LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS & SEMINARS
Leadership Training and Development Programs and Workshops
We love sharing what we know about the leadership process and learning from our clients. Our development programs build on modules we have designed and delivered to several groups in North America and Europe. We have a wealth of knowledge and expertise that we can draw from to build a program that addresses your group’s specific needs.
What is the Format of The Leadership Professors Training and Development Programs and Seminars?
Our seminars are interactive and discussion based. We can combine ½ day, full day, or multi-day seminars with a 360-degree evaluations and/or one-on-one coaching as befitting your group’s needs. We can implement case studies to guide discussion or frame specific challenges your group is facing.
What Can I Expect to Gain from a Leadership Professors Training and Development Program and Workshops?
We pair every development program or seminar with a customized workbook with relevant exercises that guide reflection about the meaning of leadership, who you are as a leader, and how you behave as a leader. Each development program or seminar concludes with an actionable personalized development plan that serves as a starting point to becoming your ideal leader.
We love sharing what we know about the leadership process and learning from our clients. Our development programs build on modules we have designed and delivered to several groups in North America and Europe. We have a wealth of knowledge and expertise that we can draw from to build a program that addresses your group’s specific needs.
What is the Format of The Leadership Professors Training and Development Programs and Seminars?
Our seminars are interactive and discussion based. We can combine ½ day, full day, or multi-day seminars with a 360-degree evaluations and/or one-on-one coaching as befitting your group’s needs. We can implement case studies to guide discussion or frame specific challenges your group is facing.
What Can I Expect to Gain from a Leadership Professors Training and Development Program and Workshops?
We pair every development program or seminar with a customized workbook with relevant exercises that guide reflection about the meaning of leadership, who you are as a leader, and how you behave as a leader. Each development program or seminar concludes with an actionable personalized development plan that serves as a starting point to becoming your ideal leader.
Workshops Portfolio
The following are full or half day workshop examples. This is not an exhaustive list, as topics and concepts may be added or modified based on the initial assessments and in consultation with executive leadership to address key goals and objectives of the organization.
LEADING ONESELF
Leadership Myths and Misconceptions
In this session, we will unpack misconceptions about what leadership is and who makes good leaders. We will discuss how we often identify and label ineffective practices as “good leadership” or promote what are harmful practices as “leaderlike.” We will discuss how we often get it wrong or limit ourselves or others by subscribing to these myths. Through an interactive creative exercise and discussion, participants will reflect on their incoming assumptions and limiting beliefs.
The Professional Leader
In this session, we will focus on integrating "professional” and “leader” identities at any stage of one’s career. A leader’s mindset influences a leader's decisions and behaviors and can thus alter the direction, focus, and performance of the organization. We will focus on how to lead inside and outside of formal leadership positions. Through interactive discussion, participants take ownership of their career development and explore leadership development best practices.
Stress and Flourishing
This goal session is to both reduce stressors but also to “get better at stress.” Good leadership practices are replaced with our worst behavior as leaders occur when leaders are under significant stress. We discuss evidence-based practices to reduce stress, maintain and establish healthy boundaries, and healthy coping when we are stressed. We also present ways to reframe stress by examining our stress mindset. Finally, we focus on the ways managers influence the well-being of their team for better or worse.
Emotional Regulation
Viewing the workplace as a purely rational place, where we “check our emotions as the door” is a fallacy. This session presents the science behind the impact of emotions on decision-making, interpersonal dynamics, and team functioning. Emotional intelligence is discussed with a particular emphasis on the importance of emotional regulation and building empathy.
Decision-Making Biases
Effective decisions can be hindered by a variety of biases and shortcuts that many of us rely on. This session will illustrate through examples and cases several common decision-making biases, how to recognize when the biases may be interfering with quality decisions, and how to workaround and inhibit interference of decision-making biases in future decisions.
LEADING A TEAM
No One is an Island
In this session, we will discuss ways to build commitment by developing robust and effective professional networks. We will discuss how relational skills have become of critical importance for effective leadership at any level. Through a reflective exercise, associates will identify deficiencies in their own networks and identify insights to improve network and relationship effectiveness. The session will conclude with a reciprocity circle exercise to deepen relationships within the group.
Team Building and Communication
This session will focus on building effective teams. We will address team dynamics, communication, giving/receiving feedback, and the importance of listening in motivating team members. Additionally, we will dive into the role of emotional regulation and emotional intelligence in building high-functioning, cohesive, and innovative teams.
Building Trust and Repairing Relationships
Trusting relationships are critical to translating effort into organizational success. In this workshop, we unpack the hidden reasons why we trust or fail to trust others. We discuss reasons why cynicism sneaks into relationships as well as how to repair relationships after trust has been violated.
Leading through Motivation
Do incentive systems work? What motivates people? How should we set goals? This session addresses all questions about motivating people at work by presenting some surprising science of motivation. We discuss the necessarily components to setting and achieving individual and team-based goals and how individuals are motivated differently.
Working Through Conflict and Disagreement
Disagreements are a reality of life both inside and outside of work. In this session, we discuss ways of approaching conflict, learning from disagreements, and strategies for preventing conflict in the future. We distinguish between healthy conflict and destructive relational conflict. Through case studies and role plays, participants will leave better prepared to face conflict with confidence.
LEADING THROUGH TURBULENCE AND CHANGE
Leading and Managing Change
In this session, we will focus on ways in which leaders build positive and sustainable change. By connecting change to vision and values, leaders can engage in behaviors that empower followers to be agents of change. We cover best practices for building change readiness, working with and through resistance to change, and embedding change into the culture.
