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Inspire and equip your team.
Our intentionally-crafted seminars and proven programs are designed to engage your team and leave them equipped to grow their personal and team leadership skills.
Engaging & Effective Seminars
Our seminars as effective as they are fun. The flagship seminar, "Make A Difference", has been given hundreds of times to over 10,000 people. We pride ourselves in not only making our seminars engaging, but also making them stick so that your employees, volunteers, or friends are able to put into action what they have learned.
Our seminar facilitators can accommodate both in-person and virtual events.
Featured Seminars
+ Make A Difference
The Make A Difference seminar provides an interactive, fast-paced experience geared toward increasing leadership skills in both the personal and professional realms. It contains practical and insightful content that can be applied in diverse environments and situations – any time there is an opportunity to connect with another person.
Participants learn how to apply personality-type research to navigate communication and collaboration more effectively with those they lead. They confront the common myths that drive daily decisions in their relationships and learn simple and powerful tools to debunk those myths. This profound content is presented in an engaging and interactive way, resulting in easily actionable learning and tangible take-away skills for participants. This seminar has proven to be relevant and practical for a wide range of leaders and teams, from those who are highly technical to those who work in people-oriented work settings.
Benefits from Make A Difference include:
• Fostering collaboration
• Developing leadership skills
• Increasing employee engagement
• Aligning teams
• Increasing consensus
• Building cohesiveness
• Strengthening culture
• Confronting damaging myths that build silos
• Providing simple, yet powerful tools (applicable immediately in the work force)
+ Influence Through Accountability
The Influence Through Accountability seminar offers practical and highly effective tools for leadership accountability. This course challenges leaders to develop accountability on multiple levels. The aim is for the individual to take personal responsibility for their leadership strategy while growing their influence.
The enlightening content is presented in an interactive, unique format that facilitates participation and feedback. The seminar is loaded with tools that are applicable across a wide leadership spectrum. Leaders will leave the seminar with the ability to influence others through accountability.
Benefits from Influence Through Accountability include:
• Creating personal awareness
• Increasing awareness of employee behaviors
• Building a solid foundation for communicating
• Strengthening results
• Clarifying expectations
• Confronting misconceptions among team members
• Providing relevant tools that can be used immediately
+ Growth & Leadership
This course provides insight gained from interviews and conversations from leaders around the world and from organizations of various sizes and industries. From executives at multi-billion, multi-national corporations, to the proud owner of the family-run business, these leaders will give first-hand insight gained from experience on essential areas of leadership growth and success. By learning from the wisdom and experience of those who have been successfully leading and making a difference in the lives of people through their leadership, employees at your organization can gain valuable and proven tools, skills, and methods for improving their own leadership.
We believe that there is much to be learned from those with experience. Topics include how to grow as a leader, gratitude, responsibility, ownership, willingness to serve, and making tough calls.
Benefits from Growth in Leadership include:
• How to grow as a leader
• The importance of gratitude
• Influencing others through taking responsibility
• Taking and creating personal ownership
• Developing a willingness to serve
• Making and following through on tough calls
+ Engage The Disconnect
In almost every part of life, including organizations, relationships, and leadership, things sometimes get broken or damaged. Leaders invest time and energy in building relationships with people in order to better lead them, but what do we do when those relationships break down?
This course confronts the breaks and gaps that occur at some point in every person’s leadership journey, within their leadership of their own life, or within their relationships with those they lead. When conflict arises and relationships are broken, effective teamwork and high performance and greatly hindered. This causes the organization, as well as the individual employees, to underperform and suffer. It is critical that a leader understand when and why these breaks and gaps occur and more importantly how to go about mending those breaks and bridging the gaps to restore their relationships and leadership.
This course provides insight, as well as tools and methods, to help leaders find solutions for the destructive disconnects in their personal and professional lives that cause stagnation and division. We believe that the information and concepts covered in this course are essential for any leader, and will greatly improve their ability to continuously lead throughout every stage of their leadership journey.
Benefits from Engage the Disconnect include:
• Ability to identify gaps and breaks in relationships
• Tangible tools for repairing broken relationships
• Guide and tools for having hard conversations
• Improving team dynamics and effectiveness
• Improving employee satisfaction and work environment
• Increasing overall productivity
+ Getting Your Leadership Right
Think of leadership traits as you would a personality trait. Leadership traits are the personal qualities that shape effective leaders. They are something you do on a day-to-day basis. Understanding your leadership traits will help you to determine what leadership style you want to use.
In this seminar series, you will take a closer look at:
• Learning the characteristics of the 5 Basic Leadership Styles
• How to use these styles to develop your people
• How and when to alter your approach based upon the needs and the day to day challenges of the team you lead
• Identifying and selecting the Right Leadership Traits
• Critical factors in using leadership traits effectively
• How to read the situation using your EQ
• Expand your focus on the “dashboard and not the dial”
• How to balance yourself by leading in every direction
• When to get involved vs when to guide, direct and further develop your people
• The importance of keeping a personal self-check-in
• Assessing yourself and providing tools to create a balanced checklist
+ Team Trust
Trust is an essential element in all healthy relationships, and the relationships that exist in your team are no different.
Trust is the glue that can hold a team together through good times and bad. Trust binds people together through a commitment of caring. People not only care for what needs to be done, they also care for the wellbeing of everyone involved.
