Grow Leaders Training and Development

Reach your organization's performance goals through training and development

Training

Habits of Leadership

Sure, everyone has their style but there are habits every leader must master to be an effective leader. Three day developmental workshop.

Interpersonal skills development of leaders. (Three day seminar)

Some of the topics covered:

Foundations of Leadership - Eight attributes of leadership
Power and Influence
Personal Development (A Brand Named You)
Developing Trust - Integrity
Empowering others - Inspiring a shared vision
Win-Win Relationship

This combines 17 years of study on leadership with strong references to Steven Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" and John Maxwell's "Becoming a Person of Influence."

Behavioral Interviewing

People are a companies greatest asset. Hiring the right people is critical to your business’ success. Do you believe that? Getting below the surface is a critical skill for all involved in hiring. One wrong person can kill years of work to create a solid business.

Getting at the heart of what a candidate has done is what is needed to make an intelligent hiring decision. This course teaches how to develop interview guides and do a behavioral interview. This is Development Dimension International (DDI) course – Targeted Job Selection.

All the components of doing a behavioral based interview

Interview Guides
Legal issues
Practice

See also our "Coming to Terms with Terms" Behavioral Based Interviewing

Change Leadership

How to lead and how to survive. If your company had to make major changes, how resilient and flexible are your people? Do you know how you can increase their resilience? Could you implement a change strategy that would not be immediately perceived as another “flavor of the month” program? Three day workshop. More

Business Place Diversity

Business Place Diversity is about keeping and developing employees by improving communication and cultural understanding in today's diverse workplace. This highly interactive seminar, delivered in full-day or half-day versions, provides a combination of awareness and skills building. The techniques learned can be applied immediately for improved co-worker and customer interactions.

Participants gain an understanding of the business imperatives of inclusiveness, and the differences that can arise due to the various ways that we are different. They learn to identify their own cultural filters; minimize assumptions and/or stereotypes; stay neutral in challenging situations; and adapt their behavior to create more positive work relationships.
The most important thing about a person is not their ethnicity, race or culture but their character. There is a lot of crazy stuff out there that is passed off as Diversity training. For any business it makes great sense to teach about cultural and gender differences and the implications for business.

This is no group hug session but many sound learning activities about our diversity in a business setting and how to make it an asset . Working with our diversity is what gives us an edge. Not having the knowledge and tools to work with each other's uniqueness is what causes us to disintegrate.

Conflict Resolution

Length: 1/2 day
Conflict and misunderstanding are never pleasant. We can provide your leaders with tools they need to defuse anger and deal with conflict.
Every leaders needs to understand how to deal with emotions. Their own and others. Denial or avoidance only increases the likelihood that it will get worse.

Some of the topic covered:

Tools for defusing hot tempers
Reflecting
“I” messages
Listening skills
Miller’s Law
Searching for solutions
- Win Win
- Compromise
- More

Team Building

Length: 1 day to 1 week (according to your need). Better relationships and team performance.
There are several elements that can be built into this training. Program is developed to your needs and time allotment. Outcomes are: better use of a team’s talents, more efficient meetings and better decision making. Numerous activities are used. This can be done on site or in a retreat setting.

Interpersonal relationships and communication within the team
Understanding of the strengths of diversity and the possible conflicts and solutions
Team Guidelines
Meeting Skills
Decision Making
Problem Solving Tools
- Brainstorming
- Pareto
- Histograms
- Force Field Analysis
- Etc.
Leading Change

Problem Solving Tools

Tools for finding root causes in processes and process improvements

Two day training with practice in using some of the more common quality tools.

Introduction to Quality/Continuos Improvement
Brainstorming
Cause and Effect Diagram/Fish bone
Force field Analysis
Matrix Diagrams
Pareto Chart
Introduction to data collection and analysis
and more!

Supervisor Development

Developing the front line management.
Length: 1 week. Components (suggestions below) selected to your needs. Course work includes several case studies.

This program requires working closely before hand with your internal management to understand your culture and “systems” (discipline, sexual harassment etc.) and/or prep your subject matter experts to come in at points and share their expertise.

