Professional Development Training For Teams and Leaders
Build stronger leaders, improve workplace skills, and help your people perform at their best. Outback delivers engaging professional development training and learning and development programs designed around the real challenges teams and organizations face.
- Facilitator-led professional development programs for employees, managers, and leaders
- Practical, interactive learning focused on skills employees can apply at work
- Customizable corporate training aligned with your team’s goals and organization
- Delivered in-person anywhere in North America or virtually for remote and hybrid teams
Explore Our Professional Development Programs
Find the right training for your team with professional development programs designed to strengthen leadership, communication, collaboration, and workplace performance. Explore practical, facilitator-led learning and development programs for employees, managers, and leaders.
8 Productive Practices of Peak Performing People
Your team will surprise you with what is possible after only a few minutes of using highly productive practices.
Accelerated Selling
Train your team on strategies and tactics they can use to improve their sales skills and smash their monthly targets.
Active Employee Engagement
Teaches your team the top strategies and tactics to help drive employee engagement within your organization.
Advanced Coaching
Advanced Coaching is a training course for leaders ready to master their existing coaching skills.
Authentic Leadership
The Authentic Leadership program is a fully interactive training session exploring leadership stage by stage.
Building Strategic Teams with StrengthsFinder
Learn how StrengthsFinder helps identify the strengths of your individual team members and gain actionable insight into how to leverage those strengths strategically to build strong teams.
Clear Communication
The Clear Communication training program can help your team become effective communicators, and develop both verbal and written communication skills.
Coaching Fundamentals
The Coaching Fundamentals program can help your leadership team learn constructive ways to nurture the people they’re accountable for.
Confident Decision Making
A fun training workshop for teams who want to make business choices more effectively, both individually and as a group.
Conflict Resolution
The Conflict Resolution program can help your team learn how to turn a negative clash with a colleague into an opportunity to strengthen relationships.
Creating Mission, Vision, and Values
Identify, understand and define the core values that will impact every aspect of your business.
Custom Training
Develop your leaders with a Custom Training program. Cover topics important to your business with tailored skills training designed just for your team.
Developing Our Resiliency
This course empowers participants to navigate challenges with confidence and make positive changes in their personal and professional lives.
Discovering Workstyles with DiSC
Learn how your team’s DiSC assessments can help identify distinct personal workstyles amongst colleagues and enhance collaboration and communication by providing insight into how different workstyles work best together.
Effective Meetings
The Effective Meetings program can help you and your team learn how to prepare, run, participate, and follow through more effectively each time you meet.
Emotional Intelligence
With the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) leadership training and development program, you can develop your team’s self-awareness and social skills.
Impactful Presentation Skills
Learn how to prepare and deliver more effective presentations with the Impactful Presentation Skills training program.
Performance Management Fundamentals
A training program that teaches participants a foundation of simple and effective management skills.
Positive Team Dynamics
The Positive Team Dynamics training program can help you enhance how employees work together and create a framework for a successful team.
Practical Time Management
The Practical Time Management training program can help your team learn how to minimize distractions and make the most of their time at the office.
Productive Feedback and Performance Reviews
A training program that helps your team share feedback in a more positive and impactful way.
Self-Discovery with Myers-Briggs
Learn how Self-Discovery with Myers-Briggs can help employees identify work environments where they thrive and tasks at which they excel.
Situational Leadership Styles
Learn how Situational Leadership Styles can help leaders perform even more effectively by identifying their own inherent styles and understanding how their employees want to be led.
The Power of Negotiation
The Power of Negotiation training and development program can help your team learn the tools and techniques to become effective and powerful negotiators.
Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Explore essential topics such as team dynamics, bias, and communication, gaining the knowledge and skills needed to create an inclusive workplace environment.
Professional Development for Every Stage of Employee Growth
Compare Professional Development Training Programs
Not sure where to start? Use your organization’s goals to identify the type of professional development training that best fits your team.
| Training Area | Best For | Example Topics | Ideal Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership Development | Developing stronger, more adaptable leaders | Leadership, coaching, decision-making, feedback | Managers, emerging leaders, senior leaders |
| Communication Skills | Improving how employees communicate and work together | Communication, presentations, negotiations | Employees, teams, managers |
| Resilience & Adapability | Helping employees navigate change, challenges, and workplace presuure | Developing Our Resiliency, adaptabiity, workplace resilience | Employees, teams, managers |
| Team Development | Stengthening collaboration and workplace relationships | Team dynamics, engagement, collaboration | Teams and cross-functional groups |
| Performance & Productivity | Improving effectiveness and workplace performance | Time management, meetings, productivity | Employees and managers |
| Behavioual Assessments | Building self-awareness and understanding workstyles | DiSC, Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder | Teams, managers, leaders |
Training Solutions Based On Your Goals
Learning and Development Programs Based on Your Goals. Effective learning and development starts with the outcome you want to achieve. Whether you’re developing leaders, strengthening communication, or improving employee performance, choose training based on the skills your organization needs most.
