Gold Standard Management Courses

Tools every leader must have: C-Suite to Aspiring

80% interactive + team building

Gold Standard
Management Trainings

2 Ways
to Buy

  • Loved the experience.  Helped build team rapport.  Pushed us to be better and drove us to think.

    Josh A.
  • ‘Real world’ resources and tools.  This is the best developmental training I’ve ever attended!

    Darlene D.
  • Very insightful experience. Many tools to handle situations that arise in the workplace.

    William
  • Excellent facilitation!

    Susan W.
  • So many tools that can help me become a more effective leader. Thank you!

    Ori S.
  • As always, I’m so impressed with the content of your trainings. You manage to boil complex tasks down into manageable tasks.

    Sandy R.
  • Extremely practical strategies that we will use every day to create a high-performing culture. Very interactive.

    Sandy H.
  • This was an exceptional training. I learned practical ways to approach tough conversations

    Megan R.
  • Fast-moving, on-point and relevant to our group. Provided concrete examples. Gave me so much to think about within the organization.

    Amy S.
  • Excellent facilitators. I have a whole new perception of what it means to be an executive leader.

    Corrine B.
  • Thoughtful, intentional, and provided tools I can  use right away.

    Katie C.
  • Great training!

    Alana J.
  • Empowering.

    Adam M.
  • Incredibly knowledgeable. Skill-building and practice to become confident and capable leaders.

    Ariana S-B
  • Great strategies for having productive feedback conversations.

    Matt A.
  • This training will change the way I approach tomorrow. It solidified next steps for transitioning from manager to leader.

    C.H.
  • The team was both engaged and empowered by your training.

    Stacy R.
  • Enjoyed the interactive nature and the practicality. The tools provided can be applied day to day.

    Karl M.
  • Provided a simple process for breaking down what task or sub-tasks can be delegated and [made clear] how simple it is to allow myself to delegate.

    Connor G.
  • Clever, engaging, and effective. I’ve walked away with an actionable strategy.  Thank you!

    Dan
  • How I think about delegation is forever changed. Helped me break down a structured way to delegate tasks…and got insights into my own struggles delegating.

    Christopher
  • Great chance to connect with colleagues on real issues!

    Emily

GOLD Courses

Gold Standard Management Trainings

We carefully curated these six Gold Standard Management Trainings from dozens of leadership trainings that we’ve authored over decades of transformational leadership workshop curriculum design.

These are the management trainings that every leader raves about, from C-Suite to Aspiring.

Our learning credo is Learn by Doing™

  • 80% interactive.
  • Immediate application: Each participant applies tools to a REAL leadership situation requiring improvement and leaves ready to improve your workplace. THIS is true ROI.
  • Immensely team building
  • Polished, fast-moving, information packed

BUILD YOUR OWN

  • You choose from our Gold Standard courses to build your own 1-, 2- or 3-Day management program, up to 7 hours per day. Flagship B (a 3-Day Gold Standard program), gets you huge discounts on other program licenses.
  • Want help choosing your leadership development courses?  Request a complimentary needs assessment.

2 Ways to Buy

  • Standard: 1-time facilitation; this is what you’re used to.
  • Forever License:
  • Costs only 2.5x the cost of Standard.
  • We facilitate your first Gold Standard trainings at no additional cost.
  • Plus, you receive training materials customized with your logo
  • Train your leaders forever (no annual fees or user caps).
  • Find out more.

Top-rated by all leader levels, these management development trainings are appropriate for:

  • C-Suite
  • New Manager Training or New Supervisor Training
  • HiPo (High Potential Employees)
  • Aspiring Leaders

GOLD STANDARD MANAGEMENT TRAININGS

Build Your 1-, 2-, or Flagship B: 3-Day program

Up to 7 hours/day

GOLD COURSE 1:

COACHING + COUNSELING YOUR EMPLOYEES

Supportive and Corrective Action | 4.0 - 7.0 hours

This CRUCIAL leadership training creates accountability, top performance and connection between leaders and their top reports. Highly-interactive, leaders learn practical steps to understand when and how to coach direct reports. Participants practice both corrective-action conversations and a conversational format to motivate employees to hit targets and become stronger performers. Highly interactive, uses customized role plays; does not including termination talks/steps.

