Wednesday, January 10, 2018

How To Organize A Successful Leadership Development Training Program

By Virginia Green


Corporate managers and business people who are entitled to leadership have to undergo refresher courses after some time to enhance productivity. Such trainings are usually organized once in a year where people from different parts meet for a week or so to learn new management tricks and share ideas with their colleagues. However, the event cannot be successful if the hosts never organized for it properly. Following are interesting ideas on how you can organize for leadership development training.

Every meeting that brings different career women and men together must have a concrete theme. The title of the theme is what will determine whether people will attend or not. Therefore, it should be focused on the current issues in both business and corporate world. Research on the most disturbing issues and find their solution before including it in the invitation letter as the theme.

Having established the theme of the meeting you have to identify people who shall facilitate on different topics that shall be discussed during the exercise. The facilitators should have excelled in the delegated topics by either writing about the topics or working closer to people who develop what is going to be discussed. Find them and agree with them through written submissions that they shall facilitate that coaching.

Venue of the training is another challenge when planning for trainings. People want to learn in friendly environments and something different from what they are used to seeing in their workplace. Hire a venue in a beach town or resort where the participants can unleash their thoughts late in the evening when watching the stars. As such, they will be eager to attend any form of the workshop that you invite them.

Training materials, foodstuffs, accommodation and venue hire are expensive, and it takes a good amount of fee from those that will attend. Calculate all the expenses and use their estimate in arranging a fee for all the participants. An account number should be included in the invitation letter where those that are willing to attend should confirm using emails or phone calls.

Prepare well-detailed invitation letters that will be manually and electronically delivered to the targeted organizations. Emails are the fastest means of making contact with a company management where letters make the invitation official. In these letters, ensure that details about contacts, venue, and directions are clear. As such, the participants will not encounter navigation difficulties.

A few days before the training is scheduled to start, start organizing everything in place. Table arrangement in the conference hall, boarding facilities, and catering services should be ready and arranged properly. Hygiene and level of comfort should be your top priority and concern.

Equipment hire is another thing that has to be taken care of some days before the beginning of the workshop. Get working speakers, microphones, projectors and audio-video machines ready for the facilitators. Also, make sure there is a backup system somewhere to avoid confusion when one of them fails in the middle of a presentation.




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