Live workshopWorkforce Development training for teams
Developing Yourself as a Leader
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Developing Yourself as a Leader
- Duration
- Half Day (4 hrs)
- Tuition
- $395.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
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.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
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
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
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.
Outcomes
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
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.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$395.00 per participant
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.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Workforce Development training
Workforce development training for employees
The skills that make teams work are rarely taught: clear writing, communication, time management, prioritization, customer service, handling conflict, and presenting with confidence. DWC workforce development workshops teach them live, with practice built from your workplace.
Use them as an onboarding series for new hires, a refresher for a team under pressure, or a development step for employees who are ready for more.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Can these workshops support onboarding for new hires?
Yes. Communication, time management, customer service, and business writing workshops can be combined into an onboarding series for new employees.
Do you offer customer service training for employees?
Yes. Customer Service Excellence and Quality Assurance and Service Excellence are built for front-line and support teams, with scenarios drawn from your own customers.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.