LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSES

With organizations moving at a blistering pace, there’s more pressure than ever for leaders to be effective at managing successful teams. But often, they don’t have the skills to be the agile, adaptive leaders they need to be, and they struggle to build meaningful connections and achieve results. It’s not for lack of effort or interest. Research has shown that most leaders are limited to a single leadership style—so they don’t know how to unleash the potential of their people as their needs shift. Leaders need to learn how to lead situationally. Blanchard’s SLII® empowers leaders to become adaptive—a requirement for our uncertain times. Backed by 40 years of research and an unmatched track record of results, The SLII Experience™ teaches your leaders how to lead situationally by giving their people the right support and direction at the right time. SLII enables leaders to build deeper relationships with their people, making every day more inspiring, motivating, and meaningful.

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Outcomes:

1.  Accelerate development and autonomy

2.  Use a common leadership language

3.  Enhance performance and achievement

4.  Improve engagement and retention

The ideal manager inspires employees, leads productive teams, and improves business performance. When managers struggle in their jobs, they often rely on ill-suited behaviors and instincts that can erode morale, diminish productivity, and increase turnover. We’ve used our 40 years of experience to create a transformational leadership training program for new managers and those who need to refresh essential skills: Blanchard Management Essentials®. Blanchard Management Essentials is built on the key concepts of the best-selling business book The New One Minute Manager®, and teaches new managers the most critical skills of management needed to set goals and achieve results. It gives managers the tools and training to develop the skills needed to build positive relationships with team members, inspire engagement, and drive productivity.

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Outcomes:

1.  Accelerate development and autonomy

2.  Build Positive Skills

3.  Reduce Staff Frustration

4.  Develop Future Leaders

Successful and healthy workplaces are built on a foundation of trust. When work relationships are rooted in trust, companies see improved communication, greater innovation, and increased revenue overall. But when trust is broken, the work environment becomes toxic. People become stressed and work in silos, there’s low collaboration, and morale and productivity drop. If employees don’t trust their coworkers or leader, they won’t perform to their potential. This can result in turnover that could have been avoided. At Blanchard®, we know it can be challenging to discern and address trust issues within your organization. That’s why we created a fourstep model that is easy to learn, easy to remember, and easy to use on the job. Our Building Trust program teaches leaders and their team members how to build trust to increase engagement, creativity, and commitment to the organization.

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Outcomes:

1.  Improve Performance

2.  Retain Your Talent

3.  Drive Creativity & Innovation

4.  Create Collaboration

Coaching is the single most important managerial skill that separates a highly effective manager from the rest. The problem is that most managers don’t understand how critical coaching is for the development, growth, and performance of their people. Because they don’t know how to integrate a coaching approach into their leadership style, their employees can stay stuck on projects, becoming discouraged and demotivated. It can be frustrating when your managers aren’t developing their people as effectively as they could be. Your managers deserve training that will deepen their leadership skills, so they can better accelerate the development and performance of those they lead. Coaching Essentials®, authored by Blanchard Master Certified Coaches who have led and managed others, embraces the tried-and true coaching competencies defined by the International Coaching Federation; our expert authors have spent more than 28 years mastering the language and practices that immediately make these methods useful.

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Outcomes:

1.  Accelerate Learning and Development

2.  Create Autonomous Problem Solvers

3.  Retain Your Top Talent

4.  Build Your Leadership Bench Strength

When a challenging topic or conflict arises, natural defenses kick in, making open and honest dialogue difficult. This can lead to people either becoming overly cautious and not speaking openly or getting defensive and argumentative. Without the necessary awareness or skills to work through it, creativity, collaboration, and innovation suffer.

 

Your people and teams should be able to put their most difficult, painful, divisive issues on the table and work through them in fair and productive ways.

 

Conversational Capacity® teaches people how to engage in constructive, learning-focused dialogue when challenging topics or conflicts arise so they can make informed decisions and find the best solutions, even under high pressure.

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Outcomes:

1.  Engage Employees

2.  Spur Innovation

3.  Improve Productivity

4.  Enhance Self-Awareness

Interpersonal dynamics are more important now than ever. Friction and misunderstandings in work relationships constantly drain efficiency and cause frustration and problems. When individuals have a better understanding of themselves, they can bring their best skills and talents to their work. And when people understand and appreciate the strengths and needs of their coworkers, their relationships flourish, their workgroups become true teams, and their collective potential is unleashed.

 

Several other popular personality and temperament systems are in use, but these systems tend to be too complex for most people to apply in their moments of need. Essential Motivators teaches a four-pattern framework that is powerfully simple, effective, and fun to apply, and allows all employees to reap its benefits.

 

The Essential Motivators framework was developed by author and expert Linda Berens, who has over forty years of experience in teaching people to recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better.

