Fit to Lead gives your executives, directors, managers, supervisors, and emerging people-leaders a roadmap with the tools needed to create or refresh their leadership skills. You will learn essential foundational leadership skills in a practical, interactive, and thought-provoking way. This will create a culture shift of increased employee effectiveness, engagement, and retention – and, therefore, increased revenue and profitability for your company. Everyone wins! 

While many important elements influence culture, leadership impacts it the most. Today’s managers need to be able to lead themselves, lead people, and lead teams. Fit to Lead has a multi-phase curriculum based on the following concept:

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  • Managers are expected to continually do more with less and, therefore, are spending most of their time fighting fires, making sure the team is meeting expectations, and ensuring the work is getting done. Because of the pressure placed on these managers, they do not, or cannot, take the time necessary to improve themselves. This means that their potential to improve is not identified and developed.

    The reality is that managers DO want to get better. However, most of them do not receive the direction, training, and support from the organization to allow that to happen. Well, that is exactly why I have built a leadership development solution called Fit to Lead.

  • It takes an organization to believe that success stems from investing in and developing their people. This takes action, not words and this program is that action.

  • Fit to Lead gives your executives, directors, managers, supervisors, and emerging people-leaders a roadmap with the tools needed to create or refresh their leadership skills. They will learn essential foundational leadership skills in a practical, interactive, and thought-provoking way. This will create a culture shift of increased employee effectiveness, engagement, and retention – and, therefore, increased revenue and profitability for your company. Everyone wins!

  • This is more than a keynote, it’s a curriculum. Developing strong leadership skills will take time and effort. Each module includes several 3-hour energizing and effective workshops. Completion of the entire program will take about 78 hours over the course of 24 months. The learning will not die in the classroom. Every session will have a clear connection back to your work or life.

Fit to Lead is designed around long-term, targeted organizational goals. It has a multi-phase curriculum including a leadership self-assessment.

Certified Fit to Lead Certified people will walk away with…

  • Improve their quality of life and achieve a better balance

  • Spend more time coaching and developing their employees

  • Build a highly engaged and productive team

  • Set clear expectations and hold people accountable

  • Be confident giving feedback and having difficult conversationsBe comfortable speaking in front of groups

  • Effectively delegate and assign work

  • Be laser-focused on their highest priorities

  • Communicate more effectively

  • Improve their own emotional intelligence

  • Create a drama-free culture

  • Feel empowered to speak up and make decisions

  • Collaborate more and achieve team objectives

  • Appreciate and retain their best employees

  • Achieve personal goals and be more likely to experience career advancement

  • Add value to people and have a lasting impact company-wide

The truth is simple -- you cannot lead others if you cannot lead yourself. Great leadership starts with intentional self-leadership. Unfortunately, the toughest person to lead is yourself because you are constantly giving your time and energy to others. Self-leadership is honestly and authentically working to become the best version of yourself. It is about discovering who you are, deciding where you are going, and designing how you will get there. Self-leadership is necessary to help you accomplish your goals and become a leader worth following...one who leads by example from the inside-out and influences others to take action. Lead yourself first, not last.

INTENTIONAL SELF-LEADERSHIP (SHIFT)

People are THE difference. The success of your organization hinges on the ability of your managers to create more leaders. Unfortunately, managers are expected to continually do more with less. Because of the increased pressure placed on them, they get sucked into the weeds, end up task-focused, and do not take the time to develop others. Leadership is helping people to become the best version of themselves. The best way to positively impact an organization is through leadership development. Great leadership enables organizations to improve financial performance, attract talent, retain high performers, and drive strategy execution. People can learn to become influential leaders over time with the right instruction.

INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE-LEADERSHIP (ACCELERATE)

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. An organization's overall success is highly dependent on this idea that functional teamwork is fundamentally key to results. Effective team-leadership turns this idealistic goal into a reality. Team-leadership focuses on uniting your team around a vision or common goal and inspiring your followers to achieve it. The secret to being a team-leader is the ability to put the group’s needs ahead of your own and enhance employee interpersonal relationships. When combined, leadership and teamwork increase efficiency, improve communication, expedite idea generation, distribute workload, and establish a winning culture.

INSPIRATIONAL TEAM-LEADERSHIP (NAVIGATE)

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