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Leadership Development & Management Training Practices

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“LSA’s ability to develop leaders and managers is second to none.  

They recently helped us get a group of twenty executives from around the globe on the same page, push their thinking to new heights, and ensure an executable plan was excellent.

I would recommend LSA to anyone looking to take their leaders and strategy execution to the next level.”
Rob Sturgeon | Executive Vice President | ServiceSource

Leadership Development and Management Training serve different purposes.

They are designed for different audiences, require different capabilities and support structures, and use distinct approaches to achieve measurable — but very different — business outcomes.

Leadership development focuses on shaping strategic direction, driving organizational alignment, and leading through complexity. Management training strengthens the day-to-day skills required to engage employees, execute priorities, build accountability, and improve team performance.

To explore how to develop leaders and managers to create peak performance across your organization, select one of the areas below.

Develop Leaders and Managers to Drive High Performance

Leadership Development
We define leadership development as helping boards of directors, executives, and senior leaders address their most critical strategic and organizational challenges through highly customized, action-oriented, and results-driven approaches.

The goal is to measurably strengthen leadership effectiveness and improve the execution of key business and talent strategies. Because the decisions leaders make shape culture, performance, innovation, and long-term growth, the stakes are high and the impact is enterprise-wide.

Management Development
We define management development as helping new and experienced managers strengthen team performance, productivity, engagement, and retention through practical, research-backed management tools, techniques, and best practices.

The goal is to measurably improve how managers attract, develop, motivate, and retain talent while creating greater accountability, collaboration, and execution across teams. Strong managers turn strategy into action by helping employees perform at their best every day.

If you would like to learn more about how to effectively develop leaders and managers through customized, targeted, and action-learning approaches, please contact us.

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Thanks for your incredible patience and passion working with our leadership team to create alignment.

Your leadership and executive coaching services have been one of the most effective I’ve ever known.

Debbie Von Raesfeld
Director and HR Business Partner

AMD

LSA helped us design and deliver blended leadership solutions for our key leaders to help drive our growth plans in a way that aligned with our unique culture and values.

LSA understood our business, had deep expertise in the content areas, customized the leadership development programs to fit our specific needs, and delivered great results in alignment with our strategic priorities, culture, and performance management systems.

I highly recommend them to anyone looking to take their leaders and the performance of their teams to the next level.

Beth A. Taylor
Vice President of Human Resources

Thoratec

We selected LSA Global over 5 other companies to help our key executives improve their overall communication and executive presentation capabilities. LSA exceeded our expectations.

I highly recommend LSA to any executive team looking to better organize and more effectively deliver key executive-level messages — especially when the stakes are high.

Todd Power
Office of the CEO

At the onset of our engagement with LSA, I was skeptical that an outside firm would be able to understand and dissect our organization’s highly complex and technical business challenges.

However, through the leadership team interview and strategy retreat processes that LSA utilized, they provided a fresh, innovative, and practical perspective that created tremendous strategic value and focus for our executive leadership team.

As a result, I would highly recommend LSA Global to any leader struggling with building the strategic alignment and high performance teams necessary to generate sales growth, in a way that fits their unique corporate culture.

Robert Laudati
Managing Director

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LSA’s approach has certainly brought value to Knight Ridder Digital. They were laser focused on our goal and determined to meet all of our Leadership development program needs. Their flexibility and commitment were keys in making our program successful.

Dipik Rai
Director of Marketing

LSA’s approach and ability to bring the right leadership and management expertise and approach to eBay has been a great asset.

They really focus on helping us succeed in any way they can and definitely lifted up our leadership and management development capabilities.

Mike Normant
Learning & Development

ebay

We turned to LSA to help us custom design and deliver a action leadership and management development curriculum to help drive performance across the company.

They have done an excellent job diagnosing the business situation, designing an approach that fits our unique culture, and delivering first class solutions.  Thank you!

Sally Buchannan
VP Human Resources

We reviewed the top Leadership Development offerings and selected LSA’s 12-month Leadership Program based upon the value and systemic approach.

