Problem:
Every individual, team, and organization fits on a continuum between death and vitality, and is moving in one way or the other. A leader’s primary responsibility is to help individuals, teams, or organizations become and remain vital. That’s the heart of leadership. If a leader succeeds, observers say, “Good job!” If a leader doesn’t, they say, “Good riddance.” The central problem today is that this work is not getting easier. Times are turbulent; change is rampant; white knuckles abound. Leaders at every level are finding their leadership skills challenged, particularly by the often competing demands placed on them by customers, employees, investors, and a host of other groups. Today, leading is like juggling chainsaws—one wrong toss, or one wrong catch, and the consequences are serious.

Solution:
For the past 20 years, we’ve probed, poked, and peeked into hundreds of corporations, volunteer organizations, and government agencies. We’ve roamed in facilities ranging from sweltering, fire-belching foundries that Dante could well have been describing in his “Inferno” to the pristine, Orwellian “clean rooms” found on high-tech campuses. In each of these locations, we’ve searched and found the critical skills that the most effective leaders use to help their team and organization become vital.

Leadership Vitality is a training session that contains the best of what we learned. Specifically, it helps leaders improve vitality in a way that is sustainable.

Features:
Leadership Vitality is the core training program based on
The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership
By Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler

This course focuses on the foundational skills all leaders need to master to make sure that any change effort or project works—

How to
- praise
- coach
- communicate
- model

How to
- do balanced diagnosis
- take balanced action to get results

This course helps leaders answer these questions:
- What results are we getting that need to be improved?
- What behaviors are causing those results?
- What influences are affecting the behaviors?
- What results do we really want and need?
- What critical behaviors will get us those results?
- How can we influence those behaviors in the most positive and sustainable ways?

Benefits:
In a nutshell, leaders learn to lead. This training has been tested with thousands of managers and supervisors in hundreds of organizations. The leaders learn how to deal with the toughest problems in a balanced and sustainable way to get results. They build, polish, master and apply skills that are essential to any change or improvement effort.

For more information on these Single Point Lessons, please contact DBrunet@vitalskillsintl.com