In this seminar series, you will take a closer look at:
• Understanding the importance of connection on a team
• The value of having healthy conflict
• Learn the Five Facets of Team Trust
• Focus on authentic and effective communication strategies
• Increasing engagement, consensus & building cohesiveness
• Align team to strengthen organizational culture
• Identify the team’s overall needs
• Clarifying expectations and roles of team
• Provide tools for constructive hard conversations
• Recognize and work with other viewpoints & perspectives
• Learn personality factors in conflict resolution
• Understand and assess the different types of conflict
• The role of the leader in managing conflict
• Identify the dos and don’ts of team behaviors
• Creating a culture of appreciation and collaboration
• Learn the critical practices for successful team dynamics
+ Leading Through Challenges
Challenges can arise suddenly or build slowly through years of progressive shifts. They can be perpetual, pervasive and exponential. As a consequence, effective leadership can be defined by our ability to lead through these challenges. This seminar series is designed to better equip leaders to navigate the challenges they routinely face.
In this seminar series, you will take a closer look at:
• Learn three key attributes in Relationship Management
• Behaviors of a Change Catalyst
• Practices that promote initiating or managing change
• Interactive group discussions on teamwork and collaboration
• Building support structures to help set your team up for success
• How to identify team needs for direction and support
• Methods to use feedback to monitor your progress
• Applicable resources to develop your leadership skills through growth and change
• How and where to increase engagement while leading through challenges
• Utilizing self-reflection questions and evaluation tools
• Applying the Readiness Checklist Self-Assessment to identify gaps
• Systems to create motivation and build loyalty
• Developing leadership practices for three Engagement Focus Areas
• Emotional Intelligence and the role of your self-awareness
+ Customized Seminars & Keynotes
Don’t see what you’re looking for? We offer unique, customized seminars and keynotes, tailored to a specific event, audience, and topic.
Leadership Programs
From small groups of emerging leaders, to large groups of front-line team members, to leadership teams across divisions, we offer a variety of proven leadership development programs to meet the unique needs of your organization in alignment with your goals.
Featured Programs
+ Developing Leaders Program - Emerging
The Developing Leaders Program is an in-depth program that works with a group of emerging leaders. Each participant will go through an assessment, group sessions and follow up meetings, group projects with accountability at each step, as well as one-on-one leadership coaching.
Each participant will have the opportunity to partner with a sponsor within their organization as they grow in their leadership role. This program utilizes the Eagle Leadership book series as well as a comprehensive participant manual that is customized to the goals you have for your developing leader.
Some typical areas of the training program are as follows:
• Leadership behavior
• Personality awareness
• Active listening
• Learning how to assess others
• Leading with questions
• Emotional intelligence (EQ)
• Identifying career objectives
• Developing personal accountability
• Business and leadership acumen
• Project management
• Presentation skills
+ Developing Leaders Program - Advanced
This program is specifically targeted towards employees who have been identified as emerging leaders in your organization. Through the Developing Leaders Program – Advanced level, these leaders will participate in an intensive and engaging 1-year program targeted at increasing their core leadership skills and abilities, and preparing them for effective leadership at the next level.
According to the core competencies identified by the leadership team at your organization, a customized curriculum will be developed that targets participants’ ability to lead other people, to lead projects, and to create and implement continuous growth strategies as they develop into leaders at the organization.
This program typically takes place in two concentrated phases. Phase 1 takes place over 4 months, and involves an intensive education process with expert facilitators in each of the targeted leadership areas identified by your leadership team. Phase 2 consists of topic-specific, one-on-one coaching sessions and practical application. Monthly progress reports and feedback from Eagle coaches will be given throughout the process.
+ Supervisor Training Program
The Supervisor Training Program is designed to help front line leaders take the next step in their leadership. This program will help front line leaders grow their leadership skills, improve their leadership of accountability and continuous improvement and grow their team members. Typically, the class size includes 4-6 front line leaders. The first meeting is focused on the content found in ECFL Make a Difference seminar. The second meeting starts with a review of the ECFL Make a Difference material, includes the concept of SMART goals and EQ - Emotional Intelligence. This second meeting results in a focus on the start of developing personal leadership goals of the supervisor and goals for their teams.
The Supervisor Training Program also includes an assessment to help provide insight and focus for upcoming coaching sessions. These assessments include feedback from the individual’s direct reports, peers and their personal manager. The assessments are confidential and provide supervisor an assessment of their strengths and opportunities for growth. Once the assessment is complete, the final phase includes one-on-one coaching with an EAGLE Leadership Coach that's focused on Leadership growth for both the supervisor and their team.
Some typical areas of supervisor growth:
• Improved overall communication skills
• Skills focused on inspiring excellence in employee growth, accountability and continuous improvement
• The ability to deal with difficult or challenging employees
• General leadership skills such as delegation, listening, giving effective feedback, and much more
+ Customized Leadership Programs
Don’t see what you’re looking for? We offer custom-designed leadership programs, tailored specifically to your organization to meet your unique goals in alignment with your leadership philosophy.
Customized for you.
When the need arises, we are able to offer customized leadership development tools, including programs, seminars, and keynotes. We know that every organization is different, and that your leadership philosophy is unique. Our content creation experts can design an experience by using proven tools and concepts and merging them with your own culture and philosophy. The result is a totally unique and highly effective program, guaranteed to meet your leadership goals.
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