Leadership and Management Training
Grounded in the practices of Positive Psychology, Brave Spaces, and Appreciative Inquiry, our training approach is centered on empowering managers and employees with the necessary skills, insights, and confidence to navigate the intricacies of today’s complex work landscape.
Transformative Training for High-Performing, Inclusive Workplaces
Our training equips teams to engage effectively and build a workplace rooted in collaboration and inclusion.
Whether it’s mastering the art of giving and receiving feedback, fostering psychological safety, or cultivating the skills and mindsets vital for nurturing high-performing and collaborative workplaces, our training modules are designed to be actionable, inclusive, and deeply rooted in evidence-based practices.
Through interactive dialogues and activities, we cater to various learning styles, ensuring an engaging learning environment that encourages collaborative practice of real-world applications.
Foundations On Leadership Training Series
Foundations on Leadership is a structured management training series designed to reduce organizational risk while strengthening execution, engagement, and leadership consistency. The series equips managers to create the conditions for sustainable performance, rather than relying on heroic effort, informal workarounds, or top-down control.
Organizations experience the greatest performance and retention risk when expectations are unclear, accountability is inconsistent, feedback is avoided, and decision rights are ambiguous. This series directly addresses those failure points by building a shared leadership operating system across managers.
Through interactive dialogues and activities, we cater to various learning styles, ensuring an engaging learning environment that encourages collaborative practice of real-world applications.
The Qualities of Great Leaders
Managers align on what effective leadership looks like in practice, grounding expectations in evidence-based behaviors rather than personal style or seniority.
Setting Team Vision & Expectations
Managers learn to translate strategy into clear team direction and role expectations so employees can prioritize effectively and execute with confidence.
The Gift of Feedback
Managers build the capability to deliver timely, specific feedback that supports improvement before issues become costly or disruptive.
The Accountability Code
Accountability is reframed as a shared responsibility, where managers remove barriers and employees own outcomes, reducing friction and escalation.
Leading Living Systems
Managers integrate all prior learning, shifting from managing a “machine” to stewarding a living system. They learn to distinguish between proficiency (capability) and performance (outcomes) and use both to determine appropriate decision authority, balancing autonomy, risk, and development.
Executive VIP Leadership Sessions
Attend five 45-minute sessions with the executive team, designed to unpack key frameworks and insights from management training.
Featured Trainings
Positive Organizational Change Management
Discover how to lead change as a positive, human-centered process, using practical strategies that build trust, ease fear, and engage people through transitions with resilience and hope.
The Power of Gratitude & Recognition in Workplace Culture
Learn how to make appreciation a daily workplace habit that boosts morale, strengthens retention, and creates a culture where people feel genuinely seen and valued.
Leading Change with H.O.P.E.- How Leaders Can Enable Change That Sticks
Learn why most change efforts fail, and how to lead change that actually sticks. Explore the H.O.P.E. Change Enablement Model and practical, human-centered leadership practices that build trust, resilience, and sustained engagement through uncertainty.
Empathy, Active Listening, and Inclusive Communication
Develop essential communication skills to lead with empathy, listen with intention, and foster conversations that build trust, inclusion, and understanding.
Meaningful Accountability
A 5 module, self-led training that helps managers and employees build a performance system focused on creating the conditions for people to succeed, not grading or monitoring them. The training emphasizes clear expectations, ongoing feedback, and shared accountability to support strong performance, alignment, and energy at work.
Engagement Is the Strategy
Gain a clear, practical understanding of the six drivers of engagement and how to use them to strengthen connection, focus effort where it matters most, and create the conditions for sustainable engagement and performance.
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What To Expect
Step 1: Resources
Upon registration, participants will receive access to pre-work materials and/or post-session resources designed to enhance their learning experience.
Step 2: Alignment
We collaborate with key decision-makers to gather insights and clarify desired learning outcomes, ensuring that training agendas, facilitation plans, and materials are tailored to your organization’s needs.
Step 3: Design + Content Curation
We design and customize virtual and in person training sessions based on the learning objectives identified in our alignment meetings. Participant pre-work and training materials are adapted for your organization’s context and employee base.
Step 4: Training
This is where your Leadership Training begins, utilizing the materials curated to your organization’s needs.
Step 5: Cementing Learning
Supplementary post-workshop resources, including reflection exercises and practical tools for continued learning, help ensure that content can be applied efficiently and effectively over time.
Every great leader started as a learner.
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“We have a deeply rewarding partnership with Positively Partners. They are compassionate guides to all of us as we try to build a truly inclusive culture. Positively Partners has added value to the way we think, the way we act, and the way we are as an organization.”