The feedback on the program, approach, and results was phenomenal. While other programs may be better known, the other options were more theoretical and did not compare in terms of LSA’s practicality, quality, and results.

We could not be happier.

Stacey Porter
Senior Manager Learning and Development

Roche

You have become our premier change leadership strategic partner. Your expertise in the human side of change is unparalleled and enabled our company to successfully implement our ERP Solution under challenging and ever-changing circumstances.

Thank you for your practical and outcome-oriented approach.

Ted Ramlet
CIO & SVP

McKesson

As a high growth agency with cutting edge talent, we hired LSA Global to help clarify our strategy and work with our executive leadership team to help implement strategic changes in a way that made sense for our unique culture.

The work was so successful that we also hired them to coach our key leaders. LSA has been instrumental in helping us transition to a new leadership team and triple revenue.  In this age of useless consultants, I highly recommend their practical and business-oriented approach to strategy, culture, and talent.

David Bentley
General Manager

AKQA

Great job in designing the Mergers and Acquisition strategy session for our global leadership team. The session was excellent.

I gained additional insight on the importance of the role of HR regarding strategy, culture, and people in Mergers and Acquisitions and would recommend LSA to anyone looking to align strategies and cultures.

Gloria Veon
Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Fujitsu

Thank you for a great leadership development session today. The facilitator was brilliant.  The team got a lot out of it (as did I).

I believe it will help us create an even higher performance culture by ensuring we have a common understanding of how to create higher performance and work toward clear and common strategic goals.

Simon Jefferson
Managing Director

AKQA

LSA exceeded all my expectations.

We interviewed 7 potential training and consulting partners and selected LSA due to their expertise, flexibility, and breadth and depth of leadership solutions.

We were able to design a highly customized, focused, and relevant management training program that fit our unique needs.

Our leaders and managers galvanized as a team and are better prepared for the rigors of a leading their teams in a very competitive and fast-changing market.

Mitch Mandich
CEO

Edify

We contacted LSA to help us design and deliver customized management development programs. LSA worked with us to meet our exact needs. We started at the top with our executive team.  It was such a great success that we rolled it out company-wide. We look forward to a long-term partnership with LSA Global and their team of experts.

Barry L. Byrd, SPHR
Human Resources Manager

The customized leadership program was very practical and achieved our goals. LSA adapted very well to our group and the situation and helped us build trust and awareness of successful leadership styles. We look forward to the next steps.

Erik Okholm
Director of Software Development

FAQs

Leadership development focuses on helping executives and senior leaders solve strategic business challenges, align teams, and drive organizational performance. Management training, on the other hand, equips managers with practical tools and techniques to improve employee productivity, engagement, accountability, and retention. While leaders shape direction and culture, managers drive day-to-day execution and team performance.

Research-backed leadership and management development programs improve strategic clarity, employee engagement, execution effectiveness, and retention. Organizations whose leaders purposefully align culture and talent with strategy have been shown to grow revenue faster, increase profitability, and strengthen leadership effectiveness. Effective programs combine simulations, customized learning, coaching, action learning, and measurable business outcomes tied directly to organizational priorities.

Today’s leaders and managers need a blend of strategic and interpersonal capabilities to succeed in increasingly complex environments. Critical skills include communication, coaching, change management, decision-making, emotional intelligence, accountability, strategic thinking, delegation, collaboration, and performance management. High-performing leaders also excel at creating clarity, aligning teams, and building high-performance cultures.

Customized programs are designed around an organization’s unique culture, strategy, leadership challenges, and performance goals. Rather than relying on generic content, customized solutions focus on real business scenarios, practical application, and measurable outcomes. This increases learner relevance, accelerates behavior change, and improves execution against strategic priorities.

Employees are significantly influenced by the quality of leadership and management they experience every day. Strong leaders create strategic alignment and trust, while skilled managers foster accountability, coaching, recognition, and development. Organizations that invest in developing leaders and managers are better positioned to attract top talent, increase engagement, reduce turnover, and sustain high performance over time.

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