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Leadership Development Programs

Fully Customized Leadership Training  

The challenges leaders face today have never been more difficult or complex. Employee burnout. A tight labor market. Hybrid workplaces and demands for flexibility.

We understand that your organization is unique, and so are your leadership development needs. That’s why we work with you to create a fully customized leadership development program that can include:

Pairing simple yet effective leadership models with engaging facilitation and self-reflection activities creates the mindset shift and skill-building your leaders need to adapt to new ways of working.

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Discover how Dion Leadership helped one fast-growing client fill their leadership pipeline.

Leadership Development Program Awards

Dion Leadership-Brandon Hall Group-Gold Award-Leadership Development

Best Development Program for Frontline Leaders 2024

DexKo Global

Dion-Leadership-Brandon Hall Group-Sliver Award-Leadership Development-2024

Best Senior Manager Development Program 2024

DexKo Global

Dion-Leadership-Brandon Hall Group-Bronze Award-Talent Management-2024

Best Team Development Program 2024

Health Alliance Plan – A Subsidiary of Henry Ford Health

Dion Leadership’s Approach to Learning

We begin with the end in mind, identifying specific habits that the leader wants to master. Our method focuses on growing skills and confidence that leads to success. 

Dion Leadership Solutions That Sustain Learning

The Effectiveness of Leadership Development Cohort Programs

Leadership Development That Impacts Business Results

The Five Components of a Comprehensive
Leadership Development Program

How We Develop Leaders

Our fully customized programs feature research-based learning experiences and best practices for developing the skills and behaviors most relevant in today’s workplace.

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1. PROGRAM PLANNING & DESIGN

  • Our account executives and instructional design team collaborate with client stakeholders to establish learning goals, develop a program schedule, outline content (including any customization requirements), select facilitators, and craft communications.
  • Support continues throughout the program’s duration with program kickoff meetings, assessment administration, periodic review meetings, and evaluation/feedback gathering and reporting.
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2. ASSESSMENT TOOLS

  • Assessment instruments based on colleague/stakeholder feedback or personal insights are utilized to provide data on natural tendencies, traits, behavioral styles, motivators, values, or other elements.
  • Assessments align with specific workshop content.
Self-assessments may include:
  • Everything DiSC® (Management, Workplace, Productive Conflict, and/or Work of Leaders)
  • EQ-i 2.0®
  • Trust Quotient Assessment
  • Decision Style Profile®
  • Change Style Indicator®
  • Influence Style Indicator™
  • Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
360 instrument options:
  • The Profilor
  • Hogan
  • LEA
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3. WORKSHOP CONTENT

  • Assessment instruments based on colleague/stakeholder feedback or personal insights are utilized to provide data on natural tendencies, traits, behavioral styles, motivators, values, or other elements.
  • Assessments align with specific workshop content.
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4. LEADERSHIP COACHING

  • This optional program element provides individualized coaching to support participants in processing and applying assessment insights and other aspects of the learning experience to their current job.
  • Coach and participant debrief 360 results, create development plans, and discuss workshop experiences to support application of learning.
  • Participants select their own coaches after reviewing bios and conducting interviews.
  • One-on-one coaching meetings are scheduled before, between, and after workshop experiences.
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5. SUSTAINABILITY

  • Workshop content is supplemented with self-paced and group action learning activities that offer application and reinforcement.
  • For live online workshops, supplementary content is accessed via the Dion Leadership Learning Platform (LMS).
  • Action planning, post-session challenges, capstone activities (including presentation of individual “leadership manifestos” and cohort commitments), and support tools for managers sustain participants as they apply and develop new behaviors and skills.
  • Pre- and post-program evals track growth in perception of individual skills and confidence level.

Leadership Development Program Roadmap

We use these five components to create a roadmap for your program. An example is shown below.

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Our Leadership Development Programs
Work for Leaders at All Levels

SENIOR-LEVEL LEADERS

Leadership development program for director-level leaders looking to increase their organizational impact across the organization, effectively lead a functional area, and engage and inspire multiple levels of staff

Length: 10 days

Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as five 2-day sessions or similar multi-session configuration

Description: Prepares leaders to successfully impact an organization and its people by driving results.

Learners will:

  • Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
  • Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels and their personal styles of leadership, building trust, making decisions, and managing change
  • Understand and apply the strategic and tactical elements of the Work of Leaders model through self-awareness and behavioral change
  • Explore the concept of mindset as a driver of leadership success and organizational impact
  • Examine courage as an aspect of leadership
  • Explore and practice models and methods of delegation, critical thinking, decision-making, and problem solving
  • Learn to hold others accountable and model accountability as a leader
  • Create action plans for trying and applying new insights
  • Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities

Modules

  • Work of Leaders
  • Mindset for Leaders
  • Courageous Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Critical Thinking
  • Trust-Based Leadership
  • Delegating for Success
  • Accountability at Work
  • Change Management

Assessments

  • Everything DiSC Work of Leaders
  • Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
  • Trust Quotient Assessment
  • Decision Style Profile
  • Change Style Indicator

HI-PO Additional Features

  • 360 assessment and debrief individual action planning, and one-on-one coaching
  • Enrichment learning activities
  • Capstone Project with a presentation to executive leadership
  • Facility/plant tours
  • Mentoring partnerships
  • Learning journals
  • Peer roundtables
  • Executive leaders as guest speakers
  • Networking events
  • Cohort-based team-building activities

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MID-LEVEL LEADERS

Leadership development program for experienced managers looking to build their leadership competencies and increase their personal effectiveness in leading a department or function and more effectively manage their staff.

