Leadership Training

LDR-001. Apollo 13 Leadership Training
Objectives: "Houston, we have a problem!" These words, spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell, remind us of the Apollo 13 story. An explosion aboard a space capsule 200,000 miles from earth. The mission changed from landing men on the surface of the moon to returning the 3-man crew safely to earth, against unbelievable odds. The mission has been called a "successful failure". An exciting and motivating story, for sure. But what can we learn from this event in our nation’s history that we can apply to business today? Apollo 13 Leadership training teaches the 13 key leadership learnings from the Apollo 13 mission.

LDR-002. Change Management
Objectives: Change Management describes the characteristics of leadership in change as a human event and discusses various effects on individuals. Through case study and group participation, we explore the dynamics of change within groups of people and within organizations, and the effects of change on a formal organization. Identify crucial themes that drive change, categories of change within organizations, and apply this knowledge to leading and managing the change. Discussion of various change strategies and selecting strategies appropriate to specific situations within the workplace are presented.

LDR-003. Getting to Know You
Objectives: Knowing and valuing self are keys to the success of most accomplished leaders. Participants will identify and evaluate their own preferences for vital components of professional life (using the DISC instrument). Also, they will craft a strategy of leading employees using their self-knowledge.

LDR-004. Ladders to Leadership
Objectives: Setting the Foundations of the Team; Establishing Expectations; Identifying When to Lead, Follow, or Hand-off; One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Using the Right Motivation for the Right Person; The Dangers of Overused Feedback; Accountability – Whose Job Is it; Building a Level Playing Field.

LDR-005. Leadership During Crisis
Objectives: Create and develop the best leadership style to control the situation you are in.

LDR-006. Leadership Principles
Objectives: Identify the characteristics and styles of leadership. Understand the roles of a leader. Review the importance of mission, vision and value statements. Explore how a leader creates a culture. Examine specific ways to develop leadership skills. Practice coaching and communication skills employed by a leader.

LDR-007. Management and Applied Leadership
Objectives: Participants will be able to identify the basic functions of management and the complexities of their role in a global economy. The different types of organizational structures and their impact on organizational performance will be identified. Identify the different approaches to, and applications of, management and leadership theory and practice. Discuss how to achieve cooperative and effective work-group members through effective business communications. Understand the change process and the impact of change on organizations.

LDR-008. Media Management
Objectives: Learn how to prepare yourself or your employees for media exposure – newspaper, radio, television and Internet – and how to satisfy the needs of the media without surrendering sensitive information or jeopardizing the company/case in any way. Training includes coaching on how to present yourself/your firm through print and media commercial advertising.

LDR-009. Personnel Counseling
Objectives: Topics covered: Establish Expectations, "Tough Love" – Providing Negative Feedback, Developing Effective Evaluation Standards, Determining Roles and Responsibilities, Understanding Employee Mentoring, Preparing for Hostility, Withdrawal and Sabotage, Digging Down to the Root of the Problem.

LDR-010. Relational Intelligence
Objectives: This training discusses the ways individuals, departments, or organizations display poor relational esteem. Where there may be strength in the area of substantive esteem or policy and practice (toeing the legal line), without a healthy balance of relational esteem and organization or company could be headed for trouble. This training will outline the characteristics of poor relational esteem displayed typically by shame and grandiosity. We will also discuss the skill set for repair communication. Substance without relationship in the workplace means a slow death for everyone.

LDR-011. Repair Skills
Objectives: This training discusses the ways individuals, departments, or organizations display poor repair skills in work relationships. This training will outline the impact of poor repair skills on productivity and communication. We will also discuss the skill set for repair, including characteristics of an effective apology.

LDR-012. Surviving Leadership 101
Objectives: A course designed to develop those leadership skills necessary to make it through those times when it seems that all is against you. This course is not about changing your leadership style or teaching you the one technique that will solve all your problems. It is about giving you a different perspective on leading in ways that you might not have heard or thought about before.

LDR-013. Systems Thinking
Objectives: A CAPSTONE PROGRAM, the purpose of the program is to provide people an overall understanding of how all systems integrate. Based on Peter Senge’s work, we look at the interactions of our personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team/group learning. The workbook provides leaders with the process to change the system for a more positive outcome.

LDR-014. The Secret of Influencing Others
Objectives: Participants will be led to a new way of thinking about the topics of motivation and influence in the professional environment. An influence model will be introduced and extensively discussed. The model's practical applications will be presented to the participants by the instructor, providing them with another tool for use in their professional activities that affect others' behavior as well as their own.

LDR-015. Time Management
Learn time management and mastery skills – find out the difference between important and urgent. Urgent things may not relate to goals, but they are always more demanding. Learn to focus on important and ignore urgent. Identify the six common time “problems.”

LDR-016. Your International Client
Objectives: Successful business leaders know and value the diversity in today's marketplace with regard to potential clients. Specifically, successful leaders seek information to help them appreciate the international marketplace and provide services to members of cultures different than their own. Participants will raise their awareness of different cultures with regard to professional transactions. The participants also will begin to craft a business strategy to target the needs of different cultures and offer services to address those needs with success and respect.