Immediate application: Participants apply the tools and practice using a REAL supportive or corrective conversation they need to have with one of their direct reports.

COMPONENTS:

  • Importance of managing employee resistance
  • Methodology for growing employees’ skills and career paths
  • Role-play how to coach employees using custom scenarios and our 4-step formula

Difference between 4.0 and 7.0 hour versions: Longer versions have advanced application and additional practice

GOLD COURSE 2:

DELEGATION

For Empowerment and Top Performance | 1.5 - 2.0 hours

Are your leaders feeling overworked and burnt out? This course provides relief both to your leaders and to those they supervise. Leaders love it – and their dirt reports build skill sets and capacity.

Immediate application: Participants leave with a written action plan for delegating a REAL task to an identified team member, complete with tasks, subtasks and more.

COMPONENTS:

  • Why We Don’t Delegate: Without this personal exploration, many of us tend to stay on ‘automatic’;
    we hesitate to delegate, or simply forget, leading to burnout, overwhelm and dilution of focus.
  • Keys to Successful Delegation: What makes some delegation successful and other delegation not?
  • Identification of a real, current task on each leader’s plate that is ideal for delegation.
  • Identification of a leader’s real team member best suited for a delegated task (it’s not always the star performers).

GOLD COURSE 3:

THE LEADERSHIP PRESENCE PRIMER 0.5 DAY VERSION

1/2 DAY VERSION | 3.0 - 4.0 hours

Teaches simple yet highly-effective tools to radiate a commanding Thought Leader presence and get buy-in from key stakeholders. This special Gold Standard 0.5 day version teaches 4-5 of the core tools from the top-rated multi-day Transformational Leadership Experience. Recommended for a max total participants of 14.

Immediate application: Each practices the tools using a REAL stakeholder (internal or external) to get buy-in and create big wins for your organization.

ELEMENTS:

  • 90% interactive. A bit risky. Fun.
  • Massively teambuilding. Builds connection and a feedback-culture.
  • High octane! Great for retreats or team-building events.

Huge ROI.

Compare your options among our leadership presence workshops. All are high octane, 90% interactive, polished, team-building and transfer valuable tools. Of course, longer courses produce more transformational outcomes.

  • The LP Primer 0.5 Day version (this page): 0.5 Day. 4 of the tools. Seats up to 14 (the other five Gold Standard courses seat up to 20)
  • The LP Primer 1-Day version: 1-Day. 6 of the 12 tools. Seats up to 25 but great for smaller groups, too
  • The Transformational Leadership Experience (Onsite and Women):  2-Days concurrent, seats up to 16
  • The Transformational Leadership Experience, Virtual:  Three 4.5 Hour Days (same week), seats up to 12

GOLD COURSE 4:

ACCOUNTABILITY + TRUST

Improves Performance + Morale | 2.5 - 4.0 hours

Increased accountability results in higher productivity and personal satisfaction. This leadership training addresses lagging accountability. It helps employees increase their own accountability AND understand how their lack of accountability reduces their credibility. Through a variety of in-depth tools, techniques, and practical exercises, each participant learns how to take responsibility for external events in ways that are usually far more possible than what they had previously understood. Imperative for getting max benefit from your steep investment in employee salaries.

Immediate application: Each leaves with an action plan to increase her/his own accountability and credibility which, in turn, boosts trust between the participant and others within your organization.

COMPONENTS:

  • Ramifications of not being accountable as a leader
  • Gaining deeper understanding of why we are not always accountable.
  • Increasing accountability through a variety of tools.
  • Roleplay various techniques to deal with real-life scenarios.
  • Letting go of blame and taking ownership.
  • Taking ownership for our team’s mistakes.
  • Taking ownership before someone notices our error.

