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Leadership Approach
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Leadership Challenges
- Creating Vision, Purpose, and Leadership Character
- Preparing New Leaders and High Potentials
- Balancing Leadership and Management
- Developing Communication, Versatility, and Conflict Management Skills
- Ensuring Employees Are Engaged
- Coaching and Motivating Employees
- Leading Change
- Delegating and Setting Team and Individual Goals
- Influencing and Negotiating
- Building Collaboration
- Fostering Innovation and Creativity
- Facilitating Cross-Cultural Effectiveness
- Driving Performance Management
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Programs
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Learning Services
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Client Results
Mid-Management
In today's companies, middle managers and team leaders—the layer of leadership and coordination between top strategic leadership and front-line—are critical to success. How are you developing those managers who desire to grow and aspire to leadership positions? How are you helping them build the myriad of skills required now and in the future? The following programs provide the skills middle managers need to succeed.
Knowing Your Leadership Strengths
Growth Leadership Inventory
Are your people reaching their potential? Are they learning and growing every day? Are they getting better at their jobs? Do they accomplish their goals? Are they willing to change and manage conflict? The clearest signs of outstanding leadership often appear in the performance of the followers. Leaders help their people do what is required of them in the most effective way possible. learn more
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment provides leaders with the framework and skills to enable the work unit to achieve Performance with Fulfillment—the combination of high performance and high satisfaction from meaningful work done well. Leaders learn to support their work units in terms of Five Practices to provide what their people need. learn more
Leader Manager Inventory
Research indicates that high performance is not sustainable over time unless it is accompanied by a high degree of fulfillment, in addition to a focus on performance—neither performance nor fulfillment exists in a vacuum. To implement strategy and create business results, managers must create an environment of performance with fulfillment. These skills require integrating the inspiration of leadership with the skill of management. learn more
Leader Navigator: Effectiveness Insights 360™
Leader Navigator: Effectiveness Insights 360™ is a 360-degree feedback instrument that enables you to apply Wilson Learning’s Integrated Leadership Model for practical use. This assessment is easily configured to include different competencies and behaviors that best describe your leadership environment. learn more
Meeting Leadership Challenges
Leading for Performance: Meeting Leadership Challenges helps managers learn how to shift their attention away from output and toward creating optimal conditions for employees in three key leadership action areas. Managers will learn how to be an effective leader, rather than an individual contributor. learn more
Setting Challenging Goals
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment provides leaders with the framework and skills to enable the work unit to achieve Performance with Fulfillment—the combination of high performance and high satisfaction from meaningful work done well. Leaders learn to support their work units in terms of Five Practices to provide what their people need. learn more
Leading for Growth™
Leading for Growth™ challenges managers to rethink their role as leaders, shifting their mindset from that of "heroic manager" to "growth leader." The program is structured on the core dimensions of growth leadership: building a collaborative culture, creating a shared vision, and adopting mutual influence. learn more
Leading in Challenging Times™
Leading in Challenging Times™ focuses on what happens to human energy during times of change. To capture the discretionary energy of the workforce, leaders must understand how motivation and focus can be lost, and what they and their teams can do to regain effectiveness and commitment. A companion program for individuals, Working in Challenging Times™ helps participants understand and manage their own reactions to change, as well as develop a sense of personal accountability. learn more
Setting Goals for Success
In Leading for Performance: Setting Goals for Success, participants examine the characteristics of effective goals, the need for goals to address both performance and fulfillment, best practices for linking goals to strategy execution, and proven goal-setting processes. learn more
Managing Change Effectively
Leading for Growth™
Leading for Growth™ challenges managers to rethink their role as leaders, shifting their mindset from that of "heroic manager" to "growth leader." The program is structured on the core dimensions of growth leadership: building a collaborative culture, creating a shared vision, and adopting mutual influence. learn more
Leading in Challenging Times™
Leading in Challenging Times™ focuses on what happens to human energy during times of change. To capture the discretionary energy of the workforce, leaders must understand how motivation and focus can be lost, and what they and their teams can do to regain effectiveness and commitment. A companion program for individuals, Working in Challenging Times™ helps participants understand and manage their own reactions to change, as well as develop a sense of personal accountability. learn more
Leading Innovation
Innovation In Action Series
