Key Takeaways

• Leadership training boosts employee engagement, productivity, and organizational loyalty.
• Strong communication and decision-making skills are central outcomes of quality leadership programs.
• Resilient leaders help organizations adapt, reduce stress, and thrive through disruption.
• Leadership training offers high ROI, with studies showing up to $7 return for every $1 invested.
• Klemmer’s Heart of the Samurai program transforms habits and builds compassionate, decisive leaders.

An investment in leadership training for your company can result in clear benefits, such as stronger employee engagement, a more defined strategy line, nimbleness and resiliency, higher profits, and more.

Employee engagement

Let’s address employee engagement first because it’s at the core of any organization that wants to move forward with decisiveness and cohesion. A 2020 Gallup study showed that companies with a highly engaged workforce achieve 21 percent greater productivity over others, and experience 41 percent less absenteeism.

Other studies have pointed out the chain reaction involved. Highly engaged and invested employees elevate the quality of an organization’s customer service. High-quality customer service boosts customer loyalty, retention, and word-of-mouth marketing, all of which result in higher profits.

Organizations that have won the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award have something significant in common. They can all demonstrate that more than 70 percent of their workforce is engaged. Put another way, the average ratio of employees who are engaged, versus those who are not, is close to seven times the national rate.

Executives and managers who have completed leadership training can boost engagement among their front-line staff by showing greater empathy and providing support. When employees see their leaders building collaboratively in this way, they become more invested in their own job performance, and they feel greater loyalty and commitment to their organizations.

Strategic decision-making

No leadership training would be effective without a focus on communication skills. Effective leaders must have the ability to convey their ideas in a way that informs, motivates, and inspires. The best leadership workshops teach participants to perceive how they come across, how to break down tasks and provide clear and concise guidance, and how to truly understand their team members through respectful give-and-take conversations.

A solid leadership course expands this communication focus to include higher-level decision-making skills. Participants become more intentional about project management, learn to recalibrate as additional data becomes available, and gain comfort in embracing the power of mistakes. They learn to realize that mistakes are a key component in gaining a more comprehensive mastery of their jobs.

Once leaders start to develop their abilities along these lines, they become catalysts to push their teams toward greater insight, creativity, and productivity.

Resilience

Plenty of what business writers like to call “pivoting” is really about resilience – the organizational quality of being agile enough to move away from outdated behaviors and to bounce back from setbacks. Resilience plays a big part in lowering overall stress within an organization. That allows it to survive – and even thrive – amid large-scale disruption. An organization is only as nimble, adaptable, and resilient as its leaders.

When you choose a leadership training program focused on building character and confidence, you’re selecting one that grounds your leaders and their teams in resilience. Instead of trying to pretend that mistakes never happen – an impossible state of affairs in even high-performing organizations – leaders who hold themselves accountable and learn from their mistakes become respected role models and change agents among their employees.

This sets off a ripple effect, with individual teams and then the entire company able to have honest conversations about what hasn’t worked, what could work better, and how they can work together to seize opportunities and achieve better outcomes.

The bottom line

Finally, one of the greatest benefits of leadership training is higher profitability. It’s clear that increased employee engagement, better communication and decision-making, and greater resiliency all contribute to higher productivity and profitability.

This statement is borne out by numerous studies on the effects of leadership training on a company’s bottom line. For example, a 2023 report developed by BetterManager and researchers at The Fossicker Group showed that, for every dollar a company puts into leadership training, it can expect a $7 return on investment.

The report attributes this high ROI, in part, to the fact that employee engagement drives retention, which keeps recruiting costs down.

In addition, companies that commit their resources to leadership training boost their revenue outright. CEOs interviewed as part of the study said that they planned to continue their investment in leadership development, even during tough economic times, because of its clear dollar value.

Enter the ‘Samurai’

This is where Klemmer’s Heart of the Samurai – as well as its other workshops and trainings – comes in.

Klemmer’s trainings are designed to be purposeful, practical, and life-changing. Unlike other superficial, off-the-rack leadership courses that produce ephemeral change – if any at all – Klemmer works with participants to dig deep into behaviors, attitudes, and decision-making patterns that are no longer useful. These insights can be transformational.

In particular, the intensive Heart of the Samurai training is designed to help participants clear away the debris of ineffective habits and perspectives. They will develop positive new character traits that are genuinely useful to their own and their teams’ long-term success.

Over the past few decades, tens of thousands of Klemmer and Associates alumni have turned their professional and personal lives around by incorporating principles of reflection, accountability, and responsibility into their lives. They’ve learned to grow from their mistakes and help their teams to do the same. Through the training, they become leaders who are both decisive and deeply compassionate, the kinds of leaders others respect and look up to.

FAQ

Why is leadership training important for employee engagement?

Leadership training helps managers show empathy, build collaboration, and support employees, boosting engagement, loyalty, and productivity across the organization.

What role does communication play in leadership training?

Effective communication enables leaders to inspire, clarify expectations, and understand their teams better, leading to stronger collaboration and smarter decision-making.

How does leadership training improve resilience?

It equips leaders to handle setbacks, adapt to change, and role-model accountability, creating a more resilient and adaptable company culture.

What is the ROI of leadership training?

Studies show companies can expect a $7 return on every $1 spent on leadership training, thanks to improved engagement, retention, and profitability.

What makes Klemmer’s Heart of the Samurai program unique?

Unlike superficial programs, it focuses on deep behavioral change, building character, accountability, and compassion in leaders for lasting transformation.