It's shocking and hard to believe, but 82% of leaders have no formal leadership training! 

Leadership training is crucial for effective leadership.
Whether you’re a C-suite executive, a senior leader, or a first-time manager, it is worth honing your leadership chops.

The assumption is often that smart people who have been successful in their primary discipline can just figure out the people side of leadership. This is a disastrous assumption.

So, how can you support your 'accidental' leaders?
Ultimately, you need a comprehensive and well thought out plan to get your leaders from 'accidental' to life-giving. You can't just throw off-the-shelf training at this problem. Your approach needs to be practical and grounded in your unique business AND it needs to make sense to your CFO! When we help organizations develop a leadership development strategy, it almost always includes a coaching component.

Coaching has a high ROI during the first year a leader is in a new role.
This is a great time to invest in a coach for a new leader. Don’t wait until they are 3 years into their role, struggling, and have lost credibility with their key stakeholders. Unfortunately, that is often when we get the call. It is much harder to turn around the situation at this point, and it is much better to set the new leader up for success with coaching right from Day 1!

• Let's create a meaningful, engaging, and practical Leadership Training that matches your audience and needs. This might include a basic New Managers Training for anyone who is being placed into a role as a supervisor, and/or an Executive Leadership program for your high potentials and those on the fast-track to an executive position.
• Let our team facilitate an Imagineering: History of the Future experience for your HR team to help you develop a roadmap for talent development that will result in fewer accidental leaders.

 

9 Free Courses!
(credit to https://www.linkedin.com/in/howiechaniam/ for assembling this list!)

1. Harvard University
Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
https://lnkd.in/gT6MTgJQ

2. University of Pennsylvania
Building High-Performing Teams
https://lnkd.in/gutg_Dp8

3. Yale University
Connected Leadership
https://lnkd.in/g_FSDqMB

4. UC Berkeley
Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work
https://lnkd.in/gvkdEj4F

5. Dartmouth College
Leadership Lessons from Legends
https://lnkd.in/g56nhyib

6. University of Michigan
Leading Teams
https://lnkd.in/gcGdibE6

7. Northwestern University
Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact
https://lnkd.in/gbTqx-YS

8. Copenhagen Business School
Leadership in 21st-Century Organizations
https://lnkd.in/gHRQ_NhU

9. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Fundamentals of Leadership
https://lnkd.in/g-f3TjfN

All are verified free. Just choose the "Audit" option. Some offer credits or certificates for a cost, but the learning is free.

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