Leadership Training

Explore the transformative power of our Leadership Training at Motivaim, designed for both new and experienced leaders. Our courses equip you with vital skills for strategic leadership and effective communication in today’s dynamic business landscape.

Welcome to our Professional Development hub, where you’ll find a team of expertly trained and certified professionals specializing in Leadership and Organizational Development.

We’re dedicated to designing tailor-made solutions that cater to your managers, supervisors, and individual contributors’ unique needs. Our courses are dynamic and engaging, built upon proven frameworks and methods.

They are woven together to enhance complementary skills at all levels, resulting in significant, organization-wide impact.

We offer flexible learning formats to accommodate your needs, including virtual or in-person sessions for groups of up to 35 participants. Choose from half-day sessions spanning 3 hours or engage in comprehensive full-day sessions.

Analytical skills empower individuals to dissect complex issues, leading to clearer problem-solving and informed decision-making. They are pivotal in optimizing processes, driving innovation, and enhancing communication, making them invaluable across all professional fields.

Critical Thinking Skills

Solving problems. Evaluating options. Choosing direction. You need to be adept at critical thinking every day on the job. Learn how to tell the difference between effective and ineffective methods of thought. When you show that your decisions are based on sound reasoning, you give yourself an unbeatable advantage as a leader or a rising star. Asking powerful questions are open-ended questions that encourage reflection and critical thinking. By asking powerful questions, you can help your team members to identify their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for growth.

Decision Making

Decision-making refers to the process of selecting a course of action or making a choice among available alternatives. Effective decision-making requires a combination of analytical thinking, critical judgment, creativity, and considering both rational and intuitive aspects. This course teaches you the essential decision-making techniques: identifying the decisions, gathering information, generating, and evaluating alternatives, making and implementing the decision, and evaluating the outcome.

Leading Change Skills

Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change highlights a critical analysis of organizational change and transformation from theoretical and practical perspectives. It addresses the individual, team, and organizational issues of leading and managing people before, during, and after a change, using case studies and interviews with people from organizations in different industries across the globe. While structures, systems, processes, and strategies are relatively simple to understand and fix, people are more complex. Change can have a different impact on everyone, which can cause different attitudes and reactions.

Problem-Solving Skills

Problem-solving is the cognitive process of finding solutions to complex or challenging situations or issues. It involves critical thinking, creativity, analytical skills, and the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate a problem or goal, devise and implement strategies or actions to overcome obstacles, achieve the desired outcome, and continuously monitor and assess the outcome to adjust if needed.

Design Thinking

Design thinking offers a structured framework to approach complex problems and encourages a creative and user-centered mindset. It is widely used in various fields, including product design, service design, business strategy, and innovation, to create meaningful and practical solutions that address user needs. This course teaches you the core principles of design thinking and the six stages of the process: Empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and iterate.

Ethics, Security, and Privacy

Training in these areas helps individuals and organizations understand and navigate the complex ethical, security, and privacy challenges they may encounter. The training will focus on:

Ethics training focuses on promoting ethical behavior and decision-making. It helps individuals understand the moral implications of their actions and guides them in making responsible choices.
Security training aims to educate individuals about potential threats and vulnerabilities in information systems, networks, social media, fraud, and identify theft.
Privacy training focuses on educating individuals about privacy laws, regulations, and best practices for handling personal and sensitive information. It covers data protection, minimization, consent management, and user privacy rights.

By investing in ethics, security, and privacy training, individuals and organizations can foster a culture of responsibility, protect sensitive information, and ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards.

Data Visualization - Category: Analytical Skills

Data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Advanced Excel enable the creation of interactive dashboards and visual representations of data. These tools facilitate data exploration, analysis, and decision-making by presenting insights in a user-friendly and visually appealing manner. In this class, we will review the capabilities of Microsoft Excel (level 3) and PowerBI, widely used spreadsheet applications with built-in data visualization capabilities. They offer a range of chart types, conditional formatting, and data exploration tools. Excel is accessible to many users and can be an excellent option for essential data visualization needs.

