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“A simple, concrete, scientifically validated
model for achieving consistently superior
business results through leadership.”

Eric Severson, SVP Talent, Gap Inc.

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ACCELERATE PRODUCTIVITY

Extraordinary leaders get more from their employees. In turn, when employees work harder, organizations achieve positive business results.

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INCREASE ENGAGEMENT

Quite simply, the better the leader, the more engaged the staff. Learn to tap the potential of your organization by increasing employee engagement.

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BOOST PROFITS

We’ve studied thousands of leaders to discover what separates the good leaders from the great ones, which helps organizations achieve better results from their employees, and in turn, higher levels of profitability.

Programs

Developing leaders who inspire, perform, and motivate, the science-based and award-winning family of Zenger Folkman programs help you achieve measurably better business results. Here are just a few of our most popular programs.

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The Extraordinary Leader™

With a strength-based approach to leadership development, The Extraordinary Leader Workshop uses unique 360-degree feedback & classroom learning to increase leader's effectiveness in driving positive business results.

OBJECTIVES

Understand the significant on-the-job performance differences between “good” and “extraordinary” leaders
Learn about the 16 leadership competencies that differentiate extraordinary leaders
Discover why enhancing existing leadership strengths is the most successful way to become an extraordinary leader
Prepare to receive an individual 360 leadership feedback report, understand the report structure, interpret the data, and discuss how it can best be used in a positive way
Use Zenger Folkman’s unique leadership cross-training approach to construct a customized Individual Development Plan

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Leadership Levers: Building Critical Strengths™

Leadership Levers: Building Critical Strengths is a one-day workshop that focuses on connecting the strategy and needs of the organization with employees' strengths, energy, and passion.

OBJECTIVES

Connect the needs of the organization with what participants are good at and what energizes them
Focus on developing strengths as the best and fastest way to increase leadership effectiveness
Create a development plan focused on becoming highly proficient at one of the Leadership Levers
Use Zenger Folkman’s proven cross-training approach to dramatically increase leadership capabilities

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The Extraordinary Coach™

The Extraordinary Coach Workshop teaches the coaching skills necessary for leaders to significantly increase their personal leadership impact and the productivity and effectiveness of those they coach.

OBJECTIVES

Design a Coaching Development Plan
Use the FUEL framework to engage in effective and efficient coaching conversations
Improve the performance, engagement, and capabilities of others
Analyze your results from The Extraordinary Coach Attributes and Perspectives Assessment
Practice and receive feedback around how to hold a coaching conversation

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Elevating Feedback™

Elevating Feedback is a half-day skill-building workshop that gives employees at all levels of the organization the skills to provide effective feedback.

OBJECTIVES

Identify the personal and business benefits of providing effective feedback
Understand why providing feedback is so hard
Reflect on how preference and behavior impact the ability to give and receive feedback
Use best practices for providing meaningful reinforcing feedback
Use the FUEL model as a framework for providing redirecting feedback
Create a personal feedback action plan

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The Inspiring Leader™

Through assessment and skill development, The Inspiring Leader Workshop helps leaders cultivate the most important leadership competency, "the ability to inspire and motivate others."

OBJECTIVES

Understand how inspiring leaders positively impact business outcomes
Learn and applying the 10 competencies that define inspiring leaders
Discover the six approaches to inspiring others
Identify and practice proven inspirational strategies for communicating powerfully
Build an individualized action plan that facilitates goal-setting and follow-through

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Leadership Levers

October 13, 2016

New Haven, CT | Yale University

Be one of the first to experience Zenger Folkman's newest workshop, Leadership Levers: Building Critical Strengths! Touted as the best development program to emerge in years, Leadership Levers is a one-day workshop that focuses on connecting the strategy and needs of the organization with employees' strengths, energy, and passion, within the six leadership levers framework.

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