Leadership Courses

There has been a strong focus on leadership training over the past few decades. Effective leadership is essential to the success of the team. At the foundation of effective leadership is a core of focused dedicated, disciplined and loyal team members. Empowered team members with these qualities, who are both self-starters and solution-oriented problem solvers, produce a motivated workforce. They are of immense worth to the organization. This seminar highlights these skills and is designed to allow team members to look through the eyes of the leader to see the big picture while successfully completing tasks and details.

Managers and supervisors are charged with getting things done through team members while creating an environment where the team and its individual members will experience success. Well-developed coaching skills are foundational for effective team member goal achievement. In this workshop, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of team members and use a management techniques matrix to focus your efforts in developing individual team member action plans that yield results.

You, as a manager, are responsible to get high-quality work out on budget and on time. You have a heavy load and so do your team members. What will you do yourself? What and how will you assign tasks and projects to your team? Effective delegation involves more than assigning tasks; it includes the power and authority to get the job done satisfactorily.

This workshop is designed to help you master the art of getting things done through other people while creating an opportunity for them to be successful.

Few people would dispute that meetings are a critical element of effective organizational communication, and yet most would also agree the meetings they conduct or attend could benefit from a more dynamic structure that produces clearer communication and results in a greater team commitment to decisions and direction.

In this workshop, we will examine and develop the ideal time requirements, purpose, format, and keys to success for all of the following categories of meetings:

In times of rapid change, requiring us to accomplish more with fewer resources, effective meeting management skills literally allows us to work smarter not harder.

Effective meeting construction and management in a variety of settings boosts respect for the leader, engagement for the participants, and significant productivity enhancement for the organization.

You don’t have to be a manager or supervisor to develop your leadership potential and collaborative skills. Learn and develop these special skills and gain the respect and support of others as you function together in a coordinated team effort. Whether you are a member of a team, work group, task force or committee; these essential team skills will help you communicate effectively, work collaboratively and focus the energies of your team toward your mission and goals. This workshop is designed for work groups who want to establish and sustain healthy group dynamics and focus on getting results. Each class participant will develop an action plan and behavior modification tools to help put the learning experience into action.

You want to perform as a cohesive team but the team is actually a collection of successful, but highly competitive individuals. You have competent, capable leaders and associates who have performed with excellence in the past and they have good intentions to continue to do so today. However, due to high stress, times of constant change, questionable communication, and systems that may not be geared to encouraging team development. The team is not all it could and should be. This interactive and activity packed workshop allows participants to focus their efforts on proven team working strategies through the lens of effectiveness at the team and the team member levels.

As supervisors we wear multiple hats; leader, persuader, delegator, listener, coach, motivator, counselor and many more. The purpose of this seminar is to help you learn specific skills you will need to make the successful transition from competent individual contributor to effective workgroup supervisor.

You don’t have to be a manager or supervisor to develop your leadership potential and cooperative skills. Learn and develop these special skills and gain the respect and support of others as you function together in a coordinated team effort. Whether you are a member of a team, work group, task force or committee; these essential leadership and team skills will help you communicate effectively, work cooperatively and focus the energies of your team toward your mission and goals. This workshop is designed for present or potential team or work group leaders who want to establish and sustain healthy group dynamics and improved productivity.

Most of us are trained as individual contributors. We get satisfaction from doing our jobs and accomplishing our goals. Over the past decade, numerous organizations have made great strides in production and employee satisfaction while lowering expenses and waste by implementing team concepts. A team is a group of people working together in a coordinated effort toward a common goal. The shift to teams is often difficult and requires a new set of tools to deal with a new set of interpersonal problems. This program is designed to teach the concepts of leadership and team building in a fun and interactive way.

According to management expert Tom Peters: “Self-directed work teams are the basic organizational building blocks of the new millennium. SDWT is a group of employees from diverse backgrounds who have been empowered to accomplish a specific objective for the organization. SDWT represents the ultimate step in team evolution toward peak performance, high quality and grass roots accountability. A recent national survey found that employees want to work hard, contribute to a team effort and get a sense of accomplishment from personally doing their best. However, because of the way their jobs are structured, arranged and compensated they often only give a half-hearted effort which leads to long term resentment.

The set of skills and techniques learned in this workshop will help you understand the SDWT concept and determine if it is right for your work group. You will also be able to shorten the learning curve and implementation time in forming your SDWT.

This course is designed for participants who develop, deliver and/or evaluate adult training programs. Participants will learn how to determine the training needs of the group and deliver training in the most effective ways that are interesting, promote learning retention and application of learning at the worksite. Participants will learn how to produce creative training programs using visual, aural and kinesthetic techniques. In this fun and interactive seminar you will learn to train one-on-one, small and large groups; confidently and effectively.