Growth Doesn't Happen By Accident. 

To get the results you want as a leader, you need focus, intention—and a plan.

Our leadership courses are a powerful roadmap to guide, engage, and inspire your development as a leader, so you can enjoy a whole new level of satisfaction and impact in your career. Avoid the common and costly challenges that get even the best leaders stuck, from preventable errors in decision-making to frustration with a stagnant team. 

Our courses—taught by experienced facilitators and executive coaches—will prepare you to meet the toughest tests of leadership.

Progress Doesn't Happen By Accident. 

To get the results you want as a leader, you need focus, intention—and a plan.

Our leadership courses are a powerful roadmap to guide, engage and inspire your growth as a leader, so you can enjoy a whole new level of satisfaction and impact in your career. 

Avoid the common and costly challenges that get even the best leaders stuck, from preventable errors in decision-making to frustration with a stagnant team. 

Our courses—taught by experienced facilitators and executive coaches—will prepare you to meet the toughest tests of leadership.

Leadership Courses

2021

Developing Yourself as a Leader

How to Build a Roadmap for Your Growth 

Whether you're a high-potential professional on your way up the corporate ladder or a current leader, continuing your personal development is essential to your success. Unfortunately, without the necessary guidance or tools, it can be difficult to know where to begin.

This course will empower you with the same essential tools and techniques our experienced executive coaches use for their own personal development.

Through a series of discussions and hands-on exercises, you will reflect on your leadership style and leave with a better understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots. You will also learn how those traits impact yours and your team’s performance, and how to coach your employees to achieve incredible results.

Finally, you will develop a personal development roadmap with steps to enhance your leadership capabilities and have an immediate positive impact in the workplace.

This professional development class will empower you to:
  • Discover your leadership potential and learn how to leverage your skills for maximum impact
  • Learn how to interact with peers and superiors based on their leadership styles
  • Develop mentoring and coaching skills to improve team performance and coach employees in the workplace
  • Create a Personal Development Plan to continue advancing your capabilities and career
ONLINE COURSE
September 14th and 15th, 2021
ZOOM| $395
Earn 7 Continuing Education Units 
Capacity Limited
 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT 
CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT / HTML

Developing Your Emotional Intelligence  

Your IQ matters. But for long-term success in your career and personal life, EQ, or emotional intelligence, matters even more.

People’s emotions affect their productivity, their decision-making, their interactions with their coworkers, and their ability to work as a team. EQ is the ability to identify, interpret, and influence your and other people’s emotions, and studies show it is the keystone of success, both personally and as a leader. In fact, studies show it accounts for as much as 60% of your performance at work.

Developing your Emotional Intelligence is designed as a crash-course in EQ. You will learn how EQ is measured, and how to increase your EQ to have more successful interactions with your supervisors, peers, and employees.

You will learn:
  • The foundational concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) and how it is measured
  • How your level of emotional intelligence impacts your relationships at home and at work 
  • Strategies to leverage your strengths, address your weaknesses, and increase your emotional intelligence
ONLINE COURSE
September 21st, 2021
ZOOM| $245
Earn 3.5 Continuing Education Units 
Capacity Limited
 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT 
CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT / HTML

Manager and Supervisor Essentials

How to Develop, Empower, and Motivate Employees  

How are you developing, empowering, and motivating your employees? Day-to-day employee coaching is a tool that managers and supervisors can use to maximize productivity and increase employee engagement. Research shows that frequent feedback has a significant, positive impact on work output. Course participants will develop the necessary skills to constructively give positive reinforcement and corrective input.

In addition, participants will learn to empower employees by setting clear expectations and outcomes with team members. Interactive course exercises are designed to teach, model, and role play various concepts and will enable participants to increase their team’s performance levels.

You will learn:
  • Techniques to effectively assess employees’ needs
  • Understand how to coach employees in the workplace
  • Practice feedback techniques
  • ​Identify approaches for building trust and rapport with team members
IN-PERSON COURSE
October 7th, 2021
TPG Office| $395
Earn 7 Continuing Education Units 
Capacity Limited
 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM CT 
CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT / HTML

Thinking Strategically

How to Resist the “Circle of Habit” and Generate Breakthroughs for Your Team  

Thinking strategically is critical for moving organizations forward, and yet 96% of leaders report they are too busy reacting to day-to-day management issues to think strategically (HBR).

Designed and facilitated by seasoned business leaders, this course will teach you to resist the pull of your routines so you can ask the right questions, spark innovation, navigate uncertainty, and take advantage of strategic opportunities. 

Through the use of real-world examples, collaborative discussion, and personal reflection, you’ll learn to escape the daily grind and generate innovative breakthroughs for your teams.

