Tip #1098: Lackluster Leaders Don’t Care
Lackluster leaders don’t care about their employees. This is particularly evident when an employee submits their voluntary resignation. Why Employees Leave There are many reasons
October 13, 2025
Help Your New Managers and Trainers Become Great at What They Do
Strengthen their skills so they can have a positive impact on your employees, your customers, and your company.
The problem today is that 60% of new managers fail in the first two years due to a lack of leadership skills. They don’t know how to lead, manage, or motivate their employees.
The result is significantly decreased employee morale, productivity, and retention, which impact profitability.
To avoid management failure, you want to make sure that your managers know how to:
Leadership training isn’t just a feel-good initiative—it’s a strategic investment that delivers substantial returns.
Recent studies indicate that for every dollar spent on leadership development, companies can expect an average return of $7.
This is because of the following domino effect:
This two-part assessment is designed for you to evaluate the effectiveness of your new managers and trainers.
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Laurel and Associates, Ltd.’s Management and Team Development programs strengthen your leadership skills in areas like communication, delegation, motivation, and team building. We provide training that equips your managers to lead more effectively, fostering a productive and engaged workforce.
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Introduction: A state agency sought to develop a more cohesive management team.
Challenge: Preliminary survey results and individual interviews indicated that there was a low level of trust and a lack of open communication both within the team and outside it.
Strategies: Facilitate a full day in-person retreat with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the team members to get to know each other better, develop team operating principles, and collaborate in a problem-solving activities.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the retreat. A survey conducted two months after the retreat indicated that the levels of trust and open communication had increased dramatically.
Impact: The team members felt that the management team now fostered a culture of collaboration and cooperation.
Introduction: An international nonprofit organization needed to help its managers become more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
Challenge: The managers tended to avoid handling issues of poor performance.
Strategies: Facilitate a full-day in-person workshop with highly interactive skill-building learning activities that enabled the managers to learn how to give coaching feedback to poor performers and then practice their new skills to build a level of confidence.
Results: Participant evaluations indicated a positive response to the workshop. The effectiveness of the program convinced the nonprofit to provide the same skill-building training program to additional managers from around the world. They, also, learned how to give coaching feedback and then practiced their new skills.
Impact: Both groups of managers became more comfortable with coaching poor performers.
Presentation Skills- Conduct a Self -Assessment
Week 1: Many people are uncomfortable making presentations. Yet, if you’re a manager, there will be ample opportunities for you to make persuasive presentations to your staff, to your executive team, to your board, to your customers, and possibly to the public at large. This week you will assess your most recent presentation (or one that you observed) in seven different areas, including overcoming the six major speaking faults, using powerful and persuasive language, and handling questions. If you are a manager and anticipate having to persuade your listeners to take action, please join on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on October 21st at 10 am CDT on YouTube.
Presentation Skills-Tailor to the Audience
Week 2: When you plan a presentation, you need to first analyze your audience. This week you will determine who your audience is, what they know or think they know about your subject, what their attitude is toward your subject, what they expect to receive in your presentation, and how to grab their interest. If you are a manager and you don’t currently think about how your presentation will be received, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series What Managers Need to Know on October 28th at 10 am CDT on YouTube.
Presentation Skills- Plan the Presentation
Week 3: When you know that your subject will be controversial, it is wise to plan what you’re going to say. Should you hit them with the main message right away or lead into it? This week we’ll focus on how to organize your presentation and the different ways to structure your presentation depending on whether it will be controversial or noncontroversial. If you are a manager and want to know how to plan an effective presentation, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on November 4th at 10 am CDT on YouTube.
Presentation Skills- Check Posture, Presence, and Projection
Week 4: You’ve planned your presentation and now you need to think about how to make the presentation. We’ll discuss tricks of the trade in terms of your posture, presence, and projection. We’ll also discuss body language no no’s and techniques to deal with anxiety. If you’re a manager who gets very nervous when you have to make a presentation, please join us on our LinkedIn Live series titled What Managers Need to Know on November 11th at 10 am CDT on YouTube.
Presentation Skills- Make It Memorable
Week 5: You’ve analyzed your audience and organized your presentation. That’s an important start. But the real question is, do you know how to present effectively in front of an audience? Can you capture the audience’s attention, speak clearly, keep your anxiety in check, and use natural gestures? If you are a manager who wants to make sure your presentation is memorable- in a good way!- join us on our LinkedIn Live series What Managers Need to Know on November 18th at 10 am CDT on YouTube.
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Thank you Deb for all the great learning!!!
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