Standard Features

Length: 8 days

Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as four 2-day sessions or similar multi-session configuration

Description: Builds targeted competencies that improve the effectiveness as a leader of people.

Learners will:

  • Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
  • Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels and their personal styles of leadership, handling conflict, making decisions, managing change, exercising influence, and building trust
  • Explore models and best practices for delivering performance feedback, delegating effectively, collaborating effectively, and managing change
  • Learn to hold others accountable and model accountability as a leader
  • Explore and practice models and methods of critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving
  • Create action plans for trying and applying new insights
  • Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities

Modules

  • Understanding Your Leadership Style
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Productive Conflict Management
  • Delegating for Success
  • Accountability at Work
  • Critical Thinking
  • Change Management
  • Exercising Influence
  • Trust-Based Leadership
  • Performance Management
  • Effective Feedback
  • Collaborating for Organizational Effectiveness

Assessments

  • Everything DiSC Productive Conflict
  • Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
  • Decision Style Profile
  • Change Style Indicator
  • Influence Style Indicator
  • Trust Quotient Assessment

HI-PO Additional Features

  • 360 assessment and debrief, individual action planning, and one-on-one coaching
  • Enrichment learning activities
  • Capstone project with presentation to senior leadership
  • Facility/plant tours
  • Mentoring partnerships
  • Learning journals
  • Peer roundtables
  • Senior leaders as guest speakers
  • Networking events
  • Cohort-based team-building activities

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FIRST-LEVEL LEADERS

Leadership development program for new supervisors or individuals ready for promotion to management, or existing managers who have experienced little to no previous training and development

Standard Features

Audience: New supervisors or individuals ready for promotion to management, or existing managers who have experienced little to no previous training and development

Length: 6 days

Delivery Options: Classroom-based; delivered as 6 one-day sessions, 2 three-day sessions, or 3 two-day sessions

Description: Introduces learners to concepts and skills essential to leading others.

Learners will:

  • Personalize organizational goals and/or competencies into markers of individual success
  • Increase self-awareness of their emotional intelligence levels, personal leadership styles, and preferred modes of handling conflict and exercising influence
  • Explore Lencioni’s five behaviors in the context of team leadership
  • Explore elements of and barriers to effective communication
  • Learn and practice a behavioral model for engaging in healthy conflict
  • Explore goal setting and performance assessment
  • Explore and practice models and methods of delivering performance feedback
  • Create action plans for trying and applying new skills and insights
  • Supplement classroom learning with between-session assignments, including readings, interviews, practice, structured manager debriefs, and experiential learning activities

Modules

  • Understanding Your Leadership Style
  • Building Effective Relationships
  • Communicating with Impact
  • Conflict Management
  • Performance Management
  • Effective Feedback
  • Exercising Influence
  • Leading Teams

Assessments

  • Everything DiSC Management
  • Talentsmart Emotional Intelligence 2.0
  • Thomas-Killman Conflict Handling Modes
  • Influence Style Indicator

HI-PO Additional Features

  • Individual action planning and one-on-one coaching
  • Enrichment learning activities
  • Facility/plant tours
  • Mentoring partnerships
  • Senior leaders as guest speakers
  • Networking events
  • Cohort-based team-building activities

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How To Get Started

STEP 1

Discover

Tell us about the program learning objectives

STEP 2

Tailor a Solution

We provide a customized program roadmap.

STEP 3

Deliver Results

Plan, facilitate, coach, and measure results

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Leadership and Management Training Courses

The Dion Leadership course catalog describes our comprehensive list of management training classes and leadership development programs. You can also view them on our Management Training Courses page.

What our clients have to say

“Dion Leadership has created and delivered custom leadership development programs that have engaged all of our managers and directors. These high-quality programs enabled us to deliver a consistent development experience to our leaders, providing opportunities to build bridges and promote interaction and cohesion across multiple locations.”

Tyffani Smith

Vice President, Human Resources, People, and Culture, AAA Life Insurance

“I hope the PEARL leadership development program that Dion Leadership delivers continues for many more years. It has been invaluable – not only from a leadership development perspective, but the relationship building among NGK leaders has improved communication and helped to speed up activities.”

Jeff Desveaux

General Manager – Strategic Growth & Partnerships, NGK Spark Plugs (U.S.A.)

Dion Leadership is ahead of the curve in all aspects of leadership development design and delivery.”

O’Neil Franso

Corporate Vice President, Human Resources, H.W. Kaufman Group