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Module Name Objectives Skill Points
Essential Skills of Leadership
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Deal with team members on a day-to-day basis in such a way as to maintain and enhance their self- esteem.
• Base discussions about performance and work habits on behavior rather than on personalities and attitudes.
• Involve team members in goal setting, problem solving and decision- making.
• Maintain or Enhance Team Member Self-Esteem.
• Focus on Behavior.
• Encourage Team Member Participation
Essential Skills of Communicating
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - 75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• See that communication is a two-way process.
• Construct clear, concise messages in the interest of the listener.
• Manage nonverbal behaviors to reinforce the intent of messages.
• Listen actively to improve communication.
Create a climate of open communication, which increases team members’ motivation and commitment.

• Create a Climate of Open Communication.
• Design Clear, Concise Messages.
• Manage Nonverbal Behaviors Effectively.
• Listen to Communicate.
Coaching Job Skills
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Understand what coaching is, why it is important, and how it supports individual and company goals.
• Prepare for a coaching session by using observation and analysis to build a plan for a successful dialog.
• Hold a coaching conversation that improves an individual’s performance and increases productivity.
• Use coaching as a way to build a valuable sense of teamwork between the team leader and team member through communication, shared goals and collaboration.
• Observe and Analyze Performance.
• Identify Area of Performance that Needs Improvement.
• Demonstrate How Task Should be Performed and Ask Team Member for Questions.
• Have Team Member Demonstrate and Give Team Member Feedback on Performance.
• Set Up Time for Review.
Improving Work Habits
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online Classroom - 4 hours Online - 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )



• Recognize the difference between job performance and work habits. Managers will understand that a work habits discussion is not coaching and requires different skills for successful resolution.
• Understand that unsatisfactory work habits must be dealt with quickly and effectively before they require disciplinary action.
• Explain clearly and specifically the nature of the team member’s unsatisfactory work habit while focusing on behaviors rather than attitude.
• Use an action plan and ongoing reviews to help team members improve work habits and demonstrate personal accountability.
• State problem clearly and specifically.
• Ask team member’s view.
• Ask team member for solution.
• Agree on plan.
• Set up time for review.
Resolving Conflicts
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Accept conflict as an inevitable part of all work situations and deal with it in order to maintain individual and team focus and productivity.
• Recognize the positive and negative impacts of conflicts and leverage conflict to everyone’s advantage.
• Distinguish between the two major sources of conflict so that they it can be resolved fairly and effectively.
• Establish a cooperative atmosphere to resolve conflicts when they arise
• Ask each team member to state problem.
• Ask each team member to state other’s view of problem.
• Ask each team member to confirm accuracy of other’s restatement.
• Focus on objective facts, areas of mutual need or mutual goals.
• Ask each to suggest solutions.
• Bring both to agreement on specific steps to resolve conflict and set up time for review.
Supporting Change
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Understand why change happens, how people react to it, and how to support team member’s struggles with change.
• Involve team members in a change initiative by promoting their understanding and ownership of the change and its benefits.
• Plan for individual or group follow-up sessions that support the change process and reinforce personal and organizational goals.
• Detail coming change and explain reason for it.
• Let team member ask questions, express opinions and concerns.
• Respond to team member’s questions and concerns.
• Get commitment and set up time for review.
Effective Discipline
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Use the techniques of effective discipline to eliminate problem behavior.
• Communicate concerns in terms of behavior rather than perception or opinion.
• Minimize defensiveness and focus on solutions.
• Reduce conflict avoidance behaviors that undermine team morale, impact perceived fairness and impede overall productivity.
• Review performance to make sure the problem is resolved.
• Recognize the importance of team member participation in defining the problems and solutions.
• State Performance Problem.
• Ask Team Member’s View.
• Ask Team Member for a Solution.
• Agree on Plan.
Delegating
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Understand the role of delegation in time management, resource utilization, job satisfaction and overall team productivity.
• Use a delegation process that ensures team member participation, involvement, and success so that what needs to be done gets done – properly and on time.
• Establish a team member’s responsibility and authority for a delegated task – creating a framework for accountability and personal growth.
• Explain need for delegation.
• Use delegation of task to motivate.
• Explain task and ask team member’s view.
• Specify responsibility and authority.
• Confirm team member’s understanding and set up time for review.
Communicating Up
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Understand the importance of framing all communication with their manager in terms of his/her self-interest.
• Enter meetings with their manager armed with a well-thought-out and clearly stated objective.
• Clearly link their objective with facts that support their plans and goals.
• Work with their manager to uncover any questions or reservations he/she may have concerning their message.
• Move conversations toward agreement with questions that focus on the benefits to be gained when the objective is reached.
• Clearly and concisely restate the decisions that results from Communicating Up and insure that those decisions are mutually understood.
• State objective concisely in terms of the needs and interests of their manager.
• Detail objective and support it with facts.
• Ask for and/or respond to questions.
• Probe for agreement.
• Summarize and confirm conclusion.
Managing Complaints Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online,
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )


• Understand why all team member complaints must be dealt with rather than ignored or dismissed.
• Be more sensitive to all the problems-minor or trivial, real or imagined-that can lie behind complaints.
• Understand techniques used to determine underlying problems, which are not always the same as those the team member thinks are responsible for his/her difficulties.
Use various techniques to solve such problems while maintaining a positive relationship with the team member.
• Ask team member to detail complaint.
• Get agreement on substance of complaint.
• Ask team member for solution.
• Schedule time for investigation and agree on action plan.
• Set a date for follow-up meeting.
Developing Performance Goals and Standards Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )

• Define goals, objectives, and performance standards.
• Identify and set performance standards that are specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented, and time-framed, using concrete active language.
• Establish time limits for all performance standards.
• Involve team members in creating their own individual performance standards.
• Negotiate to develop performance standards for team members that address both desired results and team members’ capabilities.
• Monitor team members’ progress toward their goals by holding individual review meetings.
• State broad goal of the plan.
• Ask team member's view of what his or her performance standards should be within the plan.
• Negotiate by modifying unrealistically high or low performance standards.
• Agree on a set of performance standards that are clear, specific, and measurable.
• Confirm team member’s commitment and set up review.
Providing Performance Feedback
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )

• Base assessments on facts and behavior.
• Assess performance.
• Use positive feedback to motivate team members.
• Gain team member participation in assessment.
• Gain team member agreement with the assessment.
• Gain team member commitment to the change needed to improve performance.
• Ask for team member’s evaluation and give your evaluation of performance.
• Identify what would help maintain or improve performance.
• Ask team member to identify how improvement can be achieved.
• Agree on plan.
• Get commitment and set up review.
Motivating Team Members Delivery Methods Available: Classroom, Online
Classroom – 4 hours
Online – 1 ½ to 2 hours

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )

• Improve your team member’s performance.
• Understand the factors that motivate team members to perform effectively.
• Understand how motivation varies from team member to team member.
• Distinguish between motivators and dissatisfiers
• Learn how to create a work environment for each team member that will motivate higher performance.
• Identify factors that motivate team members.
• State team member’s positive accomplishments.
• Ask team member’s view of what would enhance or maintain performance
• Respond to team member’s suggestion(s) and/or offer your own.
• Agree on the next step and set up review.
Leading Successful Projects
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom
Classroom – 2 day workshop can be delivered in 4 1/2day workshops and is designed for 6-18 participants.

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $155.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $95.00 FOR EACH )
• Understand the four phases that every project goes through.
• Assess the probable impact of a project on business goals.
• Determine the roles, tasks and activities needed to complete any project.
• Ask the right questions in each phase of a project.
• Use a clear system to track project progress and update stakeholders.
• Motivate project team members to maintain their commitment and support
 
Hiring Winning Talent
Delivery Methods Available: Classroom and Online
Classroom – 1 day or 2-1/2
days
Online – Available

ON-LINE TRAINING MODULE ONLY - $75.00 FOR EACH


BLENDED ON-LINE TRAINING ( INCLUDES PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK $90.00 FOR EACH )

• Establish an efficient process that reduces the time it takes to interview and select a qualified candidate.
• Maximize new hires’ productivity by ensuring that candidates are a good fit for the job.
• Ensure team cohesion and support for new hires by involving team members in the process.
• Increase the retention of all new hires and reduce turnover during their first year on the job.
 

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