Improve Workplace Communication
Help employees communicate clearly, listen effectively, navigate different communication styles, and build stronger workplace relationships. Recommended programs: Clear Communication, DiSC, Emotional Intelligence, Impactful Presentation Skills
Develop Stronger Leaders
Build practical leadership skills that help managers and emerging leaders communicate, coach, make decisions, and lead employees more effectively. Recommended programs: Authentic Leadership, Situational Leadership Styles, Coaching Fundamentals, Advanced Coaching
Strengthen Team Performance
Improve how employees collaborate, solve problems, work through challenges, and contribute to shared goals. Recommended programs: Positive Team Dynamics, StrengthsFinder, Developing Our Resiliency
Manage Conflict More Effectively
Give employees and leaders practical tools to address differences, communicate through challenging situations, and resolve workplace conflict constructively. Recommended programs: Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence, Clear Communication
Improve Productivity
Help employees manage competing priorities, make better decisions, run more effective meetings, and improve day-to-day performance. Recommended programs: Practical Time Management, Effective Meetings, Confident Decision Making, 8 Productive Practices
Develop Better Managers
Equip managers with practical skills for coaching employees, giving feedback, managing performance, and supporting employee development. Recommended programs: Coaching Fundamentals, Advanced Coaching, Performance Management Fundamentals, Productive Feedback and Performance Reviews
Let’s Help Find The Right Professional Development Program
You don’t need to know exactly which program your team needs. Tell us about your people, workplace challenges, and learning and development goals, and we’ll help identify the professional development programs that best align with what you want to achieve.
Popular Professional Development Programs
Not sure where to start? Explore some of our professional development programs designed around common workplace and employee development needs.
Developing Our Resiliency
This course empowers participants to navigate challenges with confidence and make positive changes in their personal and professional lives.
Positive Team Dynamics
The Positive Team Dynamics training program can help you enhance how employees work together and create a framework for a successful team.
Emotional Intelligence
With the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) leadership training and development program, you can develop your team’s self-awareness and social skills.
Authentic Leadership
The Authentic Leadership program is a fully interactive training session exploring leadership stage by stage.
How Our Professional Development Process Works
Outback makes planning corporate learning and development straightforward, from identifying the right training topic through program delivery.
Tell Us About Your Team
Share your group size, audience, workplace challenges, learning goals, and preferred training format.
Receive Training Recommendations
We'll help identify the professional development programs that best align with your team's needs and desired outcomes.
Customize Your Experience
Where applicable, tailor the training with company messaging, goals, workplace scenarios, timing, and areas of focus.
Learn with an Experienced Facilitator
Your facilitator leads an engaging, interactive session that combines learning, discussion, activities, and practical application.
Put New Skills to Work
Participants leave with practical insights and strategies they can apply to their everyday roles and workplace relationships.
How to Choose the Right Professional Development Program
The right employee learning and development program starts with understanding what you want your people to learn, improve, or do differently.
Skill gaps
Start with the skills your team needs most, such as leadership, communication, or time management.
Audience
Consider whether the program is intended for employees, emerging leaders, managers, senior leaders, or a cross-functional team.
Business goals
Connect the training to an outcome you can measure, like engagement, retention, or sales results.
Current Workplace Challenges
Look at where your team is experiencing friction or opportunity, such as communication, conflict, productivity, engagement, leadership, or collaboration.
Learning Format
Choose between in-person and virtual professional development based on where your employees work and how they learn best.
Program Length
Consider how much time you can dedicate to learning and the depth of training required. Programs may be available in half-day or full-day formats depending on the topic.
Level of Customization
Determine whether you need a ready-to-deliver program or customized training incorporating your organization’s goals, language, examples, and workplace challenges.
Desired Outcomes
Think beyond completing a program. What should participants understand, practice, or apply differently after the training?