Difference between 2.5 and 4.0 hour versions: Longer versions have advanced application and additional practice

GOLD COURSE 5:

SUPPORTING BOTH: YOUR TEAM + UPPER MANAGEMENT

Unique + Essential | 2.5 - 4.0 hours

One of the most difficult challenges for any leader is to support their team’s needs and concerns while also supporting the policies, procedures and direction of senior management.  Often a manager either bonds with their employees by joining a gripe session against senior management, or the manager will so fiercely support upper management that s/he will lack empathy (and therefore lose credibility) with her/his staff.

This training shows leaders how to support BOTH teams, therefore decreasing divisions within the company and the “Us vs. Them” mentality that destroys morale and performance.

Immediate application: Each practices using a REAL issue that requires they support both teams.

COMPONENTS:

  • Highly-Interactive.
  • How to support one’s team when the team is upset about upper management policies or actions.
  • How to maintain transparent with upper management while supporting one’s team.

Difference between 2.5 and 4.0 hour versions: Longer versions have advanced application and additional practice

GOLD COURSE 6:

CRUCIAL COMMUNICATION

Improves Morale + Feedback Culture | 2.5 - 4.0 hours

This leadership and supervisor training is foundational for a culture of high engagement.
Associates learn how to give and receive feedback to address critical issues. Transforms potential conflicts into creative opportunities that build a sense of mutual partnership rather than a win-lose outcome. Essential for improving productivity and reducing serious HR costs. Each practices active listening using increasingly challenging scenarios that can trigger defensiveness.

Immediate application: Each practices delivering a REAL concern they will later deliver to a colleague or supervisor.

COMPONENTS:

  • Highly-Interactive.
  • Understand and practice the Key of Communication.
  • Role-play active listening using increasingly challenging scenarios that can trigger defensiveness.
  • Role-play how to give feedback using a simple formula.
  • Learn a simple way to bring concerns up with another to increase successful outcomes.
  • Learn the difference between feedback and criticism.

Difference between 2.5 and 4.0 hour versions: Longer versions have advanced application and additional practice.

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METHODS

Our Top-Rated Management Training Methods

80% interactive (Gold Standard Management Trainings).

Learn by Doing™ is our instructional credo. 

Methods: 

  • Solo Immediate Application – Each participant applies the tools to a REAL workplace situation
  • Pair Practice (pairs rotate); creates close connections
  • Facilitator Feedback
  • Peer Feedback
  • Group Collaboration + Deep Dives

What is a Forever License?

Train unlimited leaders FOREVER

at only 2.5x the cost for us to facilitate once

+

YOUR logo on materials.

  • Loved the experience.  Helped build team rapport.  Pushed us to be better and drove us to think.

    Josh A.
  • ‘Real world’ resources and tools.  This is the best developmental training I’ve ever attended!

    Darlene D.
  • Very insightful experience. Many tools to handle situations that arise in the workplace.

    William
  • Excellent facilitation!

    Susan W.
  • So many tools that can help me become a more effective leader. Thank you!

    Ori S.
  • As always, I’m so impressed with the content of your trainings. You manage to boil complex tasks down into manageable tasks.

    Sandy R.
  • Extremely practical strategies that we will use every day to create a high-performing culture. Very interactive.

    Sandy H.
  • This was an exceptional training. I learned practical ways to approach tough conversations

    Megan R.
  • Fast-moving, on-point and relevant to our group. Provided concrete examples. Gave me so much to think about within the organization.

    Amy S.
  • Excellent facilitators. I have a whole new perception of what it means to be an executive leader.

    Corrine B.
  • Thoughtful, intentional, and provided tools I can  use right away.

    Katie C.
  • Great training!

    Alana J.
  • Empowering.

