Emerging Leaders: Transforming High Potential Employees Into Leaders

You've got high-potential individual contributors who could grow into your next generation of leaders. But how do you quickly get them ready to handle the radically different responsibilities that come with management roles? 

Being A Good Employees Isn’t Enough

In this leadership training for high potentials, individual contributors learn what it takes to think and act like a leader. Being technically adept, motivated, and customer-focused is just not enough to turn someone into a leader. They need a different way of thinking and acting.

Think Like A Leader (Not An Individual Contributor)

Leaders have to think strategically, delegate rather than ‘do’ everything, balance the needs of the group, have hard conversations, prioritize & triage, and challenge people without alienating them.

Prepare Your Star Employees For Leadership

This 4-week program will give your high potential individual contributors the mindset and tools they need to become your company’s next generation of leaders. Whether they’re just starting a new leadership role or you’re preparing them for the future, this training is how you grow your best people. 

Here's The Program Curriculum:

Each course in the program includes approximately 1-hour of video presentation. In addition to the video module, each week will include one assignment and one brief quiz to ensure you learned that week's content. Participants can expect to spend around 1.5 hours per week on viewing the video modules and coursework. Here is a listing of all the courses in the Emerging Leaders program,

Week 1: Broaden Your Mindset From Individual Contributor To Leader

This week focuses on transitioning high-potential individual contributors to effective leaders by expanding their perspectives and understanding what it really means to be a leader. This helps individual contributors see beyond their current roles and embrace the responsibilities and opportunities that come with leadership.

• Expand Your Vision: Shift from a focus on personal tasks to understanding the broader impact of leadership decisions on the team and the entire organization.
• Embrace Leadership Responsibilities: Transition from doing to leading, and grasp the nuances of influencing others positively through leadership.
• Develop Strategic Thinking: Gain insights into making decisions that align with long-term organizational goals, moving beyond day-to-day operations.
• The Hard Conversations Only Leaders Have: Learn the four conversations that only leaders can have (e.g., feedback, conflict, derailing) and how to develop the mindset to have those hard conversations.

Week 2: How To Delegate, Problem Solve, & Coach Like A Leader

Leadership requires not just managing tasks but empowering others and driving team success. This section teaches emerging leaders essential skills such as effective delegation, advanced problem-solving techniques, and the fundamentals of coaching. 

• Master the Art of Delegation: Learn how to effectively distribute tasks while empowering team members and ensuring accountability.
• Enhance Problem-Solving Skills: Tackle complex challenges with advanced problem-solving strategies that promote innovation and effective solutions.
• Think Like a Coach: Develop key coaching techniques that focus on fostering employee growth, motivation, and connection to their work.
• Finding the Time To Be a Leader: Utilize time management techniques specifically designed for leaders to give yourself time to manage others while still accomplishing your own work. 

Week 3: Build the Communication, EQ, & Power Of A Leader

This section delves into the art of communication, the science of emotional intelligence, and the dynamics of power within an organization. Participants will learn techniques for influencing others, handling difficult conversations, and building strong up, down and laterally. 

• Navigate Tricky Relationships: Learn to balance work relationships and friendships, including with employees that were formerly your colleagues.
• Talk Like a Leader: Enhance your ability to communicate clearly and persuasively across all levels of the organization.
• Boost Emotional Intelligence & Presence: Learn to manage your emotions and better understand others to enhance interpersonal relationships and increase your executive presence as a leader.
• Navigate Power Dynamics: Understand the sources of power within an organization and how to harness them effectively to influence and lead.

Week 4: How Great Leaders Lead Teams To Achieve Results

Participants will explore strategies for leading diverse teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture, and driving teams towards achieving business goals. This equips leaders with the tools to not only achieve success in terms of project outcomes but also contribute to the personal and professional growth of their team members.

