Leadership & Development

Management is a crucial component of leadership that works effectively as a combination of technical skills and soft skills. Great managers are driven visionaries who exhibit self-awareness, acute business insight, emotional intelligence, and an understanding of team members’ strengths and weaknesses and how to leverage them to produce high quality results. These qualities are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the value that The Bullet Proof Manager program can add to your managers. The program utilizes three important elements to promote behavioral change within mid-level leadership: Measured development, implementation, and accountability. Leaders complete The Bullet Proof Manager having experienced personal growth, initiating action, and observing and taking ownership of tangible results.

The new 7 Habits of Highly Effective People promises world-class leadership development solutions that cultivate leadership at the individual, team, and organizational level. This solution cuts across the intersection of self-reflection and effective management skills in order to ensure long-lasting results at a personal level and in the workplace for senior level leadership. Leaders learn key skills such as pro-activeness and strategic planning, how to foster inclusive and highly collaborative team environments, and the importance of innovative thinking, modeling core organizational values, and recharging.

Successful teams go beyond individual competence; many managers struggle with how to lead people or produce essential results because they don’t understand the importance of managing themselves before managing others, as well as establishing shared standards that lay the groundwork for team members to manage themselves at a basic level. The 7 Habits for Managers solution hones in on managers as people beyond just what they do. Through the 7 Habits framework, the program guides leaders towards excellent skills in managing themselves and others. The program emphasizes creative problem-solving, building shared team expectations, creating open dialogue in team environments, and more.

Organizational success is a product of strong individual performance across all levels of employees—from staff-level to administrators—that aligns with your organization’s values and strategy. This is where the 7 Habits Foundations solution comes in. This program sets employees up for excellence through insightful ideologies and practices extracted from the 7 Habits framework. These insights then effectively transition employees from dependent to independent, and finally, interdependent thinking, a journey that builds personal character and self-management skills, while encouraging active listening and understanding of others in order to creatively problem solve as a team.

How can leaders anticipate and strategically react to rapidly-evolving problems, all while effectively leading their teams in a way that sets them apart from the rest? The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership program answers this question by defining four fundamental roles that successful leaders emulate during unpredictable times—inspiring trust, creating vision, executing strategy, and coaching potential. The 4 Essential Roles of Leadership bridges the gap in leadership performance by building competent leaders who not only demonstrate character and strategic vision, but who also create environments that motivate and nurture leadership qualities in team members. This program is a fantastic way for mid and senior-level leaders to tap into teachings and tools that will sharpen their skills in adaptability, strategy and implementation, and mentorship.

First-level leaders make a significant impact on every metric in your business: employee productivity and engagement, customer satisfaction and loyalty, innovation, and financial performance. The role of the first-level leader has always been tough and today’s realities make the role even tougher. People skills typically account for 80 percent of success in this role. Yet many people are promoted because of their technical capabilities. Leading a team requires a different skill set than working as an individual contributor. To succeed in the face of new challenges, first-level leaders need to shift how they think and act.

Trust breathes life into work environments and work outcomes; without it, relationships and projects fail. Leaders cannot afford to overlook trust, given the essential role it plays in framing an orga

Deliver Results by Igniting Untapped Intelligence Under pressure to deliver results in good times and bad, leaders face a variety of challenges: We can’t hire, but we need to grow. We need everyone’s best, but people are burned out. We’re okay today, but we’re not ready to compete tomorrow. We have the best talent, but they’re not engaged. In these circumstances, leaders can’t afford to waste talent. They need people to innovate, to solve problems, to deliver results—and to be excited and engaged as they do so. The Multipliers solutions provides a 4-step framework through which leaders learn skill sets that equip them to apply immediate actions to grow intelligence and engage people in addressing the organization’s most important problems.

In an increasingly globalized world, we encounter diverse perspectives on a daily basis. Amidst this influx of information, our brains rely on shortcuts—unconscious biases—to make sense of this information and make decisions faster. Unfortunately, these unconscious biases restrict our worldview to stereotypes and limit our scope of decision-making, effectively stifling our potential and making those around us feel excluded. Applicable to employees and leaders at all levels, Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential enables participants to not only identify biases, but develop a willingness to learn more about other perspectives and initiate meaningful interactions with others, as well as choose courage in creating a company culture that champions diversity. Overcome your organization’s unconscious biases and create an inclusive culture with Unconscious Bias: Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential.

Change happens all the time. Yet, when faced with change, many organizations primarily focus on the process. Successful change takes more than that—it’s your people who make change happen. And as people, we’re wired to react to change to survive, which can make change feel difficult or threatening. Successful leaders engage their people in change, making it feel less uncertain and more like an opportunity. This solution teaches leaders the predictable pattern of change and helps them build the skills to navigate it successfully allowing them to consciously determine how to best move forward – even in the most challenging stages.

A major challenge for organizations is their employees’ lack of awareness regarding the basic elements of running a business, as well as how their contributions affect the company’s bottom line. What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen is a cutting-edge solution that addresses these shortcomings and helps employees—regardless of experience or background—take a step back and consider how they add value to the business. Employees learn how to align their efforts with the organization’s goals based on the five essential elements of business: cash, margin, velocity, growth, and customers. Achieve organizational excellence by transforming your employees into knowledgeable and focused contributors with What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen.