Leader Development

We offer several core courses, but unlike other consultancies, we really do tailor each program to the needs of our clients. When you choose Latitude for your management development workshops, we'll work with you to develop course content that addresses your current challenges and is completely in line with your business strategy.

Our facilitators use up-to-date, engaging content and customized activities to educate participants on the varying aspects of skills-based and behavioural-based leadership.

Our courses include:

Foundations of Leadership

In 2 days, new leaders learn the fundamentals of supervising and leading and established managers refresh their skills and gain new perspective on their core responsibilities. The course:

  • Provides insight to participants on who they are, their leadership style and their strengths as a leader
  • Defines what it means to be a good leader
  • Introduces basic leadership skills, such as delegation, providing meaningful feedback, communicating effectively and recruiting the right people
  • Outlines the fundamentals of effective performance management

Effective Coaching

Coaching is the key to developing employees, but making the shift from instructing and critiquing to coaching takes skill and self-awareness. This workshop prepares managers to become effective coaches and provide more meaningful feedback. The course:

  • Establishes the reasons why coaching is beneficial for companies
  • Identifies key principles and practices for coaching
  • Teaches participants to spot coaching opportunities
  • Introduces techniques to help coaches manage their emotions
  • Provides a safe environment for participants to practice coaching
  • Includes peer coaching and peer feedback for demonstrative and educational purposes

Recruit Right

Without strategic recruitment, your company simply cannot maintain a strong team. This workshop helps leaders appreciate the importance of recruitment and become better at spotting talented individuals and, ultimately, hiring them. The course:

  • Covers the importance of an employer value proposition and how one is used
  • Introduces key recruitment strategies and provides advice on how to select the right one for a given situation
  • Teaches techniques that will maximize the chances that your preferred candidate will accept
  • Explains the importance of having clearly-defined performance indicators, as well as critical skills and capabilities defined for roles
  • Reviews effective behavioral-based interviewing techniques and avoiding interview bias
  • Describes how to use psychometric testing as a part of the hiring process

Change Management

Many people fear change, but for companies, changes are often vital to success. Effective managers can help their teams adapt to change more readily, but to do so, they must have the skills necessary to support, motivate and coach them through times of change. This workshop is ideal for companies in times of transition or major changes, and it covers:

  • The latest research on managing during times of change
  • Tools that can help managers lead during times of change
  • Methods of monitoring the success of these tools
  • The importance of learning as a team and the importance of learning from experience during times of change

Driving Performance

Difficult employees are unfortunately unavoidable in the workplace, but a skilled manager can develop even the most trying of individuals into an effective team member. This one-day workshop gives managers a repertoire of techniques that they can use when interacting with difficult employees. Real scenarios provide the opportunity for participants to apply the techniques to common everyday situations. At the end of the course, participants will return to the workplace able to:

  • Understand the fundamentals of performance management
  • Ensure that their team members understand expectations and how performance is measured
  • Motivate and inspire throughout the performance management process
  • Deal with difficult performance management discussions professionally and positively

Team Development

Even the most talented of employees cannot succeed on their own. Departments and companies rely on teamwork to achieve all of their goals, but working as a team does not come easily for many individuals. Latitude specializes in turning groups of employees into working teams that understand their roles, share a vision of the future and help one another make that vision into a reality. We create customized team development solutions that use the latest tools, including Belbin, DISC and MBTI, to foster a spirit of teamwork throughout workplaces. Our programs help work teams:

  • Understand group goals and what needs to be achieved
  • Identify the strengths of individual team members and use those skills to achieve group goals
  • Focus on how to effectively solve team challenges and problems
  • Remain flexible and agile within times of change or when the pressure is on
  • Celebrate success to motivate and energize employees

For more information about Latitude's Management Development Workshops and Team building services, contact us today.