Title: Leadership Training Topics: The Essential Checklist
Headings: Leadership Training Topics: The Essential Checklist
Leadership Training Topics: The Essential Checklist
Leadership Training Topics
Leadership Learning Experiences
Leadership Training Timing
Next Steps
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Content: Ultimately, you want to identify the must-haves that will unleash the most benefits for your company and culture. Here are some considerations to help you brainstorm. In order to meet business, manager, and team needs, many programs choose to blend two or three of these approaches. IN-PERSON FACILITATED
PROS
CONS
More opportunities to bond, build a support network, and share best practices
If facilitated as a full-day or multi-day event, follow-up activities should be developed and implemented to encourage application and defeat the “forgetting curve”
High learner accountability
If facilitated as a full-day or multi-day event, may involve extra costs such as hotel, travel, and food
Limited distractions
Managers are not as accessible to their team members
Can be developed in bite-sized formats and facilitated in-house to provide continuous learning

VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR-LED
PROS
CONS
No travel required
Fewer opportunities to bond, build a support network, and share best practices
Can be developed in bite-sized formats and facilitated in-house to provide continuous learning
Difficult to measure engagement beyond course participation

Managers are susceptible to more distractions during the training

Technology challenges with video, Internet connectivity, and sound can negatively impact the learning experience
SELF-PACED ON DEMAND/JUST-IN-TIME
PROS
CONS
No travel required
Fewer opportunities to bond, build a support network, and share best practices
Simple course completion tracking
Difficult to measure engagement beyond course completion
Typically organized in bite-sized courses, so managers can balance training with supporting their teams
Managers are susceptible to more distractions during the training
Consistent information and experience

Easy to administer

Leadership Training Timing
Based on our experience, the best time to enroll managers in training is right when they’ve been promoted, or “just in time.” Relevant leadership training is the antidote to sink-or-swim, a practice that hurts confidence, morale, and your company’s net promoter score. Waiting for managers to ask for help is risky. You’ll lose productivity, and some of your managers with the potential to be great leaders might realize another company offers more support and professional development. When it comes to leadership training, strike while the iron is hot, when managers are eager to learn. Proactively equip them with the skills they need to confidently excel in their new role. Next Steps
Hopefully, you’re starting to get a vision for the type of leadership training topics your managers need, and the type of learning experiences that will support your goals.