Blanchard Leadership Training Programs

Blanchard’s management and leadership training programs empower results-oriented, proactive leaders who can build connections to deliver increased engagement, improved performance, better retention, and real results for your organization—no matter the work environment.

SLII®—Powering Inspired Leaders™

Virtual | In Person | Online | Collaborative Online

The world’s most-taught leadership framework, SLII® teaches managers how to unleash the potential of their direct reports by leading situationally: giving the right support and direction at the right time. This leadership style enables employees to develop faster, succeed more, and reach their full potential. It also gives managers a common leadership language.

Blanchard Management Essentials®

Virtual | In Person | Online

Help your new managers develop the skills they need to step confidently into their new roles with Blanchard Management Essentials®. Based on the best-selling business book, The New One Minute Manager®, by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, the program covers the foundational skills that generate positive communications, improve morale, and increase productivity.

Leading People Through Change®

Virtual | In Person | Online

Change initiatives are notoriously challenging. Leading People Through Change® takes a unique and proven approach: It teaches a high-involvement, collaborative solution that invites all parties into the change process. This inclusive method draws on research and our 30+ years of practical experience in the field.

Self Leadership

Collaborative Online | In Person | Online | Virtual

Empower your employees to make exceptional contributions to your organization. The program teaches learners how to challenge their assumed constraints, determine what they need to succeed, and proactively ask for it. It finishes with them mapping their sources of power at work. These skillsets and mindsets are the foundation for a culture of innovation.

Team Leadership

In Person | Virtual | Online

Teams frequently fail to accomplish goals because of a lack of shared purpose, unclear goals and roles, and ineffective leadership. The Team Leadership program teaches team leaders how all teams develop and how to provide clarity, manage conflict, and build trust to break through barriers and sustain high-performance teams.

Adapting to Change

Online

To confidently address the increasing pace of technological and societal change, it’s critical everyone in your organization gains the skills they need to navigate change successfully. The Adapting to Change online course helps your people improve their ability to adapt to change, starting with how to practice mindfulness. The course builds upon this foundation by showing learners how to harness their curiosity, courage, and resilience to adopt change.

Blanchard® Leadership Coach Certification

Virtual

Enhance your leadership coaching practice by getting certified to use and share Blanchard content with your clients while earning 40 ICF continuing education credits. This 15-week, online, virtual instructor-led program for credentialed coaches gives you an in-depth understanding of the Blanchard approach to leadership development and the tools to use our proven and tested frameworks in your coaching practice.

Building Trust

In Person | Virtual | Online

Trust in the workplace is a prerequisite for success, so when it’s missing, there’s little collaboration and a lot of suspicion. Building Trust teaches how to cultivate trust and repair it when it’s been compromised. Using the Elements of Trust Model, learners discover how to inspire engagement and commitment. 

Coaching Essentials®

In Person | Online | Virtual

The ability to coach is one of the things that separates great leaders from the rest. Coaching Essentials® teaches managers the four critical skills needed for effective coaching and provides opportunities for practice. When managers can coach effectively, their direct reports are more productive, loyal, and engaged.

Communications Essentials

Online

Create an environment where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued, by preparing your leaders with a comprehensive overview of the communication skills they need for their teams to succeed. Communication Essentials is an online course that teaches how to really listen to others, ask thoughtful and open questions, stay positive, and share constructive feedback productively.

Conversational Capacity®

Collaborative Online | In Person | Online | Virtual

Organizations move at the speed at which people communicate effectively and solve problems collaboratively. That can get tricky when the pressure is on or when people have different opinions. We teach people how to balance candor and curiosity to benefit from the most challenging conversations.

Courageous Inclusion™

In Person | Online | Virtual

Achieving true diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace isn’t easy. Many people want to make progress on DEI topics, but don’t have a plan or skills to carry it out. Courageous Inclusion™ teaches people a mindset that promotes diversity and inclusion, and a process to become more knowledgeable and active proponents of inclusion in their workplace.

Essential Motivators™

Virtual | Online | In Person

When individuals better understand themselves, they can bring their best skills and talents to their work. Essential Motivators™ teaches a framework to help learners identify their pattern of core psychological needs, values, talents, and behaviors so they can better understand themselves and others, be more effective, and appreciate different perspectives.

Fearless Innovation™

Virtual | Learning Journey

Fearless Innovation™ explores the idea that each individual—armed with the principles of innovation—could be a catalyst for positive change. It teaches an innovation mindset and skill set that empowers everyone to be innovators.

Leadership Point of View™

Virtual | In Person | Online

Today’s leaders balance relationships and results under great pressure, making difficult decisions every day. When leaders are clear on their leadership values and principles, they can make tough trade-offs and lead their people with more intentionality and authenticity. Blanchard’s Leadership Point of View™ is an immersive experience that helps leaders uncover their values, write their leadership point of view, and create trusting relationships with their people.

Leading Virtually™

Virtual

Leading Virtually™ is a highly engaging solution that focuses on three key practices proven to boost manager effectiveness in a virtual environment: Be Present and Mindful, Foster Community, and Accelerate Performance and Development.

Legendary Service®

Virtual | In Person

Keep your clients coming back by building a culture that delivers stellar customer service. Legendary Service® teaches your people how to create a personal service vision, take initiative, resolve problems, and ask for what they need to serve their customers better.

Servant Leadership Essentials™

Virtual

Servant leaders are consistently interested in providing what their people need to be successful. They want to make a difference in the lives of their people and, in the process, benefit the organization. We believe servant leadership is both a mindset and a skillset that focuses on serving others first. Blanchard’s Servant Leadership Essentials™ program teaches leaders how to build trust, listen, and give and receive feedback in ways that lead to higher levels of engagement, performance, and human satisfaction.

Teaming and Collaboration

Online

Work teams are the engines that power an enterprise. But most are stuck in neutral because they lack a shared purpose or have unclear goals and roles. Teaming and Collaboration is an online course that teaches team members how to diagnose their team’s stage of development and act in a way that contributes to its performance.