What Is Leadership Training?

Leadership training is designed to upskill the capabilities of individuals in leadership positions. The EDA Inc. leadership development course aims to increase participants’ abilities to excel professionally and personally, but perhaps more importantly, the program equips organizational leaders with the proficiencies and knowledge they need to tap into the full potential of their respective teams.

In addition to teaching new skills, EDA Inc.’s advanced leadership course is designed to refine the current abilities of its participants by systematically identifying their potential weak points and addressing such deficiencies using science-backed processes.

The agile nature of EDA Inc.’s leadership development training course also makes it suitable for a broad range of industries. EDA Inc. has developed leadership training courses for clients in industries such as:

• Healthcare
• Government
• Information technology
• Manufacturing

Despite the diverse array of challenges facing organizations in each of the aforementioned industries, EDA Inc. has been able to help all of our clients overcome these hurdles by providing them with timely and data-driven leadership training.

Who We Serve

EDA Inc. partners with large-cap public and private companies, mid-sized organizations, and small businesses that are all looking to gain a competitive advantage in their respective industries. Our fully scalable suite of services can be modified to meet the needs of any business, regardless of industry, maturity level, or size.

Our general leadership development training course is our most popular leadership upskilling solution, designed around the foundational principles that promote collaboration, teamwork, and communication. It can also be modified to include custom sessions that address the unique needs of your specific industry.

In addition to a general leadership development training course, we also offer several specialized workshops for businesses operating in government, healthcare, or higher education. These courses address challenges distinctive to the aforementioned industries so that leaders within such sectors can cultivate a strong culture in their respective companies.

Regardless of what industry you operate within or where your business is at in its journey toward growth, EDA Inc.’s advanced leadership development training can help you go further faster. We’ll equip your organizational leaders with the skills they need to succeed so that they can effectively fulfill their responsibilities and help their subordinates reach their true potential.

What Makes Our Advanced Leadership Course Different?

Your run-of-the-mill leadership seminar is typically filled to the brim with new-age buzzwords, but many of these courses lack any real substance or data-driven approaches. Naturally, they lead to underwhelming results and a general disillusionment with leadership training.

By this point, you’re probably wondering what makes EDA Inc.’s advanced leadership course so different from these dime-a-dozen seminars. The easy answer is “everything!”

Our advanced leadership training program has been expertly designed to deliver real value for our clients. At the end of the day, our top priority is to help your business be as successful as possible by providing guidance, resources, and expertise. To that end, we have created a truly unique advanced leadership course by leveraging the following:

Systematic Processes

The biggest shortfall of most leadership training courses is that they are generic. The hosts of these seminars attempt to apply a one-size-fits-all framework instead of taking the time to learn the individual needs of each of their clients.

Conversely, EDA Inc. uses systematic processes to base and customize our leadership training course around your company’s specific needs, challenges, and pain points. When partnering with our firm, we will assign a dedicated Leadership Development Expert to your account, who will work hand-in-hand with your in-house team to identify your needs, create an appropriate plan of action, and select assessments that will provide insights into the state of your business.

Our organized procedures provide us with actionable intelligence that we then use to craft your customized leadership training course. After we know where your company stands, we can help you get to where you want to go with leadership development workshops, consulting, and follow-up assessments.

An Approach Centered Around Your Needs

From the moment you connect with our team, you’ll immediately notice that our focus is always squarely on your brand and its challenges. We want to understand the inner workings of your company so that we can develop tailored solutions to optimize its performance as a business.

Our “you-centric” approach serves several purposes. First and foremost, it ensures that our leadership training course delivers a strong return on investment and makes a meaningful impact on your company.

Additionally, this approach optimizes buy-in amongst your organizational leaders, as the materials being presented to them will be timely, relevant, and useful. Increasing participant buy-in is critical to maximizing training efficacy, and it’s why we work tirelessly to understand your business and its competitive positioning within its industry.

Experience-Driven Workshops

For over four decades, EDA Inc. has been helping its clients tackle their greatest challenges by providing leadership training and consulting services. We tap into this abundance of experience when creating leadership development workshops for your business, and every session in these workshops is carefully designed to make an impact on your business and upskill its participants.

