| Leadership Workshops
Communication. Results. Coaching.
John Baldoni is a noted workshop presenter. The popularity of John’s books has led him to create a unique series of stand-alone workshops based upon the principles developed in his books. Like all good trainers, John believes that adults learn best by doing. John’s workshops combine short presentations with interactive exercises designed to bring key principles to life in ways that make them accessible, compelling, and transferable to the workplace.
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Great Communicators Make Great Leaders
Leadership communications are messages from the leader rooted in the culture and values of the organization and of significant importance to key stakeholders. The messages are about vision, mission, transformation, and urgency. The purpose of leadership communications is to build trust and drive results. Great Communicators will show how leaders can develop, deliver, and sustain leadership communications to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:
- Define the role of communications as leadership behavior
- Develop the leadership message
- Deliver the leadership message (verbally and virtually)
- Sustain the leadership message through communications planning
Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers
Agenda:
Module 1: Why communication is central to leadership
- Communication is essential building trust & gaining results
- Role of leadership communications
- Purpose of leadership messages
- Developing the 4I’s Model
Module 2: Developing the leadership message
- Who is the leader: visionary, expert, coach, transformer
- Organizational climate
- Purpose of leadership message
- Ensuring credibility
Module 3: Delivering the leadership message
- Drafting the message
- Overcoming objections
- Art & Practice of Interrogatory
- Leadership storytelling
Module 4: Sustaining the leadership message
- Staying on message
- No news is news
- 4 Communication Channels (editorial, marketing, organizational, web)
- Leadership communications planning: strategy, tactics, execution
- The Upward Message
- Evaluation: Communications audit
Program Length:
1-day workshop
½ day workshop follow-up session
Individual communications coaching sessions, if desired
Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.
Getting the Right Results the Right Way Right Now
It is the responsibility of the leader to stimulate the development of individual and team goals that fulfill organizational results. Effective leaders place those goals within context the organization’s mission, vision and values. By linking goals to results, leaders make them personal as well as doable. Communication becomes the tool that leaders use to rally people around a common cause. By creating messages and stories the leader can create expectations, drive execution and attain inspired results.
Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:
- Define the leader’s role in gaining results
- Describe the leader-results model (aspire, perspire, require, transpire)
- Develop a leadership results action plan
Who Should Attend:
Middle managers, senior leaders
Agenda:
Module 1: Focusing on the Right Goals
- Setting the vision
- Defining vision & goals
- Creating Alignment
Module 2: Executing with Discipline and Accountability
- Pushing for getting things done right
- Following up
- Holding self and team accountable
Module 3: Enabling Risk and Promoting Courage
- Encouraging risk
- Why courage is important
- Creating and telling leadership stories
Module 4: Getting the Right Results
- Presenting the aligned action model
- Developing a leadership action plan
Program Length:
1 day
Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.
Leader as Coach: Enabling Others to Achieve
Coaching is the investment in human capital that opens the door for individual and organizational performance improvement. It is an investment of time and care into the life of another individual that prepares them for the challenges that lie ahead. The challenge may be a project that needs completing, a new job that needs tackling, or the selection of a new career path. Leader as Coach will show how leaders must coach their direct-reports in order to achieve inspired results.
Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:
- Define the role of leader as coach
- Describe the leader-coaching model
- Develop a leadership coaching plan
Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers
Agenda:
Module 1: Why Leaders Coach
- Organizational Values & Behaviors
- Leadership Coaching Model
- Trust
- Teach
- Counsel
- Problem-Solve
- Motivate
- Discipline
- Reward
- Mentor
Module 2: Developing the coaching session
Action Coaching Model
- Plan ahead
- Uncover the motivational tick
- Give feedback
- Get commitment
- Follow-up
Module 3: Developing a leadership coaching plan
- Giving a coaching session
- Developing a coaching action plan
Program Length:
½ day
Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.
Leveraging the Power of Personal Leadership
Personal leaders are those who want to be in charge in order to make a positive difference and are willing to be accountable for their actions. Personal leaders have strong core values as well as the courage of their convictions. This inner strength is liberating and gives them the confidence to lead others. Once individuals embrace personal leadership, they can become a leader -- one willing to put the needs of others first in order to achieve inspired results for themselves, the team, and the organization.
Purpose:
To demonstrate how personal leadership can serve as the fundamental building block in achieving results by developing the talents and skills of others.
Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:
- Define the role of personal leadership as a requirement to leading others
- Demonstrate leadership in vision, planning, communications, etc.
- Develop a leadership action plan
Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers
Agenda:
Module 1: Personal Leadership: moving from the “I can” to the “I will”
- Personal leadership
- Autonomy
- Initiative
- Responsibility
Module 2: Values, Vision, Management
- Who are you?
- Where do you want to go?
- How will you get there?
Module 3: Learning to be a Change Leader
- Communicating
- Making an ally of change
- Reflecting on leadership
- Recognizing contributions of others
Module 4: Leading by Letting Go
- Setting expectations
- Delegating responsibilities
- Coaching constantly
- Becoming a teacher
Program Length:
1 day
Results:
Participants will learn how a foundation of personal leadership can open the door to effective leadership of others to achieve personal and organizational goals.
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