Leadership & Team Development
Give Your Leaders the Tools to Succeed
- Do you need to assess your team’s leadership skills to help identify gaps and improve organizational culture?
- Would your executive team benefit from working with a leadership coach?
- Could your front-line leaders improve their soft skills to help motivate employees and drive change?
Manufacturers who develop great leaders throughout every level of the organization benefit from improved engagement, lower turnover, and increased productivity. Provide your leaders with the skills they need to motivate their team, improve communication, decrease workplace conflict, and create a standard of excellence.
The Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) at Georgia Tech’s leadership and team development professionals utilize the research-based curriculum and tools of our education partners, the Gallup organization and Development Dimensions International (DDI), and tailor them to the specific needs of your leaders, from front-line leaders on the plant floor to the executive leadership team.
Leadership Skills Assessment
Work with a GaMEP leadership coach to assess your team’s current leadership knowledge, understand the importance of specific leadership skills in your organization, and develop a plan to give leaders the ability to perform those skills.
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By completing a leadership needs analysis, you will identify the most important leadership skill gaps in your company. Then a GaMEP leadership and team development project manager will help you design and implement a learning journey to close those gaps.
GaMEP will:
- Survey leaders within your company, as well as their managers and direct reports, to understand where you may have skill gaps in the organization.
- Examine your organizational and business unit goals and objectives and determine which skills will have the greatest impact.
- Help you match the needs of your leaders to the appropriate development resources.
- Create a training and implementation plan that will help you achieve your leadership development goals.
- Become your accountability partner and help motivate your team to use these skills on a regular basis.
By implementing GaMEP’s leadership skills assessment services, you will:
- Strengthen company culture
- Increase employee engagement
- Set your company up for long-term success
Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ)
Measure leadership abilities based on four key facets and gain feedback to allow your team to become transformational leaders.
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Understanding your leadership style is the first step to harnessing your strengths and utilizing them effectively to navigate different situations that may arise in the workplace.
GaMEP’s leadership team development coaches will utilize a 360-degree feedback tool to measure your management team’s leadership abilities based on four key facets – transformational leadership, transactional leadership, passive/avoidant, and outcomes of leadership – from the perspectives of your supervisors, colleagues, and direct reports.
During this process, your team will:
- Take the 360-degree assessment (approximately 15 minutes per person).
- Discover the characteristics of a transformational leader and understand how they measure up to these behaviors.
- Receive individual development plans to make improvements in areas that have been identified as opportunities of advancement.
- Take the assessment a second time to see how they have made strides in becoming a transformational leader.
By completing the questionnaire, you will:
- Identify key behaviors of your managers
- Increase your team’s leadership capabilities
- Transform your organization
Leadership Essentials
Using a combination of classroom instruction, coaching, and practical application, train your team on the interpersonal skills and other essentials needed to be successful leaders for the organization.
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Seventy percent of effective learning comes from applying your knowledge to real-world situations. GaMEP’s leadership essentials training combines classroom instruction and coaching with application to provide you and your team with the most successful learning environment.
GaMEP will customize a plan for your team and conduct one or more of these five-hour manufacturing leadership training sessions to help meet your company’s needs:
- Communication: Connect Through Conversations – This course introduces five specific communication tools as a path to achieving desired business outcomes. It is a foundational course and a prerequisite for additional courses.
- Coaching: Move People Forward – Leaders learn and practice a practical approach to coaching in the moment, in any situation.
- Resolving Workplace Conflict – Leaders use resolution tactics to recognize the signs of escalating conflict and take appropriate action to minimize damage.
- Building and Sustaining Trust – This course introduces specific tools to build and repair trust within relationships, enabling people to take risks, identify and solve problems, and collaborate to achieve business results.
- Mastering Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – In this course, leaders assess their own EQ and learn to prevent the emotional hijacking that can interfere with personal intentions and organizational outcomes.
By participating in GaMEP’s manufacturing leadership training, you will:
- Develop skills for effective leadership
- Create alignment in your organization
- Set your company up for success
Advanced
Leadership Skills
Take your team’s leadership skills to the next level with advanced manufacturing leadership training.
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Once your team has implemented leadership essentials training in your organization and had success with the skill sets you’ve gained, deepen your knowledge with advanced leadership skills training.
GaMEP will customize a plan for your team and conduct one or more of these five-hour manufacturing leadership training sessions to help meet your company’s needs:
- Driving Change – Accelerate the process of implementing change with your team and create an agile work environment where people are more open to change.
- Advanced Coaching – Learn to ask powerful and insightful questions to drive higher levels of employee engagement.
- Delegating with Purpose – Identify tasks for assignment, learn how to assess capabilities and commitment, and plan the delegation discussion, including decision-making authority, support, and monitoring progress and measuring results.
- High-Impact Feedback and Listening – Learn how to effectively deliver both positive and developmental feedback, as well as become more receptive to feedback.
- Valuing Differences – Acquire tools to explore others’ unique perspectives, understand and leverage people’s inherent differences, challenge devaluing behavior, and create an environment in which differences are respected and utilized.
