Develop Your Leadership Potential: Stop Doing, Start Leading

You will be more equipped to tackle complex challenges, expand your ingenuity, and excel in building team harmony. Use your new skills to achieve measurable results, securing your place as a valued contributor. As you become more adept at influencing, you’ll find yourself inspiring others to take initiative and innovate. The time has come to start leading now!

Session 1
• Module One: Characteristics of Leadership Effectiveness
• Module Two: Leading With Integrity

Session 2
• Module Three: Leading Others To Accomplish Results

Session 3
• Module Four: Enhancing Your Leadership Competence
• Module Five: Engaging Followers

Session 4
• Module Six: Communicating With Authenticity

Session 5
• Module Seven: Guiding Performance

Session 6
• Module Eight: Increasing self-Awareness

Session 7
• Module Nine: Inspiring Confidence In Your Leadership

Session 8
• Module Ten: Developing Yourself and Others

This program focuses on:

• Overcoming new leader fears
• Creating the right leadership mindset
• Building confidence as a leader
• Learning the strategies and tools to lead effectively
• Guiding team performance and accountability
• Communicating with authenticity and trust
• Inspiring confidence in others while developing yourself and your team

• Confidence in leading others — not just managing tasks
• Practical tools to handle difficult conversations, delegate, and coach performance
• Breakthroughs in mindset — shifting from “I do it” to “we achieve it”
• Team harmony and engagement through trust, authenticity, and accountability
• A proven model for growth — tested globally and refined for Japan’s unique workplace culture

• New leaders and managers
• Professionals preparing for a managerial role
• Leaders struggling with team management or subordinate development
• HR and L&D professionals developing emerging leaders

This course uses our proven 8-Step pathway to ensure learning sticks:

1. Pre-Work (videos, podcasts, thought leadership articles)
2. Performance Coaching for Managers Workshop (optional)
3. Kick-off Session (1 hour online), pre-training survey, accountability partner assignment
4. Main Program
5. 28-week self-paced learning program with weekly video/audio content, reinforced by Carnegie Academy AI Edition
6. Deep Learning 1 (2 hours online, 30 days post-program)
7. Deep Learning 2 (2 hours online, 60 days post-program)
8. Graduate-only Ongoing Education (seasonal, 2 hours)

Q: Why is the transition from team member to leader so challenging?
A: Because it’s not about technical skills — it’s about people. Many new leaders keep doing what made them successful individually. But leading requires a completely different skill set: inspiring, coaching, communicating, and holding others accountable.

Q: What happens if companies promote people without leadership training?
A: Too often, high performers are promoted into leadership roles simply because they excel at their current job. But being a producer and being a leader are entirely different things. Without support, new leaders feel overwhelmed, lose confidence, and struggle to engage their teams.

In Japan today, this is even more dangerous:

• Staff shortages mean good people can easily find another job.
• Salespeople, for example, can quickly move to another company where they don’t need to lead — just sell.
• If they feel abandoned or unsupported as leaders, they may quit, leaving you with an even bigger retention and recruitment problem.

This course prevents that. It equips new leaders with the mindset, confidence, and skills to succeed — so they stay, grow, and deliver results for your organization.

Q: Why is leading former peers such a challenge?
A: Many new leaders are promoted because they consistently hit their own targets. But when they’re suddenly put in charge of colleagues — sometimes even over former peers — the dynamics change overnight.

Now, they must:

• Balance authority with maintaining trust and respect
• Motivate without creating resentment
• Give feedback and hold others accountable — sometimes to people they used to compete with

Without proper training, this transition is overwhelming and often damaging. But with Dale Carnegie’s proven approach, new leaders learn how to navigate human relations with confidence, fairness, and integrity — turning potential friction into stronger bonds and higher performance.

Q: How does this program create confident leaders?
A: We tackle new leader fears head-on. Participants practice every skill live in class — with immediate coaching — then apply it in their workplace. They return to share results, creating accountability and social learning. This cycle of practice, feedback, and application builds real confidence.

Q: What makes the Dale Carnegie approach unique?
A: For over 113 years globally (62 years in Japan), Dale Carnegie has been the authority on human relations and leadership development. Unlike passive lectures, our courses are highly interactive: participants engage in discussions, role plays, peer coaching, and recognition. That’s why skills stick and leaders grow.

Q: How is learning sustained after the classroom?
A: With the 8-Step Performance Change Pathway, which ensures new leaders don’t just learn — they change:

• 140 OnDemand Leadership Videos to reinforce every concept
• Carnegie Academy AI Edition with full access to Dale Carnegie’s 113 years of global IP and 62 years in Japan — available during and after the course
• 28 weeks of reinforcement to lock in new skills and habits
• 30-day and 60-day live online follow-up sessions to deepen learning and accountability
• Spring & Autumn Professional Ongoing Education so leaders continue to grow alongside their peers

• Built on 113 years of global success and 62 years in Japan
• Trusted by millions of professionals worldwide to make the leap into leadership
• Based on How to Win Friends and Influence People — the global classic on building relationships and influence

What participants say:

• “I stopped micromanaging and started coaching — my team is now more independent and engaged.”
• “I was nervous about leading older staff, but this course gave me the tools to build respect and trust.”

• Books:
  • Japan Leadership Mastery (現代版 人を動かすリーダー)
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People (人を動かす)
• Podcasts:
  • The Leadership Japan Series (English, Apple Podcasts)
  • Japan’s Top Business Interviews (English)
  • Bijinesu Tatsujin (Japanese, ビジネス達人の教え)