The Tanzanite Signature Leadership Program™
Contemporary leadership for today's leaders.
The Tanzanite Signature Leadership Program is designed for current and future leaders, focusing on developing new leadership skills from communications and emotional intelligence to every-day delegation.
It's a transformational change that takes what you already know, and integrates with new concepts of thinking that will be your foundation for leadership success.
Are you ready to transform your leadership team? It's time.
We don’t just train and develop managers; we train and develop next generation’s leaders.
Program Overview
The first year program consists of four live workshops, held quarterly.
Between sessions, there are podcasts, reading and interactive discussions to build upon what you’ve learned.
The program can be customized and presented at your business, or we conduct programs throughout the year for individual managers at our office in Los Angeles.
Year One Sessions
Session One
1. State of the Workforce
An overview of trends, best practices and research on the forces that are shaping the way leaders need to lead in today’s workplace. This presentation lays the foundation for understanding why contemporary leadership must change to adapt to the forces in the workplace.
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2. Understanding & Managing People
Establishing values and expectations of yourself and your direct reports; discussion of impactful leaders you’ve had and how you can develop skills to improve your leadership skills.
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3. Learning Leadership Skills That Deliver Impact
Through exercises, discussion and breakout sessions, we’ll talk about ways to effectively lead people in order to provide a meaningful working relationship with peers, employees, and supervisors. The focus is on styles that separate leaders from mere managers.
Session Two
1. Leveraging Communication for Success
Communication as the single most important characteristic that a leader needs. Today’s session involves a discussion of techniques that improves communication skills. How to deliver feedback; developing trust and transparency are the focus.
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2. Performance Management For Today’s Workforce
Managing performance is a lot more than the annual review. It’s continuous, interactive, and designed to improve productivity, engagement and mutual understanding. We’ll discuss what cutting edge companies are doing and take best practices and integrate them into the fabric of your culture.
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3. Creating Accountability in the Workplace
Employees can be entitled. How can you get them to be accountable? We’ll discuss strategies you can use to change your employee culture from entitled to accountable.
Session Three
1. How to Interview, Select & Hire
We’ll identify techniques to significantly improve hiring and selection skills. Group exercises include developing questions to address needs; identifying “fit”; and how to come to a cohesive decision. We’ll also develop processes that ensure new hires become quickly adapted to your business and culture.
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2. Integrating Kolbe® Into Your Leadership Style
You’ll see how using the Kolbe® assessments formulates understanding and appreciation of how we prefer to take action and make decisions. A Certified Kolbe® Consultant leads an interactive discussion one how we to work better as a team.
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3. The Five A’s of Great Employees™
Based on Eric’s 2016 book, we’ll learn how using the 5 A’s helps you to better manage and assess employees. In an era where potential and expertise trumps tenure, the ability to identify intangibles in others is an essential component of talent leadership.
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4. The Every Day Manager™
A program that focuses on essentials of management—from how to delegate more effectively to best practices on discipline and discharge of employees.
1. EQ & The Contemporary Leader
Experts now agree: the degree to which you’re in tune your employees is a major factor in employee satisfaction and engagement. We’ll discuss Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and work to discover how you can become more attuned to your employees.
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2. Creating High Performing Teams
How do teams get to be “High Performing?” It’s not by accident. High Performing teams have a culture of peer accountability, management involvement (but not too involved) and are composed of genuine team players.
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3. Happiness and Positivity in the Workplace
Research shows that people gravitate towards those who are happy and positive. So how do you infuse your team with that energy? We’ll show you techniques and methods for creating happiness and positivity in the workplace, incorporating many of the lessons we’ve learned over the past year.