Leadership Essentials

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Why not start your leadership journey with us?

If you are a new to mid-level manager who needs to improve people management skills, or if you are a seasoned veteran looking to polish up your skills, this training is for you.

Leadership Essentials: Six Session Series

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Series

Becoming a Leader

  • Understand what got you here and understand your own leadership journey
  • Make the mental shift from individual contributor to leader of people
  • Identify the qualities of an effective leader and differences between doing and leading
  • Build on your leadership strengths and develop new strengths
  • Define personal development goals to continue skill-building as a leader
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Series

Coaching for Success

  • Understand the coaching concept and different types of coaching
  • Practice the quick coaching model and measure its effectiveness
  • Roleplay coaching situations based on real-life scenarios
  • Develop trust and mutual respect to build strong relationships
  • Identify best coaching practices and use them to grow future coaches
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Series

Working Across and Beyond the Organization

  • Understand your personal influence style and how it impacts others
  • Identify the differing needs of others in the organization and outside the organization
  • Assess the needs and interests of individuals over whom you have no authority including other workgroups, other organizations, suppliers, and contractors
  • Practice using influence mapping tools for maximum results
  • Create effective strategies for engaging others toward common goals
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Series

Providing Effective Feedback

  • Understand the various types of feedback
  • Determine when to use reinforcing feedback vs. developmental feedback
  • Effectively use a proven feedback approach to provide clear and actionable feedback
  • Choose when and how to deliver feedback for maximum impact
  • Address challenges and pushback when giving developmental feedback
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Series

Resolving Conflicts Effectively

  • Better understand yourself and your own conflict management style
  • Find the best conflict resolution approach to resolve differences
  • Learn direct conflict management skills that work when dealing with unacceptable behaviors
  • Apply a conflict management process to difficult employee situations
  • Take actions to foster trust and commitment
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Series

Leading During Rapid Change

  • Identify and respond to the changing requirements of the business and the industry
  • Realize the strong positive impact a leader can have on creating team change
  • Recognize the primary factors leaders can draw on to support effective change
  • Create organizational change plans that leverage the factors the support change
  • Create personal plans for change that build on strengths and leverage insights developed during the online leadership sessions.
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Additional Options

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Building Winning Teams

  • Determine the fundamentals for establishing a team
  • Understanding and diagnosing the five dysfunctions of a team
  • Applying the 8 Successful Team Behaviors for effective team communication
  • Facilitate team meetings and problem-solving sessions
  • Learn to measure and reward a team’s success
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Myers-Briggs: A Deeper Look

  • Understand the scope and purpose of the four Myers-Briggs dimensions and how they typically show up in leadership behavior
  • Understand the way in which the five “facets” (subscales) of each dimension expand the understanding of personal preference and why each individual is unique
  • Explore the relationship between personal style and leadership behavior
  • Determine ways in which leader preferences and team member preferences can help and support each other
  • Create actionable plans to adapt personal style depending on situations and leadership requirements.

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Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching is a powerful tool to help leaders apply the skills they learn in training. Larry has coached hundreds of leaders over the past 30 years ranging from C-Suite and Senior Executives to high-potential leaders, mid-level leaders and leaders new to the job. Coaching topics have ranged from fundamental leadership skills to presentation skills, executive presence, strategy consulting and specific challenges leaders are facing. Larry will be happy to consult with you about how focused coaching sessions can enhance the impact of your program.

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In the Grip: Building Personal Resilience

Building personal resilience and dealing with stress is one of the primary requirements for an effective leader. The Myers-Briggs Step II offers major insight into personal strategies for dealing with stress. “In the Grip” draws on those insights.

  • Understand the importance for leaders of building personal resilience and developing strategies to deal with stress effectively
  • Explore insights based on an in-depth understanding of how Myers-Briggs preferences can influence coping strategies – often without being directly aware of that influence
  • Identify the major triggers for stress reactions and the primary coping strategies that are personally effective
  • Analyze personal current energy state and identify the major sources of energy drain in current work
  • Develop personal strategies to address stressors and triggers that leverage the strategies that are most likely to be effective based on individual preferences

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Effective Performance Management

  • Understand the parameters and objectives of the Performance Review Process
  • Provide clear goals and objectives so employees know what is expected
  • Develop valid measurements that impact performance results
  • Help employees create individualized performance goals
  • Provide clear direction so that employees know what is expected of them

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About Your Facilitators

Larry McCullough

For over 30 years Larry has worked with major corporations and non-profit organizations in the areas of leadership development, change management, and strategic planning. Larry has worked with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies, many of which are also Global 100. He has worked across a wide range of industries including technology, pharmaceuticals, financial services, manufacturing, professional services, and consumer goods in addition to governmental and non-profit organizations.

Larry led the global design team for the highly acclaimed Experienced Leader program at Ford Motors and for the past 10 years has been co-facilitating that program with Jeff Jones. He has also provided direct one on one leadership coaching for hundreds of leaders from mid-level managers to C-Suite Executives.

In addition to leadership development, Larry is Founder and Executive Director of Pinetree Institute in Eliot, Maine, which works to promote child and family well-being in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire and Southern Maine.

Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones is an experienced business consultant with over 30 years of experience in leadership development. For the past 10 years Jeff has co-facilitated the highly acclaimed Experienced Leader program at Ford Motors with Larry McCullough. In addition to his work with Ford he has led major leadership programs at both Chrysler and GM. Attendance at the Chrysler program he designed and led is now required for leadership development and is taught throughout the corporation.

Jeff has worked with a wide variety of industries covering a wide range of leadership topics in numerous locations around the globe including Europe, China, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East. He brings his MBA in Global Management and his certification in numerous leadership programs and assessments to bear on his work with leaders ranging from new managers to senior executives.

Jeff is known for his quick wit and practical hands-on approach to the everyday challenges that leaders face in today’s organizations.

What Happy clients Say

I was impressed by all the tools and features that Jeff and Larry used- to keep it interactive
The Interaction with others helped us understand real life examples of what we are learning
Very interesting topics and great interaction in the large group and small group sessions
Understanding the challenges everyone faces within the company was really helpful
Really liked the breakout sessions to discuss the topic at hand
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Discount available for non-profit organizations
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