Career development fosters professional growth and skill enhancement, leading to increased job satisfaction, higher earning potential, and expanded opportunities for advancement.

Career Planning and Development

The training will provide a thorough understanding of the concepts and activities essential for successful career planning and development. Some of the most important concepts will be covered in training: strengths and interests, setting clear goals, continuously learning and developing, building your network, seeking feedback, embracing challenges, flexibility, and adaptability. Remember that career planning and development is an ongoing process. Stay focused, be proactive, and continue to learn and grow throughout your career.

Interview Preparation

Interview preparation is critical to presenting yourself in the best possible light. In this class, the participants will learn to practice, research, and conduct self-assessments. They will also learn techniques and tips on approaching and preparing for every interview differently. Areas such as researching the company, understanding the job description, preparing interview questions and behavioral questions, body language nuances, etc., will all be covered in this class.

Professional Branding

Professional branding entails creating and managing your professional image and reputation. It involves defining and communicating your unique value proposition, skills, expertise, and personal attributes to your target audience, whether employers, colleagues, or clients. A solid professional brand can differentiate you from others, enhance your credibility, and open up opportunities for career advancement.

Resume Writing

Resume writing is a crucial skill when it comes to job applications. A well-crafted resume can effectively highlight your qualifications, skills, and experiences, increasing your chances of getting noticed by employers. You will learn how to update your resume and modify it according to the desired job and how to tailor your resume to highlight strengths, skills, experience, and personal value. You will also learn how to create a resume from scratch, including the format, structure, and keeping it concise and a standout.

Self-Assessment and Career Exploration

Self-assessment and career exploration are essential steps in finding a career that aligns with your interests, skills, and values. They are ongoing processes. This class will teach you skills and tips such as regularly reassessing your goals, interests, and abilities as you gain new experiences and your priorities evolve. We will also discuss behavioral tips such as staying patient with yourself and embracing the journey of discovering a career that brings you fulfillment and satisfaction.

Transitioning from Staff to Manager

Transitioning from staff to manager requires a shift in mindset and skillset. Here are some essential skills you’ll need to develop to be successful in your new role: leadership skills to inspire, coach, and guide your team, the ability to listen, provide feedback and communicate with your team, delegate tasks, give credit and provide clear instructions, time management and prioritization, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, strategic thinking, and cultural sensitivity.

Effective written communication ensures clarity of message, enhances professional credibility, and serves as a permanent record for reference, enabling efficient information exchange and collaboration, leading to transparent decision-making and problem-solving.

Business and Email Writing

This practical course offers exercises and immediate feedback to help you quickly develop this crucial skill. Learn a simple process for crafting a clear and concise message and get hands-on practice writing for the desired results—in the correct tone—with complete clarity and precision. You’ll also review correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. You will learn to persuade resistant readers to act on your recommendations, tactfully deliver the inappropriate message, and avoid emotionally charged messages.

Public Speaking and Presentation

How you look. How you act. How you present yourself. That’s how you connect with the people at work who count on you for guidance. The truth is: that the art of building relationships and communicating effectively isn’t taught in the classroom. But it’s all right here. Learn how to use words, gestures, and humor to communicate better as a leader and strengthen your executive presence. Participants will be introduced to various delivery techniques, including building rapport with the audience, using body language and humor, and facilitating a question-and-answer session.

Instructional Design - Creating Digital Content

Instructional Design is the practice of identifying a performance gap (typically in the workplace) and designing a training solution or relevant content to close that gap. It typically involves following a process, such as ADDIE: analyze the need, design a solution, develop materials, implement the solution, and then evaluate the impact using one of several evaluation frameworks.

Email Etiquette

Students will learn how to write effective messages and e-policies, use e-mail accessories and passwords, and prevent your password from being stolen. Course activities also cover using the subject line, considering your recipient, managing e-mail volume, following netiquette guidelines, attaching files, preparing for recipient reactions, and using emoticons effectively. Students also learn about the differences between online and traditional paper-based writing, achieving e-mail message objectives, using correct punctuation, constructing effective sentences and paragraphs, editing your e-mail messages, and using active voice in writing.

Creating Powerful Presentations

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of creating a powerful and effective presentation that captivates the audience and conveys a clear message leading to follow-up action. The course addresses the topics of the presentation process, the purpose of the story, the target audience, the presentation structure, using visual aids, using the latest flow techniques and graphics that enhance the audience listening experience, how to create interactive sessions, and how to close the presentation on a high note.

Storyline Skills for Presentations

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of creating powerful stories to present. Students will discuss the components of a good speech or story to tell and then learn how to develop their own:

Optimize persuasive elevator pitch and executive briefings.

Create a communications plan with strategic use of visual support.

Deliver coherent recommendations and next steps with benefits to the business.

Ensure clarity of crucial information, requested action, or proposed ideas.

Structure key points instantly

Select appropriate memory hooks for essential concepts.

Have backup plans available.

Proficient verbal communication strengthens interpersonal relationships and facilitates the quick exchange of ideas, fostering understanding and collaboration in personal and professional settings.

Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

It was once believed that intelligence was the metric determining a person’s success in the workplace. Intelligence matters because it contributes to your ability to do your job. But intelligence is not the best indicator of whether you’ll succeed. Your ability to understand and manage your emotions and get along well with others has at least as much impact on your performance and effectiveness as intelligence. In this course, you’ll explore strategies to increase your awareness of your emotions, develop your ability to manage your emotions and improve your social skills.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

People crave feedback. Leaders who learn how to provide effective feedback create opportunities for employees to grow, become motivated, and contribute positively to their organizations. This course shows new and even experienced managers the benefits of developing this critical skill, giving, and receiving feedback. Students will learn specific techniques for receiving and responding to critical feedback and understand the positive impact of praise and positive messages. It includes information on how gender and generational differences can impact employees’ expectations and how well the feedback is received.

Conflict Management in a Diverse Environment

Conflict in a diverse workplace can devastate productivity and morale, whether in visible hostility or silent resentment. Managing interpersonal and cultural differences is essential to business and protects the emotional health of employees. This course will teach you to help others settle their differences and work constructively as individuals and groups with a common purpose.

Build Trust through Communication

How well you communicate can make or break your professional image. It directly influences how others view your work, performance, career advancement, and mobility prospects. Unfortunately, being diplomatic, tactful, and credible doesn’t always come naturally to people. Even when it does, such communication can easily be derailed by emotions and conflicts. To be a communicator skilled in all three areas requires awareness, training, and the know-how to apply proven techniques to situations.

Cross-cultural and Multigenerational Communication

This course teaches students the basics of cross-cultural business communication. Students learn how cultural differences affect speech, nonverbal, and written communication. Students learn how to identify cross-cultural barriers, work with interpreters and translators, organize and participate in cross-cultural meetings, and handle negotiations and problem-solving in cross-cultural meetings.

Interpersonal Communication Skills

To be successful in the workplace, you must effectively communicate and cooperate with coworkers, managers, teams, and external people. You will use various methods to communicate effectively with people in different organizational roles and during conflict and change.

Listening Skills

This course teaches the participants listening skills, one of the most fundamental skills for managers and leaders, leading to increased credibility, trust, and team performance. Listening skills are the ability to receive, interpret, and understand spoken or written information effectively and actively. It is an essential communication skill that involves actively engaging with the speaker or the content being communicated. Good listening skills enable individuals to comprehend information accurately, show empathy, and respond appropriately.

Conducting Difficult Conversations

Conducting difficult conversations can be challenging, but with proper preparation and approach, it is possible to navigate them effectively. This course teaches you the fundamentals of having these conversations in a positive and constructive environment. They include planning and preparing, clarifying the purpose, creating a safe and respectful environment, using effective communication techniques, staying focused and on track, seeking mutual understanding, exploring solutions and common ground, and finally, follow-up and providing support. The course will also teach you how to approach these conversations with empathy, respect, and a willingness to find solutions collaboratively.

