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Leadership Training
The challenges leaders face today have never been more difficult or complex. Employee burnout. The Great Resignation. Demands for flexibility. Leaders need coaching, skills training, and on-going support and development to meet today’s workplace demands.
To accommodate your organization’s diverse leadership development needs and hybrid workplace, we offer a variety of blended learning solutions powered by our robust learning platform, which offers self-paced learning surrounding virtual or classroom-based instructor-led training.
We also offer two simulation-based learning experiences for leaders.
Pairing simple yet effective leadership models with engaging facilitation and self-reflection activities create the mindset shift and skill-building your leaders need to adapt to new ways of working in the hybrid environment.
Dion Leadership’s Approach to Learning
We begin with the end in mind, identifying specific habits that the leader wants to master. Our method focuses on growing skills and confidence that leads to success.
SENIOR-Level Leaders
Leadership development program for director-level leaders looking to increase their organizational impact across the organization, effectively lead a functional area, and engage and inspire multiple levels of staff
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Length: 10 days
Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as five 2-day sessions similar multi-session configuration
Description: Prepares leaders to successfully impact an organization and its people by driving results.
Learners will:
- Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
- Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels and their personal styles of leadership, building trust, making decisions, and managing change
- Understand and apply the strategic and tactical elements of the Work of Leaders model through self-awareness and behavioral change
- Explore the concept of mindset as a driver of leadership success and organizational impact
- Examine courage as an aspect of leadership
- Explore and practice models and methods of delegation, critical thinking, decision-making, and problem solving
- Learn to hold others accountable and model accountability as a leader
- Create action plans for trying and applying new insights
- Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities
Modules
- Work of Leaders
- Mindset for Leaders
- Courageous Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Critical Thinking
- Trust-Based Leadership
- Delegating for Success
- Accountability at Work
- Change Management
Assessments
- Everything DiSC Work of Leaders
- Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Trust Quotient Assessment
- Decision Style Profile
- Change Style Indicator
HI-PO Additional Features
- 360 assessment and debrief individual action planning, and one-on-one coaching
- Enrichment learning activities
- Capstone Project with a presentation to executive leadership
- Facility/plant tours
- Mentoring partnerships
- Learning journals
- Peer roundtables
- Executive leaders as guest speakers
- Networking events
- Cohort-based team-building activities
MID-Level Leaders
Leadership development program for experienced managers looking to build their leadership competencies and increase their personal effectiveness in leading a department or function and more effectively manage their staff
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Length: 8 days
Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as four 2-day sessions or similar multi-session configuration
Description: Builds targeted competencies that improve the effectiveness as a leader of people.
Learners will:
- Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
- Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels and their personal styles of leadership, handling conflict, making decisions, managing change, exercising influence, and building trust
- Explore models and best practices for delivering performance feedback, delegating effectively, collaborating effectively, and managing change
- Learn to hold others accountable and model accountability as a leader
- Explore and practice models and methods of critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving
- Create action plans for trying and applying new insights
- Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities
Modules
- Understanding Your Leadership Style
- Emotional Intelligence
- Productive Conflict Management
- Delegating for Success
- Accountability at Work
- Critical Thinking
- Change Management
- Exercising Influence
- Trust-Based Leadership
- Performance Management
- Effective Feedback
- Collaborating for Organizational Effectiveness
Assessments
- Everything DiSC Productive Conflict
- Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Decision Style Profile
- Change Style Indicator
- Influence Style Indicator
- Trust Quotient Assessment
HI-PO Additional Features
- 360 assessment and debrief, individual action planning, and one-on-one coaching
- Enrichment learning activities
- Capstone project with presentation to senior leadership
- Facility/plant tours
- Mentoring partnerships
- Learning journals
- Peer roundtables
- Senior leaders as guest speakers
- Networking events
- Cohort-based team-building activities
First-Level Leaders
Leadership development program for new supervisors or individuals ready for promotion to management, or existing managers who have experienced little to no previous training and development
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Standard Features
Audience: New supervisors or individuals ready for promotion to management, or existing managers who have experienced little to no previous training and development
Length: 6 days
Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as 6 one-day sessions, 2 three-day sessions, or 3 two-day sessions
Description: Introduces learners to concepts and skills essential to leading others.
Learners will:
- Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
- Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels, personal leadership styles, and preferred modes of handling conflict and exercising influence
- Explore Lencioni’s five behaviors in the context of team leadership
- Explore elements of and barriers to effective communication
- Learn and practice a behavioral model for engaging in healthy conflict
- Explore goal setting and performance assessment
- Explore and practice models and methods of delivering performance feedback
- Create action plans for trying and applying new skills and insights
- Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities
Modules
- Understanding Your Leadership Style
- Building Effective Relationships
- Communicating with Impact
- Conflict Management
- Performance Management
- Effective Feedback
- Exercising Influence
- Leading Teams
Assessments
- Everything DiSC Management
- Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
- Thomas-Killman Conflict Handling Modes
- Influence Style Indicator
HI-PO Additional Features
- Individual action planning and one-on-one coaching
- Enrichment learning activities
- Facility/plant tours
- Mentoring partnerships
- Senior leaders as guest speakers
- Networking events
- Cohort-based team-building activities
Leadership and Management Training Courses
The Dion Leadership course catalog describes our comprehensive list of management training classes and leadership development programs. You can also view them on our Management Training Courses page.
What our participants have to say.
“My workshop facilitator was just fantastic. She made the day so interesting and informative, yet pushed us to really think and practice new skills. I was dreading going to training but the material was really practical and I can use it to be better at my job tomorrow. Looking forward to another session.”
Learner
Plant Supervisor
“I am so grateful to have participated in my company’s year-long leadership development program ran by Dion Leadership. I know so much more about myself and feel well equipped to move up one or two levels in the organization. Having individual time with a leadership coach separate from our training facilitator was a gift. I made so many meaningful company connections. I plan to work here for a long time!”
Learner
Senior Manager
