Leadership Workshops

Communication. Results. Coaching.

John Baldoni is a noted workshop presenter. The popularity of John’s books has led him to create a unique series of stand-alone workshops based upon the principles developed in his books. Like all good trainers, John believes that adults learn best by doing. John’s workshops combine short presentations with interactive exercises designed to bring key principles to life in ways that make them accessible, compelling, and transferable to the workplace.

Click here to see John's newest workshop:Leading Your Boss (and Peers)

Click on the book to find its companion workshop.  

Great Communicators Make Great Leaders

Leadership communications are messages from the leader rooted in the culture and values of the organization and of significant importance to key stakeholders. The messages are about vision, mission, transformation, and urgency. The purpose of leadership communications is to build trust and drive results. Great Communicators will show how leaders can develop, deliver, and sustain leadership communications to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.

Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:

• Define the role of communications as leadership behavior
• Develop the leadership message
• Deliver the leadership message (verbally and virtually)
• Sustain the leadership message through communications planning

Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers

Agenda:

Module 1: Why communication is central to leadership

• Communication is essential building trust & gaining results
• Role of leadership communications
• Purpose of leadership messages
• Developing the 4I’s Model

• Who is the leader: visionary, expert, coach, transformer
• Organizational climate
• Purpose of leadership message
• Ensuring credibility

Module 3: Delivering the leadership message

• Drafting the message
• Overcoming objections
• Art & Practice of Interrogatory
• Leadership storytelling

Module 4: Sustaining the leadership message

• Staying on message
• No news is news
• 4 Communication Channels (editorial, marketing, organizational, web)
• Leadership communications planning: strategy, tactics, execution
• The Upward Message
• Evaluation: Communications audit

Program Length:
1-day workshop
½ day workshop follow-up session
Individual communications coaching sessions, if desired

Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.

It is the responsibility of the leader to stimulate the development of individual and team goals that fulfill organizational results. Effective leaders place those goals within context the organization’s mission, vision and values. By linking goals to results, leaders make them personal as well as doable. Communication becomes the tool that leaders use to rally people around a common cause. By creating messages and stories the leader can create expectations, drive execution and attain inspired results.

Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:

• Define the leader’s role in gaining results
• Describe the leader-results model (aspire, perspire, require, transpire)
• Develop a leadership results action plan

Who Should Attend:
Middle managers, senior leaders

Agenda:

Module 1: Focusing on the Right Goals

• Setting the vision
• Defining vision & goals
• Creating Alignment

• Pushing for getting things done right
• Following up
• Holding self and team accountable

• Encouraging risk
• Why courage is important
• Creating and telling leadership stories

Module 4: Getting the Right Results

• Presenting the aligned action model
• Developing a leadership action plan

Program Length:
1 day

Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.

Coaching is the investment in human capital that opens the door for individual and organizational performance improvement. It is an investment of time and care into the life of another individual that prepares them for the challenges that lie ahead. The challenge may be a project that needs completing, a new job that needs tackling, or the selection of a new career path. Leader as Coach will show how leaders must coach their direct-reports in order to achieve inspired results.

Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:

• Define the role of leader as coach
• Describe the leader-coaching model
• Develop a leadership coaching plan

Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers

Agenda:

Module 1: Why Leaders Coach

• Organizational Values & Behaviors
• Leadership Coaching Model
• Trust
• Teach
• Counsel
• Problem-Solve
• Motivate
• Discipline
• Reward
• Mentor

Action Coaching Model

• Plan ahead
• Uncover the motivational tick
• Give feedback
• Get commitment
• Follow-up

• Giving a coaching session
• Developing a coaching action plan

Program Length:
½ day

Results:
Participants will learn to use communications to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.

Personal leaders are those who want to be in charge in order to make a positive difference and are willing to be accountable for their actions. Personal leaders have strong core values as well as the courage of their convictions. This inner strength is liberating and gives them the confidence to lead others. Once individuals embrace personal leadership, they can become a leader -- one willing to put the needs of others first in order to achieve inspired results for themselves, the team, and the organization.

Purpose:
To demonstrate how personal leadership can serve as the fundamental building block in achieving results by developing the talents and skills of others.

Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:

• Define the role of personal leadership as a requirement to leading others
• Demonstrate leadership in vision, planning, communications, etc.
• Develop a leadership action plan

Who Should Attend:
First-time supervisors, middle managers

Agenda:

Module 1: Personal Leadership: moving from the “I can” to the “I will”

• Personal leadership
• Autonomy
• Initiative
• Responsibility

• Who are you?
• Where do you want to go?
• How will you get there?

Module 3: Learning to be a Change Leader

• Communicating
• Making an ally of change
• Reflecting on leadership
• Recognizing contributions of others

• Setting expectations
• Delegating responsibilities
• Coaching constantly
• Becoming a teacher

Program Length:
1 day

Results:
Participants will learn how a foundation of personal leadership can open the door to effective leadership of others to achieve personal and organizational goals.

Leading Your Boss (and Your Peers)

Program
Description:
"Leading Your Boss" will present ways that managers can create and leverage their influence to build coalitions in order to effect positive change and achieve organizational goals. Managers who lead up are those who can influence across boundaries because they have the trust and respect of senior leaders and colleagues. "Leading Up" is essential to mangers who want to achieve sustainable results that complement the mission of their organization.

Leading up is a form of managing up, but with a difference. Both practices are focused on helping the leader do his job better. But in leading up, the person leading up demonstrates a degree of selflessness so that the organization can benefit. It gets to the root of what leadership so often focuses on, doing what is right for others, even when it means putting yourself aside.

Learning
Objectives:
Managers who participate in the "Leading Your Boss" program will be able to:
-Define the role of leadership in achieving sustainable results
-Use influence to effect positive change
-Gain trust of colleagues and senior leaders
-Affirm the organizational vision, mission and values
-Reinforce the bond of trust between leader and follower
-Embrace transformation - e.g., change!

Agenda:
"Leading Your Boss" will cover topics such as how to:
-Influence up, down, and across the organization
-Lead bosses to achieve greater results
-Build coalitions of peers
-Demonstrate leadership presence, e.g. demonstrating earned authority
-Facilitate two way communications throughout all levels of the organizations, including manager to employee, employee to manager, and peer to peer.
-Create the impetus for organization effectiveness (e.g. making things happen)
-Become an agent for positive change
-Asking the right questions at the right time
-Demonstrate authority, conviction and compassion
-Radiate optimism and hope with their demeanor
-Develop individual "elevator speeches" for key constituents

Who should
attend?
High-potential executives; middle managers

Results
Participants will learn to exert positive influence in order to lead bosses and peers to achieve inspired results

For more information on John and his work, please visit here.