Objective:

The Leadership Performance Program aims to provide middle-level managers with insights, information, and ideas on how to elevate their leadership skills and ability to engage and retain their best people. This program equips participants with the skills required to lead people and themselves at a high level.

This leadership program is designed to develop a manager’s ability to execute their people responsibilities, inspire excellence, help the organization adapt as necessary, and sustain long-term success. The program is the most comprehensive and engaging leadership performance program available, developed from SGEi’s many years of working with, consulting for, and elevating leadership for organizations worldwide.

Outcomes:

This interactive learning experience led by an SGEi-certified leadership coach is a memorable, motivating, and effective development opportunity for managers to improve their leadership capabilities. Outcomes include:

• Personal leadership: Managers will be able to recognize their emotions, strengths, capabilities, and tendencies and understand how to deploy them to influence, inspire, and effectively motivate others: their team, peers, leaders, customers, and clients. The emphasis is on emotional intelligence, values, motivation, and relationship-building.
• People leadership: Managers will understand how to build an effective team culture that drives performance and retains the best performers. The emphasis is on leading culture and values, recruitment, welcoming new team members, engagement, informal and formal feedback, recognition, accountability, and communication.
• Change leadership: Managers will learn how to think outside the box and build a culture of creativity within a team. The emphasis is on creativity, identifying the need to change, developing plans, execution, and sustainability.
• Results-based leadership: Managers will learn how to define and execute their goals. They will know how to use the mission-planning framework utilized by special military operations to achieve objectives successfully with flawless execution. The emphasis is on connecting purpose with goals, SWOT analysis, strategic planning, time management, and how to build a support network.

The Learning Experience:

The program will involve ten live 90-minute virtual learning experiences.

1. 1. An Introduction to Leadership: Leadership and management are two sides of the same coin. Participants will understand why the differences are important, how the two skills are crucial for organizational success, and why leadership is critical for cultural success. They will also learn about the five habits leaders practice to inspire their team’s hearts and minds.
   2. Emotional Intelligence Part I: In the first emotional intelligence (EQ) module, participants will learn about EQ and its first two competencies: self-awareness and self-management. They will understand how their emotions and actions can impact others and why they must manage their impulses and responses. They will also discover the importance of values as they relate to emotional intelligence and leadership.
   3. Emotional Intelligence Part II: In the second module, wrapping up the discussion on EQ, participants will learn about the final two competencies of emotional intelligence: social awareness and relationship management. Participants will consider how their interactions with others shape their leadership and discuss ways to manage relationships positively in the workplace.
   4. The Art of Coaching: Participants will learn the differences between informal and formal feedback, the characteristics of informal feedback, and the proven, effective informal feedback model. Participants will learn how to utilize the performance coaching grid, provide meaningful recognition, and have tough conversations.
   5. Effective Communication: This module focuses on how to communicate effectively with others verbally, in writing, and through their actions while reviewing how to employ empathetic listening and ensure their messages are understood. Participants will also discover how to lead effective meetings.
   6. Conflict Management: Participants will understand why conflict is necessary for high-performing organizations and why conflict avoidance is not. Participants will understand different communication styles and strategies for tough conversations with various levels within the organization.
   7. Sparking Creativity and Innovation: Participants will learn about creativity and innovation and how to instill these in their teams and businesses. Participants will learn to overcome stagnant thinking and get their people thinking outside the box.
   8. Mission Planning: Participants will learn to utilize the mission-planning framework to achieve their mission and goals. They will identify necessary resources to meet their goals and discuss how to use SWOT analyses and action plans.
   9. Building Great Teamwork: This module helps participants understand the core dynamics of a great team and what a leader can do to elevate their team’s performance. Participants will discover how to develop a shared mission and purpose and foster accountability.
   10. Your Leadership Brand: Participants will develop their brand statement about the type of leader they are and want to be. They will learn strategies to support and prioritize their well-being in their professional and personal lives.

One-on-One Coaching:

The program also provides participants with two one-on-one 60-minute coaching opportunities.

Monthly Thought Leadership Newsletter:

Participants will receive monthly newsletters that include a collection of relevant media, thoughts, and reminders on leadership and how they can continue to grow.

Executive Coaching Notes:

Direct managers of all participants will receive recap notes based on each module. These one-page overviews will outline the key ideas covered in each module to encourage content-specific discussions to support participants’ learning.

Investment:

The program costs $3,000.00 per person. An SGEi learning specialist will contact you within 24 business hours of purchase to schedule you in the next Leadership Performance Program cohort. Please note that each program cohort will require a minimum of 12 participants and a maximum of 16 participants.