Tips For Organizing An Interesting Leadership Development Training

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.

Venue of the training is another challenge when planning for trainings. People want to learn in friendly environments and something different from what they are used to seeing in their workplace. Hire a venue in a beach town or resort where the participants can unleash their thoughts late in the evening when watching the stars. As such, they will be eager to attend any form of the workshop that you invite them.

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.

After getting the amount payable for each participant and a venue, start sending invitation letters. These letters should carry your letterhead, the names of the facilitators, theme of the teaching and topics that will be covered. With such information, the attendees will be aware of what they are coming to do and eager to listen. Remember to include the contacts of the host and direction of the venue to avoid confusion among your participants.

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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