• Lead Teams to Success: Discover strategies for leading diverse teams toward big goals while maintaining high morale and engagement (even when there are tricky personalities who don’t buy in).
• Foster a Collaborative Environment: Create a team culture that values collaboration, innovation, and shared success.
• Unlock the Talents of Every Team Member: Learn how to unlock the unique abilities and preferences of everyone on your team to achieve better results, faster, and with less struggle and conflict.
• Motivate and Inspire: Employ motivational techniques that encourage team members to exceed expectations and take initiative.

For Group Discounts for 5 or more participants, please contact Jill Sutherland at jill@leadershipiq.com

LOGISTICAL DETAILS:

STARTING THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 3RD, you’re going to take 1 course per week for 4 weeks. (You are not required to login at any set time, so each week you may work on the courses at times that work best for your schedule).

Each week, you’ll watch approximately 1-hour of a video course, and then complete one assignment to hardwire your learnings and take one brief quiz to ensure you learned that week’s content. You can expect to spend around 1.5 hours per week between the videos and the coursework.

You may work ahead and you will not be penalized for falling behind, but ALL MODULES, ASSIGNMENTS AND QUIZZES MUST BE COMPLETED BY 11:59 PM (PST) ON THE FINAL DAY OF THE PROGRAM. The final day of the program is Sunday, March 2, 2025. This is a 4-week program and certificates will not be issued if all coursework is not completed by the deadline.

WHAT IF MANY LEADERS WANT TO ATTEND?
If your colleagues want to participate, that's great! We offer GROUP DISCOUNTS for groups of 5 or more leaders from the same organization. Simply contact Jill Sutherland (Director of Client Services) at  jill@leadershipiq.com

WHY A CERTIFICATE?
To advance your career, and inspire the confidence of your team, you need proof that you’ve mastered the Emerging Leaders skills. (And it looks GREAT on your LinkedIn profile and resume). And if you’re going to train multiple leaders in your organization, you want to know which leaders have progressed through the necessary training and have the skills to lead successfully. To get your certificate, you'll take a test following the 4-week program (and because you watched all the program modules, it will be easy for you to pass with flying colors)!

NO FLUFF. YOU GET SCIENCE, SCRIPTS & TOOLS.
We don’t offer fluffy platitudes. This program will teach you the latest science and specific scripts to handle dramatic and narcissistic personalities, deliver constructive feedback, motivate high performers, successfully lead teams, resolve conflict, and so much more.

HOW DO I REGISTER?
Simply click the red "Register" button to purchase your registration and secure your spot in the course. Each registration is for a single user only. Please contact Jill Sutherland at jill@leadershipiq.com if you are interested in registering multiple participants. THE PROGRAM January  START DATE IS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD. On Friday, January 31st, each participant will receive an email with their login information to access the course.

DO I GET CEU'S?
While we don't formally offer a specific accredited CEU/PDU (because there are so many different state & professional associations), many of our attendees will send the program description to their particular accrediting body and apply to have that training hour(s) counted. We hear that many of our attendees have been successful with that approach. THIS PROGRAM DELIVERS 4 CONTACT/COURSE HOURS.  

READ THE REVIEWS

"This is one of the best trainings, with practical application techniques, that I have ever attended in my 30 year career!"
Rhonda Billman, Assistant Director

"Mark is an exceptional teacher with world-class insight into how to become a great leader. Every leader will benefit from his lessons."
Joseph Willett, Chief Operating Officer EMEA

"Mark is a genius at his craft. The tools he provides give me energy and excitement to go back to my team and put it into play. Best leadership seminar I have ever attended!"
Dania Reynoso, Director Client Services

YOUR PRESENTER: MARK MURPHY

Mark Murphy is the founder of Leadership IQ, a New York Times bestselling author, Senior Contributor to FORBES. and rated as a Top 30 Leadership Guru.

Mark's reputation as Leadership training expert is also why he's lectured at The United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, and more.

Mark has written some of the most practical and insightful leadership books ever, including Hundred Percenters, Hiring For Attitude, Truth At Work, HARD Goals, and more.

And his Leadership techniques and research have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc., CNBC, CBS MarketWatch, Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and more.

He has also appeared on ABC's 20/20, CBS News, Fox Business News, CNN and NPR.