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helping others flourish: a leadership training program

Are you finding that your success is no longer just about your industry, professional, and/or technical expertise, but it’s about how your people perform, engage and grow?

How to lead people is something you may not have been formally taught even if it's something you've been doing for years.

As the demands on leaders continue to rise, you need to continue to evolve as a leader and build habits and practices that allow you efficiently and effectively guide, train, coach, retain, support, and drive your teams to new levels of performance.

Guess what? What got you HERE won’t get you THERE (you know, those big goals you and your company have).

Growing as leaders requires us to refine and create new skills. Leadership books have a lot of information, but you could spend a lot of money at the bookstore before you find the one that matches your leadership style. We are inundated with a million posts, articles, and videos on LinkedIn. The amount of information is overwhelming, scattered, and not easily digestible. Even tougher to implement consistently and effectively.

What you need to do is leverage and develop your strengths with practical tools, best practices, and approaches that are aligned with a support system to help you transform those ideas into leadership actions and results. It’s time to ground yourself in what it takes to get to that next level of leading your people.

My name is Madeline Schmidt. For over 20 years, I have inspired and transformed people and companies. I specialize in helping them achieve their full potential through organizational development, learning, training, coaching, leadership development, performance, and culture change. Read my full bio.

And the truth of the matter is that if you can master simple leadership practices and apply them consistently and effectively, you’ll be more successful than 99% of the leaders out there.

By the end of this program, you will:

• More clearly understand your natural leadership style and approach, when it is working for you and when it might create obstacles to your success. Identify when and how to flex your leadership style to meet people where they are.

• Refine your skills to be consistent in how you align, partner, and help your people achieve or even exceed their personal, professional, and business goals.

• Create highly motivated and engaged employees who go above and beyond what is expected Develop and grow others’ skills and performance – both in their current roles and setting them up for career growth.

• Strengthen your confidence as a leader so you’re poised to support your team when things are going well and even when circumstances are challenging.

• Build consistent, repeatable, yet flexible approaches to foster ongoing connection with your team and others to drive business results, high engagement, and retention.

All of this in 10 live, interactive sessions via Zoom. That’s over 20 hours of live instruction and coaching. Over 20 hours where you can build connections with others, ask questions, steer the dialogue, and be an active learner. Over 20 hours with a community of leadership peers across various companies and industries, dealing with similar challenges.

YOU WILL ALSO RECEIVE THESE BONUS LEADERSHIP TOOLS:

• Pre-course Leadership DISC Assessment ($100 value)

• Pre-course Leadership Self-Assessment ($100 value)

• Facebook community to keep the conversation going, moderated by Madeline, quick videos/trainings/lives/inspirations shared regularly ($500 value)

• Monthly live group coaching calls for 3 months post-program to increase your accountability and help you achieve results ($500 value)

• Post-session leadership individual coaching call – (30 minutes, $350 value)

Still not sure? Reach out for your free, 20-minute consultation to see if this opportunity is right for you.

Are you an organization looking to bring this series to YOUR organization, for YOUR leaders? Or if you’re interested in a business sponsorship when you sign up 5 or more participants, EMAIL ME!

Starting in October, we will meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month for 10 months, with a few exceptions. Scheduling so far in advance may encounter some unplanned conflicts. Specific session dates are subject to change with ample notice.

Let’s take a peek at this action-packed series…

Session #1: Foundations of Leadership

Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:00 - 11:00 am PT

• Build leadership peer connections that can offer you the best advice you’ll ever receive

• Explore your role & leadership brand to seek clarity and purpose on how you approach leading day to day

• Clarity and insights into your leadership style and strengths (DISC assessment & leadership performance assessment) to understand how you show up and how to leverage your unique leadership gifts

• Craft commitments and purpose to guide your engagement in the program

• 3 Key Principles of Leadership to Helping Others Flourish that will strengthen your leadership today

session #2: Hiring & Interviewing top talent

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:00 - 11:00 am PT

• Step up your interview game with confidence and a solid effective plan

• Prepare for the interview so that you find out what you need to know

• Create a positive interview climate that gets people talking and you learning about them

