Leadership Training That Actually Works for People Who Do Real Work
EMDLearning partners with companies and individuals to help elevate organizational performance by cultivating skilled leadership. We focus on identifying and channeling existing experience and untapped potential in leaders to reach new levels of business and professional success.
Individual & Team Leadership Training Programs
Leadership is a lifelong learning process. Accentuate your experience and accelerate your development with valuable insights into your leadership style.
Crew Leadership Skills Program
Made for the people who do the actual work—the field supervisors, crew leaders, and foremen who need to lead without a fancy title. Modules include communication, values, safety, decision making, motivation vs ability, leading through change, working across generations, and making the transition from crew member to crew lead.
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How it works: Highly interactive sessions that mix classroom learning with outdoor activities. Real scenarios, real problems, real solutions. Participants learn from each other because they're the ones with the experience that matters.
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Foreman Leadership Skills program, developed by EMDLearning, is delivered through the Northwest Public Power Association specifically for electric utility foremen and journeymen. Find it at https://www.nwppa.org/training-and-education.
Leading in Operations
New supervisors, superintendents, and managers in Operations find themselves between a rock and a hard place: no longer in the union yet leading union employees. This is a giant step for most Ops folks. This program helps operations supervisors, superintendents, and managers bridge that gap. We'll help you develop the skills to look "out and up" while still honoring your roots and connection to the crew.
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Leadership Training | Insights for Individuals
We use proven assessment tools (like Hogan Leadership Assessments) to help you understand your natural leadership style, what drives you, and how you react when the pressure's on. With clarity about your strengths and blind spots, you'll connect these insights to your current work and career goals in ways that actually make sense for your world. The result? A practical plan for getting the most out of your strengths, addressing what's holding you back, and getting clear on what you need to stay motivated and effective.​
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Ready to Understand Your Leadership Style?
Leadership Training | Insights for Teams
We take those individual insights and look at how your team works together. Where are the gaps? What's working? What's keeping you from being the tight-knit crew you need to be? Then we create a practical plan to get there.​
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Is it time to get your team working like a team?
New Leader Integration
Introducing a new leader to a team can be everything from exciting to unsettling, depending on the team members, the new leader, the state of the business, and what everyone knows (or thinks they know) about each other. Any change to a team triggers the team change cycle of forming-storming-norming-performing. There’s simply more uncertainty than usual. The New Leader Integration program can cut through six months of awkward figuring-each-other-out in just 6-8 hours with proven steps that draw out areas that block or energize the team and move the team more quickly to performing. We get everyone in the room—new leader and crew—to ask and answer questions and share what they all need to work well together. No forced team-building exercises or trust falls. Just honest conversation about expectations, working styles, and what success looks like.
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Got a leadership transition coming up?
Leadership Coaching
Sometimes you need someone who's been where you are—someone who understands the weight of responsibility when people's safety is in your hands. I've spent 30+ years making the tough calls, fighting for resources, building teams, and yes, dealing with failures. I know what it's like to be accountable when things go right and when they go wrong.
Leadership coaching isn't therapy or motivation. It's strategic support from someone who gets the reality of your world—the politics, the pressure, the impossible choices, and the satisfaction when your team performs like the professionals they are. Based on the principles and practices endorsed by the International Coaching Federation, our coaching fundamentals are based first and foremost on creating a trusting relationship. Through this process, we explore and navigate the current environment, the individual’s goals, and the needs of the organization. ​
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Let's talk about your leadership challenges.
Strategic Planning
SHIFT HAPPENS - Strategic Priority Planning Workshop
Organizations of all shapes and sizes need a road map to guide them through growth management, capital prioritization, resource allocation, and talent planning. Full strategic plans are excellent as a long-range plan. This is great until customer demands change, regulations shift, people leave, or budgets change. To succeed in business today, we must be nimble and react to crucial changes more often than we review and adjust our strategic plan.
SHIFT HAPPENS is designed for when you need to pivot fast and smart. We help boards, senior teams, and divisional leaders take an honest look at what's changed, what's coming, and where to focus limited resources for maximum impact.
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Format: 1-2 day workshop that starts with real talk about strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, then reprioritizes based on what's actually happening in your world.
Time to recalibrate your priorities?
