Struggling daily with tough business issues and essential goals, organizations are prepared when genuine leaders are eager to live out the mission and values of their organization. The result: increased morale, retention, and productivity.

Your business environment—that once got tougher year after year—now gets tougher day after day. Surviving in a changing economy and marketplace, working more efficiently, delivering solid customer service, meeting the demands of organizational stakeholders, and maintaining quality control are just a few of the key issues you face. Gaining a competitive advantage in light of these challenges is essential for survival. That’s why your leaders, from executives to individual contributors, need effective practices to propel your organization to new heights. What kind of leadership provides guidance and stability in your organization? Genuine Leadership™.

Introducing Achieving Results Through Genuine Leadership™, built to address the current business issues your organization faces today and will face tomorrow. Based on the latest research from AchieveGlobal, the Genuine Leadership™ system provides a systemic approach to leadership development—one that builds a motivated, loyal workforce capable of reaching new levels of productivity. At the core of this system are The Principles and Qualities of Genuine Leadership™. Leaders who use the six key Genuine Leadership™ principles develop the ability to be collaborative, visionary, mindful, skillful, and inventive—key qualities of genuine leaders. Genuine leaders have a sincere desire to create something larger and better than what they can create alone.

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Targeted Management^® builds leaders who have the skills to:

• Inspire others to think and act like stakeholders in the organization.
• Encourage associates to embrace challenges for growth and high performance, nurturing their talent to build a strong workforce.
• Set plans and lead people toward accomplishing objectives and using organizational resources effectively.

Interaction Management^® develops leaders who can:

• Effectively communicate and execute your organization's business strategies.
• Build a strong, committed workforce that is engaged and shows passion.
• Successfully manage change.
• Coach for success and help build your organization’s growth through its people.
• Foster a culture of accountability.
• Make the right decisions in a timely manner.

Today’s workforce is continually being challenged to take on increasing responsibilities, and these employees are the key to helping your organization achieve its strategic goals.  All employees need to continuously build skills that will help them grow, ensure their employability, and contribute to the success of the organization.

DDI’s workforce development system includes competency-based programs designed to equip your workforce—from frontline workers to first- and mid-level leaders—with the day-to-day interpersonal, teamwork, and business-results skills that help create and maintain a high-performance workplace.

You can choose from a range of learning courses that are grouped by skill areas, such as personal effectiveness, group effectiveness, and getting business results.  Taken together, these courses strengthen overall workforce performance.  Taken selectively, they pinpoint areas that need improvement. 

Advantages

DDI’s workforce programs are:

• Thoroughly proven to build specific, job-critical competencies and promote positive behavior changes that lead to better job performance.
• Flexible to fit your environment, languages, and delivery requirements.
• Tried and tested in the world’s leading companies, including more than 400 of the Fortune 500.
• Completely integratable so you can mix and match offerings to create a development program that’s highly tailored and highly effective for your organization and your people.
• Supported by complementary DDI products and services that let you assess development needs and manage ongoing performance.
• Capable of driving common language and behaviors throughout all levels in the organization.

Techniques for a High-Performance Workforce^®

Imagine a workplace where frontline employees and leaders are committed to increasing productivity, improving product and service quality, and building a high-performance workforce.

Techniques for a High-Performance Workforce^®—a Human Resource Executive Top New Training Product of the Year—is a competency-based system designed to give employees and leaders the skills outlined above and more.

Performance Objectives

Techniques is proven to help organizations:

• Build effective communication among peers, customers, supervisors, and leaders.
• Start up and maintain high-performance work teams.
• Build the necessary skills for turning ideas on improving processes, quality, and service
  into action.
• Develop the high level of involvement that enables people to take on more responsibility
  in today’s flatter organizations.

Results

• An electric motor manufacturer documented savings of $25,000 in just one year from process improvement and quality teams.
• A major life insurance company reduced overtime and part-time expenses by 42 percent and increased productivity by 11.8 percent.
• A metal manufacturer reported a 40-percent increase in output, an 83-percent reduction in cycle time, and a 90-percent reduction in grievances.  This plant showed the highest employee satisfaction of all plants in the company.
• An aircraft manufacturer doubled their production of wing sets with the same number of people while reducing costs by 30 percent.
• A financial services company focused training on building internal partnerships between sales force divisions.  Shared leads and subsequent sales increased by more than 50 percent.  The program’s return on investment was 1,905 percent.

Leaders are operating in an ever-changing environment and regularly face new challenges.  To be successful on both a personal and an organizational level, they need new skills and competencies to meet these challenges.

DDI is the world leader in leadership development.  We use a competency-based, integrated approach that helps organizations achieve their business objectives and results.  Through leadership assessment and development, organizations can improve bench strength and grow their own leaders by identifying and developing high-potential employees.

Our training programs equip leaders at all levels with the day-to-day interpersonal skills for leading individuals or groups and the broader, overall skills needed to create and maintain a high-performance workplace.  And, our assessment centers and multirater feedback surveys help companies identify, hire, and promote the most talented people.

Advantages

DDI’s leadership development programs are:

• Thoroughly proven to build and assess specific, job-critical competencies and promote positive behavior changes that lead to better job performance.  Our programs have been tried and tested in leading global companies, including more than 400 of the Fortune 500.
• Flexible to fit your environment, languages, and delivery requirements.
• Completely integratable so you can mix and match offerings to create a development program that is highly tailored and highly effective for your organization and your people.
• Complementary in that you can assess development needs, provide training that meets these needs, and manage ongoing performance.

While every organization sets out to select the best people, not all succeed.  The cost of poor selection decisions can negatively affect productivity, customer satisfaction, and profit margins.

Organizations must hire and promote people who can meet or exceed the demands of their jobs.  This allows the organization to better manage the shifts in competition, customer preferences, and technologies that are inevitable in today’s business environment.  These organizations have the power to adapt to changing times and meet market demands in ways that align directly with their business strategies and long-range plans.

DDI has two options to teach behavior-based interviewing. Both will let you consistently, accurately, and legally hire and promote people whose potential and competencies match the competencies required for job success.

Advantages

DDI’s behavior-based interviewing courses will help you:

• Build a world-class workforce that is able and willing to support your organization’s vision and achieve strategic business goals.
• Reduce training time, absenteeism, and turnover.
• Improve product and service quality.
• Identify top performers and potential leaders.