Assessments

Turn Insight Into Impact

Most businesses understand that how they manage assets can determine success or failure. Yet many overlook their most valuable asset: their people. Leadership Performance Group addresses this gap with proprietary assessment tools developed by Leadership Management International (LMI), designed to help organizations hire smarter and develop stronger teams.

We use proven testing and survey methods to support better hiring decisions, conduct personal productivity assessments, and help companies make the most of their human capital. These tools provide a 360-degree view of developmental needs and give leaders the insights they need to create environments that attract, retain, and grow top performers.

Struggling with performance issues? We can help you identify the root causes and take action. Our LMI-based assessments are tailored to your organization and built to drive meaningful improvement from the inside out.

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Why Choose Leadership Performance Group

At Leadership Performance Group, we use a suite of proven assessment tools developed by Leadership Management International (LMI)—applied successfully in thousands of organizations worldwide. These tools give leaders a clear picture of each applicant, team member, and the organization as a whole. The result? Smarter hiring, more targeted training, and proactive decisions that drive meaningful change.

Our assessment suite includes three distinct awareness tools, each designed to evaluate specific aspects of your human capital. Together, they offer a comprehensive view of performance, alignment, and development potential—helping you increase productivity, boost engagement, and move confidently toward your desired future.

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PROFILE EVALUATION SYSTEM

Profile Evaluation System enables you to know about the Mental Aptitudes and Personality Dimensions of the applicant, which play a major role in their work output and progress. The Profile clearly identifies strengths and development needs.

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DEVELOPMENT NEEDS INVENTORY

The Development Needs Inventory (DNI) tool helps track improvement and set development goals for leaders participating in leadership development courses certified by an online leadership certificate in Canada.

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ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS INVENTORY

The ONI is a work-smart tool that is unbiased, confidential, and provides a comprehensive diagnosis of an Organization. The ONI measures your structure today compared to the ideal of tomorrow.

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Profile Evaluation System enables you to know about the Mental Aptitudes and Personality Dimensions of the applicant, which play a major role in their work output and progress. The Profile clearly identifies strengths and development needs.

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The Development Needs Inventory (DNI) tool helps track improvement and set development goals for leaders participating in leadership development courses certified by an online leadership certificate in Canada.

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The ONI is a work-smart tool that is unbiased, confidential, and provides a comprehensive diagnosis of an Organization. The ONI measures your structure today compared to the ideal of tomorrow.

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What You Should Know

Before choosing a training path or setting strategy, it’s critical to understand your people. Leadership Performance Group uses LMI’s proprietary assessment tools to uncover development needs, values, and motivators—giving you the clarity to lead more effectively and build stronger, more sustainable teams.

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Why do I need Assessments?

Our assessment tools help business owners and managers evaluate where they are in terms of human capital deployment, the efficiency of their leadership style, and organizational structure. These tools help address individual and organizational issues and provide comprehensive reports to make grounded managerial decisions. 

Our Assessments are indispensable in identifying specific developmental needs, which should be promptly addressed to improve leadership and make your organization run more effectively.

How do Assessments help measure employee aptitudes?

Our Profile Evaluation System includes six sections specifically designed to measure the aptitudes essential for optimal job performance. The applicant’s personality results are then compared to the requirements of the job. The reliability and accuracy of the answers are further improved by the application of Distortion and Equivocation measurements.

The final report helps business owners eliminate the trial-and-error approach, reduce staff turnover, and identify specific development needs. The Profile Evaluation System is easy, intuitive, and provides a low-cost solution for hiring and placement. 

What are the benefits of having a Development Needs Inventory?

The Development Needs Inventory (DNI) is an online tool that is aimed at helping managers lead their teams more effectively. The DNI tool is designed to identify the most pressing leadership development needs, unveil the relationship between chosen leadership styles and the current environment and help in making informed choices among alternative leadership styles.

The Development Needs Inventory includes nine Base Scales and six Optional Scales to assess critical aspects of leadership such as communication, interpersonal relationships, and adaptability, to provide a clear picture of strengths and development needs. The report generated by the DNI tool helps leaders address gaps and needs to better empower their teams.

What is Organizational Needs Inventory and why should I have it?

Our Organizational Needs Inventory (ONI) is designed to provide managers with a comprehensive diagnosis of their organization measured against the company’s ideal image of itself in terms of how it is viewed by employees, its culture, and prevalent leadership styles. This tool helps develop plans with a clearer sense of direction and addresses development needs more effectively.

