1. First, please indicate your position in the company by selecting one of these choices:

1: Executive/Senior Leader 2: Middle Management 3: First Line Supervisor 3: Staff member/non-management

2. Next, in what division or department do you work?

1. Corporate HQ 2. HR 3. Sales/Marketing 4. Operations 5. Manufacturing 6. Shipping/Receiving 7: Other

Rate from low to high how much you need more development in these topics, starting with: Personal Leadership....

3. Managing stress in self and in team (LS-1)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

4. Managing my time better, and helping others manage their time (LS-2)

5. Personal Goal Setting (LS-3)

6. Understanding and identifying personal values and ethics (LS-4)

7. Gaining more emotional intelligence: understanding and working with other's emotions (LS-5)

8. Networking: how to create and maintain a professional network (LS-6)

9. Career planning and personal career development (LS-7)

10. How to Be a Star at Work (LS-8)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

11. Oral communication skills (LS-9)

12. Effective business writing (LS-10)

13. Personal Fitness, Nutrition and Wellness (LS-11)

14. Understanding my Personality Type and Learning Style (LS-12)

15. Business Etiquette (LS-13)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

16. Creating my Personal Mission Statement (LS-14)

17. Being an Effective, Courageous Follower (LS-15)

18. Effective Listening: how to be a better and more empathic listener (LS-16)

19. Working in a Team (LS-17)

20. Showing Personal Initiative (LS-18)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

21. Developing Decision-making Skills (LS-19)

22. Supporting Change in my Organization (LS-20)

23. Managing my Personal Performance (LS-21)

24. Leading a more Balanced Life (LS-22)

25. How to Find more Joy in Life: Leading a Joyful Life (LS-23)

Leading Others...

26. Becoming an effective leader: understanding more what leadership is and what great leaders do (LO-1)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

27. Modeling the Way: How to become a more effective and inspiring personal model (LO-2)

28. Interviewing job applicants: how to conduct job interviews to find the right people (LO-3)

29. Delegating: how to delegate better to others (LO-4)

30. Motivating and empowering others in my team (LO-5)

31. Dealing with difficult people and personalities (LO-6)

32. Resolving interpersonal/one-on-one conflict (LO-7)

33. Managing and improving others' individual performance: how to do performance appraisals and coaching meetings (LO-8)

34. Coaching and counseling others in work performance (LO-9)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

35. Mentoring: how to be a better mentor (LO-10)

36. Crucial Conversations: how to hold tough, emotional conversations on touch topics effectively to get results (L0-11)

37. Crucial Confrontations: how to confront someone whose behavior or performance is unacceptable and get things on track (LO-12)

38. The Extraordinary Leader Profile and Process: Assessing yourself as a leader through 360-degree leadership profiles (LO-13)

39. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (LO-14)

Leading Teams...

40. Teamwork: building and improving teams (LT-1)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

41. Leading meetings: how to lead and conduct effective and productive meetings (LT-2)

42. Goal setting and action planning in teams (LT-3)

43. Resolving team conflict (LT-4)

44. Negotiating: arbitrating and negotiating between parties (LT-5)

45. Managing projects: how to plan, direct and see-through large and small projects (LT-6)

46. Creative problem solving and creative thinking (LT-7)

47. Planning and navigating change: leading teams through change (LT-8)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

48. Cross-gender communication and work styles: how to understand, communicate and work better with the "other" gender (LT-9)

49. Diversity training: sensitivity to and working with diverse cultures and ethnic groups (LT-10)

50. The Attitude Virus: Overcoming and Preventing Negativity in the Workplace (LT-11)

51. Delivering Effective Training (LT-12)

52. Presentation Skills: how to deliver powerful presentations (LT-13)

53. 7 Habits for Managers (course on how to apply the 7 Habits as a leader) (LT-14)

Leading Organizations...

54. Strategic Thinking (LORG-1)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

55. Leading organizational-wide change (LORG-2)

56. Strategic planning: translating strategy into action plans (LORG-3)

57. Developing vision and mission statements for company, department or team (LORG-4)

58. Creating a Learning Organization (LORG-5)

59. Legal training: navigating through ADA and other legal minefields (LORG-10)

60. Six Sigma: quality control and improvement (LORG-7)

61. Networking: connecting your organization to the outside world (LORG-8)

62. Organizational redesign and restructuring (LORG-9)

Serving All...

63. Customer service: how to really deliver extraordinary service (SA-1)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

64. Working with difficult customers (SA-2)

65. Building a service team (SA-3)

66. Serving by phone/telephone skills (SA-4)

67. Creating a true corporate service culture (SA-5)

68. Serving the internal customer (SA-6)

Additional Professional Skills...

69. Selling skills: becoming a more effective salesperson (SA-7)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

70. Marketing: Selling the Invisible and other Marketing Strategies (LORG-8)

1: No Need 2: Little 3: Some 4. Quite High 5: Extremely High

Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements. Remember all information is anonymous

71. I consider training and development opportunities as an important benefit of employment

Disagree Strongly Disagree Neither Agree nor Disagree Agree Agree Strongly

72. I feel that I have been adequately trained and prepared for most of my TECHNICAL job requirements

73. I feel that I have been adequately trained and prepared for most of my leadership or interpersonal/soft-skills job requirements

74. I like the idea of having regularly scheduled seminars and professional development opportunities

75. I would like to begin or continue adding to my formal education (college classes, etc.)

Please take the time to respond thoroughly and candidly to the following questions. No one will be able to connect your answers to you.

76. What other topics would you be interested in learning as professional development? What job or interpersonal skills do you want to improve?

77. If you had a magic wand and could fix just ONE THING in the organization what would it be?

78. What one skill area do you think you need to develop in that would make the biggest difference in your effectiveness?

79. Thinking of your team or department as a whole, what skill set is most needed by the group in order to become more effective? In other words, what should we give the most priority to?

80. What other message or suggestion would you like to relay to the top leadership of our company? (Thanks, suggestions, critiques, you name it!)

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