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.  

Getting the Right Results the Right Way Right Now

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.

"Lead by Example" addresses the challenges all leaders face when seeking to bring people together around a common cause. It argues that leaders must create conditions for people to succeed. How? Communicating, challenging, stroking, and making tough choices. Plus, thinking first and acting with verve and vitality. Lead by Example provides insights into what leaders need to do lead others by giving people a reason to believe in their leaderhsip! Attending Lead by Example will provide managers with a "pick-me up" in the form of fast acting advice they need to face the challenges of everyday leadership.

Learning Objectives:
Participants who complete this program will be able to:
- Demonstrate what leaders to do create followership
- Discover ways to put the Lead by Example model into action
-Develop a leadership action plan for getting people focused and motivated to achieve the vision, mission and goals of the organization

Who Should Attend:
Middle managers and above

Agenda:

Module 1: Set the Right Example
- Character counts
- Courage convinces
- Check your ego
- Make your presence felt

Module 2: Act the Part
- Communicate to the Third Power
- Deliberate and decide
- Influence without authority
- Drive innovation

Module 3: Handle the Tough Stuff
- Manage conflict
- Promote resiliency
- Adapt or die
- Being tough

Module 4: Put the Team First
- Get off the pedestal
- Recruit the best
- Show humility
- Develop a leadership action plan

Program Length:
1 day

Results:
Participants will discover ways to create followership in order to develop greater levels of trust and achieve inspired results.

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.

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 Your Boss" 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

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