Topics to choose:

What is expected of me
Acting professionally
Behavioral styles and self assessments
Leadership ethics
Delegating
Stress
Decision making
Setting goals
Managing your relation with your boss
Motivating employees
Developing a positive environment
Trust building behaviors
HR issues (Level I)
- Hiring/Firing
- “Problem” workers & discipline
- Training or Performance Problem
Preventive maintenance
Culture of quality & continuos improvement
Eliminating errors
Preventing double work

Supervisor Development II

Length: 1 week. Components (suggestions below) selected to your needs

Control/Power
Change leadership
Organizing – Vision & mission development
Planning and setting goals
Development of self & others
Developing teams
Meeting skills
HR Issues (Level II)
- EEO
- Diversity
- Sexual harassment
Improving safety – use of occurrence documentation
Communication oral, written and listening includes writing & speaking effectively
Document control

Below are additional areas that we can do general training but would need to integrate with your subject matter experts (SMEs) for the particulars.

Budgets and cost estimating
Purchasing
Material control
EPA/OSHA issues for your site
Security/Emergency/Crisis management
Labor organizing

Job Safety Analysis (JSA)

Safety training and developing a safety culture can have an immediate pay off.

Length: 1½ hours (usually accompanied with other safety training). Includes practice.
This is a proactive tool for analyzing a process and implementing safety precautions or barriers.

Customer Service

Length: 2 days
Developing exceptional customer service. What is more important than the people that meet your customers and represent your values?

Length: two days
The majority of the time is spent on Customer Service competencies and their development.

Develop Skilled Service Leaders
Discover What Customers Want
Design High-payoff Service Objectives
Receive the gift - The Customer Complaint

Mentoring

We help you build a culturally sensitive mentoring program at your site.

Length 2 days plus prework.
This program requires working closely before hand with your internal mentoring leader who will continue the program after the training. I will work with them on a culturally acceptable way to introduce mentoring and then ways to manage a system of checks and balances for a sustained program.

Some preliminary questions should be answered:

What are the business’ reasons for developing a mentoring program?
What organizational support exists and what needs to be developed?
What are the criteria for being part of the program?
What are the criteria for success?

Training Developed to your needs:

We specialize in on site training adapted to your needs. When we leave your organization, your employees have more skills to manage projects, develop purposeful change, interact within and without the organization etc. We work with you on a survey, gap analysis and development of training and organizational interventions to meet your needs.

We research and design each learning activity to fit with the organization's specific goals and objectives. See: What we do

School In-Service Training

We have programs for teachers - for their personal development and creativity development
One day in-service programs for educators.

Experiential (activity) learning methods used extensively. Build esprit de corps, creativity and team development tools. Gives teachers a chance to learn new approaches to looking at teaching and problem solving.

Speaker

Need a speaker for your organization's lunch or retreat? I've spoken hundreds of times to Churches and business groups on a wide range of topics.

Motivational

Bitter or better?

Humor

Seven stories for my seven children (humorous stories I told my seven children over the years about growing up)
- Things that blow up
- Saving Em
- Run a way child
- Ireland and the green eye of envy
- Stolen love
- Now what was that about?
- I shouldn't oughta said that

Business

Build resilience into your organization
What's the big deal about Diversity?
Cookbook for change leadership
Resolving conflict

And much much more...

I research and designs each presentation to fit with the meeting planner's specific goals and objectives. Specializing in bringing real solutions to the challenges facing organizations and companies in the turbulent market.

Team Facilitation

Need a facilitator to move your team along to greater capacity? We have years of success with developing a team’s capacity and process improvements.

Skillfully bringing out the best in a team.

Sometimes you need a skilled outsider. Someone that will challenge assumptions. Someone who is not involved in the politics but doesn't ignore them.

We bring to the table years of working with process improvement teams. Helping teams look for root causes by using quality tools and measures. We've led teams that had stacks of backlogged work to having no backlog, no added personnel and no overtime.

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