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  Recommended Leadership Courses

Making Communication Work (Advanced DiSC® Communication)

Session Length: 4 hours

Prerequisite: Connecting for Success

Communication is more than talking and listening. Genuine communication requires a deep understanding of another person's perspective. But...when you take into consideration all of our biases, behavioral idiosyncrasies, unspoken emotions, personal agendas, and unshared assumptions...this can seem almost impossible. For years, however, DiSC® has successfully helped people understand each other on a more fundamental level.

This program shows participants how to read other people and see how others interpret their behaviors. It leaves them with a gut-level appreciation for the needs of their co-workers. Ultimately, the program helps participants adapt their communication styles in a way that creates an enduring working alliance among group members.

Intentional Leadership - Leveraging the Strengths of Your Style

Session Length: 8 hours

Prerequisite: Connecting for Success

Managers have incredible influence. Their strengths can empower and energize the people who work for them. And, of course, their limitations can trickle down to create frustration, confusion, or even paralysis for those they manage.

Utilizing the DiSC® behavioral model, this program gives managers a safe, fun way to understand the strengths and challenges that they bring to the table. They gain a greater appreciation for the impact that their behavior has on others, and they discover how others may respond to their style. The goal of this program is to learn how to leverage their management strengths, enabling both managers and their employees to be more effective.

Talent-Based Hiring - A Guide to Behavioral Interviewing

Session Length: 4 hours

Why is interviewing so difficult? Most people will say it’s because you feel that you are making the right decision at the time, but find out later that your choice was not the best one. It's not easy - for the interviewer or for the interviewee.

An interview can tell you whether the applicant has the skills a job requires. But how this person will perform on the job is just as critical. Skills and behavior are the two most important elements of job performance. Behavioral interviewing techniques are designed to reveal both.

This course will make the interviewing process easier and more effective. It provides participants with the tools needed to discover if a candidate is the right person for the job.

Personalized Time Management - Developing Strategies That Work

Session Length: 4 hours

Setting priorities and managing time are basic to enhancing individual and organizational performance. The pressure to find innovative ways to achieve goals, stay ahead of the competition, respond quickly to customer needs, and enjoy life outside of work is increasingly intense in today's less structured, information-driven workplace. Meeting the daily challenges of managing professional and personal responsibilities requires a learning strategy that focuses on individual needs.

This program is designed to help your organization reduce wasted time and increase efficiency, as employees learn to devote more time to completing the most critical tasks.

Coping with Stress in Today's Workplace

Session Length: 4 hours

Today's workplace demands high performance of its employees, but that no longer means putting work ahead of everything else. Organizations formerly disregarded the need to balance life outside of work and accepted the fact that productivity suffered as a result. Today's more dynamic, team-oriented organizations require flexible, creative, sustainable performance, the kind that comes with people who know how to balance the urgent demands of work life and personal life without sacrificing either.

Other stress management approaches focus primarily on using personal coping resources such as exercise, nutrition, and building self-esteem to deal with stress. This program focuses on relationship coping resources as the most effective and consistent response to stressors identified in life.

Emotional Intelligence: Measuring Personal Success

Session Length: 8 hours

Understanding Personality Styles is a great tool for improving communication and teamwork in the workplace. But to get the full measure of success from understanding your style, you need to understand how you affect the people around you. Emotional intelligence is about becoming aware of our own emotions, in the moment, and the emotions of others, and using that information to manage ourselves and our relationships with others.

While cognitive intelligence (measured as IQ) is set at birth, research shows that emotional intelligence (measured as EQ) can be learned. Building on your knowledge of your personality style, this class addresses the concept of Emotional Intelligence, to provide you with a clear understanding of your impact on those around you.

Managing Conflict and Resistance

Session Length: 4 hours

Prerequisite: Connecting for Success

Working with so-called difficult employees can be one a manager's biggest headaches. People often times come across as difficult because they handle conflict differently than we do. In fact, others' approaches to conflict can often seem counterproductive, confusing, or even bizarre.
                 
This course provides managers with a simple, direct way to understand the different fears that drive much of the conflict and resistance they see. Through DiSC®, managers learn their style of handling conflict and understand how that style might differ from their employees methods. They also take time to recognize how quickly employees' fears can disengage them from a team or project. Participants learn how and why different people become threatened and discover skills for relating more effectively with people and styles.

Listen Up! The Other Side of Communication

Session Length: 8 hours

Listening is the “other side” of communications, and the one that most people take for granted. Yet, to be effective in your career AND in your life you need to understand not only WHEN to listen, but HOW to listen.