The Innovation in Action Series is a series of modules that explores the dimensions of innovation — Innovation Styles, Innovation Tools & Practices, The Creative Journey®, Taking Initiative, and Strategic Innovation Management—to help organizations improve how they advance their market position. learn more
Building a Collaborative Culture
Building Relationship Versatility™: Social Styles at Work
Building Relationship Versatility™: Social Styles at Work is built around a four-quadrant Social Styles matrix. After being profiled, participants are assigned a Social Style, interpersonal versatility rating, and specific versatility behaviors. During the workshop, participants learn how to identify others' Social Styles and, based on understanding their own and others' style, learn to modify their own behaviors to communicate more easily and effectively with others. learn more
Global Effectiveness
Global Effectiveness is based on working within the five cultural dimensions. This program will teach participants what types of behaviors to expect from certain cultures and how to prepare themselves for business interactions. Participants will learn how to turn cultural differences from an unknown liability into an asset. learn more
Leading for Growth™
Leading for Growth™ challenges managers to rethink their role as leaders, shifting their mindset from that of "heroic manager" to "growth leader." The program is structured on the core dimensions of growth leadership: building a collaborative culture, creating a shared vision, and adopting mutual influence. learn more
Negotiating and Influencing Others
Consulting with Clients
Consulting skills are as important as technological proficiency in today's environment. Consulting with Clients is an intermediate level workshop designed to enable consultants to bring business value to their internal or external clients. Participants will learn how to align solutions to address business priorities and processes and, as a result, achieve increased revenue and customer loyalty. learn more
Getting to Yes: Influencing for Optimal Results
Getting to Yes (GTY) helps managers become better influencers and, ultimately, negotiators. Managers become better negotiators by turning-face-to-face confrontation into side-by-side problem solving. It is based on the concept of Principled Negotiation, a method that offers managers an efficient process for reaching optimal business agreements that are satisfying to both parties while strengthening professional relationships. learn more
Coaching and Developing Talent
Coaching for Performance
Leading for Performance: Coaching for Performance offers first-line and mid-level managers coaching skills and techniques to create the conditions under which employees can succeed. This program will enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage using an effective, structural coaching approach that taps employees' potential and leads to improved performance and fulfillment. learn more
Lighthouse Coaching
Lighthouse Coaching will help the busy manager move from the "error-correction" management style to the "goal-attainment" coaching style. Use of the Lighthouse Coaching Planning Form, during and after the session, directs the manager through the five steps of the coaching process. learn more
Creating Employee Engagement
Creating a Culture Of Engagement
Creating a Culture of Engagement is a highly interactive two-day instructor-led experience that teaches leaders to increase employee engagement and strengthen teams, leading to tangible business results. This active learning session is hands-on and process-oriented. The focus is on what the organization needs to do, as well as what individual leaders need to do, to create collaborative teams and a culture of engagement. learn more
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment
The Leader Manager: Achieving Performance with Fulfillment provides leaders with the framework and skills to enable the work unit to achieve Performance with Fulfillment—the combination of high performance and high satisfaction from meaningful work done well. Leaders learn to support their work units in terms of Five Practices to provide what their people need. learn more
Leading from Within
Leading from Within examines the essence of leadership—the core questions that leaders must answer for themselves from within. This process workshop provides leaders with tools and strategies to explore the challenges of leadership, enhance their personal effectiveness and integrity as leaders, and better enable them to lead. learn more
Measuring Outcomes
Growth Leadership Inventory
Are your people reaching their potential? Are they learning and growing every day? Are they getting better at their jobs? Do they accomplish their goals? Are they willing to change and manage conflict? The clearest signs of outstanding leadership often appear in the performance of the followers. Leaders help their people do what is required of them in the most effective way possible. learn more
Leader Manager Inventory
Research indicates that high performance is not sustainable over time unless it is accompanied by a high degree of fulfillment, in addition to a focus on performance—neither performance nor fulfillment exists in a vacuum. To implement strategy and create business results, managers must create an environment of performance with fulfillment. These skills require integrating the inspiration of leadership with the skill of management. learn more
Leader Navigator: Effectiveness Insights 360™
Leader Navigator: Effectiveness Insights 360™ is a 360-degree feedback instrument that enables you to apply Wilson Learning’s Integrated Leadership Model for practical use. This assessment is easily configured to include different competencies and behaviors that best describe your leadership environment. learn more
