by Venchito Tampon | Last Updated on October 31, 2024

Leadership training programs are essential in driving business performance and sustaining growth.

Here is our curated list of leadership training programs for employees in the Philippines. We categorize it based on levels and development so you can see what fits your current learning and development or training plan. 

Leadership Training Programs (By Level)

Leadership Training for Transitioning Managers

  1. Fundamentals of Leadership – This training program helps your transitioning leaders understand the different leadership styles, the role of a manager, and tips and strategies in transitioning from peer to manager job. Invest in our leadership training.
  2. People Management: It focuses on motivating teams, delegation, performance management, and giving effective feedback. These are the essential skills of a manager. 
  3. Communication Skills: This training program is designed to help participants develop effective communication strategies, active listening, and conflict resolution. See our communication skills training.
  4. Change Management: A modern-day leadership training program focused on teaching strategies for managing change within a team, adapting to the ever-changing work environment and industry, managing effectiveness in transitioning to new roles, and guiding teams through transitions. Develop your people with change management training.

Leadership Training for Managers and Supervisors 

  1. Strategic Thinking: The program speaks on developing and implementing strategic plans based on organizational and department goals, with strategies for decision-making processes and innovation management. See our strategic thinking training.
  2. Advanced People Management: This program leans toward cultivating high-performance teams, advanced conflict resolution, and managing diverse teams. Invest in leadership and management training. 
  3. Leadership Ethics: A rarely discussed training program, but it is vital in today’s rapidly changing world. This leadership program focuses on understanding ethical leadership, corporate social responsibility, and creating an ethical workplace culture within your teams. 
  4. Coaching and Development: This is an introductory course to develop skills in coaching for performance and succession planning (for multiple leadership roles in the company). 

Leadership Training for Senior Leaders and Executives

  1. Visionary Leadership: A leadership training program to help senior leaders develop a compelling vision, strategic alignment, and execution through the vision – all these are vital in directing an organization to the next level of growth. 
  2. Influence and Negotiation: A technical-based leadership program teaches leaders and executives about influencing others, negotiation skills, and stakeholder management.
  3. Executive Decision Making: The majority of executives’ work deals with decision-making. Having a suitable framework or set of values to consider can help increase the likelihood of making significant decisions for the company – this now involves risk management and critical thinking at the executive level. See our executive leadership training.
  4. Leading Organizational Change: A leadership training program in executing strategies for leading large-scale change, transformational leadership, and change resilience.

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Leadership Training Programs (By Development)

Personal Leadership

This level of development for leadership training programs focuses on self-awareness and self-management as the foundation of effective leadership. Personal leadership should be considered a core skill (not just a “soft skill”) nowadays. Participants will learn to understand their leadership styles, values, and strengths and how all these can influence their interactions and decision-making for their teams. 

Here are some of the top training programs for personal leadership. 

  1. Strategic Thinking: This training helps leaders develop the ability to think strategically, adapt to changes, anticipate future consequences and trends, and consider the broader impact of their decisions. It involves understanding the organization’s vision, setting long-term goals, and developing plans to achieve them. Learn more about our strategic thinking training.
  2. Critical and Creative Thinking: This leadership training program helps participants enhance leaders’ ability to analyze complex problems, generate new solutions, and make decisions under uncertainty. It may involve learning different creative thinking and problem-solving frameworks, logical reasoning, and innovative thinking to address challenges creatively and effectively.
  3. Leadership Essentials: A foundational personal leadership program that covers the critical aspects of effective leadership, including business ethics, discipline, setting direction, inspiring others, driving change, and delivering results. It’s designed for new or aspiring leaders to build core leadership skills.

Leading Others

This developmental leadership training course focuses on interpersonal aspects of leadership, such as inspiring teams, influencing and leading even without authority, and building productive relationships. It’s about guiding others toward shared goals while fostering organizational collaboration and commitment.

  1. Coaching and Mentoring: In this Leading Others program, participants should learn how to develop others through coaching and mentoring, which provide guidance, feedback, and support to help individuals grow their skills, improve performance, and achieve their career objectives. It may consist of coaching frameworks that leaders can use to coach their direct reports. Learn about coaching and mentoring training.
  2. Introduction to Performance Management: This leadership training program introduces leaders to the principles and practices of effective performance management, including setting clear expectations, monitoring performance, and conducting performance evaluations. The corporate trainer may include frameworks they use to help other companies, or they can integrate an in-house (what has been used) by their target client and enhance it during the training. Invest in performance management training.
  3. People Handling Skills: This training helps leaders learn more about techniques to manage diverse personalities, resolve conflicts, and handle difficult conversations. This training is essential for building a harmonious and productive workplace. See our people handling skills training.
  4. Feedback Giving: This leads the other programs to focus on the art and science of providing constructive feedback to encourage development and improve performance. Leaders learn how to deliver feedback in a clear, specific, actionable, and sustainable way. 
  5. Team Performance 101: This training covers the fundamentals of building and leading high-performing teams, including team dynamics, collaboration, and leveraging the strengths of team members to achieve common goals. Different frameworks, such as those by Dr. John Maxwell, a leadership guru on teamwork 101, can help trainers develop a solid team performance course. Build your teams with our high performing team training.
  6. Inclusive Leadership: This leadership training program addresses the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace (we call it a DIBER training program (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging). Leaders will understand and apply strategies to create an inclusive environment where all team members feel valued and can contribute to their fullest potential. See our inclusive leadership training.
  7. Situational Leadership: This approach teaches leaders to adapt their style based on the situation and the needs of their team members. It emphasizes flexibility and the ability to diagnose the circumstances and respond with the most appropriate leadership behavior. With frameworks from Ken Blanchard (4 situation leadership styles framework) or Dan Goleman (on emotional intelligence), you can develop a training program to help your leaders identify their situational leadership styles and apply them to their workforce. Invest in our situational leadership training.

Rainmakers As A Leadership Training Provider

We’ve covered enough of a list of training programs for different employee levels and development. You can check out our full list of training programs for employees in the Philippines.

If you need a leadership training provider, send us your training requirements so we can schedule a training needs analysis session with your team.

Venchito Tampon, the founder and lead trainer of Rainmakers, has been speaking with and training thousands of leaders in the Philippines and Southeast Asian countries. We develop customized and personalized leadership training programs to suit the developmental needs of your employees.