Elevate Your People Leadership: Managing Employees to Achieve their Best Results

9-week LIVE program for individual participants

Executive Summary

If you’re looking to UP your people leadership, there is no better program. Here is the summary of all that is included with this program:

Eight 1-hour training sessions (including the zoom recordings for unlimited review following the program),
Eight 1-hour group coaching sessions;
Unlimited individual coaching sessions during the duration of the program;
A copy of Val’s book, Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality (Wiley);
Everything DiSC© Workplace Communications Assessment
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessment

Program Details

Managing employees can be one of the most challenging—and one of the most rewarding—responsibilities on your plate as you move up within an organization. This is especially true in today’s labor market where finding great people is just as difficult as keeping them (“great resignation” anyone?!?!).

The old saying “employees join companies but leave managers” underscores just how important effective people leadership is: retaining employees directly rides on your ability to motivate and inspire your staff—a challenge that’s further complicated by the rise of remote workers and hybrid workplaces. Fortunately, great managers are made not born. You can up your people skills and learn how to be the leader your employees (and organization!) need now and in the future.

This 9-week online program will bring together 12 individual managers from varying organizations and backgrounds to learn how to stem the tide of resignations and unleash creativity and innovation in your teams! Through workshop and coaching sessions, you will learn how to develop the skills you need to up your leadership game and become an effective people manager!

Learning Objectives:

Setting goals that matter to the company, to your department and to your employees (getting them to care leads to better retention!)

How to hold employees accountable regardless of whether they work in the office, remotely, or on a hybrid schedule

How to stop micromanaging your employees and instead give them the tools they need to realize their true potential

Techniques that motivate and engage employees (and practices that do the exact opposite!)

How to use empathy and clear communication to establish trust and strengthen your influence

Using coaching and feedback simultaneously to develop your employees

Effective delegation strategies (and why poor delegation does more harm than good)

How to unleash your employees’ creativity and innovation for better problem-solving

How to manage problem employees back to being great team members (and what to do if your efforts don’t succeed)

People-centric leadership that doesn’t sacrifice professionalism

Dates & Specific Topics

All workshop sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants following the session. Coaching sessions are NOT recorded. All sessions will cover in-person, remote and hybrid management situations.

Session #1: Tue, 3/11/25: 11am – 12:30pm CST

Coaching #1: Fri, 3/14/25: 11am – 12n CST

Topics: Goal Setting for Your Team and Individuals, Creating an Environment that Instills Accountability in Your Employees

Topics: Your Communication Style (Everything DiSC Assessment), Effective Delegation, Empowering Your Employees to Succeed

Session #2: Tues, 3/18/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #2: Fri, 3/21/25: 11am – 12n CST

Session #3: Tue, 4/1/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #3: Fri, 4/4/25: 11am – 12n CST

Topics: Situational Leadership, Motivating Employees on a Daily Basis

Topics: Holding Employees Accountable through Feedback

Session #4: Tue, 4/8/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #4: Thu, 4/11/25: 11am – 12n CST

Let’s Break Bread: Tuesday, 4/15/25: 11am – 12n CST
Get-to-know-your cohort Breakfast/Luncheon (depending on your time zone!)
A fun interlude in the program to just get to know your fellow executives.

Session #5: Tue, 4/22/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #5: Wed, 4/23/25: 11am – 12n CST

Topics: Coaching Your Employees to the Next Level, Development Planning

Topics: EQ assessment results, Difficult Feedback Conversations

Session #6: Tue, 4/29/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #6: Wed, 4/30/25: 11am – 12n CST

Session #7: Tue, 5/6/25: 11am – 12:15pm CST

Coaching #7: Fri, 5/9/25: 11am – 12n CST

Topics: Difficult Conversations (cont’d), Managing Up/Giving Feedback to Your Boss/Peers, Time Management Techniques

Topics: Program Recap, Holding Yourself Accountable, Your Gameplan Going Forward

Session #8: Tue, 5/13/25: 11am – 12:30pm CST

Coaching #8: Fri, 5/16/25: 11am – 12n CST

Tuition: $2,995 gets you all the following:

eight 1-hour training sessions (including the zoom recordings for unlimited review following the program),
eight 1-hour group coaching sessions;
unlimited individual coaching sessions during the duration of the program;
a copy of Val’s book, Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality (Wiley);
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Assessment