Workforce Development and
Employee Training Courses

Description

Leadership Acceleration is a digitally enabled leadership journey that allows experienced leaders to become more aware of how they show up for their teams and accomplish results for their organizations. Through this course, learners gain insight into how competence and connection are essential ingredients to effectively motivate and engage their teams to contribute to the organization’s success. Leadership Acceleration brings proven leadership content to life in a highly engaging, flexible, modern environment with a community of learners—supported by a leadership coach—who learn, share, and support each other. The program is globally scalable, capable of reaching large populations of leaders efficiently and effectively.

Outcomes

• Learn the skills to successfully navigate the challenges of a more senior role
• Reflect on leadership mindsets including a focus on growth, inclusive, agile, and enterprise mindsets
• Explore your own emotional intelligence and what makes you unique as a leader
• Learn how leaders can get the job done through strategic thinking, developing a strong talent pipeline, and influencing

Other Details

Leadership Acceleration provides the learner with relevant, bite-sized assets they can access from any device, any time and anywhere.

This asynchronous, innovative framework is highly scalable—accommodating cohorts of 60–100 learners.

Description

Leadership Essentials is a digitally enabled leadership journey that provides learners the essential skills leaders and managers need to be successful and produce results. Learners move through the course supported by a leadership expert who acts as a trusted guide and coach. While each leader progresses at a time and pace that works for them, they are also connected with a community of learners who share their experiences and support one another.

Leadership Essentials brings proven leadership content to life in a highly engaging, modern environment that’s globally scalable. Combine the Leadership Essentials experience with other GP Strategies leadership development programs and consulting services to maximize its impact within your organization.

Outcomes

• Develop the leadership skills to deliver on enterprise business objectives while supporting your teams
• Practice new thinking around the importance of leadership mindsets: growth, inclusion, agility, and enterprise
• Understand topics such as the role of a leader, trust, communication, delegation, accountability, coaching, teamwork, high-performing teams, and change

Other Details

Leadership Essentials provides the learner with relevant, bite-sized assets they can access from any device, any time and anywhere.

This asynchronous, innovative framework is highly scalable—accommodating cohorts of 60–100 learners.

Leading the Human+AI Team

GP Strategies’ LeadershipAI program equips leaders with the skills and knowledge to effectively guide their human+ technology teams in the evolving workplace. Leveraging the Intrepid platform, this social collaborative learning experience engages learners to embrace AI’s evolution and its impact on leadership roles.

The learning objectives for this three-module series include:

• Understanding the impact of AI on leadership roles
• Embracing AI and fostering team acceptance
• Building on leadership skills such as critical thinking, coaching, and navigating change, while maintaining human connection

Leadership Level:

• Experienced
• Front line
• High Potential

Description

Leading High-Performing Teams is a highly experiential offering that helps leaders identify key behaviors they can employ to ensure their team can meet its full potential. Learners will examine current team dynamics and identify specific actions they should take to cultivate and sustain success.

Outcomes

• Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to build trust across the team
• Acquire the skills to build a team whose goals and priorities are aligned internally and with the larger enterprise
• Learn how to build a team that embraces cooperation and collaboration, mitigates conflict, and creates an environment of psychological safety
• Take meaningful actions to engage teams, focus on high impact areas, and hold team members accountable for driving results

Description

People are looking for meaning at work beyond the traditional definitions of job satisfaction, compensation and benefits. How does a leader obtain committed action in this environment? It takes a lot more than business competence or merely communicating strategic objectives. It takes personal connection. Inspiring leaders look inward and connect their business messages with their experiences and what they deeply believe in and care about. They establish competence and build trustworthiness. They create shared purpose and engage the hearts and minds of others. They take people somewhere. This kind of leadership earns commitment.

This two-day ILT course features a 1:8 ratio of facilitator/coach to participants.

Outcomes

• Inspire others to greater engagement, ownership, and action to create positive change
• Create a culture of authenticity, openness, and candor
• Connect your personal convictions to organizational strategy
• Effectively lead change with or without positional authority
• Apply a framework for communicating inspirationally in all situations, venues, and media
• Answer the questions: Who are you, and what are you here to do?

Description

Leading People is a leadership development program that equips frontline managers with skills and strategies to engage and unleash the expertise, independence, and performance of their direct reports. Based on our research and experience, the program has achieved proven success with hundreds of leading companies through the development of thousands of leaders worldwide.

The program is ready to deploy in its standard configuration or to be customized and contextualized by a GP Strategies learning consultant to better meet your needs. Designed in a modular fashion, Leading People allows you to select the most relevant topics for your organization and learners.

Leading People content includes:

Foundations of Leadership—required | four hours

The core module includes four key topics:

1. Understanding engagement—understand what drives employees and how to move business objectives forward.
2. Building trust—learn to create, repair, and maintain trust levels with team members and throughout the organization.
3. Communication skills—learn to ask strategic questions, listen actively, and convey benefits to meet goals and build strong relationships.
4. Communication strategy—develop a thoughtful framework to plan for critical conversations.

Content Modules—optional | two hours per module

• Setting Goals Improve performance by setting and supporting SMART goals.
• Delegating Responsibility Increase contribution and satisfaction without micromanaging.
• Giving Feedback Promote high performance and correct issues with clear, meaningful communication.
• Inspiring Innovation Unleash a culture of organizational creativity and continuous improvement.
• Managing Change Maintain employee engagement during times of transformation.
• Influencing Others Create buy-in and advance ideas by strategically building trust and credibility.
• Handling Resistance Push initiatives forward and maintain relationships by dealing effectively with opposition.
• Leading Teams Position employees for success with the fundamentals of high performance.
• Leading Virtually Communicate effectively across a range of media to a diverse audience.

Other topics that could be added include Accountability, Managing Priorities, Handling Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, and more.

Outcomes

• Accelerated time-to-market for new product concepts
• Reduced friction and increased productivity
• More rapid adoption and implementation of new technology, techniques, and processes
• Retention of high-value talent
• Smoother, faster transitions for people promoted to leadership roles
• Leaders who can handle an increased span of control
• A culture where employees thrive and a reputation that attracts the best in the business

Key Features

• Research-based content and real-world practice scenarios for maximum relevance and impact
• Modular program design for easy customization and flexible implementation
• Continuous learning approach with multiple touchpoints to increase engagement and knowledge retention
• Assessment process for quantifiable improvements

This course provides an overview of the Lean approach and considers implementation strategies within manufacturing, design, operations, and office functions. The Lean building blocks will be reviewed (including 5S, visual management, waste elimination, value stream mapping, and process flow), enabling participants to understand how these techniques fit together, and to consider implementation within their companies.

This course, suitable for team leaders, engineers, operators, and continuous improvement (CI) practitioners, provides a structured approach to increasing efficiency of processes through the application of total productive maintenance (TPM), rapid changeovers, and work balance methodology. Participants will leave the training able to drive down inventory and improve inventory turn through the application of flow techniques.

This training provides the confidence and tools to lead practical Lean improvement activities. Learners will gain the skills to deliver measurable benefits through the elimination of waste, improved process performance, and more efficient product and process. The content also includes key facilitation skills to help lead small teams in practical mapping and waste elimination activities.