Leadership Topics

The typical length of a session is 4-5 hours. Sessions are interactive, build on and refer to information from prior session, and provide follow-up discussion with the Executive Team. Additional sessions can be designed as needed.

Get the Results You Want by Understanding Others 

This session is designed to prepare leaders to be aware of their own behavior and how it affects others, as well as understand and appreciate the differences in others. The DiSC Classic 2.0 is used to provide in-depth information about behavioral style and increasing effectiveness at work. This session stands alone or in the case of a series, provides a foundation for future sessions, and information will regularly be linked back to this initial session.

Deeper with DiSC®

This session is designed to take the application of DiSC® principles within the organization to a deeper level. Participants will have the opportunity to review preferred behavioral style and classical profile after having time to work with DiSC knowledge and to experience the rich diversity of behaviors that add value to the team. This session helps leaders to refine their approaches in order to become more effective as leaders and team members.

Communication Effectiveness: Sending the Message You Intend

This session is designed to explore communication as a complex subject, which extends well beyond concern for the correct word choice. Come to this session to learn how non-verbal communication affects your message, what you communicate to others through your actions over time, how to prepare for difficult communication, and how your behavioral style affects your communication.

Building a Team You Can Count On

This session is designed to provide information for leaders about preparing teams, the crucial steps in the team developmental process, and team member roles. This content is applicable to the team a leader participates on as well as teams the leader may create.

Thriving in a Sea of Everyday Conflict

This session is designed to prepare participants to examine and analyze the sources of conflict, understand conflict style preferences, and identify the most effective ways to resolve or minimize conflict. Conflict is all around us, and not dealing with conflict leads to unhealthy patterns of avoidance and conflict escalation.

Effective Strategies to Address Difficult People

This session is designed to help participants understand "people issues" and provides a useful framework for the motivation behind others' behaviors that may seem difficult, as well as effective response strategies. This session reviews prior DiSC information (if applicable) and helps participants address "could I be a difficult person for others?"

Develop the Courage and Skill to Address Problems You'd Rather Avoid

This session is designed to address the reasons and skills needed to tackle difficult conversations in the workplace. The session will focus on communication style, determining what conversation needs to take place, outcomes desired, preparation and evaluation.

Retaining the Right Employee

Leaders are responsible for selecting employees who fit the organization. Getting the "right person on the bus in the right seat" is a challenge faced by all leaders. This session focuses on the selection/retention continuum and the impact of turnover in an organization. The module sets the foundation for the upcoming Selection Process session. Retention strategies are discussed and the leader learns about becoming a retention-based leader. The key to retention is connecting with employees as people.

The Leader's Role in the Selection Process

This session is designed to focus on the groundwork that the leader needs to complete in order to assure that employees can participate, knowledgeably and effectively, in the process of selecting new employees for the organization.

Coaching for Success: Helping Others Achieve Their Goals. . . and Yours

This session is designed to demonstrate how the important activity of coaching makes a significant difference in employees performance, taking the concept of performance evaluation to a higher level. It is the role of supervisors and managers to help develop the potential in employees. Learn the skills of coaching, the often overlooked need to coach the star performers, and how to coach in a way that inspires so that employees own the outcome.

Leader as Coach and Teacher

This session is designed to help identify and develop teaching skills by determining one's learning style and focusing on the employee as learner. In addition, the session helps the leader identify the value of coaching and the skills that can be applied at every interaction.

Creating a Workforce Inspired to Work 

Learn the keys to employee engagement, simple in their understanding, more challenging to implement. Learn about respect, clarity of decision making, and helping employees find the work that gives them a sense of meaning and important contribution.

Managing People Fairly to Protect Your Organization's Most Valuable Asset 

This session is designed to address basic employee-employer protections and due process in the workplace. 

Leader as Manager

This session is designed to analyze the expectations of each role and the skill sets needed for success. Typical managerial functions are discussed and the differences between management and leadership are explored.

