Sounding Board is focused on leader transformation by providing modern, scalable coaching and mentoring software, world-class coaching, and strategic program design — all through our flexible Dynamic Leader Development Suite. Through our suite, we empower organizations to integrate technology into their leader development strategy and practices, bolstering the impact they can achieve.
Our suite is designed to support the leader development needs of all users. Below, see how users can benefit from Sounding Board:
For Sponsors & Stakeholders
- Elevate Leadership Development with Tech Integration: See how integrating technology into your leader development strategy and practices boosts the experience and drive meaningful business impact. Our tech-enabled approach gives you clearer insights into engagement quality, making it easier to measure impact, improve programs, and track leadership growth.
- Uncover Trends: Gain visibility into key organizational trends and understand how current leadership development efforts address these needs.
- Boost Manager Involvement for Greater Organizational Impact: Our tech-enabled approach makes it easy for managers to actively participate in their leader's development, strengthen leader-manager collaboration and alignment, and drive more meaningful business outcomes.
For Admins
- Elevate Leadership Development with Tech Integration: See how integrating technology into your leader development strategy and practices boosts the experience and drive meaningful business impact. Our tech-enabled approach gives you clearer insights into engagement quality, making it easier to measure impact, improve programs, and track leadership growth.
- Automate & Simplify: We reduce the administrative burden by automating routine processes and streamlining the building, delivery, management, and measurement of multiple programs.
- Leverage Matching Algorithm: Leverage our matching algorithm for lasting, impactful coaching and mentoring pairings.
- Manage Coaches & Mentors in One Place: Manage both internal and external coaches and mentors in one place.
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For Coaches
- Focus on Impactful Engagement: Manage your coaching engagements efficiently by reducing administrative tasks allowing you to focus on driving impactful leadership development.
- High-Quality Coach Matching: Complete your work style assessment and coach profile to showcase your skills and experience. This information is crucial for the coach-matching process, ensuring that you and your coachee are a great match.
- Explore Impact through Reflection: Gain deeper insights into your coachees' development through surveys and forms while exploring and reflecting on your coaching approach and impact.
- Capture & Showcase Growth: Partner with your coachees to document their development and mindset shifts in the Leadership Roadmap. This enhances visibility into their development to managers and the organization and provides valuable insights into key leader development trends.
- Enhanced Interaction: Our tech-enabled approach allows you to keep the engagement humming inside and outside the coaching session by leveraging in-app chat, notes, and sharing resources.
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For Coachees
- Stay Connected and Organized: Effortlessly manage your coaching journey by scheduling sessions, accessing resources, and chatting with your coach so you can focus on leadership development instead of admin tasks.
- Reflect and Track Your Growth: Engage in ongoing reflection on your leadership goals and self-perceptions of your leadership. Utilize surveys and forms to gain deeper insights into your development, track progress, and identify growth areas over time.
- Capture & Showcase Growth: Partner with your coach to document your development and mindset shifts in the Leadership Roadmap. This enhances your manager's and organization's visibility into your development and provides valuable insights into key leader development trends.
- Extend Development: Boost your growth by collaborating with your manager. Use tools like the Leadership Roadmap to align on goals and start conversations about development opportunities, helping you build on your coaching experience and continue growing.
For Managers
- Deepen Impact: Your role in developing the leaders on your team is crucial to their growth, as well as the overall team's and organizational success. Our tech-enabled approach simplifies prioritizing leader development by enhancing visibility into leaders growth and progress, ensuring you stay informed and aligned with their development journey.
- Support Growth with Feedback Offer feedback through surveys to identify key development areas for your leaders and provide guidance to reinforce their growth, ensuring alignment between individual progress and overall team goals.
- Extend Development: Stay connected to your leaders' development during coaching and mentoring to support their ongoing growth. Use tools like the Leadership Roadmap to align on goals and spark conversations about development opportunities, helping them build on their coaching and mentoring experiences.
For Mentors
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Maximize Leadership Growth and Impact: Mentoring can deepen your leadership development, offer valuable learning opportunities, and positively impact how your mentee views their growth and role within the organization. You’ll create outcomes that benefit you, your mentee, and the organization.
- Ensure High-Quality Matches with a Detailed Mentor Profile: Complete your workstyle assessment and mentor profile to highlight your expertise, define target mentees, and set your capacity. This information is crucial for the matching process, helping ensure that you and your mentee are a great match.
- Streamline Engagement: Keep mentoring engagements on track with simple scheduling and centralized mentor management.
- Enhanced interaction: Our tech-enabled approach allows you to keep the engagement humming inside and outside the mentoring session by leveraging in-app chat, notes, and sharing resources.
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For Mentees
- Maximize Leadership Growth and Impact: Mentoring can deepen your leadership development, experience valuable learning opportunities, and positively shape your view of your growth and role within the organization. Together, you’ll create outcomes that benefit you, your mentor, and the organization.
- Stay Connected and Organized: Easily manage your mentoring journey by scheduling sessions, accessing resources, and chatting with your mentor, so you can focus on leadership development instead of the admin work.
- Ensure High-Quality Matches with a Detailed Mentee Profile: Complete your workstyle assessment and mentee profile to highlight areas you want to grow and write a personalized introduction. This information is crucial for the matching process, helping ensure that you and your mentor are a great match.
- Extend Development: Boost your growth by collaborating with your manager. Use tools like the Leadership Roadmap to align on goals and start conversations about development opportunities, helping you build on your mentoring experience and continue growing.