Leadership Plus Curriculum
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Hiring Winning Talent
Hiring Winning Talent implements a structured process to streamline and empower successful hiring. The program focuses on key skills required to interview candidates and ways to build team cohesion by involving team members in the hiring initiative.
This program provides the processes and tools required to master the art and science of identifying and winning great new team members–those that will perform in the top 20 percent.
Course Length:
Classroom: 8 hours workshop (can be delivered in 2-4 hour workshops)
Online: 3-4 hours
Leading Successful Projects
Leading Successful Projects enables managers to identify and work with the key variables that impact how projects are defined, planned, and implemented. The program focuses on the interpersonal skills managers must use to win and maintain the commitment, enthusiasm, and support of the project team.
Course Length:
Classroom - 16 hours (can be delivered in four 4-hour workshops and is designed for 6-18 participants.
Motivating Team Members
Motivating Team Members explores what motivation is, how it works, and how it can be different for each individual. Team leaders learn the four stages to influence a team member to perform a task, while creating a work environment that will motivate higher performance.
This program helps team leaders understand the complex idea of motivation. It is practical and helps team leaders know what to do about motivating team members. By demonstrating to leaders what they can do to influence individual and team performance, it provides a clear, specific, and actionable plan of action for what to do once participants return to their job.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
Online: 1½ hours
Solving Workplace Problems
Solving Workplace Problems develops a five-step process thread that combines a variety of methods to provide an effective approach to solving simple to complex organizational problems. Each step of the process is explained in detail.
This program provides an effective approach and the tools necessary for improving current processes that organizations use to solve organizational problems. Participants will learn how to identify the problem, identify the cause, select the best solution, implement the solution, and determine what feedback and follow-up will be required.
Course Length:
Classroom: 4 hours
Retaining Wining Talent
Retaining Winning Talent provides managers with skills, tools, and a research-based approach to surface individual team members’ retention needs, increase the level of commitment from team members, and, most importantly, develop and implement a Retention Action Plan designed to increase retention for the entire team.
This program focuses on one of the most important assets of any organization – its team leaders and their impact on retaining key team members.
Course Length
Classroom: 8 hours workshop (can be delivered in two 4-hour workshops)
Leadership Series
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Being an Effective Coach: Developing and Coaching Others
This new course focuses on the skills of coaching and supporting others on the team through the use of a number of important skill sets and perspectives. Understanding the value of reinforcement is the key to success as a coach. Included are the following topics:
- Coaching Moments
- Options for Developing Others
- How People Learn
- The Transfer of Training
- Personal Action Planning
This course is a must for the direct manager of a leader who is attending training and also will benefit from coaching support.
Course Length
Classroom - 4 hours
Essential Skills of Leadership
Managers and team leaders will be able to:
Maintain and Enhance Team Member Self-Esteem
This is probably the single most important skill a manager or team leader can have. It is the ability to provide direction, evaluate performance, correct work habits, deal with complaints, and resolve conflicts while supporting a team member’s sense of self-respect and dignity.
Focus on Behavior
Problems on the job are solved more effectively and less stressfully when managers and team leaders deal with what people do rather than with their attitudes or personal characteristics.
Encourage Team Member Participation
Involving team members in decision-making, problem solving, and other non-routine, on-the-job activities are one of the manager’s or team leader’s key motivational tools.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Essential Skills of Communicating
Managers and team leaders will be able to:
Create a Climate of Open Communication
The bedrock of good communication is openness—the extent to which the organization and its people support the free exchange of open, honest communication. Openness contributes more to a positive communication climate than any other factor.
Design Clear, Concise Messages
Messages that are well designed are clear and concise. Managers and team leaders need to organize their thoughts and speak to each team member’s level of understanding.
Manage Nonverbal Behaviors Effectively
Voice tone, intonation, facial expressions, gestures, and posture are some of the nonverbal factors that managers and team leaders must understand and learn to use for effective communication.
Listen to Communicate
Effective communication cannot take place without effective listening, which includes the ability to reflect, probe, support, and advise.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Coaching Job Skills
Upon completion of this module, the team leader will have the skills to conduct a successful meeting with a team member on how to perform a job, task or skill. The team leader will also learn how to distinguish between performance problems that require coaching and those that can best be handled by some other means.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Developing Performance Goals and Standards
Unless your managers and team leaders are successful in spelling out the organization’s specific goals, their team members are not going to know how to meet those objectives. This module shows trainees how to establish specific, measurable, attainable, result-oriented, and time-framed performance standards. It then illustrates the steps that gain team member agreement and commitment to those performance standards.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Providing Performance Feedback
This module shows the way evaluation is done by the experts. First, relevant performance standards are established. Then, the team member’s own performance evaluation is solicited. This accomplished, the stage is set for a summary evaluation that will be clear and credible to the team member.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Delegating
This module gives valuable insights into and practice of the “Three W’s” of effective delegation: When should team leaders delegate? Whom should they delegate to?; and What explanation should they give to team members? Delegating also shows how to use delegation as a motivational tool, and improve team members’ skills.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Resolving Conflicts
Whenever people work together, conflicts arise. They may be simple misunderstandings that your managers and team leaders can clear up. Or they may reveal subtle, but pervasive, morale problems that threaten to tear the delicate fabric of your organization. This module shows managers and team leaders how to explore a conflict and get to the heart of the problem to correct it before it’s too late.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Managing Complaints
As the leaders on the front line, managers and team leaders are often the first to hear team member complaints. And though sometimes they may seem to they may seem to be unimportant, each complaint should be addressed and resolved. This module shows how to resolve simple complaints and identify the “hidden agendas” that so often underlie the chronic grievances.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Effective Discipline
Most of us dislike having to discipline team members. Discipline team members because feelings can be easily hurt and resentment can linger for a long time. The skills your managers and team leaders will learn in Effective Discipline will preserve team members’ self respect and egos while changing the unacceptable behavior. This process encourages the best kind of discipline-self-discipline. It also motivates team members to accomplish their goals and work well within the organization.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Supporting Change
As the link between management goals and the frontline labor force, the manager or team leader is the key to supporting change. Dealing with the “comfort level” of team members and involving them in detailed discussions will facilitate their acceptance of new ways of doing things. This module shows managers and team leaders how to introduce change without inducing defensive reactions.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Communicating Up
Most managers and team leaders realize the importance of upward communication, but few accept the responsibility for the quality and effectiveness of communicating with their own managers. Managers and team leaders will learn how to frame communication so that a desired result is achieved.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours
Improving Work Habits
Improving Work Habits shows managers how to clearly and specifically communicate the nature of the problem. It provides a process for working with the individual to develop a plan for addressing the issue while maintaining self-esteem.
Course Length
Classroom: 4 hours
On-line: 1½ - 2 hours |