The Synergy of Management and Leadership

This session is designed to prepare good managers to also be good leaders. A sobering reality of organization life is that "leaders are always on". This session focuses on current leadership theories and exceptional leadership qualities that help make organizations great places to work. Participants will learn and apply skills that increase the impact and effectiveness of their formal and informal leadership.

Blending the Skills of Supervision and the Art of Leadership

This session is designed to examine the role of supervisors as an extension of management. Frequently supervisors get caught in the trap of "being management" only. Learn why leadership skills are as more important for supervisors as management skills and how cultivating a stronger leadership style will increase supervisory effectiveness.

Creating a Change-Ready Environment 

This session is designed to focus upon the often missing ingredient in implementing change, readiness. Learn how to assess readiness of change participants, creative ways to engage people in change, especially a sense of urgency for the change ahead.

Creating a Culture of Service 

This session is designed to help leaders begin the process of cultural transformation. This session focuses on creating a culture of service, engaging leaders to lead the transformation and identifying service standards that will serve as guidelines for the behavior of all employees within the organization.

Accountability: The Key to Follow Through for Yourself, and for Others 

This session is designed to help participants differentiate authority, responsibility and accountability. Identify the very important role that personal attitude has in contributing to effectiveness and inspire others in spite of perceived negative surroundings and limitations.

Training and Facilitation Basics

This session is designed to help prepare leaders to effectively engage others in trainings, using information about behavioral style, learning style, active learning methods and media. Basic methods of group facilitation will also be included.

Multitasking and Prioritizing

This session is designed to focus leaders on ways to be more effective in determining projects, tasks and assignments and prioritizing in a way that assists the team in maximizing organizational efforts.

No Time to Waste: Managing a Limited Resource

This session is designed to challenge the prevailing pressure simply to do more. Are you focused on doing the urgent things more that the important ones? Come to this session to sharpen your skills of priority setting, using delegation up, down and laterally to assist.

Achieving More Through Others

This session is designed to explore the concept of delegation and why many leaders do not delegate, delegate ineffectively, or succeed/fail at delegating the right responsibilities to employees. Approaches to ensure successful delegation and receipt of delegation will be addressed. The concept of delegating up and across the organization is also discussed.

Creating Meetings That People Won't Want to Miss: Maximizing Outcomes

This session is designed to explore the common reasons that meetings and committees so frequently receive the "groan" factor, and identifies specific steps that MUST be taken so that meetings serve the purposes of the organization.

Making Complex Decisions: Logic, Flexibility and Ownership

This session is deigned to address how a decision is made is many times more important than the decision itself. And every decision that needs to be made is different in its scope, impact and implementation. Learn to apply a consistent process that will help you decide how to make a decision, with the most information, the greatest sense of ownership by others and a sense that the outcomes are fair.

Engage Others in Decisions they Care About, and Maintain Your Authority 

This session is designed to examine the important question of employee involvement and ownership in their work. Understanding what can be delegated, ideal governance structures and how to create your best approach will be addressed.

Help!! I Have to Lead People a Lot Younger/Older Than Me 

This session is designed to help leaders create and sustain environments that engage all the generations within the workplace. This session helps leaders understand and use generational differences to create a diverse and positive environment. Participants will learn practical strategies for leading a multigenerational workforce and building effective teams with these groups.

Creating an Organization that Learns from its Experience 

This session is designed to address the possibilities for creating a process that allows teams, departments and organizations to evaluate their performance and projects in a non-threatening environment, looking for opportunities to adjust, and celebrating what was learned as much as what was accomplished.

Turn Data into Information; Then Act

This session is designed to help participants understand the variety and complexity of accessible information sources in order to answer important evaluative questions. The importance of repeated measures, at intervals, to understand the effect of organizational change will be presented. Collaboration with others to ensure their cooperation in developing information will be stressed.

Help Your Boss Manage You 

This session is designed to enable participants to view their roles within a context of communication and hierarchy that must be acknowledged in today's organizations. Being clear about your needs and expectations, and helping your boss understand your best working environment are important features.