Why Organizations Choose Outback Team Building
Organizations trust Outback because of decades of experience, professional facilitation, global delivery, and measurable business outcomes.
We learned how to work together effectively
I liked that different people can come together quickly when genuine effort is applied. We learned how to work together effectively. Teams can work well together when everyone is given space and opportunity to do what they do best. Teamwork can be achieved in a hectic setting.
The facilitator was knowledgeable and relatable.
I have received positive feedback from the staff that attended. The facilitator was knowledgeable and relatable. He provided applicable information, and it was refreshing to experience a new approach with new material.
I could write a book on how much we enjoyed his humor, kindness and mindful presentation.
Lyndon was incredible! I could write a book on how much we enjoyed his humor, kindness and mindful presentation.
Thank you
Thank you for helping us work through our own learning transition curve and helping us to understand what style of leadership to use at each stage.
Exceeded my expectations on every level
This course was not at all what I expected. It exceeded my expectations on every level. This is not your typical course, and I wish my entire team had come out. I am excited about the changes I will be making that will help us moving forward. I can’t wait until you come back and do more.
This changed the way our team works together in a massive way
If it’s important to an organisation that the leaders are authentic custodians of the organisation’s values, then Innate Leaders is invaluable. Our sessions were invaluable because it’s grounded in some really strong principals and most importantly it got results. This absolutely changed the way our team works together in a massive way.
Excellent in engaging the group and brining out competitiveness
The event coordinator did a wonderful job in preparing the event as well as the onsite execution. She was excellent in engaging the group and bringing out the competitiveness, creativity and fun atmosphere. 10/10.
Professional Development and Learning & Development Resources
Explore practical resources to help HR teams, managers, and business leaders strengthen workplace skills, leadership, employee engagement, communication, and team performance.
Leadership Development Resources
Practical insights for developing stronger managers, emerging leaders, and leadership teams.
Employee Engagement Resources
Strategies for strengthening connecting, motivation, workplace culture, and employee engagement.
Communication & Conflict Resources
Explore strategies for improving workplace communication and navigating conflict constructively.
Professional Developement and Team Building Blog
Practical ideas and expert insights to strengthen teams, develop leaders, and improve workplace performance.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Development Training
Professional development training helps employees build the skills, knowledge, and behaviours they need to grow in their roles and contribute more effectively at work. Programs can focus on areas such as communication, leadership, coaching, conflict resolution, productivity, team effectiveness, and management skills.
Learning and development, often called L&D, refers to the programs and initiatives organizations use to help employees build skills, develop professionally, and prepare for current and future responsibilities. Professional development training can be an important part of an organization’s broader learning and development strategy.
Professional development generally focuses on helping individuals and teams build specific workplace skills and capabilities. Learning and development is a broader organizational function that can include professional development, leadership development, onboarding, compliance training, career development, and other employee learning initiatives.
Outback offers corporate training programs covering communication, leadership, coaching, conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, team dynamics, resilience, time management, employee engagement, performance management, negotiation, presentation skills, behavioural assessments, sales skills, and more.
Custom training programs are also available for organizations with specific learning and development needs.
Employees who keep learning are more engaged, more confident in their roles, and more likely to stay. Investing in their growth also builds the leadership bench and skills your organization needs next.
Programs can be delivered for employees at different stages of their careers, including individual contributors, emerging leaders, new managers, experienced leaders, sales teams, departments, and cross-functional teams.
Yes. Outback offers leadership development programs covering areas such as authentic leadership, situational leadership, coaching, emotional intelligence, decision-making, performance management, and feedback.
Yes. Depending on the program, training can be customized to reflect your organization’s goals, challenges, terminology, workplace scenarios, and desired learning outcomes. Fully custom corporate training programs are also available.
Employee training and development can help organizations strengthen workplace skills, prepare employees for greater responsibility, improve communication and collaboration, support stronger leadership, and give employees practical tools for performing more effectively in their roles.
Yes. Outback offers programs incorporating assessments and frameworks such as DiSC, Myers-Briggs, and StrengthsFinder to help employees better understand workstyles, strengths, communication preferences, and team dynamics.
Yes. Outback offers both in-person and virtual professional development training for organizations across the United States and Canada. In-person programs are available in locations throughout North America, depending on the program and facilitator availability, while virtual training makes it easy to bring together remote and distributed teams from multiple locations.
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