Leadership Development Programs
Essential Leadership Skills
Leaders often struggle with understanding their roles in their organizations. Some struggle with critical skills that add to leadership success.
In this program, leaders learn how to support leadership growth, build current leadership capabilities, and encourage networking. Using formal and informal activities designed to enhance leadership skills, this program will help connect leadership practices with each individual’s leadership journey, which cascades down to teams.
Giving & Receiving Feedback
Feedback is an important part of development for all professionals – whether you are a leader or an individual contributor – you need information about how you are performing to maintain and improve your results. When delivered well, feedback can build rapport and confidence. If handled poorly, it can reduce motivation and engagement.
In this program, leaders and employees learn how to give formal and informal feedback.
Leadership Mastery
The Leadership Mastery program is about the “business of leadership”. While many organizations struggle to find leaders with core interpersonal skills, still more have technicians in leadership roles who have difficulty working with peers across matrix structures and sharing business vision with their stakeholders. At a fundamental level, all leaders need to be strong in planning, organizing, and decision-making – but they must do this in conjunction with others in order to be successful.
The Leadership Mastery program is a holistic skill-building program, using a hands-on, close-to-real-world business simulation that increases leaders’ business dealings with others inside and outside their companies.
Leading Through Transformation
Looking at transforming the culture in your team or organization? As a leader, you are responsible to recognize where your team is and take actions to encourage followership. This can be met with resistance.
In this program, leaders learn how to encourage team members to take perceived risks and step forward into the unknown future–whether that’s a new organization structure or a different way of working. Leaders who use the strategies in this webinar more easily generate courage in others to rapidly change.
New Leader Assimilation
The New Leader Assimilation is a facilitated process that was designed for teams with a new leader. The purpose is to effectively establish a relationship between the new team leader and team members.
Structured questions are used to clarify the expectations of all team members, and “ground rules” are agreed upon for communication and teamwork. A follow-up appointment is generally made to guarantee the process’s sustainability.
Organizational Savvy
Based on the book, Survival of the Savvy by Rick Brandon and Marty Seldman, this program gives participants a more positive attitude toward politics and increases their influence and impact.
Your executives, leaders, and employees may need these skills if their blind spots result in an inability to sell ideas, missing the organization’s hidden criteria for success, being sabotaged by others, being underestimated or pigeonholed, or lacking a network of allies and advocates.
The Inclusive Leader
In biology, inclusion means “a body or particle recognizably distinct from the substance in which it is embedded”. In organizations, inclusion is a key component as to whether organizations reap the benefit of a variety of talents, ideas, and individuals. Just as in biological definition, our organizations are made up of individuals who are distinct and unique. Leaders who learn to tap into this variety create teams of individuals who feel connected, committed, and valued.
In this program, leaders learn the skills needed to build an inclusive workplace -beyond just respecting differences.
Executive Communication & Influence
How do you get and keep the attention of decision-makers? What if those decision-makers are executives in your organization? What if they aren’t even in your organization? These are questions that many of us face as we look to garner support and build consensus from others. This program addresses best practices in presenting your ideas, approaches, and products to senior leaders of organizations – to get buy-in and specific action from them.
While the program specifically addresses senior leaders, the concepts and approaches are equally valid and useful when trying to get support from any decision-maker.
GRACE - Cultivating Compassion while Interacting with Others
GRACE is a compassion-based, transformative practice connecting to our resources of personal strength, integrity as well as care for ourselves and others. GRACE is an acronym for Gather attention, Recall intention, Attune to self/other, Consider what will serve, Engage and end.
The GRACE Process helps to realize our potential in our lives and the way we work with others. It connects specifically to our principles of Transformation, Self-Actualization, Humility, and Respect.
Leading from a Distance
As technology becomes an increasingly bigger part of our professional lives, the need for leaders and employees to work in the same location becomes less and less important. In addition, as organizations become more global, serving customers across geographic boundaries often requires that those who serve them are close to them. Leaders who are responsible for the work of those whom they don’t see every day face the same challenges as other leaders – getting results through others – but they have the additional challenge of leading from a distance.
In this program, those who manage remote employees learn the basics of effective leadership from a distance as well as how to address the specific needs of employees without having daily face-to-face contact with them.
Masterful Coaching
There are times when you find that a team member is having trouble completing a task. The reason for not being able to do an assignment may not be an unwillingness to do the work but a lack of understanding of how to do it. In these situations, a leader may need to coach a team member one-on-one. In this workshop, coaching is defined as individual instruction customized to the employee’s experience and abilities. Being a coach is more than just giving guidance. It is developing trusting relationships and creating an environment where employees want to learn, develop, and perform to their highest potential.
The course will cover how to identify coaching opportunities, deliver supportive and developmental feedback, and provide individual instruction.
Successful Decision Making
Leaders today are faced with endless decisions that have great financial and business effects on the results organizations achieve. While many individuals use a structured approach to decision-making, taking into account various factors and consequences, still more make decisions based on “gut feel”.
Through a process-oriented decision-making system, leaders increase their chance of making the most appropriate decision for the business, as well as reducing the risk of poor decision-making. In addition, this program assists managers in determining when others should be involved with decisions to be made and when to make them independently.
The Strategist: Strategic Thinking & Planning
Most companies invest a great deal of time and resources in creating their strategic plans. After investing, leaders within the organization can walk away feeling overwhelmed, unsure, and overloaded with information. Sometimes, after all the effort and energy put into developing a strategic plan, the plan is “put away” and not used as a tool for making business decisions, running operations, and dealing with customers and vendors.
In this program, leaders learn a simplified strategic planning process with a focus on creating a usable and workable plan that others will support for its lifespan.
Facilitating Successful Meetings
Experts estimate leaders spend 80% of their time in meetings or conducting meetings. This time represents companies’ significant investment of money and resources, often with questionable results. When overused and ineffectively facilitated, meetings become a tremendous waste of resources. If effectively handled, meetings can be an opportunity to collectively solve problems, provide information, manage communication, and persuade customers.
Leaders who confidently facilitate successful meetings harness the one event that often has significant results riding on it – a meeting.
Leading Health & Wellbeing
Employee well-being often seems to be an aspect of work companies put off focusing on until it is too late. A systematic plan of action needs to be carried out to improve employee well-being and to increase productivity along with innovation capability.
This learning journey is designed to start a dialogue about well-being topics, create openness to discuss, and exchange best practices to ultimately make lifestyle adjustments that help improve the well-being of leaders and employees. It will help you identify personal areas to focus on and also enable you to help your team members improve their well-being by creating an environment where everyone can flourish.
Leading in Dynaxity
This program prepares mature leaders and senior talents to lead effectively in environments defined by volatility, uncertainty and complexity.
In Dynaxity, experience alone is not enough. Leaders must provide orientation without full clarity, make deliberate decisions under pressure, and balance performance with long-term direction. Traditional skill-based development reaches its limits here. This program therefore goes beyond adding new tools. It focuses on vertical development – expanding the leader’s thinking patterns, behavioral repertoire and decision-making capacity. Leaders strengthen their systemic perspective, entrepreneurial mindset and ability to act consciously in challenging situations.
The result: greater leadership maturity, stronger impact, and sustainable performance in a VUCA world.
Leading Through a Matrix Organization
95% of Fortune 500 companies operate a matrix. This type of structure is most suitable for organizations operating in a dynamic, global environment. The matrix may help organizations achieve higher efficiency, readiness, and quick market adaptation. To keep up in a matrix environment, individuals must know their part in the matrix, clarify roles, influence outcomes, and enlist others with effective communication.
In this program, participants learn the skills and mindset needed to navigate complex organizational structures.
Mastering Personal Leadership
Every leader needs specific skills to be successful in the role of inspiring and directing others. Sometimes, though, even with skills, the leader struggles.
This program’s main objective is to ensure that each participant identifies his or her strengths and challenges as a leader and discovers and decides what individual next steps are needed to achieve mastery of themselves. For those who want to know themselves better in order to create their own highly effective leadership style, this program provides the tools. The more authentic our leadership, the more effective our actions will be, and the more lasting our results.