High employee engagement leads to increased productivity and retention, creating a positive workplace culture that drives innovation and improves overall business performance.

Effective Time Management

Your time is a precious and limited resource. Too often, you may feel frustrated that there aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything you hope to do. Effective time managers enjoy directing their talents and energy toward productive, goal-centered activities. By identifying improved time management and organizational skills, you, too, can use your time and energy effectively, focusing your efforts on the actions that will help you reach your goals.

Customer Service, Best Practices

Providing excellent customer service is crucial for building strong customer relationships, brand reputation, loyalty, and satisfaction. Many areas and aspects will impact customer experiences, such as a customer-centric mindset, effective communication, problem-solving skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We will also review how customer service teams must be empowered and enabled to deliver on these practices.

Maintaining Positive Mindset

A positive mindset refers to individuals’ mental attitudes, beliefs, and perspectives. It influences their thoughts, emotions, and actions, impacting their overall well-being and performance. We will review techniques on how organizations and employees can facilitate a positive mindset by fostering a supportive and inclusive work culture, encouraging open communication and feedback, providing opportunities for personal and professional growth, and promoting work-life balance and employee well-being.

Achieving Self-Management

Employee engagement and self-management go hand in hand. Self-management refers to an individual’s ability to take ownership of their work, responsibilities, and professional development. When employees effectively manage themselves, they become more engaged, motivated, and productive. This class showcases some strategies such as regularly assessing your progress, seeking feedback, and making adjustments to improve your self-management skills continuously.

Maintaining Resilience

Engaged employees who are invested in their work and committed to their organization are more likely to demonstrate resilience in the face of challenges and setbacks. Resilience refers to the ability to bounce back, adapt, and thrive amid adversity. This class will expose participants to fundamental learnings in the face of adversity, such as staying focused on their purpose and goals, a sense of belonging, motivation and perseverance, problem-solving and a positive mindset.

Holistic Well-Being

Holistic well-being is the overall state of wellness encompassing various aspects of an individual’s life, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It is a comprehensive approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of these different aspects and emphasizes the importance of balance and harmony among them. This workshop will explore the various dimensions and review the best practices and activities contributing to satisfactory well-being. Exploring and finding the practices and activities that resonate with you personally and support your overall well-being is essential.

Harassment Principles physically and virtually

Harassment refers to any unwanted or offensive behavior, often repetitive in nature, that targets an individual or a group and causes distress, fear, or discomfort. The principles related to harassment revolve around creating safe and inclusive environments, respecting personal boundaries, and promoting equal treatment for all. This class will review some of the essential principles, such as respect and dignity, consent, zero tolerance, investigation and action, education and awareness and proactive prevention, and how to handle harassment situations [physically and virtually].

Supervisory skills are the abilities and knowledge that enable individuals to manage teams effectively. These skills encompass leadership, communication, problem-solving, and organizational abilities that help supervisors guide and support their team members, ensuring that tasks are completed efficiently and workplace morale remains high. They are essential for anyone in a position of overseeing staff, managing performance, and fostering professional development among employees.

Management Skills for New Managers

Become the manager you’d like to work for! Take this course to fill your skill gaps and elevate your team—and your career—to new levels of greatness. Be ready to apply what you learn and return to work with new knowledge, insights, and practical methods to help you be a successful and effective new manager. You will learn how to become a master delegator while freeing yourself to lead, adapt to every situation, and communicate with your team with trust and without causing defensiveness.

Making the transition from Staff to Manager

Avoid “growing pains” as you step up to new responsibilities. This course will teach you to get comfortable in your new role and know what’s expected. You will be exposed to the essentials of managing diverse groups encompassing multiple generations and ethnic and cultural characteristics. You will learn new skills to address different behavioral styles to avoid conflict. You will often be asked to manage your ex-peers and lead them with respect and inclusion. This is the course to take to prepare you forward.

