Early Career & New Leader Essentials

Start your emerging leaders off right by giving them the emotional intelligence and skills to manage, engage, and inspire people.

  • What is it?

    Participants will learn practical leadership skills such as facilitating, influencing, negotiating, supervising, and managing productivity alongside methods for doing these things in an emotionally intelligent way.

    The learning experience will ground participants in a neuroscience-based model for understanding emotional reactions for self and others and provide simple, practical tools and techniques for managing emotions as part of the workflow.

  • Why do it?

    Leadership Essentials develops the right leadership qualities needed to create high performance and produce reliable results. Employees who acquire these skills are more likely to advance in their careers.

  • Who is it for?

    The Leader Essentials program is ideal for early career, emerging, and new leaders. The program delivers foundational learning that will scale up throughout the participant’s career. The program also works well for intern cohorts. Interns see the experience as a perk, generating loyalty and connection to the organization.

  • How is it delivered?

    The basic Leadership Essentials program consists of six 1.5 hour workshops, including four foundational workshops and two custom workshops selected by your organization (see module options below). The workshops are delivered virtually by a Kintla facilitator. They are typically delivered once per week, but the schedule can be customized to fit the needs of your organization.

    The workshops present concepts, case studies, quick learning checks, and a practice plan for applying the concepts on the job. After the first workshop, each of the following workshops begins with an interactive debrief of the previous week’s practice. The debrief helps the learning stick and allows for the sharing of best practices among the participants.

    The maximum class size for the basic program is 25, but companies can customize the program with large webinar style workshops or with smaller cohorts that meet following the workshop for coaching, discussion, and further practice exercises.

Modules

 

Foundational

Emotional Intelligence & Resilience includes an introduction to the series and an in-depth look at emotional reactivity and how to manage it. Participants learn practical techniques for creating a daily rhythm that maintains emotional balance and focus for themselves and others.

Communication looks at how our mindset matters and overviews communication styles. Participants learn techniques for relating to people with different communication styles.

DiSC® Profile participants complete the DiSC® assessment, identify their dominant working styles, and review implications for working with others. Participants explore ways to use DiSC® intentionally and design connection strategies for better relationships and improved productivity.

Understanding the Business & Your Role presents your company’s business model and explores participants’ roles and how they deliver value to the business.

Electives

Facilitating Meetings covers how to organize and prepare a meeting plan and facilitate meetings. Participants receive the top facilitator’s toolkit and learn techniques for how to deal with difficult participants. The module includes practice exercises for developing facilitator skills.

Influencing & Negotiating provides an overview of influence models and explores how to apply influence tools to improve impact.  Participants work case examples of good and poor influence and do practice exercises for increasing their ability to influence without authority.  Participants also learn common conflict styles and preferences and practice how to navigate differences as they influence others.

Managing Change presents models for planning and managing change and provides techniques for overcoming common barriers to effective organizational and personal change. Participants learn how to become effective change agents through practice exercises.

Managing in a Virtual World delves into self-management strategies for a virtual world. Participants explore best practices for managing their work by creating a productive daily operating rhythm.

Managing Team Effectiveness focuses on team productivity and considers the challenges of virtual teams. Participants explore ways of maximizing their contribution as a team member and how their team can optimize collaboration virtually.

Leadership Presence provides a blueprint for improving the four main drivers of personal presence including: Managing Emotions, Being Mindful, Connecting with Others, and Knowing Your Stuff. Participants learn specific strategies for assessing and improving presence.  

Leading Fearless Teams uncovers challenges to good teams and explores models for high performance teams. Participants explore ways of creating psychological safety and encouraging open dialogue and innovation on their teams. Working through case examples, participants learn specific team influence strategies.

What people are saying.

 

“Learning how to think differently about negotiation tactics and new knowledge is helpful in work and life.”

“Very useful material for work and for everyday life.”

“I was able to put my understanding into practice immediately in an organic way.”

Get in touch.

For more information on content and pricing, contact Bill Redmon at bill.redmon@kintla.io, or send us a message through our contact form.