FREE Management Training

Kick off the course by understanding the future of work and leadership and orienting yourself around different mindsets to set yourself up for success. Start getting acquainted with our Unicorn Leadership philosophy - the model that is core to our leadership management course and how it fits into the question of why team-building should be a manager’s main focus.

Finish the week by feeling ready to tackle deeper the improvement of team dynamics, engagement, and performance as it relates to high performing teams.

In this week of manager development training, learn how to make small behavioural shifts to improve manager-employee and employee-employee relationships on the team.
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Unpack how Google discovered the power of psychological safety and how to foster it in your leadership. Dig deep into the intricacies and influence of organizational culture and how to take back the reigns to set up the correct foundations that set up your teams for success. As part of a modern managers development training, receive practical tools like the DISC assessment to further understand and personalize your leadership while gaining insights into others.

Week 3 of the leadership management course you’ll continue to work on developing your emotional intelligence and how it relates to managing relationships with others. Learn about the neuroscience of emotions and why they need to be understood in the modern workplace. Receive a 360 Emotional Intelligence Assessment to not only self-reflect but gather real impressions from your team to be able to instantaneously gather feedback and form a learning plan moving forward. This week is core to addressing the often intangible matters of emotional intelligence in a practical format that will allow you to tackle practical matters of the workplace such as conflict management.

Our enterprise leadership training goes beyond focusing on the manager or leader being trained. In week 4 we teach leaders how to empower their team and by consequence power the entire organization. Become nimble in your decision-making, foster innovation, push the development of your team all through the objective and goal setting process that we offer for empowerment. Learn to clarify roles and responsibilities to help team members own their processes and help you delegate more effectively, liberating you from the constant managerial trap of being a time-starved oversized individual contributor. Learn and appreciate the intricacies and fallacies of decision-making to become smarter in making them yourself and empowering your team to make them on their own too. Expect to walk away with a better understanding of management vs. leadership.

A leadership management course would be incomplete without diving into the depths of effective communication. Learn about the pitfalls and issues of communication and how to address them as a leader in your team and organization. Receive frameworks, tactics, and tools to help foster better conversations between you and your team members, practice more effective listening, and even refine your persuasion skills.

Understand the importance of the free flow of information and what systems you can set up to set yourself up for success as well as how to avoid the costs of unproductive meetings.

Elevate your mastery of communication by facing the less comfortable side of it: conflict management. Challenge and reframe your vision of conflict by learning how to set up your team for productive conflict management through open communication systems.

You can achieve having everyone feel heard, embracing candor, and understanding the different conflict styles to help adapt your leadership. Revisit DISC for a more in-depth appreciation of how DISC shows up in conflict and how you can manage that within yourself and your team members of varying personalities.

In week 7 of our enterprise leadership training learn about the characteristics of effective leaders as it relates to an overall culture of leadership. Understand how to influence this culture of leadership throughout your team by utilizing all previous tools learned and how they come to interplay to foster this greater leadership impact.

Continue to foster your own self-awareness by learning about the different leadership styles and how to oscilate between them all. Receive another assessment tool to reflect and gather feedback from your team on your own leadership from which you can set another learning and action plan to better yourself in this area.

Learn how to extend your development through this manager's development training to shift your leadership to the coaching of your members. Extending development throughout the organization will help you take on leadership fluidity in your organization and inspire others to step into leadership regardless of their titles. This culture of leadership increases company agility and allows you to respond to modern business challenges quicker.

We provide you tools, questions, and conversations to set your coaching up for success and even provide development and progress review frameworks with coaching in mind.

Uncover the proper roots of purpose by exploring motivation, personal meaning, and a sense of impact and contribution relates to your employees. Learn how to help facilitate better motivation in the workplace and how to connect meaning to work. Receive tools to help revamp your recognition and rewards systems as well as how to implement a greater culture of learning to contribute to a continuous growth mindset and foster innovation.

By the end of week 9 you will have the tools to continue harnessing the power of culture as it relates to purpose to create change and introduce a new purposeful vision for the team.

Many leadership training for managers often can leave out topics surrounding culture and all-encompassing vision to C-Suite leadership. At Unicorn Labs, we believe that everyone must be involved and contribute to the all-encompassing vision. This week we take you through the deep unpacking of what a vision actually is and what it is not. We provide tangible steps, exercises and pointer questions to help you uncover your vision and propel it forward through grounded goal-setting. Learn to communicate that vision internally in a way that fosters alignment and shifts from the typical dry corporate language with strategies void of heart and commitment. Participate in strategic planning to help conceptualize road maps that bring your vision to life.

Many leadership training for managers often can leave out topics surrounding culture and all-encompassing vision to C-Suite leadership. At Unicorn Labs, we believe that everyone must be involved and contribute to the all-encompassing vision. This week we take you through the deep unpacking of what a vision actually is and what it is not. We provide tangible steps, exercises and pointer questions to help you uncover your vision and propel it forward through grounded goal-setting. Learn to communicate that vision internally in a way that fosters alignment and shifts from the typical dry corporate language with strategies void of heart and commitment. Participate in strategic planning to help conceptualize road maps that bring your vision to life.

At the end of our leadership management course you’ll have a chance to revisit all of the highlights of the course and understand how it all fits together as part of the Unicorn Leadership philosophy.

Review and build your leadership toolbox with the most important concepts that will serve your leadership practice.

Spend time reflecting on your journey and look ahead to understand how to best move forward with momentum in a way that is productive both for you and the success of your team and organization.