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"Integrity, passion and excellence. Those are the 3 things that Dr. Dan Neundorf brings to everything he does. I have had the pleasure of participating in one of Dan’s leadership development programs. It had been awhile since I felt truly engaged in a training course. After Dan’s program I felt a rejuventated in both my leadership vision and personal mission. My team noticed the positive effects of the program. Speaking of my team, I had Dan work with my team in a number of team building events. The result – a team that was excited, motivated and truly high performing. Dan really knows his stuff and brings something special to all of his workshops and training events.” — Testimonial

Leadership Programs

Our programs are specifically designed and crafted to meet individual needs. Whether you are a Director, experienced manager or just newly promoted, our programs will help you reach your fullest potential. Please read through our program descriptions below and feel free to contact us directly for more details and of course with any questions you may have.

Impact 1: For New and Upcoming Managers

The IMPACT 1 program is designed for new and up coming managers. In this program, participants will gain insights into key skills and perspectives needed to effectively lead people. Participants will focus on building a leadership style that createstrust, sets a clear vision and guides their team toward the achievement of organizational goals.

Topics include:

  • Leadership Self-Awareness: This focuses on leadership prowess and self-mastery - lead yourself before you can lead others.
  • Coaching and Performance Management: A manager’s goal is to ensure the employees’ activities, which includes what they do and how well they do them. Making sure they are in sync with the goals of the organization. This segment focuses on transitioning a coaching process into a dynamic and engaging experience that creates ownership of performance and behaviors.
  • Recruiting, Developing and Retaining Talent: Participants learn how to plan, structure and conduct an interview and understand the critical role a manager plays in developing organizational talent.
  • Building and Sustaining High Performing Teams: Participants discover ways to use the key ingredients for successful, effective teams, which encompasses composition,environment, information flow and synergy; by creating an environment in which team members are moved to strive harder to realize the team’s potential.

Impact 2: For Experienced Managers

Topics include:

  • Leadership Self Awareness: This focuses on leadership prowess and self-mastery – lead yourself before you can lead others.
  • Advanced Coaching Practice: Learn ways to create a coaching climate through focused conversation and build an environment that fosters learning, independent thinking and opportunities for employees to contribute at a higher level.
  • Team Problem Solving and Decision Making: Participants learn the characteristicsthat are essential for leading teams in problem solving situations by exploring a common sense leadership approach and the cognitive implication for managers.
  • Project Leadership: This case study simulation is designed to help managers position their project for success. Participants discover ways to anticipate needed information, prepare and deliver revealing questions, develop and communicate plans, influence resistors, manage time and present project results.
  • Leading Change: Participants explore the human response to change, how to manage reaction, minimize dysfunction and respond to the challenges they and theirteam face in today’s business environment.
  • Transformational Leadership: Learn how teamwork and continuous improvement are connected andwhat you can do to build a collaborative culture.

Impact 3: For New Directors

Topics include:

  • Leadership Self Awareness: This focuses on leadership prowess and self-mastery – lead yourself before you can lead others.
  • Advanced Coaching Practice: Learn ways to create a coaching climate through focused conversation and build an environment that fosters learning, independent thinking and opportunities for employees to contribute at a higher
  • Continuous Improvement: This action-learning segment provides participants with an opportunity to incorporate leadership activities that help make a difference to the waytheir team thinks about the work they do. They will practice collaborative leadership behaviors through a project simulation that embraces the involvement and empowerment of staff and the importance of measurement.
  • Communication and Change: Participants learn tools they can use to scan the environment and assess readiness for change, recognize reasons for resistance to change, and learn how to craft intervention strategies, which increase cooperation and contributions in periods of change.
  • Leading Strategically: In this segment participants develop an awareness of what shapes and shifts organizational culture; learn the six critical success factors for strategic thinking and planning and strengthen skills critical in influencing key stakeholders on major initiatives.

Impact 4: For Experienced Directors (VP Track)

Based on the vice president leadership competencies in your organization, Impact 4 is customized to the unique needs of the Impact 4 participant. Through individual development planning and coaching, participants greatly enhance leadership capability en-route to more senior positions within the organization.

Impact Individual Contributor Leadership I

In business today, everyone needs to show leadership whether they run the company or work in the field. When everyone throughout our organization takes personal responsibility for results, contributes to innovation, seizes the opportunities that change the present and becomes part of the solution rather than part of the problem, your organization wins.

Topics include:

  • Leadership Self-Awareness - focuses on leadership prowess and self-mastery – lead yourself before you can lead others.
  • Influence Without Authority: Discover the core principles of influence; create clarity in your interactions, take responsibility for outcomes and tailor your communication to overcome challenges in the workplace.
  • Becoming Competent at Conflict: Come to understand your perspective on conflict and differentiate between constructive and destructive responses.
  • Peer Performance Coaching: Learn collaborative processes that expand the collective value of a team, identify and address performance capabilities that guide you and your peers to peek performance.

Impact Individual Contributor Leadership II

This program is designed for individuals who want to take their personal leadership to the next level. Learn how to fine-tune your leadership skills to improve your interaction with individuals and groups at all levels of the organization. Individual Contributor Leadership II, is a blend of topics, which will create and reinforce leadership behaviors and personal growth patterns. As part of this program, participants will develop an action plan based on feedback through a customized 360 assessment, then select and lead a project that target the development of personal leadership competencies.

Topics include:

  • Stepping Up – unlock your leadership potential.
  • Collaborative Leadership and connecting through trust.
  • Project Leadership.
  • Working with groups – facilitation and consensus skills.
  • Embedding change and creating buy-in and commitment.