One or more of these programs may speak directly to the needs you see in your firm.

Leadership Lesson Packages

For your convenience we have prepared these packages of our leadership lessons according to themes that commonly occur. You may choose one or more of these packages for your program.

Easy Errors a Leader Can Make

• Classic business "rules" that become corrupted in practice
• Well-intentioned policies that backfire, causing your leaders to be seen as "chiselers"
• Inadvertent practices that can create a sour "We/They" environment between leaders and followers
• How programs for quality management and after-action reviews can become sterile
• How the benefits of good teamwork can be lost in badly-led "teaming"
• How too many changes in the organization chart can cause the "illusion of improvement"

Issues Leaders Ignore at Their Peril

• The dangers of not dealing with a weak supervisor on a leader's team
• The irony that time is actually lost when a leader is "overdosed on urgency"
• The critical need for leaders to understand the values, emotions, and other individual differences of followers
• The harm done when jerks, bullies, and bad actors come to work (especially as leaders)
• The loss of confidence from followers when exaggeration rules in performance reviews
• The dangers of bogus unanimity and a lack of candor from a leader's people

How Leaders Get (and Keep) Trusting Followers

• The ongoing need to drive out the fear of failure, including techniques for doing so
• How leaders need to remain competent regarding details, but stop short of micro-managing
• How a leader can deal with cases where there is ethical ambiguity but little time to ponder options
• The importance of Managing By Walking Around (MBWA) without being seen as an inspector or tyrant
• The need to keep integrity and consistency in succession planning (or lose the confidence of followers)
• Why keeping the dignity of followers in mind is just as critical as keeping the goodwill of customers

The Leader's Worry Stones — Preparing for the Future

• Understanding where resistance to change is rooted and how to overcome the resistance
• Innovation – why a leader cannot just "proclaim" it as policy and expect it to happen
• The new set of issues that arise when the "Millennials" generation comes to work (and into leadership)
• How "perfect" is not optimal and an understanding of tradeoffs in decision making is critical
• The need to take company diversity programs beyond "surrogate quota management"
• The doubts that may keep leaders awake at night ("Can I really do this?")

Required Knowledge at the Front Line

• Techniques for "getting between the lines" to make applicant interviews more reliable
• Essential advice for the orientation of a newly-promoted manager or supervisor
• The need for leaders to avoid giving implied promises to followers and later losing their trust
• The dangers of making hasty and poorly-informed decisions during the first few days of a leader's job
• Various meanings a leader should understand when an employee says, "That's not my job!"
• Brainstorming on behalf of the customer, keeping customer perspectives always in mind

Additional Programs

A Ready Leadership Solution to solve your needs may also include one or more of these additional programs:

• Communicate! – Because ineffective communication will cause your leaders to lose the trust of followers.
• Economics for Leaders – Because some of us didn't like Economics in college, or "never got it," but now find an understanding of economic principles is essential for leading.
• Holes in My History – Because many leaders have discovered they have gaps in their historical knowledge that prevent them from understanding the context of a leadership problem.

Full-Spectrum Programs

These programs address the full spectrum of leadership issues, providing your leaders with new skills and insights into leading people and responding to challenges effectively.

Running Start

Running Start is a survey course covering the main ideas in The LeaderMaker Group's core program at a high level. It's fast-paced and excellent as an overview of essential leadership issues.

Lens of the Leader

Lens of the Leader is a four-day program covering, in depth, a broad range of leadership issues that impact leaders at all levels within your company or organization. Offered also as a pair of 2-day seminars. Includes lectures plus ample time for questions/answers/discussion as your leaders apply these lessons to their situations.

What does it cost?

Fees will vary with the nature of the engagement--the number of participants, the number of topics covered, the mix between live seminars and other delivery methods such as webinars and audio conferences, and the degree of individual or small group mentoring that accompanies the engagement. The LeaderMaker Group is committed to keeping our programs affordable, which we know is especially important to medium-sized or smaller organizations that do not have internal programs, while also being faithful to our company's need to earn a fair return, recognizing the oft-quoted line that "you get what you pay for." We believe we can design a program for which you feel you have received good value for your investment.

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