EXCELerated Leadership Skills
Customize and create a targeted training series to build the foundational skills of leaders, supervisors and managers. Each 4-hour course addresses step-by-step behaviors and communications that increase team members **motivation, productivity, accountability, trust and commitment** and align them to the organization's strategic objectives.
View *course options* to learn more or request a consultation to plan your on-site customized training.
Additional Information
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Course Options
**Leading through Motivation** - *4 hours*
- Deal with team members on a day-to-day basis in such a way to maintain and enhance their self-esteem
- Base discussions about performance and work habits on behavior rather than on personalities and attitudes
- Involve team members in goal-setting, problem-solving and decision-making
**Leading through Communication** - *4 hours*
- See that communication is a two-way process
- Construct clear, concise messages in the interest of the listener
- Manage nonverbal behaviors to reinforce the intent of messages
- Listen actively to improve communication
- Create a climate of open communication
**Coaching Job Skills** - *4 hours*
- Understand what coaching is, why it is important, and how it supports individual and company goals
- Prepare for a coaching session by using observation and analysis to build a plan for a successful dialog
- Use coaching as a way to build a valuable sense of teamwork between the team leader and team member
**Improving Work Habits** - *4 hours*
- Recognize the difference between job performance and work habits
- Understand that unsatisfactory behaviors must be dealt with quickly and effectively
- Explain clearly and specifically the nature of the team members unsatisfactory work habit while focusing on behaviors rather than attitude
- Use action plans and reviews to improve work habits and accountability
**Developing Performance Goals** - *4 hours*
- Identify and set performance standards that are specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and time-framed using concrete active language
- Negotiate to develop performance standards for team members that address both desired results and team members capabilities
- Monitor team members progress toward their goals by holding review meetings
**Providing Performance Feedback** - *4 hours*
- Base assessments on facts and behavior
- Assess performance and use positive feedback to motivate team members
- Gain team member participation and agreement with assessment
- Gain team member commitment to the change needed to improve performance
**Effective Discipline** - *4 hours*
- Use effective discipline to eliminate problem behaviors
- Communicate concerns in terms of behavior rather than perception or opinion
- Minimize defensiveness and focus on solutions
- Review performance to make sure the problem is resolved
- Manage nonverbal behaviors to reinforce the intent of messages
**Managing Team Member Complaints** - *4 hours*
- Understand why team member complaints must be dealt with rather than dismissed
- Understand techniques used to determine underlying problems
- Manage various techniques to solve problems while maintaining a positive relationship with the team member
**Resolving Conflict** - *4 hours*
- Accept conflict as an inevitable part of all work situations and deal with it in order to maintain individual and team focus and productivity
- Recognize the positive and negative impacts of conflicts and leverage conflict to everyone's advantage
- Distinguish between the two major sources of conflict so that it can be resolved fairly and effectively
- Establish a cooperative atmosphere to resolve conflicts when they arise
**Delegating** - *4 hours*
- Understand the role of delegation
- Use a delegation process that ensures team member involvement
- Establish a team members responsibility and authority for a delegated task
**Supporting & Leading Change** - *4 hours*
- Understand why change is hard from a neuroscience perspective
- Adopt principles to survive and thrive in today's fast changing world
- Leverage powerful tools and techniques to adapt to change
- Learn the top predictable reasons why change efforts typically fail
- Prepare for the stages of change over time in respect to team member engagement, productivity, and adoption of the change
- Communicate with team members to overcome the 4 fears of change
- Strategize for leading change successfully
- Promote positive change with the 6-step approach
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Target Audience
The leadership modules develop foundational skills for **frontline leads, supervisors and managers**. Companion training is available for managers of the participants to coach and model the skills taught in class, while making participants accountable to put the skills into practice.
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Benefits & Outcomes
This outcomes-based leadership training is expected to:
- Improve employee skills while providing opportunities to apply learning to the workplace
- Improve the work environment and positively impact productivity
- Address talent management and development needs of frontline leaders
- Improve organization capability to encourage higher levels of performance