Leadership Topics

This is a basic course where key skills required for successful leadership are taught. Some of the skills discussed are "Building Trust", "Acting with Integrity", "Inspiring Others", "Developing People", "Collaboration" and "Communication".

A leadership style refers to a leader’s approach and behaviors when it comes to directing, motivating, and managing their people. Your leadership style determines how you strategize and implement plans.

According to Hersey and Blanchard, a leader’s ability to lead depends upon certain situational factors. By understanding, recognizing and adapting to these factors, leaders will be able to influence their surroundings and followers much more successfully.

John Maxwell states that “The true measure of Leadership is Influence – nothing more, nothing less”. This course teaches leaders a clear process and methodology to follow to prepare for a high-stakes one-on-one influence conversation. It also helps leaders who want more leadership presence or to improve their overall impact on their teams and organizations.

This course teaches leaders on how to cultivate a strategic mindset and create informed strategies. It also provides an overview of Strategic Planning - the process, the big-picture questions, setting priorities and establishing alignment and accountability .

Change is hard. Leading change in organizations is very hard. This course teaches the various steps involved in implementing a change successfully in an organization - creating the case for change, communicating a compelling change vision, formulating the path for change, implementing the change and tracking progress.

Many executives think that culture is a vague and fuzzy term when it comes to organizational performance. It is not. Culture defines the attitudes, behaviors, habits, and disciplines for how things get done in your organization. In this course, we discuss the components of high-performing cultures and teach the process to change an organizational culture.

Building and leading teams remain a significant challenge in most workplaces. Many reasons account for this dilemma, from lack of a clear goal to unclear roles, personality conflicts, unrealistic timelines and budgets, poor communication, and having gaps in the talent needed to succeed. This course teaches the participants a clear process aimed at addressing these issues and steps to build and maintain accountable and effective teams.

Executives and managers often struggle with conflicts at work. Not all conflicts are bad. However, when conflicts become personal or unproductive, it becomes imperative to resolve the conflicts. This training is a step by step “workout session” to resolve conflicts among a team. It provides a methodology to “interview” all sides involved in the conflict and understand each side’s point of view, the outcomes you are striving to achieve and the best path to get there.

Delegation is an essential leadership skill. In today's complex organizations, leaders are not expected to do everything. This course teaches the process of effective delegation of tasks or projects in teams and outlines the key benefits of delegation.

Feedback is essential for effective performance and continuing development. Effective feedback provides the information people need to build on their strengths and overcome weaknesses. This course teaches a clear and simple process to structure and give feedback to subordinates.

A common frustration of leaders and managers is that their organization does not execute effectively. They cannot get things done on time, under budget or achieve specific targets. Execution problems may be because of individual issues, team issues or organizational issues. This course teaches participants to define the problem so that it can be addressed, focus on the root causes of the execution problem, and find systematic solutions.

Your ideal career is a fit with your career interests, talents, skills, and values aligned with market opportunities. This course teaches you to create a concise career plan. It starts by challenging the participants to identify where they will excel in their career and the value they bring to others. It includes specific action steps so that the participants can proactively develop new skills and relevant behaviors to achieve their career goals.

Congratulations! You have been promoted from an individual contributor’s role to a leadership or managerial role. Do you feel excited or daunted? This course explores what will change in your new role and new situations you will encounter and suggestions on key mindset shifts you will need to make. This training will also focus on key People Management Skills that you will need to master in order to have a successful role transition.

According to Gale Porter, your net worth is your network! Professional Relationships are one of the most important currencies that leaders and managers have which determine their informal power and influence – inside a company, in their industry, and in the world. This course teaches a four step process to help a variety of leaders improve their professional networks (both internal and external) which is so key in ensuring their career success.