Leadership Development Lab

(LDL) Milepost 5

"Empowering Leadership: Bringing out the best so that results exceed high expectations."

Look at what LDL graduates have gained!
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Why Leadership Training Is Important

Creating "culture change" and implementing a continuous improvement process which results in improved product quality and enhanced customer satisfaction is successful only when all key team members are committed to their own personal growth. After you promote your top performers, then what? Great management skills don't just happen – give your best employees the tools they need to succeed as they increase their contributions to your organization. Cultivate the interpersonal skills required to successfully lead others.

Turbo's Leadership Development Lab™ (LDL) helps your key team members willingly take the initiative in providing timely feedback and constructive coaching. Your leaders develop the ability to both give and get the authority and responsibility necessary to improve performance at every level. This shared ownership results in improved teamwork, enhanced productivity, and the highest possible quality at the lowest effective cost.

Through a proprietary process that uses team dynamics and intra-group activities, the Leadership Development Lab helps you master the capabilities required in today's tough business environment. You learn to strengthen interpersonal relations, manage stress and successfully perform in a fast-changing environment. You are better equipped to perform as a persuasive communicator, creative problem-solver and focused leader. You develop a take-charge attitude that allows you to initiate with confidence and enthusiasm.

The Leadership Development Lab empowers you to move far beyond your comfort zone as you reach and attain ambitious stretch goals.

Twenty five years of research and the training of well over 100,000 success-minded leaders in the United States and six other countries has identified the key attributes that distinguish empowering leaders. In the past 16 years, the LAB has successfully trained over 3,540 leaders. These key attributes have been incorporated into a process that coaches you through a 5-phase continuous improvement cycle. This unique learning experience develops strengthened self-awareness through classroom participation and the successful application and analysis of leadership principles on the job. The LDL improves communication skills through group speaking, impacts attitudes, strengthens individual resolve and builds teamwork.

The program emphasizes the principles of success and shows you how to put them into action every day. Upon completion of the Lab you have a solid foundation on which to build lifelong professional growth and performance improvement.

The LDL has demonstrated its ability to help empower your team in the following major areas:

1. Strengthened Self-Awareness — True self-confidence enables leaders to be more decisive, and creative, willing to take the initiative, acknowledge outstanding performance, ask for and make commitments, hold themselves and others appropriately accountable.
2. Communication Skill — Empowering leaders effectively communicate their ideas with clarity upward to their supervisors and over to those with whom they coordinate. They influence and persuade others for mutual, positive benefits. The LDL fosters a collaborative work environment. Participants develop techniques that enhance personal effectiveness to influence coworkers, customers, superiors, or subordinates. Learning is highly interactive. Through practice during the 10-week program, you improve your skills, not just gain information about communication. You develop new communication habits which enable you to consistently get your point across more effectively.
3. Attitude Control — "The ability to be a thermostat instead of a thermometer" is our definition of attitude control. Leaders develop the ability to maintain and demonstrate the right attitude under stressful conditions. You gain the skill of rising above circumstances to prevent issues from spiraling downward.
4. Empowering Leadership — "The ability to bring out the best so results exceed high expectations". Leaders win willing cooperation and engender the desire in others to do what needs to be done. Memorization and practical implementation of the 15 fundamental leadership principles results in permanently improved performance and a culture shift that penetrates the fabric of your organization.

By helping your associates develop and grow in these vital areas, you gain enhanced teamwork, improved communication throughout your organization, and a greater commitment to excellence. The payoff is improved productivity and benchmark performance.

The LDL is divided into three areas of development, providing a logical base to attain the four major objectives listed above.

Sessions One to Five are devoted to building confidence and self-reliance, primarily through a series of successful speaking experiences. As LDL participants master the techniques of effective communication, they change their attitudes toward themselves and begin to speak more convincingly. This increased confidence results in effectively expressing their ideas in every aspect of their jobs. As a result, your team members develop a compelling desire to express their ideas with clarity and conviction.

Additional benefits gained in Sessions One through Five:

Initiate positive change	Ability to plan and organize
Conversational ability	Commit to stretching goals
Ability to use visual aids	Awareness of others and their problems
Better memory for names and ideas	Manage negative emotion
Think on your feet under pressure	Develop coaching skills
Improved interpersonal skills	Leverage your successes
Greater self-trust	Handle crises confidently
Develop evidence and illustrations	Stretch your abilities
Communicate clearly and concisely	Repeat patterns of success

Sessions Six to Eight are devoted primarily to developing motivational ability. LDL participants learn how to gain acceptance of their ideas through the skillful use of time-tested leadership principles. They also learn how to add the motivational ingredient of enthusiasm. These sessions help your team manage greater responsibility and achieve improved results with and through others.

Additional benefits gained in Sessions Six through Eight:

Coping with stress and tension	Practice smart decision making
Improved listening skills	Generate creativity and innovation
Train others effectively	Deeper insights into others
Give empowering praise	Redirecting poor performers
Power of renewed enthusiasm	Group problem solving
Winning the cooperation of others	Being more flexible
Facilitating teamwork	How to ask for action
Feedback to correct shortcomings	Create a cooperative environment
Inspire others to "go the extra mile"	Focus on priorities
Accept acknowledgement	Process approach to problems

Sessions Nine and Ten emphasize leadership, combining effective communication and motivation skills. LDL participants learn how to focus on situations that call for sound judgment and decision-making. They also learn how to manage unfulfilled expectations to lead and participate effectively in problem-solving conferences.

Additional benefits gained in Sessions Nine and Ten:

Leading small groups	Tackle complex challenges
Tap the power of motivation	Breaking down communication barriers
Mentoring Skills	Introducing new players to the team
Unselfish commitment to others	Objective self-appraisal
Greater organizational ability	Accepting problems as challenges
Build team consensus

Each participant receives a 127-page manual and the reference books Empowering Leadership, Making Moments Matter, Repeat Business, and Communicating For Results. Awards are given at each of the ten sessions and a framed diploma for participants who successfully complete the program by attending and successfully participating in a minimum of eight of the ten sessions.

Graduates of the LDL are empowered and committed to continuous self-improvement. Through successful LAB participation, they achieve goals, become more effective, productive, and innovative. They make valuable contributions to the success of your organization now and in the future.

GRADUATIONS

Meaningful and continuous improvements in operational processes, which result in improved product quality and enhanced customer satisfaction, can occur only in an environment where those who impact the processes are empowered themselves, and involved in their own personal continuous improvement process.