About Us
The Modern Leadership Center is dedicated to leadership training and employee development
Meet Larry LaFata, the founder of The Modern Leadership Center
and course creator of talent development programs
My name is Larry LaFata, I am a talent development coach and the founder of The Modern Leadership Center at WorkerMotivation.com.
After 30 years’ experience working with Fortune 500 companies, in the last 10 years I turned to my passion: leadership training, career development and employee development courses.
I have a unique ability to synthesize research and innovation into organized, usable training concepts.
It is this organized and practical approach that ensures my programs are concise and effective. The result is self-assessment and skills development templates designed to truly customize your results.
No psychology tests or theories are ever used here. The focus is only on skills development using innovative templates and self-assessments.
My goal is to provide you with organized, streamlined solutions for leadership training, employee development and emotional intelligence. Designed in such a way that you can implement them and get results quickly.
The Modern Leadership Center
has one mission: employee development and leadership training
Our mission is talent development through skills development.
Skill insure your employees and leaders develop functional and management skills. From new hires all the way to executive leadership training.
Regardless of your level of leadership, your background, experience or level of education, developing skills is the fastest path to leadership, emotional intelligence and productivity.
My concise and organized skills development templates provide you with the fastest, most cost-effective way to see positive results in your employees quickly.
My courses and programs help you focus in on developing your workforce talent with a valuable skills first approach:
- If you want to understand the 3 phases of leadership training and development
- The sensible way to approach leadership training for managers
- You want to discover How smart employee development improves work performance
- If you want to grasp the core fundamentals of leadership, find examples of the 4 components of all leadership skills
- Learn how to structure your leadership role for maximum presence
- The best way how to develop emotional intelligence habits using soft skills training
- Save time researching leadership training course by learning about the 5 elements of the best leadership training programs
- Learn how to avoid the pitfalls of typical Executive leadership training
Individual development plan templates to simplify employee development
Skills development is at the core of effective employee development.
I offer employee development development examples and templates so you can see for yourself how my process works.
Skills development examples can include job skills, soft skills and leadership.
The skills an employee needs depend on where they fall on the leadership training and development continuum.
Employee development primarily falls into functional training, such as hard skills, job skills, technical skills and some soft skills.
You can follow the 10 best practices of employee development, laid out here:
My Leadership training and Development Continuum Venn gives you a visual:
From employee development to executive leadership training
Leadership development training with focus on skills development,
soft skills training and emotional intelligence habits
Skills development – rather than psychology theory, leadership styles and psychometric tests – are at the core of effective leader development.
As the training continuum shows, leadership training requires skills development in intangible concepts such as vision, emotional intelligence maturity, soft skills and brand building.
Unfortunately, typical leadership development training focuses on psychology concepts you will never use. Retention is known to be less that 10% after one week.
You are profiled with personality tests, and plied with psychology theories like “imposter syndrome.”
Worst of all are Leadership styles that may work ok in a homogeneous team but do not work enterprise wide.
Leaderships styles put you in a box, in my opinion. They can limit your range of motion as a leader.
That is why my motto is “Leadership skills not leadership styles.”
How The Modern Leadership Center zeroes in on the exact employee development and leadership skills you need to develop
Using my decades of business marketing experience and research, I have developed a series of employee skills development and leadership skills self-assessments that center on
- Isolating and prioritizing what skills you need to develop
- Use a skills development process that allows you to apply your skills hands-on during your day to day job functions
- Reinforce them through daily intention
Its an organized, common sense approach to learning skills.
It’s the best known way for you to make the massive transformation to using your talents to their best outcomes.
What is Larry’s approach to the talent development process?
My approach to employee and leadership development is to incorporate your authentic self as much as possible in your employee, management and executive leadership roles.
This can be best described in my leadership proverb:
The old adage "you can become whoever you want to be" is not necessarily true. However, you can become who you are meant to be. That is your Leadership Destiny.
How I employ bedrock marketing principles to get you real results
My mission is to develop the best talent development courses possible, based on the core fundamentals of influence and leadership.
The goal and the hope is to motivate you to enjoy work as much as possible and thus better benefit yourself and humanity.
Larry’s marketing journey
After founding DefineYourCareer.com and authoring a Career self assessment program, my Employee Development Plan was a natural next step.
The development of the EDP in turn led to the creation of the Leadership Development Program, of which I am very proud. It is absolutely the best ROI of any leadership training program out there, guaranteed.
How did I get started on this course creation journey?
I developed a love of marketing and entrepreneurship early on.
- It started when I was 7 years old. I was fascinated with sending away for marketing offers on the back of cereal boxes and comic books. From Green Lantern secret rings to stamps collections, I got them all.
- This lifelong love of marketing has developed into a deep business marketing background of more than 25+ years in helping businesses and individuals to develop marketing plans
- As a business evaluation consultant for 25+ years, I have developed sales and marketing plans for numerous brand name companies, including AT&T, Sears, Dr. Computer and Ceridian
How marketing applies to leadership and employee development
I have applied all those years of business marketing experience to benefit you as a leader and as an employee, by developing self assessment and skills development templates
- My marketing background, experience and research are applied and synthesized to build home study courses with one goal: to help you to discover your most powerful leadership value and an employee, manager and executive.