    Adam M.
  • Incredibly knowledgeable. Skill-building and practice to become confident and capable leaders.

    Ariana S-B
  • Great strategies for having productive feedback conversations.

    Matt A.
  • This training will change the way I approach tomorrow. It solidified next steps for transitioning from manager to leader.

    C.H.
  • The team was both engaged and empowered by your training.

    Stacy R.
  • Enjoyed the interactive nature and the practicality. The tools provided can be applied day to day.

    Karl M.
  • Provided a simple process for breaking down what task or sub-tasks can be delegated and [made clear] how simple it is to allow myself to delegate.

    Connor G.
  • Clever, engaging, and effective. I’ve walked away with an actionable strategy.  Thank you!

    Dan
  • How I think about delegation is forever changed. Helped me break down a structured way to delegate tasks…and got insights into my own struggles delegating.

    Christopher
  • Great chance to connect with colleagues on real issues!

    Emily

Easy room and equipment requirements

  • Standard room; no fixed tables
  • HDMI television or LCD/screen (for deck)
  • 2 chairs per person + 1 chair
  • Audio hookup (so that laptop are sounds audible)
  • AV/IT support
  • These provided by your organization

LOGISTICS

Management Trainings For Your Established Group

Note: We do not offer public workshops aka single-seats for these top rated management training programs.

Recommendation: Because we’re a small company committed to transformational outcomes, we provide our services thoughtfully. Therefore, our availability is limited. If interested, we recommend getting on our calendar soon; we’ll try to ‘soft hold’ your tentative dates.

Contact us for a complimentary discovery consultation and needs assessment: We’ll screen share our course models, answer your questions, and hear your vision for a top-rated transformational management training program.

Onsite Delivery – Your location (Standard or License purchase)

  • Seats up to 20
  • Length: 1-3 Days, depending upon your chosen length. Note: To create an exciting extended program (i.e., 6-month or year-long) Licensees may stagger courses.

Virtual Delivery (for Standard purchase; Licensees may modify the program for Virtual delivery)

  • Seats up to 12
  • Length: 1-3 Days, depending upon your chosen length. Note: To create an exciting extended program (i.e., 6-month or year-long) Licensees may stagger courses.

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6 Transformational Leadership Programs

PRICING | GOLD STANDARD MANAGEMENT TRAININGS

THE GOLD STANDARD MANAGEMENT TRAININGS

STANDARD

We facilitate once

FOREVER LICENSE

SINGLE License 3-Day

Flagship B (3-Day)

BUNDLED

$33K Discount when bundled

COST

$26k

$66k

$33k

# of Leaders Trained

20 max

UNLIMITED

No annual fees. No user caps.

UNLIMITED

No annual fees. No user caps.

Cost per leader 

$1300 pp

for 16 leaders

$264 pp

for 250 leaders

plus later leaders at zero cost

$132 pp

for 250 leaders

plus later leaders at zero cost

YOUR Logo on materials

No

Who Facilitates?

We do

We facilitate the first at no additional cost ($26k value), then your team facilitates

We facilitate the first* at no additional cost ($26k value), then your team facilitates (*one Flagship)

Leader Level

C-Suite to Aspiring

C-Suite to Aspiring

C-Suite to Aspiring

LENGTH

3 days, concurrent

Your choice:

3 days - or stagger components to create an exciting extended program 

Your choice:

3 days - or stagger components to create an exciting extended program 

BUNDLING OPTIONS

Pair the Gold Standard 3-Day program with Flagship A (Onsite) to save big

BUNDLE WITH FLAGSHIP A

(SAVES $33k on Flagship B)

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL 

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE ONSITE

FLAGSHIP B: Essential management courses that every leader MUST have. Leaders practice using REAL work situations, ready to apply. 80% interactive. Gold standard.

