Description

Leadership is a skill that can be learned and nurtured. Authentic leadership results from self-discovery, learning from one’s mistakes, learning from respected leaders, and being mentored by an experienced leader.

Who should participate in this workshop?

• Current supervisors, managers, or executives with a desire to improve their leadership and communication skills with their peers, team, boss, or company
• Employees who want to change how their boss or peers perceive them
• Anyone who aspires to take on a leadership role in the future

Workshop description

This hands-on workshop will teach high-potential managers the skills to become more influential and competent as leaders. The Nurturing New Leaders Workshop will include actionable lessons that attendees can apply immediately in their roles. The eight themes are:

1. Learn how to be an Authentic Leader
   • The Characteristics of an Authentic Leader
   • Analyze how to become an Authentic Leader
   • Producing results as an Authentic Leader
2. Discover your leadership tendencies
   • A process to understand your leadership competencies.
   • Discover how others perceive your leadership style and competencies.
   • Identify what the participant is doing well and where you need to improve.
3. Construct a leadership “Affirmation.”
   • Learn the importance of leading with core values.
   • Participant identifies their leadership core values.
   • Develop a plan to communicate these values and how they will be used as leaders.
   • Using these core values, create a leadership affirmation
4. Assessment of the participant’s EQ (Emotional Quotient)
   • Learn what EQ is
   • Learn what you can do to improve your EQ
   • Build an EQ improvement plan
5. Improve your ability to influence others
   • Learn the value of influence.
   • Learn how to communicate convincingly.
   • Learn how to influence up, across, and down the organization.
6. Learn how to build and sustain a high-performing team
   • Understand the components of a high-performing team.
   • Learn the skill of building a high-performing team.
   • Learn the tactics for supporting a high-performing team
7. Selecting a leadership mentor
   • Learn the value of a mentor.
   • Learn how to ask for mentoring help.
   • Learn the tactics to get the most out of the mentoring you receive.
   • Learn the value of the methodology of effective one-to-one meetings
8. Set definitive leadership and career goals.
   • Learn how to develop leadership goals.
   • Learn how to set career goals.
   • Learn the tactics to measure your leadership and career progress.

In addition:

• A one-hour, one-to-one assessment review of the participant’s completed Leadership Self-Assessment.
• A one-hour, one-to-one mentoring session will focus on each participant’s current career challenges.

Course Format:

• The Leadership Workshop is an onsite course.
• The one-to-one assessment and mentoring sessions are also via Zoom.
• Class size is limited to 20 attendees

Course Schedule

Two full-day sessions.

All reasonable travel will be billed separately.

What are people saying?

Melissa

“I first met Rich in 2017, and I immediately recognized him as someone I wanted to learn from. Since then, he has been a wonderful mentor, helping me navigate my career, correct blind spots, and improve my leadership skills. Rich’s diverse background and experience position him as an expert in guiding complex problems. In addition, he has an extensive background in financial services, specifically in marketing, data analytics, and strategic planning. As a result, Rich has helped me prepare for career advancement opportunities, recently moving into a C-Level role. Rich’s thoughtful guidance has helped me become a better leader, and he has challenged me to grow both personally and professionally.”

Jessica

“I began working with Rich in 2019 to improve my emotional intelligence. I aimed to learn to be an influential leader and improve my relationships and communication. Rich gave me tools, resources, and dialog to meet my goals. In addition, he challenged me to grow and truly learn how to listen to understand, which is the key to emotional intelligence and influence. Under Rich’s guidance, I gained self-awareness and an improved ability to build and maintain relationships.”

Mark

“Building your bench doesn’t happen automatically. It takes intentionality. And as we teach our clients, there is a big difference between being a manager and a leader. So if you are looking for managers to become leaders, I highly recommend this course from Rich Jones. He knows leadership, and most importantly, he knows how to develop your leaders.”

Each enrolled attendee will receive a Leadership Self-Assessment by email. This assessment will be completed and returned to Rich@leading2leadership.com before the first session.