TRAINING TOPICS

This introductory course is for new or emerging supervisors, managers, and leaders. Statistically, most companies do not offer training or coaching for people rising in the leadership ranks. However, this is often where the breakdown occurs… the front-line of leadership. The problem organizations face is that most of the time individuals that get promoted into a management position do so because of their technical ability. The difficulty arises in the fact that leading people requires people skills not just technical ability. The lack of people skills often creates a stressful, and sometimes damaging, experience of both employee and supervisor. This course is intentionally designed to set emerging leaders on the right course for a successful career in leading people.

Course sessions:

1. Transition to Leadership: From player to coach
2. The Missional Leader
3. Basic Leadership Skills: Delegation, decision-making, and time & priority management
4. Intro to Effective Communication
5. Intro to EQ
6. Personal Development and Leadership
7. Intro to Adaptive Leadership
8. Intro to Assertive Communication
9. Intro to Conflict Resolution Skills
10. Stress Management
11. Success as a Leader
12. Leadership Action Plan

Engaging and developing a high-performing team is essential in today’s business environment. The organizations that succeed in the future will be team oriented, innovative, and highly collaborative. To get the desired team results, organizations will need to making developing team leaders a top priority.

Research has shown that a team approach produces better outcomes in each of the following areas:

• Improves communication, creates positive work environment, and improves productivity.
• Increases efficiency, motivates employees, and stimulates a sense of ownership.
• Reduces mistakes and unhealthy conflict.
• Creates team accountability while enhancing innovation, decision-making and problem-solving.
• Encourages personal growth and utilizes everyone’s strengths.
• Increases job satisfaction and reduces stress.

This course is designed specifically to build the skills necessary for leaders and team members alike to grow into a high-performing team.

Course sessions:

1. The Power of Teaming and the Coaching Model
2. Dysfunctions and Pitfalls of Teams
3. Team Communication: Understanding Behavioral Preferences: DISC (assessment is optional)
4. Successful Team Leadership: elements for success
5. Successful Team Leadership: characteristics of success pt. 2
6. Growing your Teams Emotional Intelligence
7. Inspiring and Motivating Your Team to Success
8. Innovative Problem-Solving
9. Dealing with Difficult (behaviored) People
10. Team Collaboration
11. Stress Management
12. Team Leadership Action Plan

“The world in front of us is radically different than the world behind us.”

As the world changes, generation gaps widen, and face of business evolves, the need for leaders to understand the times and know how to adapt becomes imperative. The fact is most of today’s leaders were “trained for a world that is disappearing.” Thus, the need for leaders and organizations to evolve and adapt to the changing business environment.

The statistics regarding the generational divide are shocking.

• 60% of younger employees are currently looking for new employment opportunities.
• 29% of Millennials consider themselves engaged at work.
• 43% know what their coworkers are expected to do at work. Not knowing is viewed as negative.
• 1 in 5 Gen Z adults bring a parent to a job interview.

The problem, however, is not that the world is changing, but what to do about it.

In this course participants will learn what leaders need to do to evolve with a changing culture to engage their employees and build a high-performing team.

This course is divided into 3 parts.

Part 1, The Adaptive Need.

This first section is the program foundation phase. The first four (4) course modules will examine the adaptive need and serve as a foundation for the course. In learning about the elements of uncertainty that exist in the world and business environment, course participants will awaken to the dire need to learn adaptive leadership. They will gain insight and understanding into the nature of adaptive leadership, how it develops, and why organizational integrity is critical.

1. Leadership Future
2. Adaptive Leadership
3. Adaptive Development
4. Organizational Integrity (organizational justice)

Part 2, Adaptive Skills

In Part Two, which is about learning core adaptive competencies, course participants will be challenged in each of the four (4) modules to learn various skills necessary to be successful adaptive leaders. The flow of these skills is vital, and, in many cases, students will need to unlearn and then relearn these critical skills.  This section will start with emotional intelligence, then move to communication, then to collaboration, and finally finish with the importance of character in leadership. Each of these modules will focus on skill development and include group work for practice and creating scripts that can help lead to mastery.

5. Emotional Intelligence
6. Communication Skills
7. Collaboration
8. Leadership Character

Part 3, Adaptive Shifts

In Part Three, Adaptive Shifts, is the implementation phase. In this section students will learn about four (4) of the main adaptive shifts necessary to adapt to younger generational cohorts. It is in this section that the previous eight (8) modules will begin to shine. As students learn about adaptive implementation procedures, and in turn begin to implement them in their sphere of influence, they will find their leadership capacity soaring to new heights.

9. Identity-based Leadership
10. Strength-based Leadership
11. Purpose-based Leadership
12. Coaching-based Leadership