Training & Workshops

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Leadership Development from the Frontline Up

Changing, growing businesses and organizations improve the likelihood of continued success when they prepare their high-performers, supervisors or frontline managers for the transition into bigger roles. Without effective succession development, continuity and performance are at risk.

This five-day leadership development series, based on the best of Herriford Consulting’s leadership workshops and management courses, addresses this need. Each daylong workshop builds upon and strengthens essential leadership competencies.

Upon completion of the series, participants will

A final and important outcome is the identification of high-potentials and their opportunities for even further development and career progression.

Creating a Culture of Leadership

The definition of a culture of leadership is an environment of collective work where the shared beliefs, values, and assumptions positively influence the organization’s capacity to set direction, create alignment, and gain commitment to achievement of its goals. This workshop raises awareness of how leaders impact culture and how to align their personal behavior to build these characteristics in their work environment. Upon completion, participants will have:

The workshop uses the TalentSmart Emotional Intelligence Appraisal and is delivered in 6 half-day workshops.

Organizational Culture and the Emotionally Intelligent Work Environment

Grounded in emotional intelligence principles, this one day workshop critically discusses how organizational beliefs, values, traditions, and role models shape organizationalworkshops policies and politics, managerial practices, hiring practices, succession planning efforts, and employee reward systems, as well as how they impact organizational productivity, employee motivation, and job satisfaction.

GeoleadershipSM

Geoleadership℠, a one-day workshop, based on the work of Dr, Eileen Wibbeke, presents and develops strategies for leaders that must perform within and across multicultural environments. Geoleadership℠, is leadership with a cultural layer on top, which requires seven competencies: Care, Communication, Consciousness, Contrast, Context, Change and Capability. Workshop outcomes are:

Cultural Sensitivity and Conflict Management

The two-day workshop examines alternative models and frameworks for understanding the complexities and paradoxes involved in how people from different cultures tend to communicate and conceive, perceive and deal with decisions, problems and conflict. Participants will

Strategy and Execution

Four Decisions™

The Gazelles Four Decisions™ workshops and programs have a proven track record of helping growth companies go from Good to Great, many of which are Inc 500, Best Place to Work Winners and Fast Growth Entrepreneurs. Leadership teams that participate in these workshops work with a Gazelles Coach to develop your One Page Strategic Plan and learn the 4 Decisions (People, Strategy, Execution and Cash) all growth companies must get right. Following is the two-day agenda:

Four Decisions for the Social Sector™

The adaptation of the successful Four Decisions™ workshops and programs for nonprofits is a framework for results-based accountability. Nonprofits must get the same decisions – people, strategy, execution and funding – right. This workshop includes solutions for the two major challenges facing social sector organizations. The first is the alignment of program strategy and funding to “deliver the promise”. The second is turning outcomes into metrics. Following is the agenda:

Change Management

Making Change Happen

This one day workshop is based on research by Grenly, Maxfield and Shimber that revealed that organizational change initiatives that apply four or more influence strategies were 10 times more likely to succeed than those that only use one or two. There are six influence strategies explained and applied. Participants will learn to develop strategies for

Identification and assessment of influence strategies using: