Hone your leadership skills with our Advanced Leadership Training seminars.
Effective Leadership is a mix of art and science and real world practice.
Our self study Celebrate You and Be The Leader You Were Born To Be products will help you to uncover your natural leadership skills and begin to use them with more awareness and efficacy. Practice will help you grow your skills.
Our Leadership seminars take your learning experience to the next level. Packed with valuable information, tips and techniques that build on the breadth and depth of Perceptual Style Theory, our seminars combine entertaining delivery with lots of participant interaction. You will rapidly advance your knowledge and practical application of core leadership skills that will transform your leadership.
Each seminar takes you on a deep dive to fully explore your skills and how to apply them in critical areas of leadership such as communication, motivation, conflict resolution, team dynamics, and change leadership.
Traditionally we've presented our seminars in person, but this year we've expanded our delivery to live webinars using Zoom and we will be releasing a recording library for self study (the next best thing to attending a seminar).
All of our seminars are conducted jointly by Gary and Lynda-Ross with the help of some of our certified guides. We strive to ensure every attendee gets personal attention, and we provide post seminar support with email Q&A and Leadership Forum access.
Scroll down to view summaries of our leadership seminars. Check out our calendar of events to see our public seminar schedule. Or contact us to discuss a private seminar for your organization.
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Advanced Leadership Training Seminars
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Strengths Based Leadership
Strengths Based Leadership - Be the Leader You Were Born To Be
Everyone has the capacity to be an effective, even exceptional leader. There's not one set of traits or behaviors that guarantee leadership success, but there is YOUR way to be a leader. You possess unique leadership strengths that are just waiting for you to put them to good use. You don’t have to become someone else to become an effective leader. Learn the leadership skills associated with your Perceptual Style and how to best use them to be the leader you were born to be. This module builds on the Celebrate You module. Each participant receives a Be the Leader You Were Born to Be action guide for their Perceptual Style.
Communication and Motivation Techniques
Advanced Communication and Motivation Techniques
As a leader you can’t fall into the trap of assuming communication is happening. Your challenge is to ensure the meaning that you intend is what is understood, not just by one other person, but many people. Effective communication requires acknowledging it’s not automatically guaranteed. It takes awareness, some tools and techniques, and lots of practice. In this seminar you will learn fundamentals about communication theory and how Perceptual Style influences what you listen for and how you deliver your message. We’ll explore the communication differences between Perceptual Styles and you’ll learn (and practice) practical techniques to ensure that as a leader you are listening with discernment and delivering your message in a manner that guarantees you are more fully understood by all.
Change Leadership Mastery
Change Leadership Mastery
Change is constant. It’s an integral part of life and a key factor in successful organizations. The easy part is defining a change, the mastery happens when you can effectively lead people through the transition of change identification to change implementation. In this seminar you will learn the fundamentals of change theory and details about how each Perceptual Style responds to both self-initiated and imposed change. You will learn techniques to guide your team’s transition from imposed change responses to embraced change responses, capitalizing on the strengths of each Perceptual Style and incorporating communication and motivation tips for your brand of leadership.
Building Talent Based Teams
Building Talent Based Teams
Effective teams are critical to the success of any organization. Matching team members to the right tasks, minimizing miscommunications, motivating team members, and creating value and buy-in, are all important aspects for achieving great results for your team. As a leader, more often than not, you don’t have the luxury of building your own team from scratch, which makes understanding the strengths of the team members you inherit all the more important. Two simple yet powerful tools to help you discern how best to guide your team to be the best they can be are Position Portraits and Behavior Based Interviewing techniques. In this seminar you will learn how to create Position Portraits for each role on your team (hint – this is about the behavioral skills people need to excel in the role) and how to use Behavior-Based interviewing techniques to select and mentor team members. There’s lots of hands on practice in this seminar and we encourage participants to come prepared with real life role examples to work with during the session.
Conflict Resolution and Collaboration
Conflict Resolution and Effective Collaboration
Conflict is an inevitable part of living and working with other people. Conflict often gets a bad rap because people try to avoid it and that leads to festering and blowups rather than resolution and understanding. Conflict can actually be a powerful tool for generating new ideas, creating new understandings, effective collaboration, and growth. Whether a conflict creates positive or negative results depends entirely on how you approach it as a leader. In this seminar you will learn how each Perceptual Style responds to conflict and specific techniques you can use to identify conflict and guide the participants to positive results and effective collaboration while honoring the perspectives of each person involved. You’ll be amazed at how well these techniques work for you in all aspects of your life!
Virtual Leadership
Virtual Leadership
Working from home is a more viable option today than ever before. Your team could be located in places all over the city, country, or planet. Virtual Leadership has some unique challenges relating to communication, motivation, accountability, and mentoring your team members from a distance. In this seminar we provide you with unique insights about each Perceptual Style’s strengths and blind spots in a work from home environment. You’ll learn techniques for leading your team from a distance using your natural leadership skills combined with personalized motivation, accountability and mentoring for each of your team members. Virtual Leadership is easy to master with the tools you’ll learn in this seminar.