The ONI tool is fully confidential and comes with the function of collecting employee feedback, allowing for everyone’s input. The tool allows you to create a better connection between each team member and the company’s business strategy and provides a benchmark for measuring change over time.

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Profile Evaluation System

Find it difficult to learn about an applicant’s abilities through their resume and interview? Our Profile Evaluation is your ultimate solution.

Our Profile Evaluation System enables you to know about the mental aptitudes and personality dimensions of the applicant, which play a major role in their work output and progress. Define the ideal talent sets you require, ask applicants or employees to complete the online assessment, and get detailed coaching, hiring, and personal reports. The Profile Evaluation System clearly identifies strengths and development needs. This not only helps you hire the right fit but also empowers you to assist employees to grow into the position to which they are best suited or most interested.

The Aptitudes section consists of six sections, each of which was designed to measure an aptitude important in job performance.

The personality structure is measured in accordance with the Bell Curve with one-third of the population in the 1-3 range, one-third in the 4-6 range, and one-third in the 7-9 range. There is no particular low or high. Instead, the level scored must be compared to the requirements of the job or the lifestyle.

The Distortion and Equivocation measurements are added to the instrument to assess the reliability and accuracy of the answers given by the individual completing the evaluation booklet.

  • Eliminates trial and error in placement.
  • Saves time and money in the selection and training of the right person for the right position.
  • Reduces turnover, absenteeism, and waste.
  • Increases productivity and profit.
  • Identifies specific training needs.
  • Provides management with coaching guidelines for effective employee feedback.
  • Low cost and easy to administer.

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Effective Selling Strategies

Whether you’re trying to become more productive, communicate more effectively, or evolve into a better salesperson, strong self-motivation and crystallized goals are the keys to your enhanced success.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

The Effective Selling Strategies Courses will help you learn the arts of prospecting and presentation delivery so you can attract clients. We’ll then show you how to recognize buying signals and discover prime buying motives so you can become an expert closer and deliver the ultimate customer experience.

Our multi-phase Effective Selling Strategies program is meant for people who are motivated to make professional selling their career. The program’s methods can be used to achieve maximum results within the sales profession.

  • Focus on optimizing your delivery channel.
  • How to create a lucrative niche market.
  • Increase the quality of your activities to help achieve better results.
  • Maximize time and talent by targeting the right market.
  • Targeting a market that suits your unique talents.
  • Learn to arrange a sales interview.
  • Learn how to set up an interview under ‘favorable conditions.’
  • Find a Class ‘A’ prospect.
  • Understand consultative selling.
  • Plan a method for communicating a series of ideas.
  • Learn the value of adopting a pre-planned interview process.
  • Maximize your efficiency during meetings.
  • Understand how using a nine-step process can lead your prospect through a series of smaller sales.
  • Learn how to angle your sales interview towards the prospect’s wants and interests, closing the deal.
  • Understand the importance of extracting information from your prospect.
  • Tailor your sales pitch to make sales.
  • Learn the importance of self-knowledge.
  • Understand your talents and abilities to empower yourself as a salesperson.
  • Close sales effectively.
  • Learn the various methods of closing sales, including assumptive close, physical-action close, and minor-point close.
  • Learn how and when to use each method to ensure smooth closing.
  • You will also learn how to recognize important buying signals from your prospect.
  • Learn how to positively deal with a stall, using questions to uncover the real reason behind your prospect’s hesitation.
  • Understand how to get to the deal-closing stage.
  • Learn a six-step strategy for countering prospect objections, helping to close the deal quicker.

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Development Needs Inventory® (DNI®)

The Development Needs Inventory was designed to help leaders understand their strengths and development needs better. This customizable assessment consists of 9 base and 6 optional scales. When combined with a facilitated interpretation and feedback session, the DNI results provide participants a sound basis for setting development goals and tracking developmental improvement over time. This information facilitates individual growth and progress, increasing the overall effectiveness of the organization.

The DNI was designed with the following objectives in mind  to help leaders lead more effectively. Other objectives that support this primary objective:

  • Help leaders identify their strengths and most pressing development needs. 
  • Guide leaders in planning for their own leadership development and in moving from understanding to action. 
  • Provide information that will allow leaders to make intelligent choices among alternative leadership practices. 
  • Call attention to the critical relationship between a company’s structure, culture, and typical leadership practices and the success and failure of a given leadership style. 
  • Provide a framework within which companies can (1) make orderly transitions from traditional bureaucracies to flexible, rapid-response organizations with team leadership or (2) make an informed decision not to make that transition. 
  • Help leaders lead in ways that get results, that are personally satisfying and morally sound, and that empower rather than overpower subordinates.

