Self Leadership
Empower everyone to take control of their own success
It’s not just managers who have a big impact on your business success. Your individual contributors spend their days working with customers and handling all the day-to-day activities that keep your business running smoothly. They are the silent majority of your organization, and building a sustainable business takes their motivation and commitment.
Our Self Leadership training program teaches individuals the mindset and skillset they need to become empowered, proactive self leaders who take control of their own success and are committed to getting results for your organization.
Create a culture of self leadership to support and expand your people’s potential
To succeed in today’s competitive markets, it’s vital that every employee in your organization is empowered, proactive, and committed to achieving results. Our Self Leadership course teaches individuals at all levels of your organization how to become empowered self leaders who accept responsibility and take initiative for their own success.
Blanchard’s Self Leadership development program builds on the world’s most widely taught leadership model, SLII®, and integrates the latest research on the proactive skills required for individuals to be most effective. Team members learn a shared language for discussing their development and performance, allowing them to have more effective conversations and build more trusting, open relationships with their managers.
Self Leadership teaches your individual contributors the mindset and skillset needed to become proactive self-starters who know how to ask for direction and support, solicit feedback, and sell their ideas to the leadership team.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is self leadership, and why does it matter in the workplace?
Self leadership is the ability of individuals to take ownership of their work, motivation, and results. It empowers employees to be proactive, resourceful, and accountable. When team members practice self leadership, organizations benefit from higher engagement, innovation, and overall performance.
How does self leadership training support career growth?
Self leadership training helps individuals understand their personal strengths, development areas, and influence on team success. Learners build confidence and the ability to navigate challenges independently. As a result, they become more valuable contributors and future leaders.
Who should attend a Self Leadership program?
Self leadership programs are ideal for individual contributors, early-career professionals, and emerging leaders. Anyone who wants to increase influence and productivity while aligning with organizational goals will benefit.
Can Self Leadership training be offered online?
When employees are accountable for their own development, they collaborate more effectively and communicate with greater clarity. This self-driven mindset strengthens trust, reduces friction, and promotes shared success across teams.
Can service training improve internal collaboration?
Yes. Self leadership courses are available in flexible virtual formats with interactive tools and real-world application exercises that make learning engaging and practical.
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Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We deliver Self Leadership in person, virtually, as part of a learning journey, or as a self-directed online course so your people can build customer satisfaction and loyalty whenever and wherever it works best for them.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The Self-Leadership in-person experience is a one-day course that uses a four-part learning path to ensure participants develop the self-starting mindset they need to move the organization forward. Self Leadership teaches individuals at all levels within an organization to learn the proactive behaviors required to:
- Move from being responsive to being responsible for their role in the success of organizational initiatives
- Solicit the feedback required to develop expertise
- Take initiative in idea generation, innovation, and problem solving
- Ask for the direction and support needed to achieve their goals
Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging prework assignments, including an assessment, which explains key Self Leadership concepts, and downloading the SLII app.
Day 1: LEARN — Activities to define Self Leadership and Crafting a Personal Learning Purpose. Introduces the SLII® Model and a common language of leadership.
Day 1: PRACTICE — Participants practice the skill of Matching. They discover that being proactive means getting the matching leadership style from anyone who can provide the direction and support they need.
Day 1: PRACTICE — Participants review their Perceptions of Self Leadership assessment results and learn how to integrate and analyze their manager’s responses in their first One on One.
Post Work: APPLY — Revisit the learning portal and access tools, including the Perceptions of Self Leadership Interpretation Guide. Prepare, schedule, and conduct a One-on-One Conversation with their manager.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Self Leadership virtual course with prework assignments completed before the course, followed by three two-hour live virtual sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- Virtual session 1 prepares participants to learn the mindset and skillset of a Self-Leader, and challenge assumed constraints
- In virtual sessions 2 & 3 learners develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges
- Participants will have Online Tools to apply content and use with others such as Perceptions of Self Leadership Guide, SLII App, worksheets, videos, One on One Conversations Process Sheet, and Self-Leadership digital assets
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Collaborative Online Course
The Self Leadership Collaborative Online course is a collaborative learning experience that lets you interact online and virtually with a leadership expert to guide you, work with a community of peers. Each week you will spend one hour completing coursework and activities, and one hour attending a live virtual session led by Blanchard’s leadership experts. The virtual sessions are scheduled at two global-friendly time slots.
Week 1: Get introduced to the mindset and skillset of a self leader, complete a Self Leader Questionnaire, and start challenging assumed constraints.
Week 2: Focus on setting clear and compelling goals. Participants learn how to craft smart, motivating, attainable, relevant, and trackable goals.
Week 3: Discover how to diagnose personal development level on a goal or task. Dive into development levels and get access to the SLII® mobile app.
Week 4: Learn Matching: getting the leadership style each individual needs. Explore the second critical mindset: being proactive.
Week 5: Learn how to identify and activate points of power. Use the One-on-One Worksheet to plan for a manager One-on-One Conversation.
Online Overview
The online overview provides your people with a high-level look at Self Leadership. The module teaches several core Self Leadership concepts with exercises they can complete in a total of 35 minutes. It contains one- to five-minute micro-learning videos, interactions, and tools. These are for learners who need browsable tips and bits of knowledge for just-in-time help for moments of need. These flexible assets can be used to refresh or reinforce the content.
