Leadership Training

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Managers · Executives · Entrepreneurs · Leadership Teams

Taught Virtually or in Person

Manager providing leadership training for her team.Leadership training builds your management team's bench strength. It paves the way for top performance, smooth leadership succession, and bottom-line effectiveness.

How could your organization do an even better job of training its leaders? Why not draw on our specialized LeaderPerfect® leadership education programs?

We customize leadership training to your specific needs through appropriate blendings of workshops, seminars, keynotes, coaching, mentoring, , and facilitated team-building.

Please Note: We do not currently host open-enrollment trainings for the general public. Our LeaderPerfect® trainings are all individually designed for specific businesses, nonprofits, or government entities and are delivered at their facility, as part of an off-site, or in a virtual format.

Leadership Training Courses

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►  The Essentials of Being a Leader

►  Advanced Leadership Skills and Principles

►  When to Lead, When to Manage

►  Mastering Trust-Centered Leadership

►  Leadership FIRST — The Leader's Most Critical Priorities

►  Team-Building: Integrating Teams using Personal Core Values

►  Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Executives

►  Create Your Own Internal Mentoring Program

Typical Training Fee Structure

Leadership Education on Special Topics

Here is a partial listing of additional themes around which we can develop a leadership education program for your organization. (Click on any item for an expanded description.)

►  Using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Skills

As a credentialed master trainer in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Dr. Mike Armour, SLDI's founder, can provide basic level or advanced training in any of the dozens of powerful NLP techniques. Possible areas of training include:

  • assuring the success of your personal goals
  • creating resourceful inner states that allow you to perform at your best
  • overcoming disabling beliefs
  • breaking patterns of undesirable behavior
  • building deep and lasting rapport with anyone you meet
  • reading and calibrating non-verbal feedback accurately
  • aligning verbal and non-verbal communication to give greater impact to your message
  • developing powerful platform skills as a speaker
  • using presuppositional language and creative reframes to change your hearer's perspective
  • using the "Meta Model" and the "Milton Model" to clarify communication and minimize misunderstanding

This is by no means an exhaustive list of topics, as Mike can customize a training on any of the dozens of NLP techniques. He will also conduct a complete NLP pratitioner or master practitioner training for groups of six or more. Each certification requires approximately 130 hours of training, spread out over several weeks.

Elsewhere on this web site we have answered many frequently asked questions about NLP.

►  Imaginative Leadership Using Graves Systems

In the 1960s Dr. Clare Graves developed one of the world's most comprehensive models for understanding human and organizational behavior. The model builds on the interplay of eight different systems of thought and value. Over time mankind has created these systems as coping mechanisms to deal with the complexity of our existence. (You can find more about Graves systems elsewhere on this web site.)

Dr. Mike Armour, the managing principal of SLDI, is a nationally recognized authority and pioneering author on the Graves model and designs workshops appropriate for businesses, churches, non-profit organizations, or educational institutions.

Topics include:

  • The worldview behind each of the Graves systems
  • The values and priorities of each system
  • The treasures to be found and traps to be avoided in each system
  • How these systems clash within organizations
  • The most effective management and leadership styles for each system
  • Motivating workers or volunteers, based on their system preference
  • Assigning duties and building effective work teams based on personal system preferences

Leadership Training for Entrepreneurs

America is the land of the entrepreneur. We are a nation of small businesses built by men and women with a dream of controlling their own economic destiny. As these dreams become realities, Strategic Leadership Development International is ready to provide leadership training at every stage of the journey. We offer customized training at each of the following life-stages in the founding and development of your company. (Click on any topic for an expanded description.)

►  Starting Your Own Company

Each year thousands of men and women leave corporate life to start their own business. As they build a team, as they raise capital, as they map a vision for the future, leadership challenges face these entrepreneurs at every turn. Having helped numerous entrepreneurs with start-up ventures, we are adept at training the leadership team that is launching a new business. Our leadership training shows them how to get off on the right foot so that they build the company on a solid foundation from the very beginning.

►  Growing Your Own Company

The leadership skills and style essential for launching a company are not the same as those required to grow it to its full potential. Many entrepreneurs and their management team fail to recognize this difference. Once they are beyond the startup phase, how do they need to change their leadership approach to assure sustained growth? What size thresholds change the priorities on which leadership should focus? We can custom-make trainings to help your team answer these questions, and be prepared to make appropriate changes to keep growth strong and vibrant.

►  Preparing to Sell Your Own Company

Strategic Leadership Development International has helped several companies successfully position themselves for acquisition. When acquisition is the goal, a number of unique demands are thrust upon leadership. Leaders must back off and look at the company through the eyes of a potential buyer. They must get the company ready for a "beauty contest." Based on our experience with companies and entrepreneurs going through this process, we can design leadership training that will position your leadership team to optimize your company's value in the eyes of others.


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