The Development Needs Inventory ® (DNI) is a 360-degree instrument that is administered over the internet and designed to allow managers, supervisors, and others in leadership positions to better understand their strengths and development needs. The information provided by the DNI will help facilitate the individual(s) growth and progress and, as a result, increase their effectiveness in the organization. Designed for customization to the client’s needs, it consists of 9 base scales and 6 optional scales.

Base Scales

  • Communication
  • Empowerment
  • Trust Building
  • Decision-Making
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Motivational Skills
  • Adaptability
  • Concern for Productivity
  • Leadership

Optional Scales

  • Delegation
  • Team Building
  • Participative Leadership
  • Assertiveness
  • Persuasiveness
  • Disciplinary Action
  • Initiative
  • Planning
  • Control
  • Time Organization
  • Motivational Level
  • Personal Growth
  • Development of Reports
  • Innovation
  • Goal Directedness
  1. To help you better understand your own managerial practices. This understanding will provide a basis for increasing your effectiveness as a leader and for planning your own career more realistically. 
  2. To help you understand how other persons in the organization view your leadership practices—that is, to help you understand whether you see yourself as others see you. Armed with these insights, you can test the validity of your own self-perceptions, improve your human relations, lead and manage more effectively, and plan your career more realistically. 
  3. To serve as a basis for setting personal development goals and for tracking your development over a period of time.

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Effective Communication

Communication, though it seems simple on the surface, is actually quite a complex area of business that costs companies untold millions every year. Most companies underestimate the importance of communication and therefore don’t give it the proper time, energy, and resources that it deserves.

The Effective Communication program can help your company and employees to improve communication skills, overcome communication barriers, and truly understand styles of behavior and the various ways of communicating.

Our eight-phase Effective Communication Course is designed to help organizations improve their communication skills from top to bottom and, in the process, also learn how to solve problems through communication.

  • Understanding why communication is important for human connection.
  • Recognize the rewards of successful communication.
  • Learn effective communication skills.
  • Improve your attitudes for improving communication skills.
  • Learn how to set communication goals.
  • Understand yourself and your communication style.
  • Recognize what motivates people and how can you motivate them.
  • Learn basic styles of behavior and communication.
  • Experience how to communicate better to get better results.
  • Understand the importance of the two-way process of communication.
  • Recognize the barriers to listening and how it affects the output.
  • Learn about the attitudes for effective listening.
  • Empower yourself by interpreting nonverbal communication.
  • Observe and interpret body language effectively.
  • Experience the positive impacts of overcoming communication barriers.
  • Study the widespread use of writing to communicate.
  • Acquire the skills of effective writing.
  • Learn how to prevent problems.
  • Attain a constructive approach to handling challenges.
  • Experience how communication can be used as a coaching tool.
  • Recognize the benefits of good communication.
  • Learn how meetings can be a golden opportunity for effective communication.
  • Learn how to plan for a meeting by choosing the appropriate purpose and format.
  • Strategize to make meetings productive.

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Organizational Needs Inventory® (ONI®)

The ONI is a work-smart tool that is unbiased, confidential, and provides a comprehensive diagnosis of an organization. The ONI measures your structure today compared to the ideal of tomorrow. This tool can help you effect productive changes so that everyone in your company is motivated and moving in the same direction.

Want to know your organization’s culture? ONI will give you The Organizational Needs Inventory® (ONI), allowing everyone’s input. It gives leaders a current picture of what the organization looks like in terms of its people and their perceptions. It sets a benchmark for the management team’s leadership and provides a clear measurement of success into the future.

The ONI is for Organizations whose leaders want to build a better environment for attracting and retaining better people, thereby achieving better operating results:

  • Recognize that dramatic changes are taking place in the way organizations are designed and managed is the first step.
  • Learn how things actually are and what they can be is next.
  • Plan for the future, based upon a clear sense of direction and purpose.
  • Develop a plan of action and begin moving toward the future.

The ONI Report consists of an Executive Summary, Factor Scores, and Item Scores.

Executive Summary—Contains the major finding of the organization as perceived by the members of the organization.

Factor Scores—Focuses attention on scores for the specific group factors such as years with the company, gender, age, and position within the company, and includes suggestions to management as a basis for action.