Online Program
Self Leadership Online takes your people through the essentials of Self Leadership. The content is broken down into seven-modules which contain a variety of engaging videos, games, stories, and activities ranging from one to five minutes each. Learners can complete this content in a total of two and a half hours.
Online Program with Launch and Debrief Sessions: The Launch and Debrief sessions are optional and designed to be simple to facilitate. You can conduct a Launch session to set the context for learning and create excitement. The Debriefs provide activities with an opportunity to practice online learnings, discuss their application, and share success stories.
Digital Assets
Set of micro-activities, including videos, interactions, and worksheets, that learners can access in moments of need to support ongoing learning, performance support, reinforcement, and custom learning journeys.
Self leadership renews employee engagement by delivering self-directed purpose
Employees who are not engaged or who are actively disengaged cost the world an estimated
$7.8 trillion
in lost productivity.
In 2021, just
21 %
of employees were engaged at work.
Invest In Self Leadership To Empower Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset—Its Individual Contributors
The success of your company’s strategic initiatives depends on the commitment and proactive behavior of those on the front line, the individual contributors who are responsible for executing and making it happen. When you empower individual contributors with the self leadership skillset and mindset, you build a healthy and engaged workforce that is accountable, innovative, and productive.
Accelerate Development
Self leaders take control of their own career development — they ask for the direction and support they need, moving up the curve to proficiency more quickly.
Improve Performance
Empowered self leaders are more engaged and committed, consistently working hard and increasing performance across your organization.
Drive Personal Accountability
Self leaders are not held accountable by their managers — they hold themselves accountable for achieving their goals and successfully executing your organization’s initiatives.
Increase Innovation
Empowered self leaders know how to overcome constraints that limit their ability to solve problems, address challenges, and develop innovative solutions.
Create A Culture Of Courageous Inclusion
It takes more than just awareness building and familiarizing people with DEI terminology to enable lasting culture change. Give your people the confidence and skills they need to create an inclusive, welcoming work environment that encourages people to bring their whole selves to work.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Conversational Capacity in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The in-person course is one full day. With hundreds of facilitators worldwide, we can deliver sessions for your organization or equip you to run them yourself. Public courses are also available.
Prework: LAUNCH — Welcome the participants and set the context for individuals and teams to reach new levels of performance through various activities to engage in open, balanced, and nondefensive conversations.
Session 1: LEARN — Defines awareness as the ability to recognize the two powerful emotional reactions and how they are essential for staying in the sweet spot.
Session 2: PRACTICE — Defines the Conversational Capacity Skillset, which includes specific behaviors people can use to balance candor and curiosity.
Session 3: APPLY — Introduces the Curiosity Skills, which highlights the advantage of having the humility to seek out information that might be missing and to understand others’ points of view.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Conversational Capacity virtual course includes prework assignments completed before the first course, with three two-hour live virtual sessions spread out over time. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- In the virtual sessions, participants develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Collaborative Online Course
Conversational Capacity can be delivered online in a collaborative, moderated class over five weeks, with assignments and cohort meetings once a week during one-hour live virtual inspire session. It is self-directed learning blended with discussions, exercises, reflection, and offline assignments. Participants gain skills for keeping conversations open, balanced, and productive, ways to maintain a learning-focused mindset, methods for overcoming obstacles to Conversational Capacity.
Online Overview
This 35-minute online overview teaches the core concepts of Conversational Capacity through micro-learning activities. Ideal for learners who need an overview of the content or a refresher, this course design can be used along with virtual and in-person sessions, or as part of a learning journey, to create more flexible learning experiences. Optional Reflect and Share sessions are also available.
Digital Assets
Set of nine micro-activities ranging from one to five minutes that learners can use during moments of need. The playlist includes videos, activities, and worksheets on topics such as influencing up, tackling touchy topics, why arguing backfires, and leaning into difference.
Communication can be a business driver or a derailer
80 %
the U.S. workforce reports feeling stressed because of ineffective company communication. 63% have wanted to quit because ineffective communication interfered with their ability to do their job.*
Up to 41 %
Companies with better relationships and communication experience 20% higher productivity, 21% higher profitability, and 41% lower absenteeism.**
*Dynamic Signal, 2019 Dynamic Signal Study. | **Wellness Council of America,The ROI on Better Workplace Conversations.
Good Listeners And Communicators Unlock Your Workplace’s Potential
Conversational Capacity is the foundation for a positive and productive workplace. It redirects all the energy wasted in unproductive exchanges into channels that benefit people and the enterprise.
Engage Employees
When people have honest and meaningful conversations, morale rises and the workplace buzzes with enthusiasm.
Spur Innovation
People share ideas. Colleagues contribute. A good idea evolves into a great one. That’s how innovation happens.
Improve Productivity
The gap between what people say and what others hear closes. Miscommunication and misunderstandings evaporate, and real work gets done.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your individual contributors learn the skills they need to become self leaders.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to manage and develop their people effectively. Whether you prefer to use well-established, standard training designs or to tailor your learning experiences for your employees, we can help you succeed.
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