Switzer Associates provides training on leadership topics. We are proponents of conducting training with the entire leadership team. The benefits of this approach are that the training serves to create a common leadership framework and language for the entire team and it can be tailored to the organization. We’ve seen this benefit organizations in a huge way.
The following is a partial list of classes available. We also provide customized leadership training solutions. Let us know what your need is and we’ll tell you if we can help. If you have questions or don’t see the leadership topic you are looking for, please give us a call.
NOTE: The next click for each of these classes will provide a PDF about the class with objectives, etc.
Developing High Performing Teams
This interactive, reality-based course is designed to give supervisors and managers the skills and knowledge necessary to understand and develop high performing teams. The primary focus of this course is on becoming an effective team leader. For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Leading Effective Organizational Change
Improve your success in leading change in this interactive, reality-based class. The focus is on the human side of change, which is where most leaders get into trouble. This course is designed for supervisors and managers. The course can be structured for groups of workers who want to understand how to participate and thrive during times of change or are about to undergo specific change in the workplace, such as mergers. For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Strategic
Leadership
This course is an advanced leadership course. Participants will focus on leadership skills as they apply to strategic thinking and initiatives using a problem-based learning format. A real-life, complex problem is presented that requires participants to develop a solution that generally requires the application of principles of organizational change, team dynamics, organizational systems, strategic planning and other topics leaders need to know to successfully lead organizations in these challenging times. The problem can be customized for your department.
For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Understanding Behavioral Styles
This course is designed to help leaders and employees develop awareness of behavioral styles and how to use this information to improve workplace communication and relationships, interaction with clients, and recruiter effectiveness. For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Upward Leadership
This popular leadership course is fast moving and designed to help newer leaders develop a personal leadership philosophy and learn the basics about leading organizational change and developing high performing teams.For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Recruitment and Retention of Staff
As Jim Collins asserts in Good to Great, great leaders get the right people on the bus and keep them. This course is designed to help leaders find and retain the right people.For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.
Coaching Skills for Managers
Studies reveal that 60-70 percent of the factors that serve to retain and engage employees are controllable by the immediate supervisor or manager. Coaching employees to improve performance, balance work-life issues, and cope with changes is a critical skill. This course will teach leaders how to coach. For more information about the course, including objectives and what others have said about the training, click on the link below.