Leadership Skills Programs Create High Performance Teams
High performance teams have the same shared aspirations, have measurable performance and joint accountability. Leadership is the art of getting others to reach for those shared aspirations. Catalyst’s leadership skills program enhances the learner’s capacity to lead people to reach their fullest potential, spurring innovation in change and merging organizational cultures.
Catalyst’s innovative, proven three tiered approach to Leadership Development, which includes leadership assessment, hands on action learning and strategic leadership planning, prepares every leader to manage with confidence while creating high performance teams.
Global Leadership Development Consultants
Catalyst’s leadership development consultants have enhanced the leadership potential at companies around the globe, from World Bank in Egypt to Chili’s Grille & Bar and every branch of the United States Military. We have also built leadership skills programs for some of the largest not-for-profit health organizations, such as the Patient Advocate Foundation, in its battle to provide funds for cancer treatment around the world.
Your leaders will experience immediate benefits while learning from an experienced leadership development consultant. Our methods have been built upon progressive, researched methodologies that include:
Leadership Assessment
The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is a 360 degree leadership assessment tool that compares results with 2000 other leaders around the United States.
Tailored Leadership Development Services
Through in-depth interviews we determine gaps and objectives, and configure solutions to help you create high performance teams.
Innovative Leadership Skills Programs
Fun yet powerful action learning provides tangible, lasting learning moments for leaders.
Strategic Action Planning
Our action-learning exercises lend insight that shed light on the significance of behavior. We explore the “what?” the “So what?” and then develop an action plan for “Now what?”.
Business Coaching
Leadership Development is an on-going process, not a single event. Catalyst provides the post program follow up that is critical to ensure that insights gained from the Leadership Development experience deliver lasting change.
Qualified Leadership Development Professionals
Our team of leadership development consultants includes tenured business professionals, highly skilled facilitators and published authors in both leadership assessment and team development. They are experts at creating highly personal experiences with lasting impact for companies like yours.
We offer many leadership development workshops that will create strong leaders and effective and high performing teams. Our consultative approach has developed winning programs for hundreds of organizations–from Fortune 20 to small businesses. Part of our success…and yours…emerges from the way we customize each program to meet your needs.
Please contact us today at 800-446-1172 to learn more about how we can help you.
Leadership Approachability Training
Employee trust in senior management, direct supervisors and co-workers is dwindling across all industries. Most managers and supervisors are promoted because of their successful hard skills, but are they approachable leaders?
11 % of employees strongly agree their managers show consistency between their words and actions.
7% of employees strongly agree they trust senior leaders to look out for their best interest.
Approximately one-fifth of respondents disagree that their company’s leader is completely honest and ethical, and one-quarter of respondents disagree that they trust management to make the right decisions in times of uncertainty. Maritz® Poll conducted by Maritz Research
An approachable leader makes people feel safe; they know they are welcome to come to you with questions, concerns, or even criticism. Instead many managers, supervisors and leaders are seen as:
- Someone who doesn’t listen to other’s concerns
- Having trouble working as a part of a team
- Not developing the social networks needed to manage
- Aloof, or even arrogant
- Unenthusiastic about people or projects
- Having trouble in front of groups, making presentations
- Hard to read, and hard to trust
Employees and associates want to know:
- Can I trust you?
- Do you really care about me?
- Can you actually help me?
How we can help
Our training is a unique, aggressive program tailored to equip your leaders with the soft skills that will improve each engagement opportunity they have with associates. We want leaders to inspire trust, enhance listening, embrace open communication, and build relationships. This includes soft skills such as non-verbal communication, listening, understanding how the leader’s behaviors impact others, and having casual conversations that just take an interest in the associate without a hidden agenda.
This is a unique, intensive and highly experiential workshop that focuses on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, developed from the original and proven research of bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The five practices characterize leaders who get extraordinary things done in organizations, and this workshop has served as a catalyst for profound leadership transformations in organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
Follow the Five practices of Exemplary Leadership and you’ll have higher credibility and higher performing teams:
- Model the Way
- Inspire a Shared Vision
- Challenge the Process
- Enable Others to Act
- Encourage the Heart
In this 2 or 3-day interactive workshop participants experience and apply The Five Practices leadership model through video cases, workbook exercises, group problem-solving tasks, lectures, and outdoor action learning. This workshop includes the leading industry 360-degree assessment tool, The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). The LPI is a highly refined behavioral based 360-degree survey instrument which collects data on the frequency with which one exhibits 30 leadership behaviors. Participants recieve valid and reliable feedback on how other perceive them as leaders.
Participants learn, experience and apply principles from the book. They will analyze their team and or personal assessment results against the model to identify personal and team strengths and gaps. Most importantly, participants will develop a personal or organizational vision, and a committed action plan to focus and reinforce growth and change.
In this leadership performance program we integrate stories and clips from the historic Apollo 13 mission. In the past, we have had the honor of delivering this service with Captain James Lovell, the Commander of the Apollo 13.
To learn more about how we can help you, give us a call at: 800-446-1172
