New Leaf Leadership programs are designed for in-person, virtual, and hybrid delivery.
With more than 40 modules, our long-term commitment to your leadership and organizational growth is evident.
Each module is designed for four-hour sessions but can be customized to suit your needs.
Our promise is to offer relevant, transformational content delivered in a fun and unforgettable manner no matter where you are.
Professional Development Programs
Leading with Emotional Intelligence
9 modules
Leading with Emotional Intelligence is the most practical, in-depth, and widely respected program for learning about emotional intelligence, leadership, teamwork, transformational change, and being a more empathic and inspiring leader. Attendees will grow in self-understanding, confidence, personal effectiveness, and their ability to handle the challenges/opportunities of the workplace. Such a personal transformation forms the foundation for organizational transformation.
- Emotional Intelligence Basics: Understanding Self, Managing Self, Practicing Empathy, and Cultivating Positive Relationships
- The Integrity Model: A paradigm of personal effectiveness that defines success as “what happens within you rather than what happens to you.”
- Embrace Reality: Discover power and fulfillment as you stop wasting time resenting, complaining, wishing and blaming, and rather keep your focus on what you can control.
- Exercise Responsibility: See how your success and quality of life come from choices you make and learn to act rather than react to the events of your life.
- Conquer Your Key Moments: Learn how to conquer and transcend the challenges of life by changing your thinking, feelings, and behavior.
- Clarify Your Vision: Know what you want and the steps that you must take to achieve it.
- Define Your Purpose: Decide what your life is about and those principles by which you will govern yourself.
- Act With Integrity: Translate your purpose and vision into reality and make your day-to-day actions consistent with what is most important.
- Value Who You Are: Make a decision to care for yourself, accept your weaknesses, and acknowledge and build upon your strengths.
The Trust Factor
8 modules
When trust is absent, relationships are characterized by an adversarial attitude: me vs. you; us vs. them. Rather than goodwill, there are deep and hidden animosities. Respect is lost and our performance is compromised as our energies go into manipulation and protection rather than working together toward a shared vision.
We believe that the most successful organizations will be those that know how to create a climate of trust and goodwill among their employees. We will help you create the competitive advantage needed by enhancing – The Trust Factor.
- The Trust Imperative: Appreciate the need for collaboration in our interdependent society, learn the definition and key elements of trust, evaluate the consequences of high and low trust within an organization, and much more.
- Collusion: Understand the dynamic of collusion, be able to identify and diagram collusive relationships, write a personal story of collusion, and much more.
- A Change of Heart: Learn the four reasons we engage in collusion. learn the two ways to be in positive, work relationships with others, experience a change of heart toward others, learn and practice the skill of creating safe and trusting conditions, and much more.
- Face-to-Face Communication: Explore the role of communication in interpersonal relationships, learn about alternative ways of communicating/ influencing others, identify your “native tongue” or preferred style of communicating, and much more.
- Interpersonal Dialogue: Core Principles: Understand the definition and meaning of interpersonal dialogue, understand why mutuality is the “bedrock” of dialogue, know how to solve problems in a win-win way, receive feedback from others regarding your dialogue skills, and much more.
- Interpersonal Dialogue: The Steps: Learn the steps of dialogue, learn and practice various inquiry skills, practice using the skills of dialogue, and much more.
- Harnessing Harmful Behavior: Learn to confront behavior that fails to meet your expectations, understand the importance of discipline and conformity in building trust, practice the skill of harnessing harmful behavior, and much more.
- Strengthening Our Relationships: Understand the characteristics and consequences of codependency, learn the valuing process as a skill to strengthen others, evaluate what you do to strengthen others in your relationships, and much more.
High Performance Leadership
8 modules
Leadership is a rich and meaningful word. It stirs up a sense of idealism, excitement, hope and courage. It is a word that inspires us to be our best, a word that we associate with those who have made the greatest difference in our lives. In short, high performing leaders are a significant part of the answer to whatever challenges our organizations may face. It is influence, connection, and results.
- Principles of Leadership: Learn the difference between controlling and empowering leadership styles and many more leadership truths.
- Practices of Empowering Leaders: Empowering leaders not only understand but practice important leadership principles such as build and sustain trust with their teams, unleash the commitment and motivation of their teams, have a driving passion to realize their vision, and much more.
- The Five Leadership Roles: Examine the three core elements of team effectiveness, learn the five roles of leadership, discover the appropriate balance among the five roles, and much more.
- Leadership Practices: A Self-Assessment: Learn the Transformation Model, identify the Transition Planning Model, recognize forces driving and restraining change in your current organization, and much more.