Item Scores—Focuses attention on specific, concrete beliefs, perceptions, and practices.

The ONI is a survey and comprehensive report relating to three key areas for every organization. The survey is administered to a cross-section of the organization. The report measures participant feedback by how they currently view the organization and what their ideal view would be. It photographs the current organizational structure, leadership style, and organizational culture, allowing decision-makers to guide the organization. Responses are confidentially processed, and a comprehensive report is prepared, which pinpoints areas of concern.

  • How employees describe their organization’s structure and their views about what an ideal organization is.
  • How employees describe the predominant leadership style employed in their organization and their views about what makes the ideal leadership style.
  • How employees describe their organizational culture and their views about what makes the ideal organizational culture.
  • Areas of incompatibility among the present organizational structure, predominant leadership style, and organizational culture.
  • What changes in attitudes and leadership styles would be beneficial in helping the organization achieve its goals.
  • A benchmark that will enable you to measure changes over time
  • How to plan for the future with a clearer sense of direction and purpose
  • How to create a vehicle for “Positive Feedback” resulting in employee engagement
  • Why connecting the employees with the business strategy of the company is beneficial.
  • The importance of providing employees with a clearer picture of the future.

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Effective Strategic Leadership

Nothing is more frustrating for employees than a ‘leader’ who doesn’t lead by example and can’t properly communicate their vision. People aren’t productive or motivated when they don’t see the logic or reasoning behind a specific directive. If your leaders can’t outline and explain the basic notions of their plan, they’ll have an extremely hard time getting employees on board with their goals and expectations.

To begin we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance.  Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Leaders like Richard Branson, who might appear unconventional on the surface, are masters at defining a laser-focused strategy and presenting it to their companies in such a way that employees are not only on board, but enthusiastic and anxious to get started. The key to effective strategic leadership rests on a leader’s ability to clarify why his or her company exists, where it currently stands and ultimately, execute on a plan to get it where it needs to be.

  • Understand the need for organizational strategy and how to develop an effective one.
  • Learn the purpose of an organizational strategy.
  • Discover your role in overcoming obstacles to strategic success.
  • Be a strategic leader and strategize to cope with the challenges your organization faces.
  • Learn how to achieve outstanding performance.
  • Identify goals that matter.
  • Experience the benefit of spreading your strategy through your organization and suggest ways to do it.
  • Understand and build a management system, highlighting the needs of your people along the way.
  • Learn to measure progress and how to keep score.
  • Develop your strategy and define the strategic purpose of your organization.
  • Lead your organization forward by committing to achievement and productivity.
  • Develop strategic goals and build a total strategy map to help guide your future.
  • Combine vision and process, learn how to build your organization.
  • Understand the impact of goals on behavior.

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Leadership for Women

Leadership for Women is a focused development experience designed to help women strengthen their voice, elevate their presence, and lead with confidence. Through ten progressive phases, participants explore the connection between values, vision, and leadership identity—gaining tools to lead authentically and effectively.

The program begins with the Profile Evaluation System (PES)—a behavioral assessment that helps uncover individual strengths, motivational drivers, and key traits linked to leadership performance. This insight becomes the foundation for personal growth and practical development.

 

Leadership for Women supports participants in overcoming limiting beliefs, reshaping self-perception, and stepping into roles of greater impact—with clarity, intention, and influence.