SEE MORE

BUNDLING DISCOUNTS

6 Licenseable Programs

6 TRANSFORMATIONAL PROGRAMS

Standard Facilitation or Licensure

Only 12 complete licenses (all six programs) offered currently; some are secured

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

ONSITE DELIVERY

FLAGSHIP PROGRAM A: 90% interactive. Effective tools to radiate a Thought Leader presence. High-octane. Immensely team building. Top-rated for a reason: It works. 

THE TRANSFORMATIONAL

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

VIRTUAL DELIVERY

Same as Flagship A, yet Virtual. 90% interactive, leaders learn how to command a Thought Leader presence. Fascinating. Risky (yet safe). Authenticity-based.

LEADERSHIP PRESENCE

FOR WOMEN

CUSTOMIZED FOR WOMEN

Same as Flagship A plus meaningful exploration of challenges common to women in the workplace + action plans to overcome these in real workplace situations. For female-identified leaders + allies.

THE DYNAMIC

REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM

REINFORCES THOUGHT LEADERS

Reinforces our powerful tools from Onsite, Virtual + Women: Leaders apply the tools to real stakeholder situations to create BIG wins for your company. Partners create connection.

GOLD STANDARD

MANAGEMENT COURSES

ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT COURSES

FLAGSHIP PROGRAM B:  80% interactive. Management courses every leader MUST have. Participants apply skills to REAL work challenges. For C-Suite to Aspiring leaders.

THE LP

PRIMER

1/2 THE TOOLS – 1/2 THE TIME

Our same trademarked Thought Leader course, abridged. High-octane, fast-moving, team building, huge ROI – yet fun. Serves larger groups (up to 25). 90% interactive.

  • Loved the experience.  Helped build team rapport.  Pushed us to be better and drove us to think.

    Josh A.
  • ‘Real world’ resources and tools.  This is the best developmental training I’ve ever attended!

    Darlene D.
  • Very insightful experience. Many tools to handle situations that arise in the workplace.

    William
  • Excellent facilitation!

    Susan W.
  • So many tools that can help me become a more effective leader. Thank you!

    Ori S.
  • As always, I’m so impressed with the content of your trainings. You manage to boil complex tasks down into manageable tasks.

    Sandy R.
  • Extremely practical strategies that we will use every day to create a high-performing culture. Very interactive.

    Sandy H.
  • This was an exceptional training. I learned practical ways to approach tough conversations

    Megan R.
  • Fast-moving, on-point and relevant to our group. Provided concrete examples. Gave me so much to think about within the organization.

    Amy S.
  • Excellent facilitators. I have a whole new perception of what it means to be an executive leader.

    Corrine B.
  • Thoughtful, intentional, and provided tools I can  use right away.

    Katie C.
  • Great training!

    Alana J.
  • Empowering.

    Adam M.
  • Incredibly knowledgeable. Skill-building and practice to become confident and capable leaders.

    Ariana S-B
  • Great strategies for having productive feedback conversations.

    Matt A.
  • This training will change the way I approach tomorrow. It solidified next steps for transitioning from manager to leader.

    C.H.
  • The team was both engaged and empowered by your training.

    Stacy R.
  • Enjoyed the interactive nature and the practicality. The tools provided can be applied day to day.

    Karl M.
  • Provided a simple process for breaking down what task or sub-tasks can be delegated and [made clear] how simple it is to allow myself to delegate.

    Connor G.
  • Clever, engaging, and effective. I’ve walked away with an actionable strategy.  Thank you!

    Dan
  • How I think about delegation is forever changed. Helped me break down a structured way to delegate tasks…and got insights into my own struggles delegating.

    Christopher
  • Great chance to connect with colleagues on real issues!

    Emily

What is a Forever License?

Train unlimited leaders FOREVER

at only 2.5x the cost for us to facilitate once

+

YOUR logo on materials.

Shiny gold coin depicting Power for Everyone for the top-rated leadership development workshops by Cream of the Crop Leaders

6 Transformational Leadership Programs