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From management essentials to strengths-based leadership, courses provide critical skills for tomorrow’s leaders.

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Coaching for Results helps successful managers achieve their goals through effective coaching for performance, development and change. A coaching style of leadership involves a shift from telling to asking. It helps break the cycle of an employee depending on a manager for a solution. A coach encourages the individual to resolve an issue on their own through effective questions, listening, clarifying and giving feedback. This highly-interactive skills-based course, provides you with the tools, models and practice to have those meaningful conversations that lead to increased trust, motivation and productivity.
- Define what coaching means
- Describe the attributes of an effective coach
- Recognize the difference between directing and coaching
- Learn key coaching skills: questioning, listening, giving feedback and goal setting
- Coach through asking powerful questions
- Practice coaching skills through exercises and role plays
- Describe the situation and approach to Coach for Performance
- Coach for development using the GROW Model
- Develop active listening techniques
- Coach for positive and corrective feedback using the SBIC Model
- Understand different mindsets during times of change
- Role play coaching scenarios and providing feedback to participants
- Create a personal Coaching Action Plan
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Copy LinkCommunicating as a Manager
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Managing people demands a deep appreciation of different individual working styles and the flexibility to deal with those differences and optimize the outcome.
Knowing Your Working Style
- Understanding why individual working styles are important
- Defining what a working style is and what it is not
- Identifying the working style that best describes you
- Recognizing all four working styles’ strengths and blind spots
- Demonstrating flexibility to get the best results
- Recognizing communication stoppers
- Communicating starts with listening non-judgmentally
- Balancing inquiry and advocacy
- Seeking to understand others’ perspective and rationale
- Asking open and close-ended questions
- Articulating your viewpoint and rationale
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Copy LinkDelegating, Goal Setting and Engagement
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Delegation is a critical management skill for new or experienced managers. This training provides a proven five-step delegation process which helps align company goals to department, project, and individual goals, using the SMART model. Delegating, Goal Setting and Engagement also looks at employee motivation and provides ways to increase engagement at a deeper level.
Delegating for Results
- Recognizing the challenges to delegation
- Identifying and using a five-step delegation process
- Assessing the employee’s ability and motivation
- Applying the Freedom to Act model
- Communicating company goals
- Aligning department, project and individual goals and expectations
- Creating SMART goals to set clear performance expectations
- Getting commitment, not just compliance
- Pinpointing the top five reasons why employees stay or leave
- Analyzing the engagement level of you and your team
- Identifying ways to engage and motivate employees to increase productivity
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Copy LinkEffective Mentoring Relationships
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Mentoring refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner, or mentee. Through regular interactions, the mentee relies on the mentor’s guidance to gain perspective and experience. Effective Mentoring Relationships has a profound impact on the development of individuals and impacts overall business results.
- Define what mentoring is and what it is not
- Identify the impact mentoring has on personal development and business results
- Define the roles and responsibilities of both the mentor and mentee
- Identify the three stages of the mentoring process
- Develop a plan to guide the mentor and mentee relationship
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Copy LinkGiving Feedback and Having Difficult Conversations
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Giving Feedback and Having Difficult Conversations will teach you a repeatable model to provide balanced feedback that improves performance and enhances the relationship. Next, you will explore ways to approach difficult conversations to make them more productive and painless by practicing.
Giving Balanced Feedback
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- Identifying the three types of feedback and the impact on employees
- Describing the best practices for giving effective feedback
- Applying the SBIC feedback model for providing balanced feedback
- Practicing how to deliver balanced feedback to a partner
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- Connecting the dots from previous conversations
- Assessing pros and cons of examples modeling difficult conversations
- Dealing with employee reactions to feedback
- Practicing difficult conversation scenarios
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Management Essentials
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Management Essentials is a skill-building course for new and experienced managers to develop themselves and all their employees including remote and hybrid. The focus is on how to apply the best management and leadership practices to be highly successful in engaging, motivating, and developing existing talent.
KEY TOPICS:
- The challenges of being a people manager
- Balancing Your Time and Priorities
- Defining your personal leadership values and compare to your company values
- Recognizing all working styles’ strengths and blind spots
- Balancing inquiry and advocacy
- Seeking to understand others’ perspective and rationale
- Identifying and using a five-step delegation process
- Aligning department, project and individual goals and expectations
- Getting commitment, not just compliance
- Discuss strengths and challenges of managing remote and hybrid teams
- Analyzing the engagement level of you and your team
- Identifying ways to engage and motivate employees to increase productivity
- Identifying the three types of feedback and the impact on employees
- Applying the SBIC feedback model for providing balanced feedback
- Connecting the dots from previous conversations
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Copy LinkManaging Hybrid Teams
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Mastering the art of leading hybrid teams is more important than ever. This interactive webinar gives you the best practices to connect and communicate with hybrid employees to maintain engagement and productivity.