  • Learn to believe in your full potential and how to release it.
  • Acquire the opportunities for leadership and personal growth, recognizing the courage you will need.
  • Focus on your strengths.
  • Understand the rewards of leadership and what true personal leadership means.
  • Develop personal leadership
  • Learn the importance of self-knowledge and emotional intelligence.
  • Understanding escaping the conditioned existence and develop a stronger self-image.
  • Learn to take responsibility for your success.
  • Determine your purpose and why you do what you do.
  • Improve your planning skills and recognize the passion needed to deliver results.
  • Understand the power of positive expectancy and your need for persistence.
  • Become a more effective leader.
  • Learn to take personal responsibility.
  • Understand that fear is not an effective motivator.
  • Attain the power of motivating yourself and others through changing attitudes.
  • Be committed to an unshakable purpose.
  • Discover and define your life purpose.
  • Establish your priorities and create a personal mission statement.
  • Understand the fundamentals of goal-setting and avoid distractions that divert your focus.
  • Understand the power of goal-setting and the benefits of committing to personal goals.
  • Learn the power of target dates and the difference between tangible and intangible goals.
  • Find the obstacles preventing you achieving goals.
  • Comprehend different goals in the process.
  • Let your passion become a way of life.
  • Recognize the hallmarks of genuine passion.
  • Experience how the enthusiasm in others reflects your passion
  • Learn how you can control the emotional climate.
  • Understand the benefits of enthusiasm.
  • Experience the power of positive expectancy and the belief it needs.
  • Learn how affirmations and visualizations magnify and clarify the results.
  • Develop an attitude of positive expectancy
  • Recognize how attitudes and habits form and can be changed.
  • Learn how to develop an iron-willed persistence.
  • Turn adversity into opportunity.
  • Be persistent to make better decisions.
  • Understand the importance of the Total Person® and Personal Leadership.
  • Understand time is the most valuable asset.
  • Learn how planning your time for priorities is essential.
  • Take responsibility for the time used and the liberation it brings.
  • Good leaders are good communicators.
  • The critical role of empathy in communication.
  • Learn to listen with empathy and develop empathy for others.
  • Know the benefits of leadership through good communication.
  • Learn how leaders develop and empower people.
  • Recognize the rewards and the benefits of unlocking your potential as a leader.

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Effective Team Dynamics

People thrive when they are put in a comfortable environment and allowed to work and provide input on projects they are passionate about. Great managers create effective teams by having the intuition and foresight to put their employees in situations where they can learn, grow, and achieve their personal goals while simultaneously doing great work for their company. Too many companies throw their teams together without thinking about group dynamics or asking their employees for input regarding their tasks and assignments.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

The Effective Team Dynamics program helps managers understand their teams and outlines proven methods for setting and achieving team goals.

The multi-phase Effective Team Dynamics program is designed to help both managers and team members begin to thrive in a learning environment and understand the five keys to team success by assuming responsibility and accountability.

  • Develop a high-performance team.
  • Understand your team and its needs.
  • Recognize the benefits of teamwork.
  • Learn to crystallize your thinking.
  • Developing desire and confidence towards your goals.
  • Improve your planning skills and recognize the passion needed by the team to deliver results.
  • Understand the cause and solution to the problem.
  • Learn the importance of trust and respect in teamwork.
  • Build confidence in your team.
  • Develop accountability and responsibility in the team.
  • Recognize the importance of communicating results and celebrating success together.

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Effective Leadership Development

Faulty communication and poor leadership are, unfortunately, the bane of many companies. Regardless of employee talent or product quality, if an organization’s leaders aren’t effectively communicating, managing, delegating, and increasing productivity, that organization will remain stagnant instead of moving forward toward its goals. Not only will products and people fail to reach their full potential, but the atmosphere, morale, and productivity of the organization will also suffer immensely. Talented employees may even become disgruntled and leave, while those who remain question the value of their work and the overall direction of the organization.

Thankfully, great leadership can be developed, and good communication can be taught. Any organization, no matter what their current situation, can be turned around and improved. The key to Effective Leadership Development lies in training and motivating people to a higher level of productivity.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Our multi-phase Effective Leadership Development program is designed to help current leaders realize the full weight of their actions and learn to lead with authority and conviction. It will also help develop new leaders and equip them with all the tools to motivate and nurture people to their maximum potential.

  • Nurture your leadership talent and shape it for your unique situation.
  • Understand the purpose of leadership development.
  • Define your own personal success.
  • Recognize time and its real value.
  • Learn how to better manage your own time and that of others.
  • Understand the benefits of time management.
  • Get more done in less time.
  • Look at the source of genuine authority.
  • Get a positive approach to discipline.
  • Learn how planning and preparing will help prevent problems with people.
  • Discover the best approach to corrective action and handling serious personnel issues.
  • Delegate more and effectively.
  • Discover how your attitude affects delegation.
  • Understand how different levels need a different approach to performance feedback.
  • Learn how to delegate upwards.
  • Know the importance of effective communication
  • Understand what motivates others.
  • Improve your skills while learning the value of downward and upward communication.
  • Acquire skills to overcome barriers.
  • Understand motivation and how best to motivate people to be more productive.
  • Cover traditional methods of motivation.
  • Comprehend how you can use the power of informal groups.
  • Learn how to develop a motivation plan and the benefits it will deliver.
  • Absorb how every difficulty can be an opportunity.
  • Recognize how to separate organizational and personal problems.
  • Learn how to handle people problems and deal with irrational behavior.
  • Recognize the key to increased productivity; yours and those around you.
  • Experience the benefits of training and developing the right people.
  • Understand how everything comes back to the manager and the bottom line.