In this dynamic, interactive program you will explore the value of effective listening, gain insight into the 5 major listening approaches, and learn when to adopt a different listening approach for more successful communication.

Aligning Vision and Goals

Session Length: 4 hours

It is certainly critical for leaders to create a high-level company vision. However, for an organization to actually implement that vision, the leaders must also be able to break the vision down into manageable chunks or objectives.  Goals and objectives define the organization’s responsibilities and expectations.

For employees to be effective, they have to know what they are accountable for.  This is even more critical for key contributors, who are heavily focused on meeting and, more likely, exceeding those expectations. In addition, clear objectives ensure that all members of a team are moving toward a common goal and are clearly aware of what is expected from them if the objectives are to be achieved.

We’ve all learned how important it is to create “SMART” goals, but this program takes goal setting to a whole new level. Participants will learn the keys to setting effective goals, what it takes to motivate employees to meet those goals, and how setting goals can energize your entire organization to a greater level of achievement.

Managing Performance - Understanding Skill and Commitment

Session Length: 4 hours

Prerequisite: Connecting for Success

Even the best performers get stagnated from time to time. But before managers can help them out of their rut, they need to understand the situation and why the person is having difficulty. Sometimes employees aren’t motivated or committed to the task. Sometimes they don’t have the skills or know-how.
             
This program helps managers use DiSC® to read the situational needs of their key contributors and adjust their management style accordingly. They’ll learn some fundamental strategies for reading the willingness and ability of the people they manage, as well as the approaches that are most effective in each situation.

Discovering Team Talents - Leverage the Strengths of Your Team

Session Length: 4 hours

Have you ever worked on a team where everyone is doing what they enjoy and making the very best use of their talents? A team where people just seem to “get” each other, projects make real progress and everyone is glad to be on the team? The goal of this program is to help you create this kind of engaged, high-functioning team.

This course is designed for team members or team leaders who wish to increase group performance by helping each person in a group fulfill his or her potential to the overall benefit of the group.

Leadership and Self-Deception

Session Length: 4 hours

Would you be surprised to learn that self-deception is the #1 obstacle to organizational effectiveness? It's true. Reducing self-deception may be the single most important step your organization can take toward increased productivity. But what is self-deception and why is it so prevalent? Simply put, self-deception is the problem of not being able to see that you are the problem. For instance: Think about the most difficult person you've ever had to work with. What made them difficult? Did they consider themselves a problem? Chances are, they did not. Despite the fact that you (and everyone else around them) could see they were a problem, they couldn't see it.

This program illustrates this "simple" concept by presenting an unforgettable video re-enactment matched with a comprehensive workshop. The video and workshop exercises offer a poignant look at how self-deception prevents us from seeing the obvious solution to some of our biggest workplace problems, providing tools for analyzing and solving problems, at their core.

Adventures in Leadership

Session Length: 8 hours

Adventures in Leadership explores 12 timeless principles all leaders need to embrace. Success in business is directly related to your ability to develop leaders at every level of the organization. Adventures in Leadership helps build those leaders by exploring in clear, no-nonsense terms the importance of such fundamental concepts as:

• Vision - Necessary at every level of an organization
• Trust - The backbone of any relationship
• Communications - Vision without Communications is empty
• Delegation - True leaders know how and why to delegate
• Development - Leaders develop leaders at all levels of the organization

In this program participants explore key leadership concepts, relating them to real-life situations, and applying them directly to your business. Active discussion, debate, and interaction are the orders of the day as participants begin to explore their own beliefs, relate the concepts of leadership to their personal situations, and see the concepts in action through the timeless classic movie "12 O'clock High".

5 Dysfunctions of a Team

Session Length: 16 hours

Like it or not, all teams are potentially dysfunctional because all teams are made up of human beings.  Based on Patrick Lencioni's classic leadership fable, this highly interactive workshop uncovers how the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team are impacting your organization. Each participant receives a personalized workbook and assessment based on their specific situation.

How do the 5 Dysfunctions affect your team?

Trust -  Allows every team member to admit mistakes, acknowledge their weaknesses, and be vulnerable with each other.

Conflict -  Using conflict to encourage unfiltered, passionate debate without fear of backlash

Commitment -  Get buy in from members of the team before moving forward

Accountability -  Allows for peer to peer accountability inside of the team

Results -  Putting the results of the team ahead of individual team members.

This program will open up new thoughts and understanding of what it means to be a team and how to create an atmosphere that is primed for success.

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