What role does learning and assessment play in your leader development process?

Wise leaders are curious; they seek out ways to explore what’s new, deepen their understanding and experiment with new ideas.

We work with you to design and facilitate leader development solutions that combines learning, activity, and assessment to meet your specific needs. Courses can be delivered virtually and in-person.

Emotional Intelligence

Introduces participants to core concepts and elements that make up emotional intelligence. Questions explored and answered include:  What is Emotional Intelligence? Why makes Emotional Intelligence important?  How can it be improved?   Learners expand insight into self-awareness and emotional self-management components though a EQi 2.0 assessment, case studies, peer coaching activity, and personal development planning. 

Managing Difficult Conversations  

Provides learners with wider perspectives and actionable techniques for applying Emotional Intelligence to build skill in managing difficult conversations.  Successful conversations about difficult topics - or with challenging people - is a core requirement of professional success at any level.  Avoidance of difficult topics and challenging people often leads to disfunction and lower performance.

Leading Through Change  

Explores how change impacts people, team and organizations.  Instead of focusing on tactical change management processes and tools, learners gain a wider view on the emotional, cognitive, and performance impacts of change on people and systems.  By looking at how change impacts the work ecosystem, leaders and employees are better able to anticipate, lead, and ride the rollercoaster of change.   

Coaching Skills for Managers

Learners are introduced to the skills and techniques used in coaching.  A coaching approach, more than managing, mentoring and directing, builds engagement, sparks innovation and creates alignment among teams.  It has proven a more effective way to develop people, organize work and get the job done.  

Driving Motivation and Performance 

Learners explore three primary drivers of motivation for today’s cognitive professionals as well as strategies for building each driver in others.  The critical cross section of personal and organizational success is also explored. The understanding of leadership is expanded by studying Followership and in what ways do people follow leaders.  

Your Leadership Brand

How can you more easily connect and communicate with followers?  What behavioral insights might help you achieve your goals and form lasting alliances with clients, partners and peers?  With the DISC profiler as a baseline, participants learn about how their preferences and mindsets shape their leadership brand. Clarifying their values and the “leader flags” they choose to fly helps focus and even reshape their brand.

Influence:  Authority, Connection, and Impact

Our ability to “influence” is one of the most powerful facilities needed as leaders and followers. Truly effective influence doesn’t rely on the power of positional authority.  Instead, it requires us to create a certain level of trust, presence, and relationship, as we adapt to different people, their needs, and situations.  Using research-based frameworks, participants examine their current influence style and explore new techniques and tools to build and improve their presence and ability to influence.   

Building High Performing Teams

Introduces learners to best practices and strategies for building and leading high performing teams. Learners are introduced to several assessment models of team performance, team development stages and a simple tool for aligning team efforts.  Key differences between leading traditional (co-located) and virtual teams are also explored.