coach and mentor developing leaders to work together to identify and solve real business challenges.

To further foster a constructive culture comprised of leaders, we promote learning and skill development from day one:

Onboarding: New hires are intentionally invited to ERDMAN’s culture. They work alongside their leaders, team members, and mentors as part of an immersive onboarding plan to learn and thrive.
Project Delivery Training: ERDMAN’s delivery model is unique. We train our team members to understand our truly integrated model and how we can best collaborate. Team training and assessments support high quality delivery and continuous improvement.
Thought Leadership: ERDMAN is comprised of various thought leaders. Each is encouraged to research, become published, speak at conferences, teach team members, and maintain their professional certifications and knowledge. To help sustain our thought leadership, ERDMAN financially supports people’s continuing education, licenses, and certifications.

EMPLOYEE TESTIMONIALS

The ERDMAN INSPIRE program has had a tremendous impact on both my career and personal wellbeing. It gave me the tools to be more aware of how I communicate, and perhaps more importantly, how others communicate. I am a better listener and more self-aware. As a result, I respond to challenges in a very productive manner. My professional and personal relationships are stronger due to my ability to hear those around me, and problem solve collaboratively. Three years after the program, I am more grounded and secure with myself than at any other time in my career. But I am still growing. And that is the beauty of the principal methods learned through INSPIRE – they encourage continual growth. This translates to being a positive influence on those around me.

Through ERDMAN’s career development offering, I have the ability to customize my career path. A core development team assembles to meet and review my progress. They offer insights, tools, and feedback throughout my career journey, which aligns my proficiencies and aspirations with opportunities that coincide with ERDMAN’s greater mission and vision. Through a combination of available career development support and determination, I have taken advantage of advancement opportunities that correspond with my career development plan. I greatly value the process, its impact on my career trajectory, and its role in helping me bring my best self to work each day. I have grown as a team member and leader through ERDMAN’s career development program, helping others navigate the program and discover tools available to them to develop and perform at their highest level.

I’ve always valued a complete career experience. Gaining technical knowledge from a community of experts at ERDMAN has been great, but developing personally has been just as rewarding. INSPIRE—a year-long leadership development program—was a defining career milestone. It helped me and others succeed, both in and out of the office. Community and culture are as important as our projects, and are the foundation of our identity. We hire and develop a total person, and our clients appreciate this.