Description

“A leaders number one job is developing new leaders”

Leadership Mentor 

Who should participate in this course?

• 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 that aspires to take on a leadership role in the future

Workshop description

There is no such thing as a “born leader.” Instead, Authentic Leadership results from being mentored by an experienced leader.

This hands-on workshop will teach you the skills to become a more influential and competent leader. Almost every class has actionable lessons you can apply immediately in your role. The eight lessons are:

1. Learn how to be an Authentic Leader
   • Learn the characteristics of an Authentic Leader
   • Analyze how to become an Authentic Leader
   • Producing results as an Authentic Leader
2. Discover your leadership tendencies
   • Build a process to understand your leadership competencies
   • Learn how others perceive your leadership
   • Identify what you do well and where you need to improve as a leaders
3. Construct a leadership “Affirmation.”
   • Learn the value of core values of leadership
   • identify what values you want to consider adopting
   • Understand why communicating your leadership model is important
   • Understand how you can leverage this knowledge of your leadership model
   • Learn how to create a leadership affirmation
4. Assess your 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 team with high-performing
   • Learn the tactics for supporting a high-performing team
7. Select a career mentor
   • Learn the value of a mentor
   • Learn how to ask for mentoring
   • Learn the tactics to get the most out of the mentoring your receive
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 to these eight classes, enrollees will also participate in three one-to-one mentoring sessions with Rich Jones:

1. A one-hour, one-to-one assessment review of your complete Leadership Self-Assessment
2. Two one-hour, one-to-one mentoring sessions that will focus on specific leadership and career challenges you are facing

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 provided me with 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.”

Course Format:

The Leadership Mentor is an online course with virtual lectures and conversations. The one-to-one assessment and mentoring sessions are also via Zoom.

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 class.

All video classes will be archived so an enrolled student can review a lesson.