Jonah Erbe

Jonah Erbe currently serves as President at Leadership Management International, a global leadership development organization operating in over 80 countries and offering programs in more than 25 languages. Jonah’s personal mission is to help others realize their potential—physically, mentally, spiritually, professionally, and relationally—a guiding statement that informs his work both within LMI and beyond. 

As author of Excellence for Influence, Jonah shares insights at the intersection of Biblical faith and workplace leadership, encouraging faith-informed excellence in career and daily life. Since early 2025, he has also been publishing a Substack newsletter titled Leadership in Light of Eternity, addressing leadership, priorities, family, and work through an eternal and scriptural lens. 

Residing in Texas with his wife, Brooke (his high‑school sweetheart), and their children, Jonah integrates his roles as business leader, pastorally minded coach, and family man. He frequently emphasizes leading by example, stewarding servant-hearted leadership, and inspiring organizations to reach their full potential for Kingdom purpose.

Randy Slechta

President and CEO Randy Slechta has served in a variety of leadership roles since joining the business in 1985. It was his outstanding management and professional development skills, combined with his commitment to fulfilling our purpose of “Developing Leaders and Organizations to Their Full Potential™,” that led Founder Paul Meyer to appoint him president of LMI® and SMI® in 1993. Recognized throughout the world as a pioneer in the leadership development industry, Slechta is frequently asked to share his expertise with others. Randy has personally given thousands of presentations, speaking to millions of people in almost 60 different countries. Under his leadership, sales have grown over 400%, and the organization has expanded to over 80 countries, with programs available in more than 25 different languages. Upholding the legacy of our founder, Randy will continue to cultivate leadership on a global basis by expanding the business into untapped markets.

“The LMI experience encourages and supports the articulation of a personal mission statement. Here is mine: to be a lead actor in the many roles I play in life and continually work at developing a better version of myself. I want others to be able to breathe a little easier because of my contribution.”

Paul J. Meyer

Founder Paul J. Meyer’s extraordinary life and legacy seem unlikely for a boy born into a poor immigrant family. Much of Paul’s childhood was spent working in the fields, orchards, and vineyards with other migrant workers. After a particularly grueling workday, young Meyer asked his mother, “Am I going to have to do manual labor all my life?” His mother’s insightful response profoundly influenced Paul’s life. She put her hands on her son’s head, looked straight into his eyes, and said, “You have everything right in here to do anything and be anything you want.”

Maria Smith

a.k.a. ‘Boss Lady’ Maria is the Executive Assistant at Slight Edge Group- LMI Canada, where she helps her team produce amazing results for their clients. From keeping communication consistent between clients, to ensuring the office is running smoothly through organization, arranging and planning – it all helps produce an atmosphere where LMI’s clients are happy and ready to become the best they have ever been. Maria’s mission in life is to help people rise above their circumstances, go beyond their own expectations in life and reach the potential they are meant to have. Here at LMI, she gets to do just that. A wife and a mom of two, she is always looking for new adventures to explore and happy to have old ones revisited. From road trips with the family to coaching soccer- she loves being outdoors and seriously jokes that she is solar powered. Her other mission in life is to get a puppy…

Steve Daniels

CEO Slight Edge Group Licensee of LMI Canada Steve Daniels, CEO Slight Edge Group was previously honoured as the “America’s 2013 Motivator of the Year”, “2010 Rookie Licensee of the Year”, “America’s 2015 Sales Leader of the year”, “America’s 2018 Motivator of the Year” and recently honoured as the recipient of the “2019 Sales Leader of the Year” and “2020 Sales Leader of the Year” awards. He has also been named to the prestigious President’s Honor Club at the Executive Degree level. Steve’s philosophy is simple, “To inspire a passion for life and leadership in everyone he meets”. He takes great pride in being able to help individuals and organizations make great leaps toward measurable change. Helping them better themselves through changing both behaviour and habits of thought that affect their results and subsequently, their level of success.teve Daniels, CEO Slight Edge Group was recently honoured as the “America’s 2018 Motivator of the Year” and previously honoured as the “America’s 2015 Sales Leader of the year”, “America’s 2013 Motivator of the Year”, recipient of the “2019 Sales Leader of the Year” and “2020 Sales Leader of the Year” awards, and “2010 Rookie Licensee of the Year”. He has also been named to the prestigious President’s Honor Club at the Executive Degree level. Steve’s philosophy is simple, “To inspire a passion for life and leadership in everyone he meets”. He takes great pride in being able to help individuals and organizations make great leaps toward measurable change. Helping them better themselves through changing both behaviour and habits of thought that affect their results and subsequently, their level of success.

