Leadership Development Program for Branch Managers
Designed for front-line leaders, this program equips branch managers to translate enterprise strategy into local market results growing deposits and loans, elevating customer experience, and safeguarding compliance. Participants build skills in data-driven planning, sales pipeline and portfolio management, team coaching, service excellence, and risk/operations controls, applying practical toolkits immediately on the job. The outcome is a high-performing, customer-centric branch with stronger P&L, credit quality, and community impact.

Program Description
The Branch Chiefs Leadership Program is a 17-course, practice-first curriculum that turns experienced managers into enterprise-minded leaders who deliver consistent branch performance. Built around five capability tracks—leadership, mentoring, group collaboration, coaching, and performance improvement—the program helps chiefs translate bank strategy into local execution, strengthen sales and service discipline, and uphold risk and compliance standards. Participants learn data-driven planning, stakeholder communication, and decision rights that increase speed and accountability while improving customer experience and community impact.
Learning is immersive and immediately applicable: case labs from real branch scenarios, peer problem-solving studios, and guided coaching sprints that embed new habits on the job. Each chief leaves with a 90-day branch acceleration plan, a mentoring and coaching cadence for their teams, and a performance dashboard that tracks growth (deposits, loans, cross-sell), quality (NPL/arrears, audit exceptions), and service (NPS, first-contact resolution). The result is a scalable leadership bench and branches that execute with consistency, integrity, and measurable results
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, particpants will be able to:
Build and coach high-performing teams
Use mentoring, feed-forward feedback, and delegation to grow capability; establish coaching cadences that lift productivity, engagement, and accountability.
Lead effective group collaboration
Run focused huddles and problem-solving sessions, resolve conflict constructively, and drive cross-functional coordination to unblock work faster.
Grow revenue with disciplined sales management
Manage pipelines and portfolios with data; improve conversion and cross-sell while strengthening relationship coverage in priority segments.
Elevate customer experience and trust
Map key journeys, set service standards and recovery protocols, and raise NPS/first-contact resolution through knowledge sharing and frontline empowerment.
Strengthen risk, compliance, and continuous improvement
Embed controls and checklists, use dashboards and PDCA/A3 cycles to reduce exceptions and cycle times, and deliver a 90-day branch acceleration plan.
Translate strategy into branch results
Turn corporate priorities into clear OKRs, scorecards, and weekly rhythms so people, process, and budgets align to growth, service, and risk targets.
What You Learn
This course will include knowledge checks at the end of each section/module, featuring multiple-choice questions, matching exercises, and short scenario-based questions to reinforce understanding and assess application of key concepts.
Course 1: Organizational Transformation and Agility
The Organizational Transformation and Agility course equips senior leaders to steer enterprise-level change that delivers measurable value. Grounded in research and real-world case studies, the program guides executives through diagnosing current state, clarifying strategy, and designing an operating model that aligns culture, leadership, knowledge management, organizational learning, and an Agile mindset.
Course 2: Leading with Emotional Intelligence
The Leading with Emotional Intelligence course helps senior leaders turn EQ into a strategic advantage that elevates performance, trust, and culture. Grounded in contemporary research and the Tessema Multiple Intelligence Framework (TMIF), the program builds mastery in self-awareness, self-management, empathy, social and cultural intelligence, and resilient decision-making under pressure.
Course 3: Coaching and Mentoring Skills
Coaching and Mentoring The Coaching and Mentoring Skills course equips executives to develop talent and succession pipelines by adopting a leader-as-coach mindset and building a scalable coaching culture. Participants master core capabilities deep listening, powerful questioning, goal contracting, and accountability—while learning when to use coaching vs. mentoring vs. sponsorship.
Course 4: Inspirational Leadership
The Inspirational Leadershipcourse enables executives to turn purpose and strategy into momentum that people can feel and follow. Participants learn to craft clear, credible narratives and deliver them with executive presence—using storytelling frameworks (SCQA, ABT), message maps, and visual metaphors—while designing the rituals and recognition systems that sustain energy (all-hands cadence, shout-outs, “wins” dashboards).
Course 5: Performance Managment
Performance Management focuses on helping leaders align goals, monitor progress, and drive accountability. Participants learn to set clear expectations, track leading and lagging indicators, and provide timely feedback that balances support with accountability. They practice using structured check-ins, performance dashboards, and development conversations to raise individual and team output. Leaders leave with a 90-day performance cadence plan and simple scorecards that connect daily actions to organizational results.
Course 6: Self-Awareness and Relationship Management
course helps leaders turn inner clarity into outer impact. Grounded in the Tessema Multiple Intelligence Framework (TMIF), participants surface values, strengths, biases, and triggers; build routines for emotional regulation; and craft a credible leadership narrative. They then translate insight into action—setting expectations, building trust across differences, and managing up/across/down with clear agreements and feedback. Through live scenarios (1:1s, cross-functional projects, remote/hybrid dynamics), leaders design cadences and behaviors that grow social capital, reduce friction, and elevate engagement.
Course 7: Organizational Culture Awareness
The Organizational Culture Awareness course gives executives a clear, practical lens to read, measure, and intentionally shape culture as a performance system. Leaders learn to diagnose artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions (Schein), assess current vs. desired norms using the Competing Values Framework/OCAI, and map subcultures across functions, geographies, and hybrid teams.
Course 8: Agile and Adaptive Thinking
The Agile and Adaptive Thinking course equips executives to make fast, high-quality decisions in uncertainty and turn learning speed into competitive advantage. Leaders practice sense-and-respond methods—using Cynefin to match problem types, OODA loops for rapid iteration, and lightweight experiments (hypothesis → test → evidence → pivot/scale) tied to OKRs and flow metrics.
Course 9: Relationship Building and Collaboration Skills
The Relationship Building and Collaboration Skills course enables leaders to turn networks into outcomes by building trust, alignment, and fast coordination across teams and partners. Grounded in the Tessema Multiple Intelligence Framework (TMIF), participants learn to map stakeholders, read motivations, and create working agreements that foster psychological safety and shared ownership. They practice facilitation and influence techniques to run crisp meetings, make decisions quickly, and resolve inter-team friction—especially in cross-functional, remote, and multi-cultural settings.
Course 10: Customer Service
Customer Service training equips leaders and frontline staff to turn interactions into trust and loyalty. Participants learn to handle inquiries and complaints with empathy, consistency, and speed while balancing organizational policies with customer needs. Through scenario practice, they build skills in active listening, clear communication, and de-escalation. Deliverables include a service recovery framework, customer satisfaction checklists, and a cadence for reviewing service quality data.
Course 11: Sales Force Effectiveness
The Sales Force Effectiveness course equips sales and branch leaders to build a predictable, customer-centric revenue engine. Participants prioritize ideal segments, sharpen value propositions, and install a repeatable sales process with clear stage exit criteria, coaching cadences, and CRM hygiene that lifts pipeline quality, forecast accuracy, and conversion. Grounded in the Tessema Multiple Intelligence Framework (TMIF), the course builds consultative skills—discovery, insight-led messaging, objection handling—while aligning marketing, digital, and service for steady lead flow and ethical, compliant selling.
Course 12: Customer Relationship Management
The Customer Relationship Management course develops leaders’ ability to use systems and behaviors to build long-term value with customers. Participants learn how to track interactions, segment customers, and tailor engagement across channels. They design cadence maps for outreach, reviews, and renewals, ensuring that customers experience clarity, care, and continuity. Leaders leave with CRM usage playbooks, account review templates, and KPIs that link relationship health to retention and growth.
Course 13: Empowerment
The Empowerment course enables executives to build a system where people closest to the work own decisions, move faster, and deliver better outcomes. Leaders learn how to set clear intent (purpose, outcomes, constraints) and pair it with decision rights (RACI/RAPID), resources, and coaching so autonomy rises with accountability. Drawing on the Tessema Multiple Intelligence Framework (TMIF) and situational leadership, participants practice skills that create psychological safety, competence, and trust—delegation levels, feed-forward feedback, escalation paths, and recognition that reinforces ownership.
Course 14: Team Work
Teamwork training strengthens leaders’ ability to build high-functioning, collaborative groups. Participants learn to establish shared goals, clarify roles, and create working agreements that foster trust and accountability. They practice facilitation techniques to keep discussions focused and decisions timely, especially in cross-functional or remote settings. The program delivers team charters, decision frameworks, and a 90-day collaboration plan that helps reduce friction and speed execution.
Course 15: Integrity
The Integrity course equips executives to turn values into daily decisions, behaviors, and systems that build enduring trust. Leaders learn to close the “say–do” gap through principled judgment under pressure, transparent communication, and incentives that reward the right outcomes, not just the fast ones. Using practical toolkits—Ethical Dilemma Triage (stakeholders/harms/options), a Values-to-Guardrails Canvas, conflict-of-interest registers, speak-up pathways and protections, third-party risk scoring, and evidence logs—participants design governance that prevents misconduct and surfaces issues early.
Course 16: Professionalism
Professionalism emphasizes the behaviors and standards that sustain credibility and trust in leadership roles. Participants examine values, communication habits, and workplace ethics, then practice applying them under pressure. They learn how to balance personal authenticity with organizational expectations, manage boundaries, and represent their role with consistency. Leaders leave with a personal conduct guide, meeting etiquette checklists, and feedback loops to reinforce professional behavior across their teams.
Course 17: Service Excellence
The Service Excellence course equips executives to build a customer-obsessed organization that reliably delivers effortless, memorable experiences across every channel. Leaders learn to translate brand promise into standards, service blueprints, and moments-that-matter—using journey mapping, Kano analysis, and VOC systems (surveys, transcripts, analytics) to prioritize fixes and innovations. The program blends design and operations: SLAs/SLOs, queue and capacity planning (Little’s Law), knowledge management, and Lean problem-solving for speed and quality, plus service recovery protocols that turn breakdowns into loyalty.