Managing Difficult People

This course teaches managers and supervisors how to deal with difficult employees. Students learn about the characteristics and sources of problematic behavior, effective techniques to prevent challenging behavior and effective communication methods. Students will learn the importance of managing knowledge, conducting assessment interviews, asking for employee input, and providing continuing education opportunities for employees. Course activities also cover the effects technology has on the exchange of knowledge and how to use different types of communication technology.

Building and Leading Teams in a Hybrid Environment

An essential strength of effective leadership is forming and leading effective teams. Regarding a team’s success, the buck stops with the team leader. Learn to leverage the advantages of building a team culture and purpose while building trust and authentic connections with team members. Additionally, leaders must learn to recognize the unique differences between building virtual, remote, and co-located teams. The leader must create and sustain trust in the hybrid team, cultivate a virtual leadership presence, and enhance their overall performance as a hybrid leader.

Understanding Diversity, Inclusion, and Racial Equity, in-person or in a virtual environment

This course is intended for Managers and leaders who want to promote and lead an increasingly diverse workforce and client base and promote an inclusive environment, diversity and inclusion leaders, and learning and development professionals. The students will be able to eliminate bias to enhance innovation, productivity, and engagement, communicate inclusively with diverse teams, and boost team and individual performance by leveraging the power of difference.

Leading High-Performance Teams

A diverse team with unique individual perspectives can deliver exceptional results. Having such a team calls for a leader with an arsenal of inclusive leadership practices and keen self-awareness. This course gives you deeper insights into yourself, your team, and the benefits of inclusion at all organizational levels. Through self-assessments, case studies, and proven hands-on activities, you’ll develop competencies and get the tools to create an environment fueled by engagement and innovation. In addition, you’ll learn to apply a roadmap that ensures that all are heard, recognized, and appreciated—so productivity can soar.

Transitioning from Staff to Manager

Delegation and Empowerment

Delegation refers to assigning authority, responsibility, and tasks to other individuals or teams. It involves transferring specific tasks or decision-making authority from one person (usually a manager or supervisor) to another person or group with the necessary skills, knowledge, and competence to carry out the assigned tasks. Delegation allows for workload distribution, promotes collaboration, and enables individuals to own their work.

Empowerment refers to the process of granting individuals the authority, autonomy, and resources to make decisions, take action, and have control over their work and outcomes. It involves creating an environment that encourages and supports individuals to be proactive, innovative, and accountable for their actions.

Leadership skills are a set of abilities that enable an individual to guide, direct, and influence the work and behavior of others toward achieving specific goals. Influential leaders use these skills to drive their organizations forward, foster a positive work environment, and navigate challenges.

Shifting to Strategic Leaders

You have developed skills to be successful in your field. This course will teach you the practical skills you need to be an effective leader and take on new leadership responsibilities. When you learn valuable leadership skills, you’ll be able to motivate, coach, communicate with, and teach employees to be more effective in their job. As a result, you become more effective in your job. Additionally, you will learn how to build, develop, and lead high-performance and effective teams. Finally, you will learn how to communicate and lead by objectives and establishing clear goals.

Coaching Skills for Leaders

Any employee can reach higher levels of performance, but they need a manager who can coach and routinely observe, assess, and interact in ways that develop and maximize their effectiveness. Get skills to help them achieve their fullest performance potential: Explore the skills that support effective coaching, recognize critical issues related to coaching people, and integrate coaching seamlessly into daily interaction with the best performers to greater levels of success.

Strategic Planning Skills

This course teaches a process for developing a clear understanding of your business’s culture, operations, and market position while facilitating the development of a strategic blueprint for gaining the competitive advantage necessary for your business’s success, now and in the future. You will develop an approach to formulating strategic programs and initiatives critical for effectively leading and managing an organization.

