Accelerated Performance Technicians Accelerated Performance Technicians

APT's Learning Solutions

#1 Self-Awareness

The bottom line is, those who learn, grow and change continuously across their careers are the most successful. Whatever skills you have now are not likely to be enough in the future. Acquiring new skills is the best insurance you can get for an uncertain future. Some of us won’t face our limitations; we make excuses, blame it on the boss or the job or the organization. Others are defensive and fight any corrective feedback. Some are just reluctant to do anything about our problems. Some of us want a quick fix; we don’t have time for development. Some of us simply don’t know what to do.

Learning Outcomes

  • Identification of core behaviors
  • Use self-awareness to build healthy teams
  • Recognize individual differences within a team
  • Behaviors to work on
  • Boss interactions and learnings
  • Regression behavior and triggers

#2 Building Employee Trust

Integrity and trust are on almost every success profile we see. It is a basic threshold requirement to be a part of the team. Without it, almost nothing else matters. To think that people question our integrity or don’t usually trust us is very difficult to accept. The more common causes are personal disorganization, inconsistencies and habits that get us into trouble. Many of us simply haven’t thought through the impacts of our actions and have little idea how we come across. It can also be a lack of integrity in the bigger sense; people just don’t buy what you say.

Learning Outcomes

  • Establishing your integrity and trust as a leader with your team
  • Listening means knowing what others have said and mean to say and leaving people comfortable that they have had their say.
  • Active Listening Level I-III
  • Shape your culture though your leadership’s day to day interactions
  • S.S.C. - Start, stop and continue feedback loop
  • Individual & Group Application

#3 The Leadership Architect & 360-Feedback

Use a researched based, global competency framework that defines what matters most for performance in the 21st century business environment. The guide includes chapters covering 38 Competencies as well as 10 Career Stallers & Stoppers-potential derailers that relate to absence or misuse of competencies. The competency chapters describe Talented, Skilled, Less Skilled & Overuse behaviors. Each of the staller & stopper chapters describes what a problem in that area might look like as well as how it not being a problem may play out. These descriptions provide a clear, accessible way to identify your development needs.

Learning Outcomes

  • Train the trainer, learn how to deploy The Leadership Architect within teams to increase team performance
  • You are rated by a select group to provide real time feedback on performance and behaviors
  • Utilize the data to create a leadership development plan to help the candidate accelerate skills and behaviors

#4 On-the-Spot Delegation

Do you hoard tasks, keeping the good-ones to yourself? Do you throw tasks at people without any overall plan or follow-up? Do you micromanage because you don’t trust people will perform? Unless you can do the work of the unit all by yourself, both performance and morale will suffer until you learn to delegate..

Learning Outcomes

  • Clearly and comfortably delegate both routine and important tasks and decisions
  • Broadly shares both responsibility and accountability
  • Let direct reports and others finish their own work

#5 On-the-Spot Coaching

The on-the-spot coaching module enables your company to cultivate a growth oriented environment through the practice of coaching on a daily basis. Learn how a conscious approach to leadership can be transformed into the repeatable process of giving specific feedback to your employees in order to maximize good behaviors so they can achieve their best results. This module can be tailored to suit the needs of all leaders in the organization from the individual contributors to junior executives and executives.

Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize the practice of coaching and its benefits
  • Understand how coaching can develop your employees
  • Learn how coaching can help employees achieve performance goals
  • Differentiate between types of coaching situations
  • Understand and apply coaching skills

#6 Developing Command Skills & Leadership Traits

Leading makes you more visible and more open to criticism. The heat is the hottest on the nose cone of the rocket. Leading is exciting and puts you in control. Leading in tough or crisis conditions is all about creating aligned and sustained motion. It involves keeping your eye on the goals, setting common causes, dealing with the inevitable heat, managing your emotions, being a role model, taking tough stands and getting others to believe in where you’re headed

Learning Outcomes

  • Relishes leading
  • Takes unpopular stand if necessary
  • Encourages direct and tough debates but isn’t afraid to end it and move one
  • Is looked to for direction in a crisis
  • Faces adversity head on
  • Energized by tough challenges