Developing Yourself as a Leader
Leadership starts well before the title does.
Most organizations have people who are very good at their job and have stopped growing. Not because they lack ability, but because nobody ever told them what the next level actually requires, and it is rarely more technical skill.
This workshop is about self-leadership: the behaviors that make someone worth promoting, practiced in the role they hold now. Ownership without being asked. Influence across a team where you have no authority. Following through in a way that makes you the person others route work to. Asking for feedback and doing something with it.
HR and learning and development leaders use it as a bench-building step, especially where succession is thin and the same three people absorb everything. Managers use it for individual contributors who are ready for more but are not there yet. It is deliberately not a management course. It is the step before one, and it pairs with our leadership development workshops for people already leading others.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other workforce development workshops for teams.
This course includes
- Live, instructor led half-day workshop
- Practice scenarios built from your organization's real dynamics
- Frameworks for ownership, influence, and follow-through
- A ninety day development plan each participant builds during the session
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Description
The session opens on accountability, because it is the trait every manager names and almost nobody defines. Participants work out the difference between doing what you were asked and owning an outcome, and practice the specific moves that separate them: flagging a risk before it lands, closing a loop nobody asked you to close, and saying what you will do by when.
The middle is influence without authority, which is most of what professional life actually requires. Participants practice making a case to a peer who does not report to them, disagreeing with someone more senior in a way that gets heard, and building the credibility that makes people say yes before you finish asking.
The session closes on self-management and feedback. Participants learn to ask for feedback in a way that produces something useful rather than reassurance, hear it without defending, and pick the one thing worth changing. They leave with a short, specific plan for the next ninety days in their current role.
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Distinguish doing the task from owning the outcome, and act on the difference
- Take initiative and flag risks before they become problems
- Influence peers and senior colleagues without formal authority
- Build the reliability that makes others route important work to you
- Ask for feedback in a way that produces something useful
- Act on feedback without defensiveness
- Build a specific development plan for your current role
Details
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for individual contributors rather than people who already manage others. Employees who currently lead a team should look at our leadership development workshops instead.
Your Workforce Training Goals, Customized to You
DWC provides expert workforce development training aligned to your organization’s needs, your funding requirements, and your participants’ skill levels. With customization at every level, from content to scheduling to delivery format, DWC builds workforce training programs that produce measurable outcomes.
20,000+ Participants Trained | 90% Completion Rate | 1,500+ Organizations Served
Tuition
Developing Yourself as a Leader is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $395 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.