What is the Accelerating Excellence Leadership Series (AELS)?
It is a transformative and comprehensive 7-session curriculum designed to equip participants moving into leadership positions with the essential skills and tools to be strong leaders.
Why should you invest in training managers with the Accelerating Excellence Leadership Series?
Many managers are promoted because they are solid individual performers. Once someone moves to a leadership position, a different skill set is required.
The AELS curriculum is explicitly designed to focus on these essential leadership skills:
The most important thing an organization can do to provide a work culture that attracts and retains highly engaged team members is to have a cadre of great managers.
The AELS curriculum is based on over 40 years of practical workplace experience.
The AELS content is among the training industry’s most practical, engaging, and easy-to-understand. It has been delivered to over 50,000 participants with an average participant rating of 4.9 out of 5.
The resources (handouts, slide decks, etc.) are professionally designed and beautifully packaged.
What are the financial and organizational benefits of the Accelerating Excellence Leadership Series Train-the-Trainer program?
Employee Engagement Session:
Managers will learn 7 no-cost ways to increase employee commitment and enthusiasm.
This will increase employee retention.
Employee Accountability Session:
Managers will learn how to address poor behaviors and attitudes.
This will significantly reduce the number and effect of toxic employees in the work environment.
Building Harmony Session:
Managers will learn how to mediate and resolve conflicts.
This will reduce wasted time and energy on unnecessary workplace conflict and get team members working together.
Hire Smart Session:
Managers will learn how to interview candidates, look for red flags, make wise hiring decisions, and provide a first-class onboarding experience for new team members.
This will reduce the cost of poor hires, which can be up to one-year’s salary and new employees who quit within the first 6 months of hire.
Service Excellence Session:
Managers will learn the best practices for service excellence so that every team member provides positive customer interactions.
This will increase customer satisfaction and reduce the number of customer complaints.
Emotional and Relational Intelligence Session:
Managers will learn how to guide team members through organizational change, make better decisions, and create an emotional connection with team members.
This will enhance the speed of organizational change by reducing resistance by team members.
Personal Effectiveness and Replenishment Session:
Managers will discover and learn to focus on their highest priorities, delegate tasks, meet deadlines, and follow through on commitments.
This will enable managers to operate at their highest capacity instead of spending time on tasks that lower-level team members can handle.
What does the Accelerating Excellence Leadership Series Train-the-Trainer involve?
4 days of in-person training provided by AELS creator Del Gilbert
Trainer certification by Del Gilbert
Over 40 beautifully designed handouts, slide decks, and other resources
All handouts, slide decks, and additional resources branded with your organization’s name, logo, and colors
A Train-the-Trainer Guide
Presentation Skills Guide
Extensive training notes
Links to recordings of training of all 7 sessions to assist in trainer preparation
Ongoing coaching and support by Del Gilbert
You can use the content in any way that works best for your organization
““ I must tell you that training your Accelerating Excellence Leadership
Series curriculum has been amazing! Your content makes it so easy to
convey the content in a practical and useful way to our managers. The
requests for these trainings keep flowing in. Thank you for offering the
Train-the-Trainer format. It has really helped us to make your concepts
accessible to so many of our managers.” ”