Training and Facilitation

Good leadership matters. It is often the most significant differentiator in high performing teams and products. Leadership Enthusiast offers expert facilitation and training workshops to help organizations build leadership capabilities of managers at all levels. 

This image is a high-level snapshot of how we think about leadership development for leads and managers regardless of level. It’s based on the premise that in order to lead others well, you must first lead yourself well. 

We like the crawl-walk-run analogy. Content within each stage supplies the necessary tools to build the strength needed to excel in the next phase. Key learnings within each category complements and builds off the other. 

Leading Self (crawl): topics in this category focus on self-awareness and building an understanding of others.

  • DiSC – deepen understanding of self and others via DiSC behavioral assessment

  • Emotional Intelligence – build “EQ” awareness and the ability to identify, use, and manage emotions in the workplace in an effective and positive way 

  • Brain Science – create a high-level understanding of how our brains operate using the latest research around threat/reward response and David Rock’s SCARF model

  • Receiving Feedback – learn strategies for filtering and sorting feedback to become a more skillful learner

  • Personal Leadership Philosophy & Values

Leading Individuals (walk): Content in this category is rooted in practicality and provides strategies, tips, and tricks to help optimize the manager/employee relationship.  In other words, it’s all about how to be a good manager.

  • Performance Management

  • Setting expectations & Paying attention

  • Giving feedback

  • Navigating the tough conversation

  • Effective 1:1’s

  • Performance Reviews and how to do them well

  • Situational Leadership

  • Delegating Effectively 

  • Developing Others

  • Communication styles & how to optimize

Leading Teams (run): Content in this category emphasizes team dynamics, scaling,  and what managers need to do to create an environment for productivity, high performance, and creativity to thrive.

  • Stages of Team Development (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing)

  • Conflict Management

  • Managing Change

  • Engineering Optimal Performance