Virtual Management Academy

Leadership For Managers 12-Week Development Program

According to studies done by Gallup, Managers have the greatest impact on employee engagement. They account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores across business units. Managers who are not engaged or who are actively disengaged cost the U.S. economy close to $400 billion annually.

Everything they do & don’t do creates a domino effect. Leadership for Managers helps develop High Talent Managers who are willing to do the work and enhance their culture. This 12-week program is guaranteed to move the needle.

Outline of the Program/Expectations:

Summit is an innovative online leadership training program that hones essential leadership skills for managers. Each core module spans 5-6 weeks, with a commitment of 2 hours per week. The program consists of Basecamp sessions and Advanced Summit Training sessions, allowing participants the flexibility to choose sessions á la carte.

Two Ways to Navigate Summit:

• Á la Carte: Any program within the BaseCamp section can be taken as a stand-alone course.
• Summit: Leadership for Managers Certification Journey:
  
  1. Step 1 – Management assessments and initial coaching session
  2. Step 2 – Complete and pass any six BaseCamp training sessions
  3. Step 3 – Complete and pass any two Advanced Summit training sessions

Basecamp Sessions:

• Fundamentals: Foundations for Leadership
• The Art of Self-Leadership
• Mastering the Moment: The EQ Advantage in High-Impact Situations
• Performance Leadership
• Diplomacy: Conflict and Negotiation
• Team Leadership and Collaboration
• Strategic Leadership and Decision Making
• Change Leadership
• LEADSpeak: Keys to Effective Communication
• Ethical Leadership Excellence
• Innovative Leadership

Advanced Summit Training Sessions:

• Advanced Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Developing Culture
• Leadership Resilience and Crisis Management

The online training is facilitated engagingly with assessments, experiential processes, practice, weekly action plans, and accountability. This reinforces the learning along with the application.

The Zoom live virtual classroom is held twice a week and each session will be 2 hours. We have two scheduled break weeks through the three months to help with digesting the information. We max each group out at 10 so it allows for discussion, processing, learning from each other and accountability. This is a deep dive on the leadership side of what it takes to be a High Talent Manager.

• The first session of the week is focused on the skill. This includes book work, interactive processes, discussion and introspective work.
• The second session of the week is focused on problem-solving and real time application.

Objectives

Summit is focused on advancing your managers to higher performance when it matters through engaging, transformative online workshops with a focus on the core leadership skills of what it takes to be a high-level leader.

The online training is facilitated engagingly with experiential processes, practice, weekly action plans, and accountability. This reinforces the learning along with the application. We create the “stickiness” factor!

Who Should Attend

Whether you’re new to management or a well seasoned manager, if you lead people and want to improve your leadership skills as a manager, this program is for you.

Competencies Covered

• Vision, mission, values (clarity of self and clarity of the team)
• Mindset
• Image, attitude, demeanor, brand
• Successful habits; time management, priorities, goals
• Emotional Intelligence
• The High Talent Manager
• Qualities of a synergistic team
• Building trust
• Understanding and working with different and difficult personalities
• Creating an engaged culture
• Psychological safety – what it is and how to create it
• Different leadership styles
• Leadership credit
• Conflict management using the TKI (Thomas Kilmann Conflict Instrument)
• Active listening and listening styles
• How to give and receive feedback
• How to run a meeting
• Asking versus telling – become great at asking questions
• Managing up
• From co-worker to boss – relationship dynamic