Start-to-Lead® Training Course

Start-to-Lead® and Start-to-Lead®DIAMOND are ideal for when you are (soon) going to be taking up a leadership role for the first time. It is also perfect if you have been working as a leader for up to four years and you would like to start again as a leader. For entrepreneurs who are hiring employees for the first time, or the younger generation who are taking over a family business, these programmes are also made for you.

This course is set up so that you can learnquickly and intelligently, wherever you want, whenever you want andas often as you want. Above all, it shouldn’t add extra pressure to your jam-packed schedule: you adjust your course to your work schedule and daily life, as it suits you, without having to be away from the office at all, without wasting your precious time by waiting in traffic to get to a classroom. You gain time and energy.

Thanks to this course, you will get off to a flying start, or restart, and you will set a strong foundation to get the best out of yourself and your team.  You invest in skills that you will be able to use for the rest of your life. You feel better, more confident andsatisfied in your role as a team leader.

Check out the results you can achieve by following this learning course under the heading “Your results”. Does this also apply to your own needs and learning goals? Then this course was made for you!  Moreover, the online learning programme has many additional benefits. You can read more about them in the section: “The advantages of online learning” . And here’s another special reason why: when you invest in your development and future by following our programme, then you invest in the development and future of a sick child. Read more about it under “A good cause”. You couldn’t dream of a better synergy, surely?

The theory part of your course consists of short but powerful and effective videos and podcasts (audio trainings). This takes up roughly 15 minutes of your day, or as much time as you want to spend on it. For each module, there are exercises that prepare and help you to put what you have learned into practice and to actively do this, this is the practical part of the course. We recommend that you spend 1 to 2 hours a week working on the programme, this could be by reviewing topics, doing exercises & assignments and if you want, taking part in our online community.

We recommend keeping this routine throughout the first 12 weeks of the programme; this is well spread out, so it should be totally manageable. Per module, you have 2 weeks to get through everything. Of course, there aren’t any universal remedies, the more focus and dedication you put into your training and development, the more you will get out of it. If you can’t make time for it straight away, don’t worry. You can get through the programme as best you can, and then you can return to the programme as often as possible. That’s why you get 6 to 12 months access to everything.

You can decide to pay the total amount for Start-to-Lead®, 1797 euro, in one go, or you can make a six monthly payment of 337 euros.

You can try the programme for the first 2 weeks. If it isn’t your cup of tea; then you can send an email to info@talentmakers.eu, at the latest 14 days after you made your purchase and send us the completed worksheet and all of the completed exercises. Then you will get your money back. So you aren’t taking any risks!

The reason we ask for the exercises is quite simple. We want to work with people who put in the effort. Those who are prepared to do whatever is necessary to get the best results.

Subscription from the seventh month onwards: in Start-to-Lead® you get six months access (in Start-to-Lead®DIAMOND you get 12 months access). You can extend this through a monthly (redeemable) subscription. That way you can keep access to your online learning platform with all content & material, with additional new content and you can also access your online community. The monthly (redeemable) subscription costs 97 euros. All the rates mentioned are excluding VAT. You can find our general terms and conditions and payment termshere.

That’s right! We take on the risk for you. We GUARANTEE the following:

You can try the programme for the first 2 weeks. If it isn’t your cup of tea; then you can send an email to info@talentmakers.eu, at the latest 14 days after you made your purchase and send us the completed worksheet and all of the completed exercises. Then you will get your money paid back. You aren’t taking any risks!

The reason we ask for the exercises is quite simple. We want to work with people who put in the effort. Those who are prepared to do whatever is necessary to get the best results.

You are guaranteed access to Start-to-Lead® for 6 months and Start-to-Lead®DIAMOND for 12 months.

Afterwards, you can switch over to a monthly redeemable subscription. You can redeem this whenever you want. You do this by logging into your account and simply cancelling your order. Your subscription is then cancelled at the end of the month you last paid for. Is my subscription cancelled straight away then? You pay a fixed amount of 97 EUR a month. You can always cancel, even in the first month. For example, if you became a member on the 15th of April, your subscription will continue until the 15th of May and you can still use the online learning platform until the 15th of May, and the same applies if you started on the 29th of April.

Although our programme is truly fantastic, it is not made for all (starting) leaders. We can only help you if you are prepared:

• to do what is necessary to achieve great results.
• to work on your professional and personal development.
• to do genuine self-reflection.
• to DO: to take action and put the things you learn into practice.
• to make consistent, focused and repeated efforts to be the successful and happy team leader you always wanted to be.

Our programmes are unique, but they are not made for you if you:

• are looking for a process management course.
• consider yourself an experienced or advanced people manager.
• think that personal and professional growth happens with the wave of a magic wand. This is for go-getters who understand that development and (behavioral) changes come from consistent, focused and repeated effort.

You can do this by staying a member to your exclusive online club “The Leadership Lounge” with a monthly(redeemable)subscriptionfor €97/month. You can simply order this on your account. Do this before the end of the 6-month or 12-month period. You get:

• access to your online platformwithall content and material.
• access to your online communitywhere you can share ideas, questions and experiences with other leaders in other sectors, which also serves as a sounding board.
• access to new content:
  • Management Thoughts of the Week
  • Podcasts – practical tips about leadership
  • We read for you! Summaries of interesting books about management
  • Live Online Q&A sessions
• The opportunity to take part in pollsand make suggestions for new content.
• The opportunity to be the first to get to know the new future learning modules.
• The opportunity to be the first to take part in any possible offline events.

You feel the need to develop your leadership skills and you would like to follow our programmes, but you don’t know how you will find the means to invest in it? Then knock on your leader’s door. Most employers have foreseen a yearly training budget to give their employees the opportunity to follow courses. It turns out that often, at the end of the year, they find out that they didn’t use the whole foreseen budget. And this is all despite the fact that more and more research is showing that well developed interpersonal skills and leadership skills increase productivity and happiness at work! Believe me: your boss can only cheer you on for taking your own development into your own hands. Would you still like to have some back-up arguments? In order to help you convince your employer, we listed all of the advantages for you:

• Improving your leadership skills leads to increased productivity and enthusiasm in the organisation. What kind of employer wouldn’t want that?
• You, together with your team, will be more capable of achieving the organisations goals. That is exactly what all employers want!
• Team leaders who talk to, motivate and stimulate their team in a more effective way ensure less stress and neglect, and more productivity, engagement and happiness at work. I promise you: this is a return on investment (ROI) that is high in demand!
• Do you see your boss resisting? What about the days that you are not at work because you are following a course? No, no, no: thanks to the ‘mobile’ Start-to-Lead® and Start-to-Lead®DIAMOND learning platform, there’s really no excuse! You can follow this course online. Wherever, whenever and as often as you want. Even in your own free time, but then with your allocated training budget.

Do you need any more reasons? Then check out the reviews from leaders who have already followed this programme. You can find them here.

Then we recommend that you start straight away. Seriously 🙂 you can only change your situation by making some kind of change. For example, you only create more time and space for yourself by making sure you stop doing too much. Learn how it can be done differently and which steps you need to take to transform yourself. You will not only improve yourself, you will improve your team, department and company.  You don’t need to take our word for it, read Marion Cardinaelsexperience, she also didn’t have enough time.