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Outcomes:

1.  Increase Organizational Effectiveness

2.  Deepen Collaboration

3.  Improve Employee Engagement

4.  Boost Empathy

Organizational change is a fact of business life. Reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, technology implementations, and other business initiatives are disruptive because they require large numbers of people to change at the same time.

 

Change efforts often fail because the organization and their leaders lack the framework and skills to guide their people through them effectively. Failed or stalled change initiatives waste time and money, reduce productivity and engagement, and increase employee turnover.

 

It doesn’t have to be this way. At Blanchard®, we know that the most successful companies stay ahead of the competition by making change a part of their corporate culture. Those who know how to lead change proactively surface and address employees’ concerns and involve them throughout the process, which moves the entire organization forward.

 

Leading People Through Change® teaches how to lead successful change initiatives. Leaders learn how to identify and address the predictable questions employees have and how to resolve their concerns to increase their buy-in and commitment.

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Outcomes:

1.  Increase Buy-in and Resilience

2.  Build Change Leadership Capability

3.  Get Results Faster

4.  Improve Success of Change Initiatives

Today’s workforce increasingly works from home and other remote locations, with teams spread across countries and time zones. As a result, managers need help to connect with their people through time lags and technology interfaces. It’s the new normal. And it comes with a new set of benefits and challenges.

 

Managing in this environment differs from working together in the same physical space. It can be challenging to understand what your people need and even harder to build rapport and trust over long distances.

 

Employees working remotely also have many challenges to take on. It’s harder to understand evolving goals and shifting priorities when separated from their teams and leader. Working for hours or days with fewer human interactions can become isolating, potentially damaging morale and reducing engagement. And there are many new technologies and techniques to master to communicate and collaborate well.

 

Leading Virtually™ helps managers with remote or hybrid staff learn the skillsets needed to stay connected and increase the effectiveness and productivity of their people.

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Outcomes:

1.  Deepen Connection Between Employees

2.  Increase Autonomy and Empowerment

3.  Improve Performance of Remote Staff

4.  Improve Employee Engagement

Imagine how resilient your organization could be if it were filled with people who have the skills and self-confidence to get what they need without unnecessary guidance or wasted time.

 

Organizations don’t execute well when individual contributors aren’t taking the initiative or being as effective as possible. Performance is often stalled because employees don’t know how to ask for what they need when needed. The truth is that people want to be engaged, make meaningful contributions, and feel appreciated.

 

We know how important it is to the success of your organization that every person be empowered and committed to achieving results. Our Self Leadership training program was designed by experts in employee motivation and engagement to ensure your team members develop the self-starting mindset they need to move the organization forward.

 

When you arm individuals at all levels with the Self Leadership mindset and skillset, you build an empowered workforce that is productive, innovative, and passionate about their work.

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Outcomes:

1.  Accelerate Development

2.  Drive Personal Accountability

3.  Improve Autonomy and Performance

4.  Increase Innovation

Imagine a workforce made of teams that work together efficiently, find solutions to complex problems, and consistently produce superior results throughout the organization.

 

When teams face a lack of shared purpose, have unclear goals, and contend with ineffective leadership, it becomes difficult to achieve this level of success.

 

Every team should have the chance to come together and reach their full potential. This starts with managers who know how to provide clarity, manage conflict, and break through barriers to move the team forward.

 

Based on SLII®, the most widely taught leadership model in the world, Blanchard’s Team Leadership program teaches managers to diagnose their teams’ development and apply the right leadership style to build and sustain high-performance teams. By teaching managers these leadership skills, you can significantly improve your teams’ ability to execute projects, grow the business, adapt to change, and overcome challenges.

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Outcomes:

1.  Improve Team Performance

2.  Achieve Superior Results

3.  Increase Speed and Collaboration

4.  Boost Innovation

Every company knows how impactful great customer service can be, but few have a proven plan to build a service-oriented culture that will leave a lasting impression on the people they serve. You want a culture that is dedicated to excellent service, where all employees are empowered to resolve issues and provide a great experience for your customers. It can be frustrating for business leaders to recognize that their organizations lack a service mindset. Employees might not even realize they have internal customers to serve. When that happens, friction and low collaboration are the likely results. When employees aren’t trained and empowered with a service mindset, this can create a culture where employees don’t help each other reach their goals or take care of their customers the way they should. Without employees who are equipped to go above and beyond, customers can be left unsatisfied and looking elsewhere. Your employees and customers deserve to feel valued in every interaction with your company. Legendary Service® teaches your people how to consistently deliver exceptional service that will support their colleagues, keep your customers coming back, and create a competitive edge for your organization.

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Outcomes:

1.  Increase Customer Loyalty

2.  Reduce Cost of Sales

3.  Drive Social Referrals

4.  Build Morale and Collaboration