The
Leadership and Business Development Academy can be customized by selecting any number of our top-rated sessions. Please
contact us to discuss your goals, so we can develop a bespoke curriculum tailored to your specific audience and needs.
TRAINING SESSION OPTIONS
Personal Branding & Executive Presence
- Kickoff: Straight talk about leadership development and your company’s expectations
- Communicating your personal brand, expertise, and the value you bring to each matter
- Cultivating executive presence
- Becoming a “go to” person internally and externally
- In-Session Exercise: Elevator Speech Role Play
- Homework for Participants: Organization Bio & LinkedIn Profile Updates
Maximizing Existing Client Relationships
- Honing a client service orientation
- Promoting your company
- Identifying client development activities that play to your strengths
- In-Session Exercise: Client Profile & Outreach Plan Exercises
- Homework for Participants: Contacts Review & Outreach Plan Development
Building & Maintaining Your Professional Network
- LinkedIn for Busy Professionals: a live demonstration of how to use LinkedIn strategically and ethically
- Developing a content strategy for your practice
- In-Session Exercise: Live LinkedIn Demonstration
- Homework for Participants: LinkedIn Profile Updates
Creating & Implementing Your Personal Action Plan
- Identifying your highest ROI activities and matters
- Strategic career management for success and fulfillment
- Prioritizing your external activities and outreach
- Demonstrating commitment through consistent follow up
- Creating accountability and support systems internally and externally
- In-Session Exercise: Personal Action Plan Exercise (using Mountaintop’s proprietary templates)
- Homework for Participants: Personal Action Plan Development
Strategic Career Management
- Understanding the company’s expectations for promotion to Partner
- Developing strong relationships within your practice area, in your office, and company-wide
- Playing to your strengths to build your differentiated “platform” for advancement
- Identifying appropriate internal and external profile-building activities
- Crafting a simple, personalized action plan to manage the next phase(s) of your career
- In-Session Exercise: SMART Goals & Action Planning
- Homework for Participants: Personal Action Plan Development
Communication Skills & “Owning The Room”
- Mastering verbal, nonverbal, and written communication
- Understanding the 7 C’s of effective communication
- Structuring effective, professional email communication with clients and colleagues
- Establishing the physical presence and confidence to “own the room”
- In-Session Exercise: “Off The Cuff” Role Play
- Homework for Participants: Related reading