Developing Vision, Mission, and Goals Skills

Today’s leader has a vision for tomorrow: a vision that is clear, achievable, motivating, and exciting. Managing by vision allows an organization to create its future. This course shows leaders how to develop organizational vision, values, and mission to build team spirit and productivity. It will introduce students to the process of visioning, creating and articulating values, defining a mission, and cascading goals that allow each employee to participate in delivering the outcome.

Change Management

Change management refers to the structured approach and set of processes used to prepare, support, and guide individuals, teams, and organizations through a period of transition or transformation. This class will introduce participants to the essential principles and techniques of managing change, such as managing the people side of change to ensure the successful adoption and implementation of new initiatives, strategies, technologies, or organizational structures. The class will address approaches to minimizing resistance, addressing concerns, and facilitating a smooth transition, ultimately enabling individuals and organizations to embrace and thrive in the new state.

Adaptive Leadership

Adaptive leadership is a framework Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School developed. It focuses on leading and mobilizing individuals and organizations to address complex, adaptive challenges requiring innovative solutions and change. Adaptive leadership recognizes that traditional leadership approaches may not be effective in situations where there is no clear solution or established path forward. This workshop will review the fundamental principles, activities, and skills needed to lead teams and organizations in times of change or crisis, ambiguity, and uncertainty.

Mastering project and time management skills leads to efficient resource utilization and timely project completion, enhancing overall productivity and reducing stress through organized and strategic planning.

Meeting Management

Professional people often say, “Meetings are a necessary evil.” That’s only half true. They are essential when running a business but don’t have to be a negative experience. With this practical course, you will learn how to make your meetings more productive and worthwhile for attendees, your company, and yourself and make your next meeting your best.

Project Management Fundamentals

The training will provide a thorough understanding of the major project management concepts and activities essential for successful project completion. The following concepts will be covered in training: project scope, planning, organization, tracking, quality management, change control, risk management, roles and responsibilities, monitoring and reporting, and communication.

Collaboration and Teamwork

This course teaches students how to be influential team member. Students learn how to communicate effectively, adapt to various personality styles, overcome common problems, work on aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication, create a supportive team environment, understand the source of team conflict, and employ different conflict resolution styles. Course activities also cover resolving conflict, avoiding the negative consequences of conflict, maximizing real benefits, reaching consensus, and making positive contributions to team decisions.

Agile Project Management

Agile project management is an iterative and flexible approach to managing projects that originated in the software development industry but has since been adopted across various industries. It emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and delivering customer value in shorter cycles or iterations. The Agile methodology is based on the Agile Manifesto, which outlines values and principles for effective project management. The class exposes these principles, such as iterative and incremental delivery, customer collaboration, empowering teams, continuous improvement and planning, risk management, and speed.

Project Management Tools

Given the complexity of projects and managing them effectively, teams are always required to use one of the many tools on the market today. The most prominent and widespread one is Microsoft Project. It is a comprehensive project management tool that provides a range of features to plan, track, and manage projects. It is widely used in various industries to manage project schedules, resources, and tasks effectively, facilitating project success and collaboration among team members.

Telework training equips employees with essential skills for remote work, improving productivity and collaboration in virtual environments while fostering work-life balance and job satisfaction.

Managing a Remote Workforce

Managing a remote workforce requires flexibility, adaptability, and effective communication. It also requires learning and adopting new team and management strategies that we will review in this class. Some fundamental principles are better communication, virtual tools, setting expectations, building additional trust and autonomy, virtual collaboration and meetings using new tools, and maintaining work-life balance. By implementing these strategies, you can create a supportive and productive remote work environment, fostering engagement, collaboration, and success among your remote team members.

Managing Work Productivity

Remote work productivity refers to the effectiveness and output achieved by individuals and teams working remotely. It is a measure of how well remote workers are able to accomplish their tasks and meet their goals without being physically present in a traditional office setting. Remote work productivity relies on self-discipline, effective communication, and leveraging the right tools and strategies. By implementing these practices and focusing on achieving goals, remote workers can optimize their productivity and contribute to the success of their remote teams and organizations.