How To Organize A Successful Leadership Development Training Program

By Virginia Green


After sometimes, managers and corporate leaders have to converge somewhere and refresh their leadership skills. These trainings are organized by one of the major corporations where people attend after paying small fees. However, if these meetings are not organized properly, you will get a low turnout which could be a loss especially if you cannot raise enough money to pay for the venue or the facilitators. To organize several successful and interesting meetings for leadership development training, enhance your skills with the ideas presented in this article.

All workshops must have a theme and each year attracts a different topic. However, before you come up with the theme, you need to identify the pressing challenges that business and corporate leaders are going through. As such, the invited leaders will be glad to attend the training to learn how they can handle the upcoming challenges both in marketing and production.

Whatever your theme will be based on, you have to identify facilitators who have talent in those subjects. For instance, if the existing problem concerns the stock exchange rates, invite officials from that sector and ensure they have good communication skills. Moreover, they should agree to receive reasonable fees for the entire session that they will be facilitating. The wrong choice of facilitators will cause uproar among the attendants.

The next step is to identify the venue where these trainings will be held. The exercise cannot be held in the same place more than once. Most of these leaders enjoy the trainings and being exposed to new environments will trigger their interests to participate. Find a venue that the entire participant would be happy to attend. However, you have to be conscious about its charges.

Although training is not part of the business, it takes money to make them happen. Therefore, a reasonable fee should be indicated in the invitation letters so as the members can prepare themselves financially. When calculating the fee, ensure that you will not be left footing for other bills that were forgotten. Moreover, ask the interested participants to make payments to a set account two weeks before the coaching for proper preparations.

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.

You must confirm that everything is in order at least a week before the commencement of the program. Visit the organized venue and go through accommodation facilities, catering department and conference hall with the responsible parties and ensure everything has been prepared as per your wish. As such, you will not be disappointed at the last minute.

Video machines, speakers, microphones, and projectors are important items that are part of a training session. Find these devices by either buying or hiring them from a reliable supplier. The right supplier should have a backup system in case there is electricity shortage, or the machines stops working. Considering that you are not taking the coaching for once you need to treat the participants with care for them to attend it again.




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