Leadership Training

Cutting-edge content on the most important topics

There’s no fluff or outdated nonsense in our training programs. We teach the leadership skills that executives and managers don’t get anywhere else. Check out some of our renowned leadership courses:

• What Great Managers Do Differently
• What Great Leaders Do Differently
• What Great Executives Do Differently
• Speak the Truth Without Making People Angry
• Becoming a Talent Magnet
• Managing Generation Y
• Selling to Senior Executives

On-the-job tools you can implement immediately

Every topic we teach comes with specific tools that managers and executives can implement immediately (and use to track their progress). These tools cover every leadership topic, including scripts for giving constructive feedback, interview questions that test whether a candidate has the right attitude, a formula for setting inspiring goals, 4 scripts for making people accountable, and dozens more.

Discover your leadership with assessments, quizzes and 360° assessments

Executives and managers love to know how their leadership compares to other great leaders. So every program we teach uses a mix of 360° assessments, employee surveys, and self-assessments (on topics like communication styles, motivational drivers, leadership IQ tests, and more).

Interactive and engaging training experience

You aren’t learning if you aren’t listening. So we use a mix of case studies, exercises, quizzes, and discussions to keep high-powered leaders (with short attention spans) awake and engaged. Leaders are taught through examples and scenarios that are cleverly designed to test their limits and challenge what they thought they knew about leadership.

Blended learning (online, offline or both)

Because we’re one of the top e-learning providers, we can incorporate web-based training into instructor-led training courses. E-learning can be used as pre-work, post-work, ongoing reinforcement, and more. We work with each of our clients to design a training experience that’s right for you.

Hold the gains of your leadership training

Once the training is over, how do you keep managers and executives using what they learned? Leadership Grand Rounds is an ongoing leadership experience that follows after a formal training program and keeps leaders energized and accountable. Leadership Grand Rounds brings together groups of managers and executives through a formal system for peer-to-peer learning and support. By learning from each others’ experiences, members develop better practices for

Everything we teach is based on research

We lead one of the largest leadership studies in history, and our groundbreaking leadership techniques have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, BusinessWeek, US News & World Report, CNN Money, CBS News, ABC News, and Fox Business News, among others.

We work with world-class organizations

Our training clients include Harvard Business School, Microsoft, MasterCard, IBM, MD Anderson Cancer Center, CIGNA, AstraZeneca, First Energy, Department of Justice, and hundreds more organizations from every sector.

Leadership training that delivers hard results

Leadership training is only useful if it delivers tangible results. So here are just a few examples of the results Leadership IQ has achieved…

• 62% reduction in time spent on problem employees (based on average of 16 recent clients who participated in training outcome study)
• Reduced hiring failure rates by 83% (based on interviews with 11 recent clients)
• Employee turnover rates cut by 43% (based on average of 16 recent clients who participated in training outcome study)
• Reduced meeting time by 27% (based on post-training survey across 87 clients)
• Eliminated 1.4 hours per day of wasted time for frontline employees (based on survey of 53 companies conducted as follow-up to our “Recession Rumination” study reported on Fox Business News)