Learning Outcomes:
Upon becoming a certified leadership trainer, participants will be able to:

Identify key components of dozens leadership theories, models,
frameworks, and topics from
the past 100 years.
​

Leadership Theories,
Models, Frameworks,
​and Topics Include:

Foundational Theories:

• Trait Approach
• Skills Approach
• Behavioral Approach
• Situational Approach
• Path / Goal Theory
• Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

Shifting Our Leadership
Mental Framework:

• Transformational Leadership
• Servant Leadership
• Social Change (7Cs) Model
• The Leadership Challenge
• Adaptive Leadership

Contemporary Theories:

• Fundamental State of Leadership
• Theory U
• Conviction in Action
• Spiritual Leadership
• Authentic Leadership

Important Leadership Topics
​& Themes:

• Leading as a Developmental Relationship
• Leadership & Gender
• Leadership & Culture
• Global Perspectives of Leadership
• Leadership Ethics
• Assessing Impact / Evaluating Leadership Development

Infuse leadership practices
- including hard and soft - 
​into both our own and our
participants' healthy leadership habits.
​

Leadership Practices
(Hard and Soft Competencies)
Include:

Hard Leadership Competencies:

• Visioning
• Communication
• Balancing Reflection & Action
• Energy Management
• Embracing Risk / Overcoming Risk Aversion
• Group / Team-Work
• Motivation / Reward Principles
• Change Management
  
• Project Management
• Navigating Crises

Soft Leadership Competencies:

• Utilizing Multiple Intelligences
• Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding Dissonance & Toxicity
• Flow
• Compassion
• Hope
• Mindfulness
• Gratitude
• Intuition
• Strengths / Positive Psychology
• Storytelling

Implement dynamic facilitation techniques - including ​experiential learning and reflective dialogue,
​ into our leadership training regimen.
​

Leadership Facilitation
techniques for Dynamic
​Trainings Include:

Cultivating the Leadership Development of Others:​

• Experiential Learning—what is it?
• Reflective Dialogue—what is it?

Crafting a "Training Story"

• Exposition                                       (Setting the Tone)
• Rising Action                               (Delivering a Message)
• Apex                                              (Utilizing Experiential Learning)
• Falling Action                             (Reflective Dialogue)
• Resolution                                     (Closing a Training well)

Facilitation Skills 

• Trainer Presence
• Communicating Effectively as a Leadership Trainer
• Time & Obstacle Management
• People / Group Management
• Recognizing Feedback and Levels of Participant Engagement
• Utilizing Praise & Celebration—with Appropriate Challenge.
• Creating Dyads and Groups
• Storytelling—as a facilitation technique