Virtual leadership learning groups for Restaurant leaders, Ascend Virtual offers the Ascend learning experience without the time, travel, or cost.

Designed to create an immediate impact at the Restaurant, Ascend Virtual is:

• Scalable and inclusive with more capacity to serve leaders

• Time-efficient with online access to fit around busy schedules

• Cost-effective with zero travel needed and no cost for courses

• Topic-based for focus and relevancy to the participants and Restaurants

• Recurring to provide ongoing options

Key benefits include:

• Knowledge-sharing: The siloing of information is reduced as best practices are allowed to freely flow from learner to learner.

• Action-based learning: Flexible, problem-solving mindsets are cultivated through role-specific practical applications.

• Relationship-building: Retention and engagement are increased through shared experiences and intentional collaboration to overcome challenges.

In his 46-year career with Chick-fil-A, President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos has been a student and teacher of leadership. Tim has encouraged others with his messages, whether from the Main Stage at NEXT, the Right Now video series, or Fundamentals training for new Chick-fil-A Operators, as well as in other small- and large-group settings. 

His top 50 Lessons in Leadership have been curated here. Each lesson includes a brief video and summary, plus links to additional resources for a deeper dive into a specific topic. Consider using them for a leadership meeting kickoff, devotion, team huddle, or a new perspective on your personal development and leadership journey. 

* Chick-fil-A Portal login/password required to access the material 

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"Mineral brings together the best of two HR and compliance powerhouses: ThinkHR and Mammoth. While our name has changed, you can still count on us for the same great HR and compliance solutions that hundreds of thousands of businesses have come to rely on."

We will add you as a user and then you will have access to the training modules. Email admin@cfavicksburg.com and request access.

Preferred Courses:

• A Manager's Core Skills (Manager/Director required)

• Employee Discipline (Team Leader/Manager/Director required)

• Unconscious Bias: An Introduction (Interviewers required)

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Creating the Right Atmosphere for Difficult Conversations

• Increasing Your Impact During Difficult Conversations

• Why Culture Counts

• Establishing a Culture of Trust

• Organizing Information for Productivity

• Prioritizing Decisions and Taking Action

• Getting Ready for Performance Development Conversations

• Pause Before You Post, Text, or Email

• Sustaining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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"Whether you're looking to improve engagement across your organization, align a diverse team, enhance execution to reach your goals, or improve when it comes to leading yourself, our courses are designed to take you from where you are to where you want to be in your life and leadership."

• Lead Self

• Lead Others

• Lead Teams 

• Lead Organizations

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Retired Chick-fil-A Inc. staff member, Ty Yokom, and a few Atlanta-area Chick-fil-A Operators have partnered to do foundational leadership principles and shift leadership classes, both online and in-person. 

Preferred Courses:

• Foundations 001: Heart & Serve (Virtual)

• Foundations 002: Improving Productivity with DiSC® (Virtual)

• Leader Basics 101: Shift Leader Planning & Leading (In-Person Session)

• Leader Basics 102: Situational Leadership (In-Person Session)

• Leader Basics 103: Giving Caring Feedback (In-Person Session)

• Leader Basics 104: Reports Lab: Making Better Business Decisions Using @CFANow (Virtual and/or Hybrid Session)

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"AIG has teamed up with the nation’s leading employment and labor law firm, Littler Mendelson P.C., to provide you with a comprehensive package of risk management products and services carefully designed to help you manage your workforce and reduce your exposure to employment-related liability. Access to EPL Risk Manager is available at no cost to all businesses with a current employment practices liability policy purchased from AIG."

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"No one taught you how to be a leader. 

And yet, here you are. You’re expected to balance your growing demands, drive consistent results, and—in the midst of all of this—find time to invest in your growth. 

How can you become the leader you want to be when all you feel is overwhelmed? 

The solution is greater focus. 

Whether you’ve been leading teams for decades or you want to equip yourself for future leadership roles, you’re in the right place. It’s time to become The Focused Leader."

https://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/courses/business-and-leadership

"UGA has a wide variety of in-person and online courses that can help you further your career. These certificate programs and professional development courses include hard skills with course titles like Creating a Successful Business Plan and Distribution and Logistics Management, to essential soft skills taught in classes like Get Assertive. There are industry-specific courses, and general business courses that teach skills that will help in any line of work.

All of these are perfect for those interested in entering a profession, improving professionally, making a career change, or adding a new credential that businesses value. The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education provides superior continuing education programs that enrich lives, advance careers and boost businesses."

Preferred Courses:

• Customer Service Fundamentals

• Fundamentals of Supervision and Management

• Get Assertive

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Leadership Retreats for Lead Self, Lead Others, Lead Teams, and Lead Organizations.

https://www.trevero.com/services/leadership-development-program/

"Our Catalyst Leadership Development Program is a coaching-integrated leadership development solution. Designed for emerging and aspiring leadership, this program helps talented employees add the human skills they need to grow into and thrive in management roles. It’s more than a program. It’s access to one-on-one coaching that leads to accelerated and continuous growth. Building awareness through tools, real-time accountability, and support."

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Berlitz offers language, cultural, diversity, and global leadership solutions to businesses, organizations, nonprofits and individuals who want to gain knowledge around cultural intelligence and inclusion strategies.

Having partnered with many Fortune 500 companies, Berlitz has a large portfolio of development programs designed to help organizations leverage diversity through inclusive leadership to create a culture of belonging.  

https://online.hbs.edu/

"Expand your business skills and engage with a global network of learners through our flexible, online courses. Wherever you are in your career—or the world—Harvard Business School Online can help you achieve your goals."

Preferred Courses:

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