FOUNDATIONS
Essential Skills for Leading with Confidence and Clarity
How the Foundations Pathway Builds Confident Leaders
The Foundations pathway provides new and developing managers with the essential tools to succeed. By focusing on leadership mindset, self-awareness, communication, and accountability, this pathway builds a strong base for effective management. Participants gain the clarity and skills needed to lead teams with purpose, build trust, and drive performance from day one.
The 7 Pillars of Foundational Leadership
Developing a Leadership Mindset
This session helps new and emerging managers shift from individual contributor to team leader. Participants learn to adopt a leadership mindset, overcome common challenges like micromanagement, and apply strategies to delegate effectively and foster team growth.
Enhancing Self-Awareness for Greater Impact
Leaders gain insight into their personality traits and behavioral tendencies using the OAD Assessment, learning how self-awareness strengthens leadership. By understanding their impact on others, participants develop more effective communication and management approaches tailored to their team’s needs.
Mastering Communication for Influence and Clarity
Focused on building purposeful and adaptable communication, this session equips leaders to express ideas clearly, manage difficult conversations, and foster collaboration. Participants learn to influence outcomes by listening actively and connecting with diverse team members.
Delivering and Receiving Feedback Effectively
Participants explore practical tools and models like BOOST and IDEA to deliver and receive feedback that improves performance and builds trust. This session emphasizes creating a culture where continuous feedback drives accountability and growth.
Creating a Culture of Accountability
This session empowers managers to set clear expectations, follow through on commitments, and hold themselves and others responsible for results. Leaders learn how accountability strengthens team performance and supports a high-trust, high-performance environment.
Prioritizing What Matters
Managers are guided through techniques to identify high-impact tasks, manage competing demands, and align daily work with team and organizational goals. This session builds decision-making skills and helps leaders focus time and energy where it matters most.
Building Trust to Strengthen Relationships
Trust is the foundation of every successful team. This session explores practical ways to build credibility, show consistency, and foster open communication. Managers learn how trust boosts collaboration, morale, and long-term team engagement.
What Success Looks Like After Foundations
What managers can expect to feel or do differently after completing the pathway.
Lead Productive Team Meetings
Deliver Feedback With Confidence
Earn Trust Quickly in New Roles
Real Growth. Real Impact. One Leader’s Journey.
When the City of Henderson partnered with Express Pros Training, Civic Center Manager Stephanie Kimbrell didn’t just gain leadership skills; she experienced a transformation that reshaped how she shows up at work, at home, and in the community. This case study highlights how personalized training and one-on-one coaching helped Stephanie go from reserved to respected, improving team performance, communication, and accountability along the way.
“Express Pros Training introduced new ideas, helped us see situations from different angles, and gave us the space to process and reflect. That shift in perspective ultimately helped us make the right decisions for our workforce moving forward and they worked closely with me to customize the training so that it would be very applicable to the managers current role.”
Sean Marks
Assistant Plant Manager | Champion Homes
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