Program Outline

Effective Strategic Leadership

Nothing is more frustrating for employees than a ‘leader’ who doesn’t lead by example and can’t properly communicate their vision. People aren’t productive or motivated when they don’t see the logic or reasoning behind a specific directive. If your leaders can’t outline and explain the basic notions of their plan, they’ll have a difficult time getting employees on board with their goals and expectations.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Leaders like Richard Branson, who might appear unconventional on the surface, are masters at defining a laser-focused strategy and presenting it to their companies in such a way that employees are not only on board but also enthusiastic and anxious to get started. The key to effective strategic leadership rests on a leader’s ability to clarify why his or her company exists, where it currently stands, and ultimately, execute on a plan to get it where it needs to be.

  • Understand the need for organizational strategy and how to develop an effective one.
  • Learn the purpose of an organizational strategy.
  • Discover your role in overcoming obstacles to strategic success.
  • Be a strategic leader and strategize to cope with the challenges your organization faces.
  • Learn how to achieve outstanding performance.
  • Identify goals that matter.
  • Experience the benefit of spreading your strategy through your organization and suggest ways to do it.
  • Understand and build a management system, highlighting the needs of your people along the way.
  • Learn to measure progress and how to keep score.
  • Develop your strategy and define the strategic purpose of your organization.
  • Lead your organization forward by committing to achievement and productivity.
  • Develop strategic goals and build a total strategy map to help guide your future.
  • Combine vision and process; learn how to build your organization.
  • Understand the impact of goals on behavior.

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Effective Motivational Leadership

People aren’t motivated to follow other people by the archaic notion of hierarchies, which is why the development of truly exceptional leaders who can effortlessly motivate others to follow them is of utmost importance. Great leaders are respected, revered, and admired, and people follow them because they want to, not because an organization chart says they have to.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Leaders aren’t just leaders; they are visionaries and communicators who are equally as capable of leading groups of people down a broad path or an individual along a narrow, personal path. Whatever your specific area of need, our Effective Motivational Leadership program will help you and your employees understand what it takes to be a great leader and not only create winning teams that forge ahead into today’s volatile business environment but also foster an organization full of leaders on every level.

Our multi-phase Effective Motivational Leadership program is designed to help leaders communicate and motivate, like visionary legends Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

  • Helps you understand the responsibilities of leadership and its core values.
  • Understand how a positive self-image will help your success.
  • Change your attitude towards courage.
  • Learn the need for a clear vision.
  • Understand the importance in committing to a shared vision.
  • Support these visions with accurate, effective communications.
  • Experience the powers of persuasion and the rewards of successful communication.
  • Get an insight into human behavior and the process of motivation.
  • Learn the basic human drives and desires, including physical needs, security needs, and the need for self-esteem.
  • Understand why motivation today is different than how it was in the past.
  • Recognize what makes a successful team and how you can strengthen through recruiting winners.
  • Learn new techniques to build collaboration and seven steps to resolve conflict within teams.
  • Be an effective leader that others want to follow.
  • Develop your team as individuals.
  • Get more from them through personal growth.
  • Understand the coaching processes in more detail.
  • Learn to train colleagues and improve results.
  • Diagnose the sources of authority and power and make the most of your position.
  • Share power with team members and delegate effectively.
  • Find out how to overcome obstacles to empowerment.
  • Learn to overcome resistance to change.
  • Understand the importance of innovation.
  • Become a leading innovator in your organization.
  • Focus on the demands and rewards of leadership.
  • Understand how to lead your organization into the future.
  • Learn to effectively motivate and inspire those around you.

Program Outline

Effective Personal Leadership

Great leaders are respected and revered. They are self-motivated and tenacious individuals who are admired within all levels of an organization. It is a leader that blazes new trails and accomplishes feats others have only dreamed. Your ability as a leader can speak volumes about how you are observed as a professional and as a representative of your organization. Whether in your personal life or in your career, you will be observed according to your ability to lead your peers and in your role as a thought leader in your field and industry.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Visionaries are hidden in every organization. We aim to reveal your untapped potential. Through our Effective Personal Leadership program, you will develop the skill set required to spearhead your goals and create a winning environment despite the odds.

