After you promote your top performers, then what? Great management skills don’t just happen – give your best employees the tools they need to succeed as they increase their contributions to your organization. Executive Forum’s Leadership Development offerings provide a full range of programs designed to strengthen skills and provide practical solutions at every step up the leadership ladder.
New managers and top performers looking at promotional opportunities, as well as existing managers moving into new areas or interested in honing their skills, will benefit from the Labs. Topics addressed include:
The Transition To Leadership |
Effective Problem Solving |
Communicating for Results |
Leading Change |
Coaching for Performance |
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Labs are restricted to 28 attendees and tend to fill up fast. Send your work groups or interdepartmental teams – volume pricing makes it easy and affordable!
Put Leadership Lab On Your Calendar!
Our popular Leadership Labs are held three times a year in the Portland area, and are scheduled to run one day a week for five weeks. Labs can also be scheduled as in-house programs for larger organizations.
NEW! In-house Leadership Labs are now available in locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Contact Executive Forum for more information.
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Advanced Leadership Lab
Today’s dynamic work environment requires every manager to have the leadership skills needed to motivate teams, improve performance, and effectively respond to challenges. The Advanced Leadership Lab provides a set of powerful tools for your most critical organizational leaders. This practical, application-based program equips mid- to senior-level managers with the skills essential to managing relationships and getting projects completed.
The Advanced Leadership Lab is organized into three weekly sessions with opportunities to practice new skills each week. Participants receive one-on-one telephone coaching from an experienced leadership coach at two important program checkpoints—once before the course begins to calibrate expectations and discuss challenges, and again after the final session to identify the most productive way forward and to outline actions for continued development.
This is not just another general seminar on leadership – this is a results-oriented, interactive program designed to address the unique needs of each participant. Leaders are encouraged to bring real-life challenges to class and test their approaches with our skilled facilitators and other seminar participants.
Optional Extended Leadership Coaching
An added feature of the Advanced Leadership Lab is the option to extend the number of leadership coaching sessions after the final class. Extended coaching has proven highly successful in transforming manager performance by providing clear objectives and support in achieving leadership goals. This coaching is also available in combination with a comprehensive 360 assessment package.
Leadership and communication expert, Michael Hackman, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor and author whose interests encompass a broad range of topics included in the development of successful leaders.
Senior managers, key leaders, and those responsible for mission-critical performance who want to enhance their ability to motivate and build skills designed to maximize productivity will benefit from the Advanced Lab. Topics addressed include:
- Finding Your Leadership "Voice"
- Transforming Leadership
- Building the High Trust Organization
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Leading High Performance Teams is an action-oriented three-day workshop for leaders, executives and managers who are committed to improving their leadership skills and helping their organizations build powerful, successful teams. This practical, thought-provoking and challenging workshop combines theory with a research-driven model and experiential learning to address specific issues and introduce more effective team-leading behaviors.
Learn How To Create And Sustain High Performance Teams
In today’s fast-paced business environment, successful teamwork is crucial for long-term survival. But teams are complex organizations, and can have surprisingly powerful internal rules. If not led well, the team as a whole can drag individual performance down and result in significant outcome and process loss. Research has shown that when team leadership improves, the teams themselves grow and perform better, the members are more satisfied with their roles, and the organization’s stakeholders are more satisfied with the outcomes.
Make this insightful program part of your organization's development effort. Leading High Performance Teams is available as a 3-day retreat or an in-house workshop to accommodate large organizations or multiple intact teams. Special team pricing makes the workshop more affordable and maximizes the program’s impact for your organization.
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Three Dimensional Leadership is a series of action learning, training and coaching sessions designed to explore, expand and accelerate the leadership effectiveness of top executives. This unique program uses leadership assessments and your own specific leadership challenges to create a personalized leadership agenda to be used in developing your leadership talents and accelerating your effectiveness.
Even though it may be difficult for those in top management to find the time to address personal improvement and performance issues, these elements are critical to a leader’s success, and should be prioritized as an integral part of every leader’s job. Specifically oriented to top executives who have a hard time getting away from the office for educational or reflective pursuits, the 3 ½ day Three Dimensional Leadership program can help answer your most pressing questions as a key leader and decision maker.
Combining leadership tools with a Personalized Leadership Agenda, this specialized program will: Identify alternative strategies for dealing with tough issues you face right now.
Take Your Leadership Skills To The Next Level!
- Strengthen your competitive edge by expanding and applying your leadership talent.
- Provide both input and a sounding board for developing your own leadership growth plan.
Today’s chief executives are expected to do more with less, to meet new and often daunting challenges, to serve as visionaries while staying focused on business results and maintaining a strong bottom line. In addition, constant competitive pressure requires higher levels of performance and has raised the leadership bar for everyone. If yesterday’s methods aren’t working for you in today’s business environment, make an investment in your future with Three Dimensional Leadership, and find out how you can combine leading with learning and teaching to discover new and more satisfying solutions to ongoing challenges.
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Leadership Development
Ensure that everyone on your management team has the opportunity to learn how to assume the role of a leader and cultivate the interpersonal skills needed to manage others with our unique Leadership Labs. This practical, application-based, highly interactive program is an intensive, hands-on, five-day course for new or existing managers that provides the skills they need to be successful – both personally and professionally – within an organization. Organized around a series of five specific sessions, our Labs have proven to be very successful for new managers, independent work groups and interdepartmental managers. 
“The Executive Forum Leadership Lab is an important part of our organization’s advanced leadership development program, and well worth the cost in both money and time. Our participants learned a lot about themselves as leaders during the Leadership Lab course. They also learned a great deal about effective communication, and were able to immediately apply what they learned at the Lab when they returned to the workplace. Most weeks they were eager to get back to their teams and put what they learned into practice. I think that is a pretty good endorsement of any training, don’t you? I’m confident that our participants in the Leadership Lab program will continue to implement the skills and tools they learned throughout their careers.
Thank you for providing such an excellent program to the business community!”