Transformational and Values-Based Leadership Behaviors
In this session, we will focus on elevating one’s leadership behaviors from the management of people to leveraging talent. Good leaders work through others to foster meaningful change. By applying a framework of transformational leadership, we will help leaders discover their own values and vision and then learn how to communicate and role model that for others.
Building and Maintaining a Positive Organizational Culture
The goal of this session is to identify ways you can build a positive organizational culture regardless of your leadership level. We will unpack the dimensions of culture and ways to build positive cultural change.
Ethical and Inclusive Leadership
The goal of this session is to build awareness and skills for ethical and inclusive leadership practices. We will examine the responsibility of leaders to role model ethical and inclusive practices. The session will unpack misconceptions about diversity, equity, and inclusion and ways to foster positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
The Shared Vision
Creating shared visions is critical to know where you are collectively moving and connecting even small tasks to something bigger. In this session, we discuss creative ways to create a shared vision and collective sense of the group identity and put them into practice within the group.
Leadership Myths and Misconceptions
In this session, we will unpack misconceptions about what leadership is and who makes good leaders. We will discuss how we often identify and label ineffective practices as “good leadership” or promote what are harmful practices as “leaderlike.” We will discuss how we often get it wrong or limit ourselves or others by subscribing to these myths. Through an interactive creative exercise and discussion, participants will reflect on their incoming assumptions and limiting beliefs.
The Professional Leader
In this session, we will focus on integrating "professional” and “leader” identities at any stage of one’s career. A leader’s mindset influences a leader's decisions and behaviors and can thus alter the direction, focus, and performance of the organization. We will focus on how to lead inside and outside of formal leadership positions. Through interactive discussion, participants take ownership of their career development and explore leadership development best practices.
Stress and Flourishing
This goal session is to both reduce stressors but also to “get better at stress.” Good leadership practices are replaced with our worst behavior as leaders occur when leaders are under significant stress. We discuss evidence-based practices to reduce stress, maintain and establish healthy boundaries, and healthy coping when we are stressed. We also present ways to reframe stress by examining our stress mindset. Finally, we focus on the ways managers influence the well-being of their team for better or worse.
Emotional Regulation
Viewing the workplace as a purely rational place, where we “check our emotions as the door” is a fallacy. This session presents the science behind the impact of emotions on decision-making, interpersonal dynamics, and team functioning. Emotional intelligence is discussed with a particular emphasis on the importance of emotional regulation and building empathy.
Decision-Making Biases
Effective decisions can be hindered by a variety of biases and shortcuts that many of us rely on. This session will illustrate through examples and cases several common decision-making biases, how to recognize when the biases may be interfering with quality decisions, and how to workaround and inhibit interference of decision-making biases in future decisions.
LEADING A TEAM
No One is an Island
In this session, we will discuss ways to build commitment by developing robust and effective professional networks. We will discuss how relational skills have become of critical importance for effective leadership at any level. Through a reflective exercise, associates will identify deficiencies in their own networks and identify insights to improve network and relationship effectiveness. The session will conclude with a reciprocity circle exercise to deepen relationships within the group.
Team Building and Communication
This session will focus on building effective teams. We will address team dynamics, communication, giving/receiving feedback, and the importance of listening in motivating team members. Additionally, we will dive into the role of emotional regulation and emotional intelligence in building high-functioning, cohesive, and innovative teams.
Building Trust and Repairing Relationships
Trusting relationships are critical to translating effort into organizational success. In this workshop, we unpack the hidden reasons why we trust or fail to trust others. We discuss reasons why cynicism sneaks into relationships as well as how to repair relationships after trust has been violated.
Leading through Motivation
Do incentive systems work? What motivates people? How should we set goals? This session addresses all questions about motivating people at work by presenting some surprising science of motivation. We discuss the necessarily components to setting and achieving individual and team-based goals and how individuals are motivated differently.
Working Through Conflict and Disagreement
Disagreements are a reality of life both inside and outside of work. In this session, we discuss ways of approaching conflict, learning from disagreements, and strategies for preventing conflict in the future. We distinguish between healthy conflict and destructive relational conflict. Through case studies and role plays, participants will leave better prepared to face conflict with confidence.
LEADING THROUGH TURBULENCE AND CHANGE
Leading and Managing Change
In this session, we will focus on ways in which leaders build positive and sustainable change. By connecting change to vision and values, leaders can engage in behaviors that empower followers to be agents of change. We cover best practices for building change readiness, working with and through resistance to change, and embedding change into the culture.
Transformational and Values-Based Leadership Behaviors
In this session, we will focus on elevating one’s leadership behaviors from the management of people to leveraging talent. Good leaders work through others to foster meaningful change. By applying a framework of transformational leadership, we will help leaders discover their own values and vision and then learn how to communicate and role model that for others.
Building and Maintaining a Positive Organizational Culture
The goal of this session is to identify ways you can build a positive organizational culture regardless of your leadership level. We will unpack the dimensions of culture and ways to build positive cultural change.
Ethical and Inclusive Leadership
The goal of this session is to build awareness and skills for ethical and inclusive leadership practices. We will examine the responsibility of leaders to role model ethical and inclusive practices. The session will unpack misconceptions about diversity, equity, and inclusion and ways to foster positive relationships with colleagues and clients.
The Shared Vision
Creating shared visions is critical to know where you are collectively moving and connecting even small tasks to something bigger. In this session, we discuss creative ways to create a shared vision and collective sense of the group identity and put them into practice within the group.