While the specific scope and duration of each workshop will vary based on your needs, most workshops last three days. Each day is filled with engaging sessions, team consultations, and one-on-one interactions between participants and our leadership experts. The varied nature of our workshops is designed as such to keep participants intrigued and involved from the initial breakout to the closing session.

Customized Daily Schedules

At EDA Inc., we understand that it is difficult, if not impossible, to tie up all of your organization’s leadership for a three-day workshop. With that in mind, we offer customized daily scheduling so that all organizational leadership can benefit from the workshop while also fulfilling their normal responsibilities. If needed, we can further modify the schedule or the overall duration of the workshop to maximize participation.

Tailored Programs

When designing your leadership training course, EDA Inc. will work with your staff to identify their needs and goals. We want to ensure that our training course helps you move closer toward key organizational objectives. Once we have outlined your top priorities, needs, and goals, we will begin creating your tailored program.

The tailored nature of our leadership development training courses is one of the key differentiators of our program. Instead of using a generic framework, we create a truly customized program that incorporates proven best practices and relevant organizational data so that we can more effectively serve your business.

The Scope of Our Management Skills Courses

Individuals who complete EDA Inc.’s leadership training are given the opportunity to hone a variety of talents in our management skills course. The abilities and talents that participants will gain from our management skills course include the following:

Foundations of Effective Leadership

While the majority of your company’s management personnel likely already possess foundational leadership skills, EDA Inc. ensures that those skills are highlighted in our workshops.

We cover foundational principles, such as the difference between a leader and a manager, and our experts convey what a leader needs to “be” for their subordinates. In other words, the way in which leaders should provide support is driven home so that they can enable their staff to be more successful.

Covering the essentials of effective leadership sets the stage for the rest of the workshop. Through the remaining sessions, our experts will build on these core elements and help participants strengthen other essential leadership skills.

Relationship Building

Over time, employees develop strong sentiments about both their direct supervisors and top-level organizational leaders. Fortunately, supervisors and executives have a direct influence over whether these sentiments are positive or negative. With that in mind, EDA Inc. focuses on teaching leaders relationship-building skills during our workshops.

The relationship-building segment of our workshops focuses on teaching organizational leaders how to cultivate supportive, collaborative relationships that are built on mutual respect. Our team emphasizes the importance of proactively forming connections by communicating positively with employees while setting clear expectations.

Team-Oriented Communication

Communicating is effectively an art form. Organizational leaders must know how to tailor their delivery based on their audience while simultaneously keeping their messaging and expectations consistent. However, effective communication is particularly challenging when interacting with teams that span multiple generations.

In light of this, team-oriented communication is one of the key skills taught in our leadership development training courses. We discuss how leaders can promote collaboration by promoting solutions, not simply by communicating concerns or displeasure. We educate leaders on providing constructive criticism while simultaneously minimizing friction between themselves and their staff members.

The communication skills taught during EDA Inc.’s leadership development training will benefit not only participants professionally but personally as well. Even the most talented communicators serve to benefit from learning new communication skills at our expertly crafted workshops.

Timely Decision-Making

Two of the most integral responsibilities of a business leader are to lead problem-solving efforts and make timely decisions. Even slight delays to the decision-making process can allow prime opportunities to fall by the wayside and put their business at a competitive disadvantage.

Through EDA Inc.’s advanced leadership development course, we help attendees develop an efficient framework for weighing risks and making decisions, enabling them to improve the agility of their teams and improve overall operational efficiency. We also discuss proven problem-solving practices so that participants can enhance their ability to resolve emerging productivity hurdles.

Self-Awareness

Before an individual can become an effective leader, they must first possess a high level of self-awareness. They must understand their own strengths and weaknesses, leadership style, and personal preferences.

EDA Inc. will work to improve every participant’s self-awareness during one-on-one breakout sessions. Each participant will be paired with one of our leadership experts, and together, the duo will explore the soon-to-be leader’s management practices, personality traits, and talents.

As part of this process, we will also work to assess and enhance participants’ emotional intelligence. Individuals with high emotional intelligence will not only be more self-aware, but they will also have a greater level of empathy toward others, which, in turn, will empower them to resolve workplace conflicts and promote collaboration between subordinates.

