Foundations of Leadership

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Learning Alliance Institute
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The foundations of leadership course can be structured to fit your companies needs at any given time. If you are looking to add quarterly leadership training for one or two days, we can build a customized program based on the different professional development courses:

  • Leadership Essentials
  • Self-Leadership
  • Servant Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Coaching Skills
  • Conflict Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Time Management
  • Meeting Etiquette
  • Developing High Performance Teams
  • Purposeful Communication
  • DISC Behavior Styles

If you are looking to provide a steady, continuous leadership training to employees, we offer monthly seminar/webinars that allow for someones continued professional development. As leaders, we need to adapt. By joining in our monthly discussions, you can adopt new practices into your daily routine that help propel the employees under you to success.

Leadership first starts with understanding that you are not perfect. You have room to grow, to learn and to listen. By sitting in and learning from others, you take the first step at being a great leader. Learning Alliance can do that for you and the employees you see as future leaders themselves.

On a daily basis, LAC aims for high standards in the workplace. We formulate mini-kaizens to identify problems and work on solutions. We take into account the voice of each employee because they are in the trenches doing the work, and it is our job as leaders to not just show them the way, but to learn from their knowledge and apply it to future solutions.

If you join us and our instructor, Aaron Bolton, for our foundations of leadership, you will find yourself a different person in a way you would not expect. Going from employee, to boss, to leader takes growing pains and acceptance. Let us be there with you during your journey!

Growing Your Coaching Skills

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• Knowing the difference between coaching and mentoring
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• Holding team members accountable to their goals
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Setting clearly defined and track-able goals
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Approaching your team member with facts
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Creating an environment of collaboration
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Asking questions to uncover the real issue
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Creating multiple development options
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Creating a development plan with scheduled follow-ups

Discovering Behavior Styles

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Understanding common causes of miscommunication
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Discovering why we behave the way we do
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Knowing why people act and react the way they do
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Communicate with others the way they want to communicate
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Increasing self-awareness
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Empathizing with others
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Discovering your natural strengths and weaknesses
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Improving interpersonal skills and peer relationships

Leading with Emotional Intelligence

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• Having a high Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ)
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Building emotional self-management skills
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Taking ownership of your emotions
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Being aware of the emotions of others
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Using emotional intelligence to effectively navigate difficult conversations
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Knowing how to lead with social intelligence
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Applying the principles of emotional intelligence

Thinking Critically to Solve Problems

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Using effective listening skills, Identifying and evaluating arguments effectively
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Identifying and evaluating arguments effectively
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Overcoming personal prejudices
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Making reasonable, intelligent decisions
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Analyzing the facts without biases
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Following a process to develop a sound conclusion
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Asking the right questions discover the facts
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Using critical thinking to solve problems efficiently

Navigating Conflict Effectively

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Understanding the mindset towards conflict
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Knowing the warning signs of possible conflict
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Neutralizing potential conflict
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Eliminating conflicting situations from occurring
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Identifying and evaluating arguments effectively
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Practicing the techniques used to manage conflict
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Learning the process used to successfully resolve a dispute

Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams

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Building a high level of loyalty and trust
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Maintaining open team collaboration
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Accepting the challenges that lie ahead
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Setting clear expectations and remaining consistent
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Following the traits of those who lead high-performance teams
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Inspiring team members to follow an idea bigger than themselves
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Augmenting team performance

Essentials of Being a Leader

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Leading with a vision and a strategy
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Inspiring through passion and empowering others to act
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Increasing team performance by setting objectives, expectations and goals
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Communicating with confidence and clarity
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Using creative problem solving
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Developing emotional intelligence to collaborate with others
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Giving feedback to inspire greater performance with engagement and buy in
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Identifying and managing conflict within the team
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Embodying and promoting the culture of the organization

Mastering Meeting Management

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Understanding why meetings fail
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Learning best practices and different meeting types
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Planning meetings with intention and purpose
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Appointing the meeting roles/responsibilities
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Learning meeting etiquette
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Following a template for duplicate success
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• Ensuring attendees stay engaged
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Conveying next steps and follow-up items

Purposeful Communication

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Connecting with the audience to achieve a positive impact
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• Presenting yourself and your message to appeal to the audience
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Understanding the difference between intent and impact
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Avoiding being trapped by the Curse of Knowledge
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Determining the elements of a strong purpose
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Planning the desired audience responses
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Separating the shared objective from the private purpose
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Crafting communication with the end results in mind

Appraising Performance: Giving Feedback that Actually Matters

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Thorough preparation to gain a complete picture
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Specificity and clarity when writing comments
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Being deliberate, direct, and descriptive
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Avoiding vague “Tootsie Pop” phrases
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Narrowing the focus by limiting the feedback
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Equal focus of positive and “constructive” (negative)
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An environment of collaboration
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Giving feedback that paints a clear concise mental image

Self-Leadership

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Making decisions with purpose
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Maintaining a realistic positive outlook
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Communicating with others the way they feel most comfortable
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Setting clear and concise expectations
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Recognizing the difference between weaknesses and character flaws
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Taking responsibility for successes and failures

Leading Through Servitude

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Having a true desire to serve others first
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Achieving through service to others
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Servant leadership in the corporate world
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Servant leadership compared to other leadership styles
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Sharing leadership responsibilities to help team members grow
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Having a purpose beyond self-interests
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Acting as a selfless mentor
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Creating a space where people feel safe, trusted, and values

Time Management for the Modern Leader

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Uncovering the Time Vampires in your life
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Understanding how to properly triage tasks and responsibilities
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Determining task urgency and priority
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Delegating responsibilities
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Becoming proactive, rather than reactive
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Discovering alternative methods to accomplish time consuming tasks
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Overcoming procrastination
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Managing and automating workflow
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Duration: Continuous
Lectures: 100
Level: Beginner

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