Basic Leadership Skills Training
Basic Leadership Skills is available in the following delivery formats: Full Day Face-to-Face Training Workshop (1, 2 & 3 Days), and Live Virtual Instructor-led Classroom Training
Our Introduction to Leadership Skills training workshop will help new leaders with the fundamentals needed to develop and improve their effectiveness as a leader.
Participants will build on their previously successful experience in leadership situations in order to achieve higher levels of personal performance and productivity.
Our Fundamental Leadership Skills workshop develops leadership skills by using “follower-ship” as a method to determine one’s leadership abilities. New Leaders will learn to identify and apply the skills of other effective leaders, deal with value challenges and gain followers.
The Problem
- Organizations are struggling to fill the leadership gap left by downsizing, up-sizing or retirement
- There are challenges to achieving corporate goals
- Communicating, motivating and engaging direct reports takes time leaders often don’t have
Our Solution
- Acquire the skills of an effective leader, the blocks of leadership and the Trinity of Leadership Roles
- Identify preferred communication styles
- Utilize your strengths, manage your weaknesses and communicate more effectively to others
- Practice the three levels of listening and the effective use of questions to “hear” what is going on from your direct reports and others in your organization
- Deal with challenges to values and how to resolve differences
Course Outline
- Module 1: Describe the leadership characteristics of successful leaders, describe the leadership needs of a situation through the use of the Dimension of Leadership Profile, The Trinity of Leadership Roles which includes their role as manager of the business, change leader and human asset leverage
- Module 2: Use the DiSC® Personal Profile System to identify his/her own behavior and management style
- Module 3: Discover the impact of five different listening approaches and how to match the approach to communication needs, Personal Listening Profile, use the effective Spiraling Questioning Techniques
- Module 4: Eight steps to message development and persuasiveness
- Module 5: Identifying our own values, respecting differences and resolving conflicts over values, resolving third-party conflicts
- Module 6: Explore why major change poses a challenge to organizations, Managing Work Expectations Profile or The Transitions Profile
- Module 7: Motivate others through the use of positive feedback
- Module 8: Performance management, information about planning, appraising and coaching, performance appraisal, goal setting
- Module 9: How to give negative feedback and coaching for a disciplinary situation
- Module 10: Goal setting and aligning corporate goals, communicating those goals to direct reports, effective delegation for the accomplishment of goals
Leadership Training Workshops & Delivery Methods
Coaching For
Managers Success
Strategic, Interactive, Impactful
Equip leaders with a strategic 8-step coaching framework to set clear expectations, address performance gaps, and build managerial skills through interactive scenarios that drive organizational alignment, accountability, and culture improvements resulting in more motivated and high-achieving teams.
Coaching Skills
For Leaders
Practical, Customizable, Solution-Oriented
Master a customizable 3-step coaching dialogue, 5-step performance troubleshooting method, and conflict resolution model to overcome obstacles, enhance daily mentoring, boost employee efficacy through hands-on scenarios, and drive organizational performance with the tangible benefits of motivated, productive teams.
Delegation Training
For Managers
Introspective, Empowering, Strategic
Overcome personal roadblocks, optimize task distribution, build critical management skills, and boost productivity by up to 20% using research-backed delegation frameworks tailored to your context through an interactive workshop focused on strengthening leadership capabilities for empowering teams.
Delegation Training For Managers
Developing
Leaders Using DiSC
Immersive, Strategic, Transformational
Create visionary leaders across your organization equipped to define inspirational visions, gain alignment on goals, persuade teams, and flawlessly drive execution by discovering your unique DiSC style, strategic drivers, customized actions, and transformational mindsets during an intensive, immersive executive training experience.
Personal Leadership
Training
Innovative, Impact-Driven, Learner-Centric
Discover your inner compass, strategically design a vision grounded in self-awareness and develop the skills for empowered resilience that allow you to lead authentically, optimize moments of choice, achieve clarity of purpose, and ultimately elevate teams through customized plans crafted from introspective assessments and value-driven modeling.
Effective Leadership
Training
Customized, Holistic, Empowering
Discover your natural leadership style, strengthen capabilities across all levels of an organization, and develop the skills to inspire teams by matching the needs of any situation through assessments, group challenges, and a customized toolkit for flexible, authentic, empowered leadership that elevates colleagues and drives results.
Basic Leadership
Training
Fundamental, Customizable, Practical
Our customizable leadership skills training workshop delivers practical techniques in a variety of flexible formats to provide new managers with the fundamental, essential tools to enhance their competencies in communication, motivation, delegation, change management, and handling conflicts, enabling participants to achieve higher levels of leadership performance.
Performance Management
Training
Strategic, Structured, Motivating
Drive organizational performance by learning to set aligned expectations, provide structured feedback, document employee progress, and conduct evaluation conversations with a motivational balance of inspiration and accountability to ultimately equip managers with the strategic leadership skills for building positive, productive teams.
Performance Management Training
Storytelling For
Leaders
Engaging, Strategic, Empowering
Unlock your innate ability to inspire, influence organizational culture, and drive change by mastering the interactive frameworks and strategic narrative techniques used by the world’s top modern leaders to compellingly articulate vision and transmit values through personalized, empowering storytelling skills development.
Values-Based
Leadership
Aligning, Interactive, Empowering
Ignite purpose-driven leadership by leveraging personalized MBTI profiles, imaginative team challenges, and facilitator-led discussions to interactively align individual strengths to organizational values, goals, and principles – uniting and empowering managers with insights and motivation for advancing collective success.
Workload Management
Training
Strategic, Hands-On, Applicable
Learn to strategically align development to organizational needs, design engaging performance-focused training, balance effectiveness with appeal, and continually optimize workplace learning programs through intensive, hands-on practice grounded in real-world company contexts.
Workplace Culture
Training
Focused, Interactive, Empowering
Regain focus, lower stress, and increase productivity by arming teams with personalized assessments, collaborative issue analysis, solution planning, productivity tactics, and an empowering circle of experts to conquer workload challenges through the interactive development of targeted customized recommendations.
Virtual Instructor-Led
Leadership Workshops
Values In Action Workshop
This program leverages the power of storytelling – of catching others actively living out the organization’s core values. These personal stories of your values in action resonate with both the head and the heart.
Candid Coaching Feedback
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to coach effectively using trust-building techniques and conversation starters.
Leading Without Authority
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure the retention of concepts that build confidence and highlight one’s true leadership skills across levels.
Leading Through Growth & Change
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to effective leadership through rapid growth and change.
Leading Change & Managing Effectively
During this session, participants will be actively engaged in an array of virtual techniques to ensure retention of concepts for how to develop a different skill set to lead teams into the future.
Innovation For Leaders Workshop
In this workshop, you will learn to define creativity and the innovative thinking process, and assess personal and team innovation and preferences.
Need On-Site Leadership Training?
Ready to discuss how to develop your new and emerging leaders? Schedule a 30-minute call, so we can learn more about each other and determine if we are a good fit. This is a no-obligation consultation. We look forward to hearing from you. Call us at 800-807-8030 or fill out the form below.