Here are the Keys to Successful Leadership Results – Right from the Start

Getting promoted (especially to a supervisory role) is exciting . . . and scary. With a promotion to leadership, supervision or management comes some unexpected challenges and changes to roles in your responsibilities, relationships, and perspectives.

Perhaps you don’t really know what is expected of you.

Perhaps you got promoted over your friends or peers, and aren’t sure how to make those relationships work.

Perhaps you got the job . . . and others you know wanted it (badly).

The reality is leadership is complex to start with, and when you add all of these concerns on top of it, it can be daunting.

Given all of that – we know the rest of the story too . . .

You want to do well… but you want to do more than survive, or stumble around trying to learn it all by trial and error.

You want to be successful.

You want to make a difference.

Do you have the support, knowledge and skills you need to succeed?

Are you getting the training you need?

Sadly, according to careerbuilder.com more than 60% of new leaders don’t get any training at all.

Even if your organization does provide some training, it often comes too late and lacks a focus on leadership skills that can help you become effective in communicating with, collaborating with, and coaching your reports.

If you are looking for quality, focused, practical supervisor training, you’ve come to the right place. Since October 2009, we’ve been facilitating the workshop across America with people from organizations of all types and sizes in nearly any industry you can name.

Here’s What People Are Saying about The Bud to Boss Workshop:

"This was a great seminar with tons of useful information! I definitely have more tools to use in my tool kit. The presentation styles made this seminar very engaging! Will definitely recommend to others!"
- Bryan Nguyen, Florida Virtual School

"I could not have asked for more! Very clear and well spoken. Excellent balance between humor, content and group involvement."
- Carol Hellickson, Ranier View Water Company

"The information provided during the seminar will be very useful in my personal transition of going from "Bud to Boss" and becoming a great leader and inspiring others to become leaders."
- Emily Riggs, Iasis Healthcare

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The Bud to Boss Workshop is an interactive, engaging and practical two day workshop for new supervisors and leaders – or those making a new transition at any point in their leadership career. It is jam-packed with ideas and skills to make you (or the supervisors in your organization) more confident in your role and more successful with your team and in your career!

The Bud to Boss Workshop incorporates and brings to life the tips and techniques outlined in Kevin Eikenberry and Guy Harris’ best-selling book, From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition to Remarkable Leadership, written, in part, to answer the specific questions new leaders ask them every day.

What You Will Learn at the Bud to Boss Workshop

The workshop is divided into these six important sections, designed to help you build your skills one step at a time.

Succeeding in Your Supervisor Role
Communication Skills for Successful Supervisors
Coaching and Feedback for Real Results
Leading and Championing Change
Leading Teams to Higher Performance
Setting and Getting Goals (For Yourself and Others)

Specifically, you will learn . . .

How to create a personal definition of leadership
13 keys to leadership success
How to transition to your supervisory/leadership role, “from Bud to Boss”
The 11 components of the supervisor role
The control/empowerment balance
The power of expectations
How to effectively communicate with different people
7 ways to make your communication more powerful, persuasive and memorable
6 ways to listen better at work tomorrow - and every day
6 keys to winning presentations
Use the Coaching ABC’s
3 sources of feedback
4 types of feedback
10 ways to give better feedback
6 ways to make performance reviews less painful and more effective
10 ways to be more supportive
How to use a practical coaching model
The 4 levers of change - what they are and how to use them
The critical differences between managing, leading and championing change
Why resistance doesn’t have to be a bad thing
3 ways to overcome resistance
5 ways to accelerate organizational change
How to use the 4 stages of team development
How to manage conflict on your team
3 ways to increase team energy and effectiveness
7 keys to better meetings
The role of a team leader
5 keys to a successful goal-setting mindset - and why it is important
10 steps to setting achievable goals
How to engage others in team goal setting
5 ways to improve goal achievement success

If this workshop will help you move forward in your career – if it will help you answer the questions that nag you each day – or if it will support the organizational need you have for a variety of new supervisors and leaders, then you are in the right place!

Maximize Your Investment

As great as the workshop is, like any workshop, when you return to work, you will have additional questions, and you might encounter a challenge in applying all you learned. After training is an event, and learning (and application) is a process.

That’s we created the Bud to Boss Mastery Coaching Program.

After attending any training in the past, have you ever . . .

Struggled applying everything you planned to apply?
Had trouble remembering all of the key ideas that you could apply?
Not received the support back at work to use your new skills and ideas?
Wished you had someone else who had been to the class to talk to, bounce ideas off of, and more?
Not gotten the best coaching support from your boss – or even if they were supportive – was it hard to communicate with them about ideas they didn’t hear in the workshop?
Have new communication challenges that you want to conquer?

If any of these things ring true, we have created the solution for you.

You’ve been to enough training in your life to know that one workshop isn’t your single ticket to communication excellence and that you can’t expect to go back after two days and get it all right, all of the time. Bottom line, you can’t answer all of your communication questions in a classroom (though we will do our very best) and you can’t change life-long habits overnight.

As we said before, training is an event, but learning is a process.

Do expect that when you get home from the training you will get all the coaching and support that you need to answer your questions, reduce your fears, calm your anxieties and move you towards being the leader –– you are capable of becoming?

Introducing the Bud to Boss Mastery Program

When you register for the Bud to Boss Workshop, you can choose the Mastery Bundle, which gives you direct and personal access to Steve Johnston – one of the certified Bud to Boss Trainers (he may be the facilitator of your workshop) for one full hour, twice a month, for a full year.

As a Mastery Program participant, you will attend the workshop then have twice-monthly access to live group tele-coaching calls (with a web simulcast) with Steve to master the strategies and techniques you learn in the workshop.

Imagine being able to return from the workshop and have access to:

Answers to your most pressing questions.
Advice on your stickiest situations.
Advice on implementing your ideas and plans more successfully.
An opportunity to share successes.
Confirmation that what you are planning to try will work.

To set yourself up for success, when you register choose the Mastery Bundle. In doing so, you will get the ongoing support you need through your leadership transition and beyond.

Please take a moment to fill out the form at the top right area on this page to get more information about a Bud to Boss Workshop in a location that interests you. Or use the button below to register for an event, now.