Leadership Development
Addressing the essential challenges every leader is confronted with!
Ask yourself, do leaders in your organization;
- Struggle to resolve conflict among employees?
- Inefficiently hold power rather than delegate to others on their team?
- Give employee feedback that doesn't seem to improve performance?
- Lead special project teams ineffectively and miss deadlines?
- Frequently hire people who do not succeed at the job, or stay?
- Throw change at people rather than lead them effectively through it?
- Consistently get the best out of their team?
If the answer to any or all of these questions is yes, Vital Learning's Leadership Development Curriculum will help. The curriculum is relevant, flexible, results-oriented, and value-driven.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Relevant
For nearly a quarter century, organizations around the world have trusted the Vital Learning Leadership Development Curriculum to provide the best in leadership development and supervision training to enhance the performance and productivity of team leaders, supervisors, and managers. These leaders are at the very center of an organization, holding the strategy and management direction from above, in alignment with the staff and frontline employees’ operations below. They are the glue that determines how well any organization succeeds.
Vital Learning's Leadership Development Curriculum focuses on the core skills and strategies that mid-level leaders require to successfully address the wide range of recurring supervision challenges they face. From hiring, to leading projects, to resolving conflict, to setting goals and standards and providing effective feedback, the Leadership Curriculum helps leaders successfully address these challenges, and more. The curriculum reflects the growing range of responsibilities for which mid-level leadership is accountable. We offer 17 different programs that cover these critical challenges.
Leadership Essentials
Learning solutions that are core to addressing the essential challenges every leader confronts on a weekly basis.
- Essential Skills of Leadership
- Essential Skills of Communicating
- Coaching Job Skills
- Communicating Up
- Developing Performance Goals and Standards
- Effective Discipline
- Improving Work Habits
- Managing Complaints
- Providing Performance Feedback
- Resolving Conflicts
- Supporting Change
Leadership Plus
Learning solutions designed to build the personal capabilities every leader needs to perform at the highest level.
- Developing and Coaching Others
- Retaining Winning Talent
- Retaining Winning Talent
- Motivating Team Members
- Solving Workplace Problems
- Leading Successful Projects
Flexible
The Leadership Development Curriculum offers many different kinds of flexibility:
- Modules that are available as Classroom Workshops, Online E-Learning Modules, or as a powerful and effective Blended Learning Solution that combines both elements in an extremely rich and personal learning experience
- Modules that are tightly focused to maximize time and impact
- Module order that may be customized to fit organizational needs
- Modules that are highly interactive to enhance learning
- Modules that may be successfully delivered by organizations with no certification
Delivery Methods
The Leadership Development Curriculum is a solution to develop managers, supervisors, and team leaders even in the face of the constraints of the organization. Solutions are offered in several ways to best meet the needs of the organization and, perhaps, of the different departments within the organization. Solutions are available as Classroom Workshops, Online E-learning Modules, and Blended Learning–a powerful combination of Classroom and Online. Modules are designed to be flexible. Organizations may choose the training sequence and delivery method that best fits, makes the training work efficiently given current circumstances, or suits a given group or location. Modules may also be customized to any industry or organization.
Classroom Workshops
New ideas, on target videos, relevant exercises–all provide participants the opportunity to learn not only “what” to do to be an effective leader and “why” to do it but also, most importantly, “how” to do it. The core methodology behind each Vital Learning classroom workshop is to enable each participant to become fully competent and highly confident as he/she completes a classroom workshop.
Throughout the workshop, leaders review case studies, participate in team learning and teach-back sessions, practice new skills, and receive solid coaching in a safe learning environment. Participants then simulate an actual work situation, which provides an opportunity for them to use the skills learned in a workplace-type environment.
Additionally, each Participant Workbook contains extensive resources and a troubleshooting guide designed to reinforce continued learning as participants apply the skills learned when they return to the job–where it matters most. All this is accomplished in a 4-hour per module classroom setting.
Online E-Learning Modules
Online learning modules offer the same cognitive learning information as the classroom workshop. The material is highly interactive, utilizing multiple methods of learning designed to keep online participants engaged and challenged. Online participants are able to complete the learning on their schedule and at times that least interrupt their workflow. Complete video, the same as in the classroom workshop, provides online participants traditional and positive examples of the skill points and ways to apply them.
Each online module takes 1 to 2 hours to complete satisfactorily. Pre- and Post-Testing is available, as well as complete online reporting information.
Blended Learning Opportunities
Blended learning is an artful combination of Classroom Workshop with Online E-learning. It provides learners the most powerful and personal learning experience possible. By combining Classroom and Online, participants are able to learn at their own pace, practice in a safe coaching environment, and utilize Vital Learning's extensive resources and troubleshooting guide designed to reinforce continued learning.
Training Support
Each facilitator guide includes a Facilitator Resource CD that contains forms, a PowerPoint, a Pre- and Post-Test, as well as additional materials to help instruct the programs and enable users to have a more powerful learning experience. Support is also provided to both facilitator and participant alike through our exclusive website. This site contains downloadable, interactive forms, assessments, trainer tips, certificates of completion, and much more, all designed to enhance and reinforce the learning experience.
Results-Oriented
Vital Learning has delivered Leadership Development for more than a quarter century with one thought in mind–to make each participant fully competent and highly confident. Much of our development energy has been spent creating learning both in Classrooms and Online that informs participants about the “why and what” and, most importantly, enables them with the “how”–the confidence and competence to perform a skill.
As much as 50 percent of "learning" comes after the class–back on the job. Vital Learning provides an extensive array of resources and tools designed to help participants apply the skills after they leave the learning environment. Resources and tools include online information websites, interactive forms for implementation, troubleshooting guides to use in solving workplace difficulties, and ongoing access to online modules filled with videos and interactive tools to reinforce learning.
Value-Driven
Bottom line–the Leadership Development Curriculum offers relevant learning across a wide range of challenges, ultimate flexibility with implementation to fit any organizational situation, and results based on competent leaders who are enabled with tools for reinforcement–all at the industry’s most competitive price/value proposition.
Try the Leadership Curriculum. We believe if you try the Leadership Curriculum, you will join our ever-increasing army of satisfied customers who have experienced real and meaningful behavior change.
Testimonials
From the executive pool, twelve managers were chosen to be sponsors. The sponsors customized each module to SoftBrands’ environment. The sponsors then delivered the training to employees who served as facilitators to train all our managers throughout the SoftBrands' world.
We see an increase in the skill level of our managers and a noticeable improvement in the morale of both our managers and employees.
We plan to incorporate the Vital Leadership modules into our employee safety training because the skills taught are essential to developing and maintaining a good team and safety depends on teamwork. And in the heavy equipment business, safety is critical.