GSL SkillBuilder is a self-paced leadership development system that helps individuals practice character strengths and communication skills in real work situations. It’s designed to support behavior change over time – not just awareness.
This innovative tool empowers participants to master critical soft skills, not just learn about them, fostering lasting behavioral improvements. You can use it as a stand-alone, self-directed program or seamlessly integrate it into an established leadership curriculum. Certification is not required.
Why Character and Communication Skills Matter:
- Emotional Intelligence: Character and communication are directly related to self-management, social awareness, and effectively engaging team members. These skills are fundamental to emotional intelligence and effective leadership.
- Core Values of the Organization: Developing these skills empowers everyone to bring organizational values like integrity, trust, excellence, and accountability to life, fostering a stronger organizational culture.
How GSL SkillBuilder Works:
- Focus on Practice, Not Just Knowledge: The unique design of GSL SkillBuilder empowers participants to master skills through repetition and real-world application, ensuring the skill becomes automatic rather than just understood.
- Micro-learning: Brief videos and suggested practices offer bite-sized learning that can be applied immediately in daily work scenarios.
- Coaching Partnerships: Learners work with a coach for vital support, encouragement, and accountability. This can be structured as:
- Peer Coaching: Two individuals coach each other.
- Dedicated Coach: One coach supports several participants.
- Manager/Mentor Coaching: Coaching provided by a participant’s manager, mentor, or trainer.
- Optimized for Mobile: Access SkillBuilder conveniently from any device, allowing for flexible learning anytime, anywhere.
Comprehensive Skill Development:
GSL SkillBuilder offers robust development across two critical areas:
- Character Skills: 36-character skills organized into 3 key areas that help people do the right things and the hard things:
- Building a Strong SELF: Cultivates essential traits like self-awareness, humility, resilience, rationality, composure, and more.
- Building Strong RELATIONSHIPS: Develops interpersonal strengths such as integrity, empathy, fairness, trust, cooperation, service, and more.
- Building a Stronger WORK ETHIC: Fosters crucial professional attributes including excellence, commitment, responsibility, initiative, and more.
- Communication Skills: 10 essential communication skills that inspire team members to want to engage and work with their leader:
- Listen to understand
- Coach people to think for themselves
- Guide learning from experience
- Get buy-in for expectations
- Offer encouragement
- Express appreciation
- Give feedback constructively
- Accept feedback graciously
- Engage in dialogue
- Resolve conflict creatively
