The Programs:

Leadership Live- “Give your manager an executive coach for a day!”
***Featured Program***

Leadership Live is an ultra-interactive program for managers.  Participants will learn how to excel in the common and not so common managerial challenges.  This program is comprised of real-time role plays and video evaluation all done in a live format.

Life doesn't always give you a dress rehearsal, but we will.

Sometimes it is just too easy to sit through a leadership development program and nod your head in agreement.  Leadership Live shows participants what leadership looks like in real-time. Actualizing leadership training occurs when education is connected with application.  Real-time exposure to common scenarios and dilemmas can make all the difference.

Leadership is not canned nor is a manager’s day.  Leadership Live is set up in such a way as to be customized to reflect the daily challenges of managers.  Leadership Live has been developed to deliver Solutions-Based Training.

Training and Development

Most important is that fact that DCG training classes are proven in their development effectiveness.  Three-ringed binders that would only collect dust have been replaced by power sheets and experiential learning by the best facilitators in the business.  DCG Training classes are all created by the Solutions-Based Training® methodology.  DCG Classes are training with an edge to give you the edge.

New Manager Transition Program

The New Manager Transition Program is a comprehensive program for new managers to help them make that critical jump from individual contributor to supervising others.  Unfortunately, many new managers do not get this type of training until years into their position.  It is critical for new managers to know their responsibility in compliance, know how to review people, and how to lead their reports to performance.  Topics include: Transition to Manager, Legal Responsibilities, Hiring, Performance Management, Corrective Action, and the additional core skills needed to lead others.

Experienced Managers--- Individual Program or as a Battery

DCG can help you fulfill or create the best leadership development curriculum for your organization.  The following CLASSES are can be provided as individual offering or as a battery of classes to meet your curriculum needs. 

The List of Class Offerings Includes:

• Advanced Leadership-Leaderview 1
• Communications for Managers
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• Effective Interviewing
• Situational Leadership for the 21st Century
• Managerial Time-Management
• Decision-Making for Managers
• Coaching and Motivating Employees
• Performance Management
• Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
• Holding Effective Meetings
• Consultative Selling Skills/Relationship Selling
• And other customized programs as well

Director Level Development

In today’s companies, the Director level is often not fully prepared for their role in the organization. Directors need a broader perspective than the managerial levels and must act for the Vice Present in building out the strategy for the division or department.  The skills needed for Directors include a new level of Strategic Thinking and an increase in over all acumen.  The following programs provide for proper development of Directors.

• AIDD-Accelerated Individual Development for Directors is a 1-1 Coaching Initiative that occurs over 8 weeks/ 8 Sessions that provides intense and personalized development to Directors. The outcome of this program is to improve leadership effectiveness, develop an actionable career and development plan, and to improve business sophistication.  This program can be integrated with existing training and succession programs.

• Leadership Edge 929- L929 is an Action Learning program that requires classroom time, out of class assignments, and real-time structured conversations with VP’s.  The result of this program is increased Strategic Thinking capacity and an actionable Strategic Plan for the division.

TALDEV Navigator: Employee Development

Most employees have poor or no career development plan is place.  For a variety of reasons, including time and ill-equipped bosses, employees are existing without a plan.  This affects retention, performance, and future bench strength.  TALDEV is a stepwise, self-directed planning process and tool that provides robust Personal Development and a Career Plan for employees.  This tool ensures that each and every employee possesses a significant personal career development plan.  This fills the GAP between the boss and the Performance Management tool to make sure that a Development Plan exists.  TALDEV can be completed in both hard-copy and, in summer of 2007, electronic format.

HR Professionals:

More than ever, HR Departments and HR professionals are being asked to raise the bar.  As many traditional generalist functions are centralized or outsourced, HR professionals are being asked to be a true business partner to their internal customers.  However, most HR professionals are ‘partners’ in name only.  Learn critical competencies for the HR Leader of the 21st century.

• Facilitation Skills
• Interventions
• Coaching 360 Feedback
• Becoming a Business Partner to your company

DCG Media Custom Training Videos:

Often the best training videos are the ones not only customized for an organization but those that actually use the employees and offices of that organization.  Employees like to see themselves and their cohorts on screen.  More importantly, the employees themselves now become a part of the solution of what the training video is trying to address.  Contact us for an evaluation and price quote.

LeaderEdge Outdoor Program

Take your management team out of the standard learning environment…way out of it. The LeaderEdge Outdoor Survival Program integrates the very best in management development with outdoor adventure programs. It was formed to meet the requests of corporations who desire a curriculum that will provide effective leadership training in an intense experiential environment. LeaderEdge provides the emotional thrust of outdoor
adventure with the intellectual capital of effective leadership training.

The Course

The LeaderEdge program is a 3-5 day program designed to incorporate proven leadership expertise with outdoor survival skills in a beautiful and natural environment. Our home base for the majority of our program is in Southeast Utah in the Redrock district. Basic Structure of the field course is built on the balance of traditional learning, primitive living, self-awareness, team building, and experiential learning. The course is physically and mentality demanding on many levels but always worth it!

Have Flipchart will Hike:

LeaderEdge combines traditional adult education methods with the best experiential learning structure available. Picture hiking many miles a day and camping with very little modern equipment while taking on leadership instruction and challenges. The environment that the learning will take place is about as far outside of the box as possible and implores participants to look at things and themselves differently.

Traditional Learning:

Throughout the field course familiar methods of teaching will be utilized such as flipcharts, workbooks and models. However, the desks will tend to be rocks and the role-plays will take place in a cave or under a cottonwood tree. At the core of all leadership is character and good decision-making. This is what is left after you strip away technology, computers, cell phones, PowerPoint presentations, and all the modern tools we rely on. LeaderEdge believes that the real person will come out and able to grow when modern tools are taken away and one is faced to live with and make the best of the basics.

LeaderEdge provides the experience in a primitive living/survival type environment. During the course of the program participants will learn skill such as Making Fire with Sticks (Friction Fires), Making Primitive Shelters, Survival Attitude, Finding Food and Water, and Map /Compass Skills.

Each of these skills are learned and then tied back to a REAL business lessons to be implemented and integrated at the office. These skills also tend to have a lifelong positive effect on each individual.