You will learn:
  • How to focus on strategic initiatives instead of short-term
  • How to ask the right questions to spark innovation
  • How to navigate through uncertainty
  • ​How to identify, analyze and take advantage of
IN-PERSON COURSE
November 4th, 2021
TPG Office| $395
Earn 7 Continuing Education Units 
Capacity Limited
 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM CT 
CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT / HTML

Time Management for the Time-Challenged 

Powerful Strategies to Get Your Life Back

Are you managing your time, or is it managing you? The average employee spends 11 minutes on a task before encountering a distraction. With so many responsibilities, interruptions, and stress, it’s easy to find yourself feeling disorganized and unfocused, suffering from burnout, overlooking details, and missing deadlines.

While the average “time management” course focuses on squeezing more activity into a single day, our time management course learning experience takes a different approach. We’ll teach you to identify the activities that add the most value to your organization and career–while ruthlessly outsourcing, delegating, or cutting the rest.

Instead of focusing on what you can’t control (co-workers, boss’s demands, unexpected crises), you’ll learn scientifically-supported techniques to focus on what you can—your own planning and decision making. Take back control and have more time for the things that matter most!

Benefits of mastering Time Management:
  • Develop a razor-sharp focus on your personal and career goals
  • Learn proven, evidence-based techniques for effectively managing your commitments, organizing your day, and making decisions
  • Learn how to maximize the tools you use to build a fail-safe system for work intake and tracking
  • Gain communication streamlining tools and approaches
  • ​Leave with tools and templates you can use immediately
IN-PERSON COURSE
November 9th, 2021
TPG Office| $245
Earn 3.5 Continuing Education Units 
Capacity Limited
 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT 
CUSTOM JAVASCRIPT / HTML

About Persimmon Leadership Courses

Experience the Persimmon Advantage

Real Interaction, Real Results.
  • You'll see, hear, and speak to your instructor and fellow participants throughout the event, in both large and small group discussions.
  • Class size is limited to allow for rich discussion, reflection, and practice throughout the course.
  • ​​Earn while you learn...our courses are eligible for professional development credits with multiple organizations, including SHRM, HRCI, and PMI.
[From Left to Right] Bill Fournet, CEO / Sara Gallagher, President / Jay Foley, Senior Adviser / Cindy Harp - Executive Coach and VP 
Learn From the Best.
  • Persimmon leadership classes are developed and taught by Persimmon's sought-after executive coaches and consultants, each with diverse industry and leadership experience solving the real problems you face.
  • Facilitator Q&A and dynamic discussion is woven into every class, so you can personalize what you're learning in real time.
  • Get extra help if you need it. As practicing executive coaches and consultants, our facilitators are available for additional one-on-one coaching sessions with you or your team after the course is over. 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a virtual Persimmon event like?
We know you’ll love our virtual learning experiences! Just like a physical classroom, you’ll see and speak to your instructor, participate in discussions and small group activities, and follow along in a writable PDF workbook so you can take notes and reference them later. Your instructor will also be available to you between sessions and after the course to answer questions, PLUS you’ll get access to electronic copies of all the documents we recommend you use to keep your projects on track. 
Do you offer custom leadership training?
Yes!  Persimmon realizes not every organization is the same. That is why we will work with you to build custom Leadership Development courses that address your unique needs with our content modules.
What platform do you use for virtual courses?
The Persimmon Group uses Zoom for all learning events, with multiple security protocols in place to ensure a safe and private event. Zoom allows you to participate on the web (without downloading additional software) if desired.

What Participants Are Saying 

“The instructor was great, the content was applicable to my daily life, and everything was broken down into digestible pieces. I'm taking my notes back with me to review and apply today!"
Laci L. 
ONEOK
“The pacing of the virtual class was great--it didn't feel rushed, there were little to no technical difficulties. The content was perfect."
Brittany W.
Arvest Bank
"The interaction between attendees was awesome. The class was definitely not boring...and very informative!
Andy C.
Laredo Petroleum

About The Persimmon Group

Since 2004, the Persimmon Group has designed 10,000+ hours of eLearning and instructor-led content, including high-stakes safety and compliance learning for Fortune 500 companies. The Persimmon Group has also been recognized with numerous local, national and international business awards, such as: the Inc. 500/5000 for fastest growing companies, the Alfred P. Sloan “When Work Works Award” for Best Places to Work, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Blue Ribbon Award, for advances in strategic planning, employee development, community involvement, and customer service.

We know how to create training materials that work, both for ourselves and for our clients. Our public and private project management courses are built by practicing project managers across many industries, in collaboration with our innovative learning design team. 
Copyright 2021 - The Persimmon Group
Powered By ClickFunnels.com