- Personal Productivity: Learn the difference between the important and the urgent and how to schedule time for the important, learn to set professional goals to guide your use of time, learn a systematic approach to managing daily events, and much more.
- Fundamentals of High Performance Teams: Discover the three elements of high-performance teams, learn the four types of teams, learn the stages of team development, and much more.
- Performance Expectations: Learn to confront behavior that fails to meet your expectations, understand the importance of discipline and conformity in building high performance, develop a set of non-negotiables for those whom you lead, and much more.
- Empowering Others for Success: Learn the difference between commitment and compliance motivation, understand how leadership changes to create commitment, learn the four principles of empowerment, develop a dialogue to transfer power to others, and much more.
Developing New Leaf Teams
7 modules
Create an Organization in Which People’s Hearts are in Their Work:
Few would argue that people are an organization’s most valuable asset. Do you want better quality, faster response time, higher productivity, greater sensitivity to customers, and improved profitability? People make these happen.
Unfortunately, many people are motivated by compliance. Their hearts are not in their work. They get by, do the minimum required and watch the clock. Their organization reaps mediocrity.
Other people are motivated by commitment. They care about the work they do, know that they are valued by their organization, and can make a significant contribution to its success. Their organization reaps vitality and excellence.
Fundamentals of High Performance Teams: Learn the definition of a high-performance team and how it differs from traditional work groups, discover the three elements of high-performance teams, learn the stages of team development, create an image and name your team, and much more.
The Team Charter: Identify your team’s key customers and stakeholders, determine the performance results expected of your team, develop a set of team operating norms, and much more.
Effective Meetings: Assess how efficient and effective your meetings are, discuss guidelines to improve the effectiveness of your meetings, learn the three leadership roles required for successful meetings, develop discussion skills to improve the quality of team meetings, and much more.
Customer Focus: Assess how customer-oriented your team and organization are, discuss and analyze feedback from key customers, identify key customer requirements, develop a system for measuring and tracking key customer requirements, and much more.
Managing the Process: Learn basic process mapping definitions and skills, map the team’s core process, identify and analyze key variances, develop action plans to improve the team’s core process, and much more.
Team Member Roles and Responsibilities: Learn how to be a self-sufficient and self directing team, clarify shared team responsibilities, use the empowerment matrix as a developmental tool, develop a maturation matrix, and much more.
Setting Goals and Keeping Score: Understand the importance of setting goals and tracking your performance, learn the building blocks of score keeping, identify your team’s key results areas, evaluate your feedback system, and much more.
Skills for High-Performing New Leaf Teams
7 modules
Discover the Benefits of Collaboration:
We all depend on each other. Everything we accomplish within an organization is through the efforts of people working together. The premise of this program is that organizations are healthier and more productive when their relationships are strong and people understand how to work together. In a highly interactive environment, team members have fun while learning principles, making decisions and maintaining a positive social environment.
- Basic Communication: Learn how people’s perceptions and viewpoints differ, analyze the difference between one-way and two-way communication, improve active listening skills, and much more.
- Giving and Receiving Feedback: Discover how open or closed you are to giving and receiving feedback, practice giving and receiving live feedback from team members, make a personal improvement plan to respond to team feedback, and much more.
- Group Dynamics: Learn about group processes and shared leadership, learn what group dynamics are, identify how your team will improve its group process, and much more.
- Team Decision Making: Practice a group decision-making model and consensus decision making, review who is responsible for current team decisions, discuss shifting to ideal team decision-making responsibilities, and much more.
- Team Problem Solving: Create a model for group problem-solving and how to use it, learn how to do creative brainstorming, analyze how well your team is set up for effective problem-solving, and much more.
- Conflict Resolution: Learn a definition of unhealthy conflict and how to keep from crossing over into it, learn about five different types of conflict, practice a three-step model for resolving conflict, and much more.
- Time Management: Learn the barriers which keep you from managing your time more effectively, learn the difference between the important and the urgent, and how to schedule time for the important, create a systematic approach to managing, and much more.
Keynotes
New Leaf’s keynotes are known for audience connection, inspiration, and delivering information to help leaders succeed in life and at work. New Leaf features some of the nation’s top keynote speakers including New Leaf Founder – Joe Pettit – who can inspire, inform, and move any audience to produce better results.
- It’s Not Over: Story of Fighting Through Adversity and Still Producing Results
- Emotional Intelligence
- Seeds to Success: Producing Results in Life and at Work
Online Courses and Books
Live and recorded modules coming soon. Each session will be available to supplement New Leaf Founder Joe Pettit’s Seeds to Success book, professional development programs, and keynotes.