High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers to Be High-Impact Leaders
Engage leaders in productive leadership training to impact business results.
- There is concern about current and future leaders of the company having the awareness and capabilities required to deliver both business and people imperatives.
- The lack of leadership skills in non-executive levels are leading to lower employee engagement, employee dissatisfaction, and lack of promotable management.
- Leadership training has not delivered desirable results. Training has not been linked to talent and business strategy with robust measurement post-training to validate that leader behavior has changed as a result of the training.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight
- The lack of leadership skills in non-executive levels is leading to lower employee engagement and a weak leadership bench strength.
- While leadership training is the number one priority, budgets are tight.
- High-impact leadership training will drive measurable organizational success.
- Many individuals have a natural leadership, but need training in leadership styles, influence, conflict, motivation, and decision making. A good leader is able to adapt to the needs of the team to lead in a way that will garner the greatest efficiency, effectiveness, and business results.
Impact and Result
- Leadership training will enable managers to realize greater work group efficiency and effectiveness, as well as easily translate into improved business outcomes.
- In-house training will help keep costs manageable.
- Training will decrease the leadership skills gap and increase promotable resources.
Workshop: High-Impact Leadership: Train Managers to Be High-Impact Leaders
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Implement High-Impact Leadership Training
The Purpose
- Make the case for training managers on High-Impact Leadership.
- Prepare to implement leadership training.
- Deliver leadership training to managers.
- Evaluate the success of the training.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Learn your dominant leadership style and how to modify it to suit various audiences.
- Learn how to successfully influence those below, at, and above your organizational position.
- Learn to effectively resolve conflicts with a thorough understanding of the individuals on your team, as well as the principles of team dynamics.
- Learn to inspire your direct reports to high performance through self-management and coaching.
- Learn to make timely and effective decisions that factor in external and internal factors.
- Learn how to refine and validate your leadership brand.
Activities
Outputs
1.1
Learn the six leadership styles.
- Learning leadership styles helps a leader deliver high- impact organizational and people results.
1.2
Learn the six influence tactics.
- Leaders skilled at influencing affect others’ thinking, decisions, and behavior – and drive positive business results.
1.3
Learn the conflict resolution framework.
- Being skilled in conflict resolution results in positive outcomes for the organization.
1.4
Connect with the organization’s vision, mission, and values.
- Inspiration training gives leaders the power to connect employees with the organizational vision, mission, and values.
1.5
Determine common methods and techniques for establishing decision criteria.
- Decision-making training boosts business benefits and helps managers develop a core competency.
1.6
Understand how to craft a leadership brand.
- A strong organizational leadership brand positively affects an organization’s reputation by adding credibility and expertise.
1.7
Establish your learning evaluation plan for the training.
- Documented success metrics and methods of evaluation.
1.8
Customize the training materials.
- Customized training materials.
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 3 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Prepare to implement training
- Call 1: Discuss how to gain stakeholder buy-in for leadership training.
- Call 2: Discuss module selection, logistics, and content customization. Review the 360 Tool and the high-impact leadership training decks.
Guided Implementation 2: Follow up after training
- Call 1: Review training session results, as well as any suggested training modifications.
Contributors
- Ashley Archer, Owner, Social Graces PR
- Melodie Barnett, Communication, Culture and Change Advocate, Pivot Communications
- Dr. David Chalmers, Adjunct Professor, Ted Rogers School of Business
- Mark Clare, Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University and Independent Consultant at New Value Streams Consulting
- Dr. Allan Cohen, Professor, Babson College
- Fiona Dent, Associate Faculty, Ashridge Business School
- Jim Dybevik, Director of Human Resources, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
- Michele Ferazzutti, IT Leader, McDonald’s Canada
- Terry Gillen, Management Consultant, Trainer
- Mike Grabarek, Director of Organizational Development, The Lane Construction Corporation
- Lisa Harlow, VP, Human Resources, CoastHills Federal Credit Union
- Brenda Huizinga, Senior Manager, Leadership Development, Transit
- Devin C. Hughes, Speaker, Coach, Author, and Chief Inspiration Officer
- Dr. Karen Maloney, Director, Maloney Minds
- Ugo Orsi, Vice President, Application Service Management, Loblaw Companies Limited
- Rebecca Parks, Sr. Consultant - Talent Management & Leadership Development Strategy, London Health Sciences Centre
- Angel Prescott - Brown, Associate Director, Corporate HR, Leadership Development, Bell
- Naila Qazi, Director of Training, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre
- Kenneth E. Russell, PhD, Organization & Enterprise Strategist & Leader of Intellectual Capital Transformation
- Dil Sidhu, Chief External Officer, Manchester Business School
- Robert Watson, President and CEO, SaskPower
- Karen Wright, Managing Director Parachute Executive Coaching
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