- My education includes a BA In Business Marketing and Business Administration
- I also have numerous marketing certifications and 600+ hours of marketing course completions
Marketing has everything to do with leadership development and employee development
The same exact principles are used in both instances.
- For example in marketing, the first question you ask and research is “Who is our target market?”
- Same thing applies to leadership: the first thing you must ask is “Who is the audience I am leading?”
So I don’t waste your time on novel psychology theories, leadership styles, psychometric tests or theoretical syndromes.
If they don’t center on bedrock communication and influence principles, they are not relevant.
Skills development templates:
the most effective way to grow
Employee development plan templates
Individual development plan templates
Leadership development plan templates
Leadership soft skills training
Employee self evaluation
Leadership assessment template
Performance review template
Leadership skills development template
Develop key leadership and management training skills such as taking charge, audience development, communications, developing leadership traits through role models and empathy.
Employee review template
Template to apply the 4 components of leadership to your audiences
Employee rewards template
Leader's quarterly skills development template
Soft skills build emotional intelligence
What is termed emotional intelligence – managing your own emotions in order to better manage the emotions of others – is a key leadership skill.
My Venn diagram gives you a visual of how this works vs. soft skills.
I include soft skills training in all my talent development courses.
How to develop emotional intelligence
Soft skills straddle both self management and management of others.
The fastest way how to develop emotional intelligence by mastering soft skills in the areas you have need.
For example if you do a self-asessment of skills, areas of shortfall will jump oit at you. Often just a few emotional intelligence soft skills can make all the difference.
For example you can work on influence and power soft skills to master emotional intelligence in leadership.
A secret to leadership soft skills
A key soft skills secret to remember, you are not actually managing people, you are managing emotions.
Leadership is the mastery of soft skills, and is developable in both leaders and employees.
Talent development courses now available at
The Modern Leadership Center
Employee Development Plan Template Kit
Improve your employee's job performance
from day one
Build job skills and soft skills quickly
with concise templates
- Saves employers time: easy one time set up, fast quarterly reviews and employee completes their own self evaluation templates
- Build job skills, soft skills, leadership and emotional intelligence customized to the level of each employees current skillset
- Rewards program templates ensure employee motivation and retention
- Best for up to 30 developable employees.
You’re guided along with a step-by-step instructions guide and clean employee skills development template in excel.
Find out more below.
Leadership Development Program
What makes a great leader? The right leadership training, of course!
Command effective leadership skill in only 3 minutes a day with my new
Leadership Development Program
A concise leadership development course with
step-by-step training templates in Excel
Effective for all levels of leadership: executives, managers and business owners – and anyone who wants to develop strong leadership skills
- Develop leadership skills as permanent habits
- Strengthen your emotional intelligence through leadership soft skills training
- Expand your center of gravity and build a confident presence
- Learn how to structure your leadership role for maximum effectiveness
- No fluff. Concise training in the 4 core fundamentals of leadership
- Establish “Leadership team quality control” by raising all leaders to the same skills standard benchmark
Avoid wasting time and money training on topics you will never use, when you can get hands-on skills training instead.
Why pay $2,000, $5000 or $10,000 for generic leadership training?
This innovative leadership development program is only $197 for a limited time.
What DON’T we do here at
The Modern Leadership Center?
I absolutely NEVER use personality tests, psychometric tests or any kind of
psychological profiling
I want you to develop leadership skills and employee development skills, not psychoanalyze you.
I don’t charge you $4000, $5000 or $10,000 for leadership training.
My leadership course is $297 and can be applied to all levels of leadership.
Advanced executive leadership training is outside the scope of this leadership program
I don’t offer training camps, leadership coaching, seminars, MBA credits or certificates.
I don’t offer training camps, leadership coaching, seminars, MBA credits or certificates. Just skills development.
My step by step courses operate as a self-contained “coach within a course. ” So you’ll never really need leadership coaching unless its for medical, professional healthcare or industry specific assistance.
I don’t offer advanced leadership training required by executives who are responsible to a Board or need industry specific training.
I don't spin your weheels with leadership training you will never use
Most typical leadership training trains you on stuff you will never use.
They may train you on psychology theory, for example leadership styles.
Servant leadership style is one trend that is making the rounds.
n the wrong hands (inexperienced or weak leaders) this style of leadership can turn you into a martyr, giving away your power.
I strongly recommend you stick to skills basics, not theory.
Straightforward talent development through skills templates
To summarize about us, we offer a straightforward approach to skills development, without spinning your wheels on training you will never use.
All courses and programs are based on decades of research, experience and the application of core fundamental marketing principles.
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Contact Larry LaFata with this form for:
Leadership Development
Employee Development
Employee Rewards Programs
Speaking engagements
Open hours: Mon – Sat: 9 AM – 6 PM EST
Thanks for your interest
