Leadership Skills Development

We often hear of organizations that take the approach to leadership development that looks something like, take a bunch of skills, throw them at the people, and see what sticks.

At Emerge, we believe this to be the wrong way to approach leadership development.  We believe that before the skills of leadership "stick" to individual leaders, they must first learn why their role as a leader matters and how it differs from previous roles as individual contributors.  Once leaders have made these critical psychological shifts they become prime candidates for developing the key skills of leadership.

We have assembled a broad curriculum of leadership skills - the Emerge Online Leadership Series - designed to assist leaders in developing their key on-the-job skills. Whether through fact-to-face experiences in workshops, through online delivery, or a blended solution, the following modules can be organized and delivered to suit your needs, the needs of your organization, and the needs of individuals leaders:

1. Essential Skills of Leadership - The fundamental elements of how to be an effective leader.
2. Essential Skills of Communication - How to build an effective and open communication environment.  
3. Providing Performance Feedback - How to ensure you promote continuous performance improvement through feedback.
4. Developing Performance Goals and Standards - How to increase the levels of team member engagement and ownership.
5. Improving Work Habits - Methods to effectively address habits that impede top performance.
6. Coaching Job Skills - Techniques to ensure team members are able to perform their job.
7. Managing Complaints - How to deal with objections and grievances effectively.
8. Effective Discipline - How to apply control and authority and be successful.
9. Resolving Conflict - An approach to disagreements that is healthy and team oriented.
10. Delegating - How to enlist responsibility, effectively and responsibly.
11. Supporting Change - Helping team members effectively handle a constantly evolving work environment.
12. Communicating Up - Ensuring those above you are effectively informed and involved.
13. Motivating Team Members - Successful strategies to effectively motivate members of your team.
14. Solving Workplace Problems - How to successfully address systemic opportunities in your work environment.
15. Hiring Winning Talent - How to implement a successful and structured approach to hiring.
16. Leading Successful Projects - Effective techniques for leading on-time, on-budget, and on-target projects.
17. Retaining Winning Talent - How to effectively and proactively manage employee retention.

Designed to address the recurring leadership challenges of today

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
Bill Bradley, Former US Senator and Championship Basketball Player

Ask yourself, do the leaders in your organization?

• Behave as if they were still an individual contributor?
• Struggle to resolve conflict among employees?
• Inefficiently hold power rather than delegate to others on their team?
• Give employees feedback that doesn't seem to improve performance?
• Delegate responsibility to others on their team only to see them fail?
• Set goals & standards that their team consistently fails to achieve?
• Throw change at people rather than lead them effectively through it?
• Consistently fails to get the best out of their team members?
• Rarely develop their own skills or the skills of their team members?
• Have team members that consistently exhibit poor work habits?
• Regularly fail to resolve conflicts within their team?
• Consistently avoid handing complaints from members of their team?

If the answer to any or all of these questions is yes, the Emerge Leadership Group Leader Development Curriculum will help. The curriculum is relevant, flexible, results-oriented, and value-driven.

Flexible

The Leader Development Curriculum offers many different kinds of flexibility:

• Modules are available as Classroom Workshops, Online E-Learning Modules, or as a powerful and effective Blended Learning Solution that combines both elements in an extremely rich and personal learning experience
• Modules are tightly focused to maximize time and impact
• Module order may be customized to fit organizational needs
• Modules are highly interactive to enhance learning
• Modules may be successfully delivered by with no certification

Delivery Methods

The Leader Development Curriculum is a solution to develop managers, supervisors, and team leaders even in the face of the constraints of the organization. Solutions are offered in several ways to best meet the needs of the organization and, perhaps, of the different departments within the organization. Solutions are available as Classroom Workshops, Online E-learning Modules, and Blended Learning - a powerful combination of Classroom and Online. Modules are designed to be flexible. Organizations may choose the training sequence and delivery method that best fits, makes the training work efficiently given current circumstances, or suits a given group or location. Modules may also be customized to any industry or organization.

Classroom Workshops

New ideas, on target videos, relevant exercises all provide participants the opportunity to learn not only "what" to do to be an effective leader and "why" to do it but also, most importantly, "how" to do it. The core methodology behind each classroom workshop is to enable each participant to become fully competent and highly confident as he/she completes a classroom workshop. Throughout the workshop, leaders review case studies, participate in team learning and teach-back sessions, practice new skills, and receive solid coaching in a safe learning environment. Participants then simulate an actual work situation, which provides an opportunity for them to use the skills learned in a workplace-type environment. Additionally, each Participant Workbook contains extensive resources and a troubleshooting guide designed to reinforce continued learning as participants apply the skills learned when they return to the job - where it matters most.

All this is accomplished in a 4-hour per module classroom setting.

Online E-Learning Modules

Online learning modules offer the same cognitive learning information as the classroom workshop. The material is highly interactive, utilizing multiple methods of learning designed to keep online participants engaged and challenged. Online participants are able to complete the learning on their schedule and at times that least interrupt their workflow. A complete video, the same as in the classroom workshop, provides online participants traditional and positive examples of the skill points and ways to apply them. Each online module takes 1 to 2 hours to complete satisfactorily. Pre- and Post-Testing is available, as well as complete online reporting information.

Blended Learning Opportunities

Blended learning is an artful combination of Classroom Workshop with Online E-learning. It provides learners the most powerful and personal learning experience possible. By combining Classroom and Online, participants are able to learn at their own pace, practice in a safe coaching environment, and utilize our extensive resources and troubleshooting guide designed to reinforce continued learning.

Training Support

Each facilitator guide includes a Facilitator Resource CD that contains forms, a PowerPoint, a Pre- and Post-Test, as well as additional materials to help instruct the programs and enable users to have a more powerful learning experience. Support is also provided to both facilitator and participant alike through our Strategic Partner's exclusive website.

Results-Oriented

As much as 50 percent of "learning" comes after the class - back on the job. The Leader Development Curriculum provides an extensive array of resources and tools designed to help participants apply the skills after they leave the learning environment. Resources and tools include online information websites, interactive forms for implementation, troubleshooting guides to use in solving workplace difficulties, and ongoing access to online modules filled with videos and interactive tools to reinforce learning.

Value-Driven

Bottom line:  The Leader Development Curriculum offers relevant learning across a wide range of challenges, ultimate flexibility with implementation to fit any organizational situation, and results based on competent leaders who are enabled with tools for reinforcement - all at the industry's most competitive price/value proposition.