Performance. Retention. Engagement.

Training is an integral component for higher performance, sustained retention, and employee engagement. Developing your people through providing a healthy mix of skill-based/technical training and professional training is an investment worth making. When management and leadership development training is offered, your team-members know you care about them and their future. At the end of the day both types of training will impact the bottom line and that’s a win-win for everyone.

Developing Your Next Generation of Leaders

New Horizons of East Tennessee (Knoxville, Chattanooga and Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol) has over 40 years of experience partnering with our business community. We deliver hard AND essential soft skills training to your workforce.

The NextGen Leadership Program has been designed to assist East Tennessee businesses in developing current and future leaders to utilize effective skills and behaviors for Leadership of Teams/Projects, Leadership of Managers/Departments, and Organizational/Strategic Leadership.

In designing a custom and sustainable leadership development solution as your partner, we draw from New Horizons extensive collection of professional and leadership learning content including over 100 titles.

• Leadership & Professional Development Courses (for current and upcoming leaders)
• Business Skills Courses (for all staff members)
• Project Management Courses
• IT Service Management Courses

The NexGen Leadership Program can include:

• Ongoing Leadership Development for select groups or individuals
• Private training events for teams or future leadership groups 
• Competency model development assistance 
• Supplemental on-boarding training 
• 1-on-1 scheduled coaching

Sample New Leadership Cohort Training Plans

Example: 12 employees identified by management for 12-month leadership development program. 1-day of training monthly.

Example #1 with Soft Skills Focus

1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Communication Strategies
3. Customer Service
4. Time Management
5. Leadership & Influence
6. Critical Thinking
7. Goal Setting & Getting Things Done
8. High Performance Teams Inside the Company
9. Presentation Skills
10. Business Writing
11. Change Management
12. Conflict Management

Example #2 with Microsoft Office Skills

1. Communication Skills
2. Leadership and Influence
3. Excel 2016 - Part 1
4. Excel 2016 - Part 2
5. Presentation Skills
6. PowerPoint 2016 - Part 2
7. Time Management
8. Change Management
9. Word 2016 - Part 2
10. Word 2016 - Part 3
11. Outlook 2016 - Part 2
12. Office 365

Example #3 with Data Analysis Focus

1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Excel - Part 2
3. Customer Service
4. Time Management
5. Excel - Part 3
6. Leadership & Influence
7. Critical Thinking
8. Data Analysis with Excel PivotTables & Power Pivot
9. Goal Setting & Getting Things Done
10. Microsoft Power BI - Part 1
11. Microsoft Power BI - Part 2
12. Presentation Skills