Mid-Level and Frontline Leader Development
Upskill Your Team for Our New World of Work
The work environment is undergoing its greatest changes in at least two generations. Major shifts in workforce diversity, work-life fusion, flexible work arrangements, employee experience expectations, and burnout and well-being trends have combined to redefine the leader-employee dynamic to a human-to-human relationship. No wonder HR leaders in Gartner’s 2023 global survey identified Improving Leader and Manager Effectiveness as their top priority. Now is the time to upskill your team for this new world of work, combining the fundamentals of effective leadership with the latest neuroscience and behavioral science findings on what works, what is most needed now, and why.
Development Accelerators that Deliver Meaningful Impact
The essentials skills needed to lead effectively today require complex, higher-order strategic and interpersonal capabilities, combined with strong self-awareness. They are best developed in cohort groups, where expert facilitation, peer coaching, and targeted practice embed learning.
Target audience:
Mid-level and frontline leaders
Format:
- 2-hour, 4-hour, and full-day options
- Live virtual, in-person facilitated, and blended delivery
- Train-the-trainer capability
DEVELOPMENT ACCELERATORS:
Influencing Across Boundaries
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Internal Influencer: Always On
- Influencing Others: What Does It Take?
- Improving Lateral Relations, Strengthening Your Network
Leader as Coach
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Building Trusted Relationships
- Feedback and Delegation that Really Work
- In-Role and Career Development Coaching
Defining My Personal Leadership
- Defining Your Leadership Profile
- Leveraging Crucible Moments
- Applying Your Leadership Story for Impact
Leading with a Growth Mindset
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Growth Mindset versus Fixed Mindset
- Team Challenge: Can You Nail This?
- Team Practices to Enable a Growth Mindset Culture
Managing My Career
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Awaken, Align, Accelerate Framework
- Identifying and Leveraging Your Growth Network
- The Power of Mentorships
- What’s your Superpower?
High Impact Conversations
- High Impact Conversations Model
- Planning a Development Conversation
- Addressing Resistance
Inclusive Leadership
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Identity and Culture
- Decision Making and Unconscious Bias
- Holding Culturally Challenging Conversations
- Leveraging Team Diversity
Change Leadership
Concepts, Tools, and Takeaways
- Leading Sustainable Change
- The People Side of Change and Addressing Resistance
- Change Process and Tools
Driving Results
- Create Your Rally Cry
- Keeping Scoring and the Progress Principle
- Disciplined Follow Through: Ensuring Accountability
Strategic Thinking and Execution
- Strategic Thinking Framework
- Strategic Decision Making in Uncertainty
- Tools and Practices
Future-Fit Leadership Series—Skillfully Leading in the New World of Work
Each of the offerings in this four-part series leverages the best research-based, science-informed findings from neuroscience, behavioral science, and leading-edge organizational practices. These innovative development sessions will equip your leaders to effectively embrace the new workplace reality and the future of work with confidence and competence.
Target audience:
Mid-level and frontline leaders
Format:
- 2-hour, 4-hour, and full-day options
- Live virtual, in-person facilitated, and blended delivery
- Train-the-trainer capability
FUTURE-FIT LEADERSHIP SERIES:
Optimizing Your Work and Well-Being: Get More Done with Less Stress
Reshape your daily work to maximize your productivity and minimize stress and burnout—and help your team do the same. With work increasingly unmanageable and responsible for unnecessarily high emotional costs, we need practical, brain-based strategies and tips that help us get more done and improve our well-being. We can change this. Learn more.
Coaching in the New World of Work
To address major workplace shifts in flexible work arrangements and employee expectations for more inclusive, human-centered leadership, your leaders must lean into their roles as coaches like never before. This offering combines the fundamentals of effective coaching with the latest neuroscience and behavioral science findings to achieve coaching’s powerful triple agenda of strengthening relationships, accelerating development, and improving performance. Learn more.
Fostering Psychological Safety to Improve Team Performance
One of the most essential elements of high-performance teams is psychological safety. High psychological safety correlates with higher engagement and retention, greater cost-saving process improvements, and more marketable product and service innovations. In short, to learn, adapt, and win in today’s world, teams and organizations must operate in psychologically safe environments. This session provides a research-based four-part framework and specific practices your leaders can easily apply to enhance psychological safety and boost team performance. Learn more. Also, read our inclusive leadership case study.
Science Hacks for Day-to-Day People Leadership
Thousands of leadership books and articles spout advice for today’s leaders. But what does the latest and best science tell us really works? This session delivers the maximum impact in the minimum amount of time, offering over two-dozen evidence-based practices your leaders can apply now to significantly improve, even revolutionize, their day-to-day leadership impact. Learn more.
Essential Skills for Mid-Level and Frontline Leaders
While workplace changes may seem to have rewritten leadership expectations, much of what we know and believe about great leadership endures. But what is becoming increasingly clear is that tomorrow’s leaders will need to apply those enduring leadership capabilities with greater intensity and sophistication. MDA delivers high impact, expert-led, cohort-based skill building sessions and simulations addressing over a dozen essential competencies for mid-level and frontline leaders, in 2-hour, 4-hour, and full-day formats. Contact us to learn more.
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Senior Executive Blueprinting ™
C-suite Selection and Succession
C-Suite Transitions
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MDA Leadership helps boards strengthen their governance roles and internal dynamics.
Board Evaluations
Board and CEO Consultation
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