- Maximizing Team Performance – Diagnose and apply the five team success factors: results, commitment, communication, process, and trust.
By completing this advanced management development training, you will:
- Strengthen your company’s culture
- Increase employee engagement
- Prepare your team for short- and long-term success
Managing for Daily Improvement
Get your team on board to fully support your organization’s direction. By directly involving them in developing key performance indicators, they will understand how to measure for good and bad days, communicate more effectively, increase their problem-solving skills, and support process improvement efforts.
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Success within your manufacturing plant relies 90% on people and 10% on tools. As a company, can you answer the question, “How does your team measure a good day?” By getting your team involved in developing key performance indicators (KPI), members will not only understand what the company is looking to accomplish, but they will fully support its direction.
GaMEP will:
- Facilitate the process to identify critical metrics.
- Implement a visual tracking system.
- Teach you to use a visual tracking system to communicate goals throughout the organization.
- Incorporate a Gemba walk through day-to-day activities of your plant.
- Train your team to maintain and evaluate the process set in place.
By implementing GaMEP’s Managing for Daily Improvement (MDI) service, you will:
- Know what to measure
- Establish common metrics
- Generate organizational alignment
- Increase communication
Gallup Strength Coaching & Team Building
Uncover the natural talents of your team, allowing them to gain deeper self-awareness and leverage their strengths to drive performance.
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By completing the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment, your team will identify their strengths and learn how to apply them effectively in the workplace. A GaMEP leadership coach will guide each participant through a one-on-one coaching session and facilitate a team development workshop to build understanding and cohesion.
GaMEP will:
- Introduce your team to the CliftonStrengths process and explain how it supports leadership and team development.
- Provide access to the CliftonStrengths assessment and deliver a personalized report of their results to each participant.
- Conduct one-on-one virtual coaching sessions to help individuals interpret their results and explore how to apply their strengths.
- Facilitate a half-day, in-person team development session to explore team dynamics, identify collective strengths, and improve collaboration.
- Offer optional follow-up coaching to address areas such as managing weaknesses and creating personalized growth plans.
- Serve as your accountability partner throughout a 90-day service agreement, with flexible coaching options based on your team’s needs.
By implementing GaMEP’s Gallup Strength Coaching & Team Building services, you will:
- Improve team communication and collaboration
- Increase employee engagement and productivity
- Strengthen leadership effectiveness
- Foster a culture of personal growth and continuous improvement
Scaling Up
Executive Coaching
Work with a certified Scaling Up coach to implement a proven framework for sustainable business growth.
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Scaling a business in a sustainable way takes time, a structured approach, and a unified vision. Through a combination of strategic planning, executive coaching, and team working sessions, GaMEP executive leadership coaches can help you develop a clear growth roadmap and the operational habits to support it. Based on the Rockefeller Habits and the four key decisions of Scaling Up – people, strategy, execution, and cash – this program equips leadership teams with the tools and disciplines needed to scale effectively and profitably.
GaMEP will:
- Conduct assessments and a business review to understand the current state of your company.
- Lead a two-day strategic planning session to understand your business goals and strategy.
- Facilitate monthly leadership meetings (first three in person).
- Provide one-on-one executive coaching after each monthly session.
- Host quarterly review and planning sessions.
- Offer ongoing support via calls and email.
By implementing this service, you will:
- Create a clear long-term vision
- Build a roadmap to achieve your goals
- Implement the structure needed for success
- Scale up in a profitable and sustainable way
Human Resource
Optimization
Strategically manage and optimize your workforce to maximize productivity, efficiency, and overall performance.
Customized Leadership & Team Development Services
Tackle your company’s unique challenges with the help of an experienced leadership and team development coach.
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GaMEP’s leadership and team development experts have decades of experience working in manufacturing companies, leading teams, and building organizations. We can help your team find and implement solutions for your unique business challenges.
GaMEP offers customized leadership & team development services such as:
- Interim advisory board services
- Succession planning
- Executive, functional team, and individual leader standard work
- Performance management systems
- And much more
By utilizing GaMEP’s customized leadership and team development services, you will:
- Gain a trusted advisor
- Tap into years of manufacturing leadership experience
- Implement customized solutions to meet your company’s needs
Leadership Training & Events
GaMEP hosts events and training courses designed specifically for manufacturers.
View our upcoming events and open enrollment training sessions below.
Looking for customized training options? Contact your region manager for more information.
Confident Communication for Manufacturers: Delivering Your Message with Clarity
Strong ideas only matter if they are communicated clearly. Learn how to build confidence speaking in front of groups, from team meetings and leadership discussions to pitching new ideas, so your message is heard, understood, and able to drive consensus and change.
Building Better Leaders with Self-awareness, Self-control, and Empathy
Developing Metrics that Matter to Motivate Performance
Facilitating Effective Employee Training
Turning Conflict into Collaboration for Manufacturing Leaders
This 90-minute course equips manufacturing professionals with the tools to recognize, understand, and resolve conflict constructively.
Professional Communication Pitfalls for Manufacturing Leaders
Leadership Essentials for Manufacturing
Success Stories
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From Silos to Strong Leaders
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