Workforce Development and
Employee Training Courses

Leading the Human+AI Team

GP Strategies’ LeadershipAI program equips leaders with the skills and knowledge to effectively guide their human+ technology teams in the evolving workplace. Leveraging the Intrepid platform, this social collaborative learning experience engages learners to embrace AI’s evolution and its impact on leadership roles.

The learning objectives for this three-module series include:

• Understanding the impact of AI on leadership roles
• Embracing AI and fostering team acceptance
• Building on leadership skills such as critical thinking, coaching, and navigating change, while maintaining human connection

Leadership Level:

• Experienced
• Front line
• High Potential

Description

Leading High-Performing Teams is a highly experiential offering that helps leaders identify key behaviors they can employ to ensure their team can meet its full potential. Learners will examine current team dynamics and identify specific actions they should take to cultivate and sustain success.

Outcomes

• Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to build trust across the team
• Acquire the skills to build a team whose goals and priorities are aligned internally and with the larger enterprise
• Learn how to build a team that embraces cooperation and collaboration, mitigates conflict, and creates an environment of psychological safety
• Take meaningful actions to engage teams, focus on high impact areas, and hold team members accountable for driving results

Description

People are looking for meaning at work beyond the traditional definitions of job satisfaction, compensation and benefits. How does a leader obtain committed action in this environment? It takes a lot more than business competence or merely communicating strategic objectives. It takes personal connection. Inspiring leaders look inward and connect their business messages with their experiences and what they deeply believe in and care about. They establish competence and build trustworthiness. They create shared purpose and engage the hearts and minds of others. They take people somewhere. This kind of leadership earns commitment.

This two-day ILT course features a 1:8 ratio of facilitator/coach to participants.

Outcomes

• Inspire others to greater engagement, ownership, and action to create positive change
• Create a culture of authenticity, openness, and candor
• Connect your personal convictions to organizational strategy
• Effectively lead change with or without positional authority
• Apply a framework for communicating inspirationally in all situations, venues, and media
• Answer the questions: Who are you, and what are you here to do?

Description

Leading People is a leadership development program that equips frontline managers with skills and strategies to engage and unleash the expertise, independence, and performance of their direct reports. Based on our research and experience, the program has achieved proven success with hundreds of leading companies through the development of thousands of leaders worldwide.

The program is ready to deploy in its standard configuration or to be customized and contextualized by a GP Strategies learning consultant to better meet your needs. Designed in a modular fashion, Leading People allows you to select the most relevant topics for your organization and learners.

Leading People content includes:

Foundations of Leadership—required | four hours

The core module includes four key topics:

1. Understanding engagement—understand what drives employees and how to move business objectives forward.
2. Building trust—learn to create, repair, and maintain trust levels with team members and throughout the organization.
3. Communication skills—learn to ask strategic questions, listen actively, and convey benefits to meet goals and build strong relationships.
4. Communication strategy—develop a thoughtful framework to plan for critical conversations.

Content Modules—optional | two hours per module

• Setting Goals Improve performance by setting and supporting SMART goals.
• Delegating Responsibility Increase contribution and satisfaction without micromanaging.
• Giving Feedback Promote high performance and correct issues with clear, meaningful communication.
• Inspiring Innovation Unleash a culture of organizational creativity and continuous improvement.
• Managing Change Maintain employee engagement during times of transformation.
• Influencing Others Create buy-in and advance ideas by strategically building trust and credibility.
• Handling Resistance Push initiatives forward and maintain relationships by dealing effectively with opposition.
• Leading Teams Position employees for success with the fundamentals of high performance.
• Leading Virtually Communicate effectively across a range of media to a diverse audience.

Other topics that could be added include Accountability, Managing Priorities, Handling Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, and more.

Outcomes

• Accelerated time-to-market for new product concepts
• Reduced friction and increased productivity
• More rapid adoption and implementation of new technology, techniques, and processes
• Retention of high-value talent
• Smoother, faster transitions for people promoted to leadership roles
• Leaders who can handle an increased span of control
• A culture where employees thrive and a reputation that attracts the best in the business

Key Features

• Research-based content and real-world practice scenarios for maximum relevance and impact
• Modular program design for easy customization and flexible implementation
• Continuous learning approach with multiple touchpoints to increase engagement and knowledge retention
• Assessment process for quantifiable improvements

Description

Business strategies may be well thought out. Performance management systems may be state of the art. Rewards and accountability checks may be in place. Yet one of the most persistent challenges organizations face is getting top productivity and commitment from the people who do the work. This course provides participants with personal insights, robust performance feedback, and a proven process focused on increasing engagement and success.

Outcomes

• A clear personal definition of success and satisfaction
• Increased clarity of work expectations and priorities
• Ideas for addressing development needs and capitalizing on talents to achieve results
• A detailed action-oriented Growth Conversation plan for enlisting their manager’s support
• Increased motivation and targeting development for their current role

Other Details

• Online prework includes manager feedback.
• Automated post-workshop reinforcement supports knowledge retention.

Description

Microaggressions and micro-inequities are products of bias and can also be unconscious. Microaggressions happen when a thought or belief turns into a behavior that negatively impacts another. They can exist between individuals or within systems, but they can be addressed if you have the skills to address them thoughtfully and confidently. In this program, learners develop the ability to address microaggressions and micro-inequities and learn how these experiences affect individuals personally and professionally.

Outcomes

• Define microaggressions and micro-inequities and how they appear in the workplace
• Understand the impact of microaggressions in relation to workplace performance
• Introduce the Fact & Impact and 5W tools to understand and address microaggressions
• Enable learning through scenario practice and action planning

Description

Many leaders possess a quality described as leadership presence. But when asked to unpack that term, most of us invariably throw out a lot of adjectives, but struggle to get to the heart of what it really means to possess this “presence.” In this program, Presence & Impact: Five Disciplines for Building Exceptional Leadership Presence, we’ll demystify this key leadership trait and help to put participants on the road to cultivating an influential and authentic leadership presence.

Outcomes

• Greater self-awareness of how they’re currently viewed as leaders
• Key skills and behaviors necessary to truly be present, build rapport, and develop deeper connections with the people they lead
• Skills needed to better exhibit the level of emotional intelligence, composure, and resilience their followers expect from them
• Practice creating messages that are influential and impactful and resonate with others on an emotional level

Description

Powerful presentation skills increase a person’s ability to educate and inform audiences. Ideas, products, and concepts must be presented succinctly and compellingly. This course, specifically designed for people looking to influence or inspire, teaches a presenter to develop and deliver a clear, concise message that will quickly and effectively gain the attention of the audience.

Outcomes

• Identify the benefits of a powerful presentation
• Create an opening that will capture audience attention
• Apply a five-step process for preparing a powerful presentation
• Utilize techniques to add variety, interest, and emphasis
• Manage nervousness
• Discuss the power of visual, verbal, and vocal skills
• Use visual aids effectively (handouts, charts, PowerPoint slides)
• Encourage audience participation
• Manage difficult questions and audience members

Description

Employees in any organization find themselves solving problems on a daily basis. The ability to identify the problem, pinpoint the true cause and identify a workable solution is essential for personal, professional, and organizational success.

Outcomes

• Define your role in problem solving
• Identify barriers to effective problem solving
• Apply a six-step problem-solving process
• Select appropriate tool(s) to effectively problem solve