• Interview inclusively and eliminate bias to ensure you bring in the best talent

• Get off the script - Encourage dialogue (& probing) to get deeper into the conversation and assess more accurately

• Win them over in a tight job market

• Make the right hiring decisions

SESSION #3: SETTING GOALS & EXPECTATIONS to set the stage for success

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 9:00 - 11:00 am PT

• Set expectations and goals so that the path to success is clear

• Partner on goal achievement so you and your employee are aligned and success is imminent

• Create accountability (and balance compassion) on goal progress and achievement

• Address changing priorities, expectations and realigning when necessary

Want to get a better feel for my facilitation style and personality? Watch these concept videos.

• Feedback

• Autonomy

• Priorities

ARE YOU ready to invest in your leadership?

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF MADELINE SCHMIDT (& HER TRAINING PROGRAMS?)

"Madeline Schmidt is the most gifted corporate trainer I’ve had the privilege of working with in the past thirty-five years. There are many qualities that set Madeline apart. They include versatility, effectiveness and results. For example, she is versed in training on a variety of subjects from strategic leadership for C-suite executives to tactical training on subjects such as self-leadership and sales to entry level employees. Madeline also possesses the unique gift to engage those who attend her training regardless of how they are wired (generalist to specialist; introverts to extroverts) or their preferred learning style (visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic, etc.) Most importantly, she has a way to download information in a way that employees retain and then leverage into increased measurable results. I highly recommend and endorse Madeline Schmidt for all corporate training needs."

~ Carroll Whaler, Executive Vice President, H.G. Fenton Company

“Madeline is the best! She led a 3/4 day on-site communication training (DISC) with our company of 60 employees. Madeline is engaging, friendly, funny, and truly knows her stuff about DISC and how to effectively weave it into your corporate culture. If you are looking for someone to do any leadership, professional skills, interpersonal skills, etc. with your company, look no further....Madeline. Trust me, you won't go wrong. We are looking forward to having you come back in the future to do more training with our team.”

~ Brett Pugliesi, Director of Human Resources, Neil Patel Digital

"The short of it is that Madeline does an amazing job in training sessions and putting together engaging material. I've been fortunate enough to work with her through training as well as other general, employee-related (HR) matters which she handles wonderfully but I would guess her passion is in the coursework and setting people up with the right tools to succeed.

As it relates to my industry, I've worked both in smaller regional companies as well as the two largest in the U.S. and I find that Madeline educates in a way that is personal enough like the former but would be a refreshing take in the training sessions of the latter; she completely avoids gimmicky training scripts, genuinely drives conversation amongst participants, and is wonderful at reading the room to adapt or increase participation.

In my opinion—particularly if you're looking to train low-patience individuals with high emotional intelligence (sales people come to mind)—you'd be wise to set up some time with Madeline to discuss your organization's needs!"

~ Kevin Grayson, Community Director, H.G. Fenton Company

“Madeline is such a wealth of knowledge and really understands how to help someone not only recognize their growth opportunities, but to realistically implement strategies to develop in these areas. I attended pretty much every training session of Madeline's that I could, even if it was on a topic or area where I didn't feel like I needed much help because I knew that there would be some unexpected take away that would benefit me. It has been such a privilege to have her support over the past few years and I don't think I would be where I am without her."

~ Desiree Sellars, Assistant Property Manager, H.G. Fenton Company

"Madeline is the best talent and development leader I have had the pleasure to work with at Provide Commerce or elsewhere. Madeline built a best in class leadership development program at Provide Commerce including all levels of the organization. Madeline is comfortable leading and teaching from C-level to the rest of the organization and is able to engage people in the content by making it practical and relevant to current business challenges. She is obviously passionate about her work and her energy and enthusiasm is infectious throughout the organization. I happily recommend her and I hope to work with her again in the future."

~ Scott Sabins, Director of Marketing, FTD Companies

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