- Assess the benefits and challenges of leading hybrid teams
- Identify the four basic needs of members on hybrid teams
- Identify the key elements of successful 1:1s
- Identify and leverage individual working styles to increase team synergy
- Leverage virtual technology and virtual norms to enhance staff meetings
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Copy LinkStrengths-Based Leadership
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Strengths-Based Leadership will look at your role as a leader in creating an environment that builds trust and fosters innovation by recognizing and developing the talent and strengths in each of your people and how to orchestrate their strengths to drive results. When managers and teams use a common language of strengths, it changes their conversations, creating more positive dialogue and boosting overall engagement and performance.
This approach helps employees identify how they can purposefully aim their talents so that team members are better equipped to accomplish their goals and performance objectives.
- Identify the six major changes that organizations need to make in order to be successful with the current generations entering the world of work
- Understand the business case for a “Strengths-based” approach to leading their people
- Name their unique Clifton Strengths Talent Themes
- Claim their Talent Themes by identify their Top Leadership Domain
- Aim their Strengths by completing a Strengths Individual Development Plan
- Identify the factors that drive an engaged workforce
- Focus their team members through strengths-based conversations
- Practice the “Quick Connect” conversation
- Assess the Four C’s of creating a strength-based team culture (Connect, Communicate, Collaborate and Celebrate)
- Create an Action Plan for ongoing team development
PREWORK: Completion and review of the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment (instructions will be sent ahead of time)
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Copy LinkStrengths-Based Teams
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Strengths-Based Teams aims to help team members discover, develop and use their unique talents for greater team engagement and productivity. When team members are aware of each other’s talents, they have a better understanding of how each person is inclined to think, act, and feel. Research by the Gallup Organization states that when teams and team leaders focus on strengths every day, they can achieve a 12.5% boost in productivity. When individual team members are encouraged to focus on their strengths, they are SIX TIMES more like to be engaged in their jobs.
- Identify the conditions for a successful team culture through the Four C’s (Connect, Collaborate, Communicate and Celebrate
- Name their Top 5 Signature themes and how they are currently being used in their work and team
- Claim their talents and strengths and the strengths of their team members by looking at the Four Domains of Team Strength
- Participate in a team activity that demonstrates the power of teaming through a strengths-based approach
- Create an action plan to leverage the strengths of the team
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Copy LinkThe SLII® Experience: Developing Leaders
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SLII™ is the world’s most taught leadership model for developing employees and delegating appropriately. It is a language and strategy for providing the right amount of direction and support to improve performance, productivity, and accountability. To become effective as an SLII® leader, you must master three skills: Goal Setting, Diagnosing, and Matching.
Goal Setting – The First Skill of a SLII™ Leader
- Communicate company strategy and goals
- Align department, project, and individual goals and expectations
- Create specific SMART goals to set clear performance expectations
- Clarify employee’s area of responsibility and accountability
- Analyze the four levels of development of direct reports
- Assess employee’s competence level of knowledge and skill of the goal or task
- Assess employee’s commitment level of motivation and confidence to perform the goal or task
- Identify the four leadership styles and the two components: direction and support
- Understand the negative impact of over supervising or under supervising
- Use the appropriate leadership style to provide individuals with what they need
- Learn how to move forward and backward in the SLII™ model
- Practice each of the four leadership styles
- Develop skills in opening-up communication and having one-on-one conversations
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Copy LinkThriving Through Change
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This class helps managers navigate ongoing changes and transitions with their employees. It covers the emotional and transitional components of change, that when handled well, will minimize the negative impact on productivity, customer satisfaction and employee morale. Through exercises, models and discussion, managers are equipped to understand the phases of change and build a culture of resilience within their team.
- Leading through change – Exercise
- Understand the difference between change and transition
- Identify the phases of change using familiar models: Bill Bridges and Jerald Jellison’s J-Curve
- Identify the emotional responses at each phase: denial, resistance, ambiguity, exploration, commitment – Exercise
- Apply key leadership strategies to help individual team members move successfully through stages of change – Exercise
- Build a culture of resilience based on current research and proven strategies
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Copy LinkTransitioning From Individual Contributor to New Manager
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New manager training teaches skills for an individual contributor to successfully transition to a manager, which can be the most challenging shift in a career. Whether you’ve made this transition recently or have been a manager for awhile, the benefit from the new manager training includes learning different communication styles, aligning personal and company values, balancing time and managing hybrid teams.
Role of a Manager
- The challenges of being promoted to a people manager
- The shift in mindset to manager and leader
- Best and worst characteristics of a manager
- Traits of a great manager
- Challenges in being a working manager
- Balancing manager and individual contributor responsibilities
- Analyzing your use of time to reach a balance
- The dos and don’ts of effective transition to manager
- Why values are important as a manager
- Defining your personal leadership values and compare to your company values
- Demonstrating your values through observable behavior
- Write your personal value statement
- Why understanding individual working styles is important to you as a manager
- Benefits of knowing the four different working styles
- Gaining insight into your preferred styles of working and communicating
- Knowing the strengths and drawbacks of your preferred working style
- Recognizing the working styles of others
- Demonstrating flexibility to get the best results
- Identify the four types of listening
- Distinguish between inquiry and advocacy
- Seek to understand others’ thinking and rationale
- Ask open-ended questions to understand their viewpoint
- Acknowledge the other person’s thoughts and feelings
- Surface assumptions
- Articulate your ideas and viewpoint
- Five actions for effective communication and listening