Give Your People
Technical Leadership Training

in 5 Minutes a Week,

for Less than You Spend on Coffee.

(Yes, Seriously)

Dear Technical Leader,

We all know that great leadership can make a huge difference in the performance of a group.  And, most managers really want to grow the leadership skills of their people, but given the constraints of daily work, it never seems to get done.  Do any of these classic obstacles sound familiar?

• We’re just too busy
• It’s too expensive
• We tried it once, and nothing changed
• Generic leadership training doesn’t really apply to our environment.  Leading Geeks is different.
• No one likes that touchy-feely c#%p

If you’ve ever felt this way, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the Leadership Advantage Program.  It’s designed to develop the leadership skills of your technical professionals and managers while fitting neatly into the constraints that most IT leaders deal with every day.

What is the Leadership Advantage Program?

At the core of the program is the weekly 5 minute, on-demand webinar.  Every week, your people will receive an email from me with a link to a 5 minute streaming presentation that can be watched at their desk.  Each one will explore a single facet of technical leadership. 

It doesn’t sound like much but at the end of a year, they will have been exposed to 52 management ideas.  It’s about the equivalent of two days of training spread out over the year, but they never leave the office, and it costs less than 10% of the typical two day program.

There’s a lot more to the program that you can read about below, but I’ll try to answer a few other key questions first.

Can you really learn about leadership this way?

Yes, absolutely. 

I think that you’ll find this a much more effective way to learn and grow than to go to a single training session.  When you attend a multi-day session, you can only absorb so much information and then you go back to the office…and Poof! It’s gone. 

Think I’m wrong?  Just try to remember what was covered in the last training course you attended.  I’ll bet that within a week you probably couldn’t recall more than a few tidbits. 

People absorb small chunks of information presented over time more effectively than one long program.  The best learning resembles a drum beat more than an explosion.

The key to making this sort of ongoing learning effective is having a coherent framework in which to fit the chunks of information.  With a single map, each piece of information fills in a part of the puzzle rather than just being dislocated and fragmentary.

And the Leadership Advantage Program is built around just such an overarching model, one developed by McGill University’s Henry Mintzberg, one of the most respected management theorists and writers active today.  So not only will your people get immediately applicable tips on management and leadership, they’ll get a comprehensive framework with which to make sense of both the ideas presented in the program and their real-life experience.

Is this the best way to learn about leadership?

Honestly, no.  It’s not. 

For $5,000 - $10,000 each you can send your people to a fantastic event or even a longer term program.  But for the time and money, I doubt you can find a better option than the Leadership Advantage Program. 

If you want the gold-standard for leadership development, check out the Center for Creative Leadership’s week-long programs for generic leadership training or my intense, six-month-long Developing Technical Leaders program for a more industry specific approach. 

But, even if you are prepared to invest that much money and time in a few people, no one can afford to do this for their entire staff, or even all their promising up-and-comers.  The Leadership Advantage Program is a way to offer something to everyone, efficiently and economically.

Who should participate in the Leadership Advantage Program?

The program is designed for:

• Practicing managers – Directors, team leaders, project managers currently managing staff
• Aspiring managers – up-and-comers with the potential to enter formal management roles
• Technical gurus - professionals who do not aspire to management positions, but need to offer purely technical leadership
• Business analysts and Client relationship managers – people who must influence both technical and business people
• CIOs and other technical executives – even if you may have heard some of this information before, it’s good to know what your people are learning, to be able to speak the same language … and to be reminded of things you may have forgotten

Why would they listen to this guy?

For one, literally, hundreds of thousands of technical professionals already do. 

Even if my name isn’t familiar to you, my work may be.  I am management columnist for Computerworld and author of the multiple-award-winning book “Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology.”  My writings have been translated into almost a dozen languages and appear regularly in publications on five continents.

As a consultant and speaker, my clients have included organizations such as Intuit, Microsoft, SAS, Pacificare, Monster.com, Mayo Clinic, Cornell University, Boeing/Aviall, Gartner Group, American Red Cross, Kinkos, PIMCO State Street Bank, UCLA, Western Michigan University, Computerworld, Forbes, State of California, State of North Dakota, Hospira, Avanade, and many, many more.

So what do my people get in addition to the weekly webinars?

In addition to the weekly webinars, your people will get:

Bonus #1. Overview webinar.  When you join the program, the first webinar they receive will be an overview of the managerial competency model underlying the Leadership Advantage Program.  That will prepare them to make sense of not only the program sessions, but of all management ideas that they read and hear.

Bonus #2.  Archive access.  Program members will be able to access all previous weekly webinars through a member’s portion of the GeekLeaders.com web site.  So if they want to go back and review a topic, it’s always there.

Bonus #3. Transcripts and slides.  Every weekly webinar comes with links to pdf files containing copies of the slides and a complete transcript of the webinar.  This allows people who learn differently to rely on their preferred approach.

Bonus #5.  Free gift with other services.  Program members who buy other services from me (keynote speaking, training or consulting) will receive a free month-long Leadership Advantage membership for up to 10,000 people to give away to friends and colleagues.

How some free samples?

How about a money back guarantee?

OK, OK.  I give and I give.  If during the first month, you decide that you are unsatisfied with the program for any reason, I'll give you your money back.  It's that simple.

Quit beating around the bush.  How much does the Leadership Advantage Program cost?

Depends on the size of your group.  Introductory pricing is a follows.

(You can also join as an individual member.  Click here to learn more.)

(Not-for-profit associations can offer Leadership Advantage webinars as a member benefit for a ridiculously discounted rate.  Click here to learn more.)

What are the mechanics of joining the program?

If you want to sign up your group through the website, click here to go to the registration page.  You’ll be able to select the size of the group you want to register.  You’ll need a credit card which will be charged for the membership fee each month.

After you register and your credit card is processed, you will receive an email with instructions to distribute to your group members on how to register for the program.  They will have to register individually, but will not be charged anything.   

After they register individually, they will start receiving the weekly emails.

If you want to be invoiced rather than pay with a credit card, click here to contact me, and we’ll set up an appointment to chat by phone and get you started.

Sign Up Now

If you’re ready to sign up, please click here to go to the registration form.

If you have questions about the program that I haven’t answered here, click here to contact me with the question.

I hope that you’ll decide to join us in the Leadership Advantage Program.

Best Wishes,

Paul Glen

P.S.  If you’re ready to invest 5 minutes a week and less than $20 per month in advancing the careers of your people.

P.P.S.  Just as a reminder, here are all the things you get:

1. Weekly Leadership Webinar
2. Overview Webinar explaining the managerial model underlying the program
3. Archive Access to previous webinars
4. Transcripts and slides for all the webinars
5. Consulting Call-In Days – Free personal attention from Paul Glen four times a year.
6. Free month-long gift subscription for up to 10,000 people with other service purchase
7. Money Back Guarantee