Change Management

The majority of people do not like change, but change, and the inevitable friction that comes with it, is a necessary part of growing a business. With that in mind, EDA Inc. will work to strengthen workshop participants’ change-management skills. We cover core change-management concepts, such as:

• Keeping employees in the loop
• Optimizing staff buy-in to the change
• Proactively reducing friction through training
• Providing ongoing support to simplify the transition to new tech or processes

The change-management skills that participants learn during the program will be invaluable as your organization rolls out innovative technology, shakes up team structures, or implements new procedures.

Benefits of Our Leadership Development Course

The EDA Inc. leadership development course will yield many benefits for its participants, the line-level staff that works for your management team, and the company as a whole. By leveraging our leadership training services, your organization can achieve the following:

Gain Valuable Insights into Company Culture

When designing your custom leadership development course, EDA Inc.’s team of experts will administer various assessments to your personnel.

These assessments serve several purposes, the first of which is to identify potential strengths and weaknesses among your leadership team. We can use these science-backed tools to target specific deficiencies that might be leaving a negative impact on organizational productivity and profitability.

In addition to guiding our course development efforts, these assessments also provide deep insights into the company culture. You can measure current morale amongst staff, determine whether your employees are engaged, and gauge the overall health of your business.

In turn, you can use these insights to promote a more positive workplace culture, proactively address potential concerns, and optimize morale from top to bottom.

Teach Supervisors Valuable Leadership Management Skills

At its most basic level, our leadership training program is designed to teach supervisors valuable administrative skills that they will use in both their current positions and the rest of their careers.

Investing in your leaders by using our training services will pay dividends for years to come, and with our leadership management skills program, you can guarantee that your current supervisors are delivering value to your organization. You can also allow prospective leaders to attend our leadership training in order to prepare them to step into future management roles.

Strengthen Morale Among Organizational Leaders

Investing in your company’s leadership team will strengthen their morale and nurture their feelings of loyalty toward the company. Everyone, including organizational leaders, wants to feel as though they have value within the company they work for.

Providing your leadership with the opportunity to gain new skills and further their careers is a great way of demonstrating that you are committed to their success, and when you invest in leadership training, you will boost not just morale amongst organizational leaders but general employees as well.

Line-level staff will appreciate that their direct supervisors are equipped with the skills necessary to lead them effectively.

Promote Better Employee Retention

In the long term, our advanced leadership development training can improve employee retention rates, as your employees will experience higher morale and better job satisfaction when they work for a supervisor that is skilled at conflict resolution and communication.

Improving employee retention will, in turn, lead to better profitability for your business. You will waste less time and resources training new employees and recruiting replacements for outbound staff while also being more productive as a team because you are more adequately staffed.

Tapping into each of these benefits starts with developing a team of skilled and passionate leaders, and EDA Inc. can help you do just that with our leadership development training program.

Enhance Collaboration Between Line-Level Staff and Leaders

When friction exists between line-level staff and their supervisors, these two groups are far less likely to collaborate to accomplish organizational goals. Instead, the groups are more likely to be at odds with one another, which can significantly decrease productivity.

EDA Inc.’s advanced leadership training workshops promote better collaboration by teaching participants valuable conflict resolution and communication skills. Upon completing our workshop, supervisors will be able to more effectively demonstrate empathy toward their subordinates, thereby promoting collaboration amongst team members.

Ready to Experience the EDA Difference?

At EDA Inc., we provide clients like you with a new and unique way to evaluate the impacts of leadership on organizational culture, productivity, and profitability. We use our data-driven assessment tools to get to the bottom of what keeps your business from reaching its true potential.

After we have uncovered the root cause of your business challenges, we leverage our dynamic array of leadership development programs to move you closer to achieving your strategic goals.

We have a general leadership development program that can be customized to meet the needs of virtually any industry, an excellent resource for small businesses, mid-cap public and private companies, and every size of organization in between.

But in addition to our general leadership development training program, we also have specialized courses for businesses operating in healthcare, government, or higher education.

Regardless, if your organization is ready to make meaningful progress toward its growth goals by cultivating a winning culture, EDA Inc. can help. To learn more about our leadership development training courses, connect with a company culture optimization expert today.