Our multi-phase Effective Personal Leadership program is designed to uncover, develop, and tailor your personal leadership abilities.

  • You will learn to believe in your full potential and discover the untapped potential within.

  • Learn about the opportunities for leadership and personal growth while detailing the courage needed.

  • Focus on your strengths and understand the rewards of leadership and the internal nature of personal leadership.

  • You will discover the importance of self-knowledge and emotional intelligence before learning to lead.
  • We will help you break out of the conditioned existence that has held you back.
  • Develop a strong self-image and recognize that true leaders are authentic leaders.
  • Learn to take responsibility for your success.
  • Determine your purpose; the reason you do what you do.
  • Understand the need to plan and recognize the passion needed to deliver results.
  • Recognize the power of positive expectancy and the need for persistence.
  • Taking personal responsibility delivers freedom and increased self-motivation.
  • Recognize basic human needs and learn the disadvantages of using fear to motivate.
  • Learn the power of motivating yourself and others through attitudes.
  • Understand the power of goal-setting and committing to goals.
  • Know the power of target dates and the difference between tangible and intangible goals.
  • Recognize the obstacles that prevent you from achieving goals.
  • Understand different goals and their personal worth.
  • Develop teams through delegation and shared responsibility.
  • Embrace the benefits of empowerment and overcoming feelings of fear and embarrassment at work.
  • Understand the overall benefits of having a more productive team.
  • Recognize the hallmarks of genuine passion.
  • Learn how the enthusiasm in others reflects your passion and how you can control the emotional climate.
  • Build enthusiasm and understand the benefits of enthusiasm.
  • Experience how positive expectancy works and that it requires belief.
  • Start with affirmation, and let your belief get magnified and clarified with visualization.
  • Develop an attitude of positive expectancy and understand how attitudes and habits are formed.
  • Learn how to change attitudes and habits with the self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • Understand the reasons why people quit and the benefit of developing iron-willed persistence.
  • Learn how to turn adversity into opportunity and the persistence needed to make good decisions.
  • Understand the importance of the Total Person® and Personal Leadership.
  • Learn that time is the most valuable asset, and planning your time with priorities in mind is essential.
  • Take responsibility for the time used and the liberation it brings on the path to becoming a Total Person®
  • Learn the critical role empathy plays in communication.
  • Listen with empathy and develop empathy for others.
  • Recognize the benefit of leadership through communication.
  • Understand that leaders are developers of people who empower those around them.
  • Gain the rewards of empowering others and living a life filled with potential as you prepare for the challenge of leadership.

Program Outline

Effective Personal Productivity

Productivity is the true measure of success. Our Effective Personal Productivity program is designed to accomplish just that. Through it, we empower you with skills for enhancing personal awareness, fine-tuning your efficiency, and effectively achieving your goals. The comprehensive, multi-phase program allows you to unlock new potential by establishing superior self-management.

To begin, we will utilize our psychological assessment. The Profile Evaluation System (PES) is an exceptional tool that characterizes individuals on a number of psychological traits that are important for job performance. Discover more about the PES and how it can help your organization.

Like all of our developmental programs, your road to more effective personal productivity begins with an introduction to the basic concepts of the LMI Process and our developmental approach. Your complete buy-in to the notions of multi-sensory learning, spaced repetition, and the power of goal setting is vital to successfully completing the program.

  • Focus on improving your self-image while developing your personal and professional goals.
  • Understand the power of goal-setting and its benefits.
  • Learn the power of affirmation and visualization in your life.
  • Helps you understand what productivity is and how to measure your own personal levels.
  • Change your attitude towards goal-setting.
  • Show you the importance of improved productivity and what it can bring.
  • Utilize high-payoff activities to get more done.
  • Learn to set priorities in all areas of your life to help restore balance.
  • Deal with interruptions as you become more efficient and productive.
  • Manage communications and practice how to say no.
  • Improve productivity levels by communicating effectively.
  • Tips for speed reading and writing for impact.
  • Communicating with larger groups.
  • Develop teams through delegation and shared responsibility.
  • Embrace the benefits of empowerment and overcome feelings of fear and embarrassment at work.
  • Understand the overall benefits of having a more productive team.
  • Create a learning environment and improve the productivity of your team.
  • Instill positive expectancy and demonstrate strategies for training.
  • Learn efficient procedures to ensure your team increases productivity