# Building Leadership Capability

> Leadership capability training for managers: communication, vision, accountability, empowering and feedback. 2 days in person or 4 virtual sessions.

- Source: https://bodhih.com/building-leadership-capability/
- Publisher: Bodhih Training (Bengaluru, India; since 2008)
- Last updated: 2026-10-15
- Contact: solutions@bodhih.com · +91 99000 11601

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## At a glance

- **Duration:** Recommended: 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 4 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 90-day habit-building follow-up
- **Who it’s for:** Managers, team leads and senior leaders at every level
- **Format:** In person · Live virtual · Blended
- **Where:** India & 7 regions worldwide
- **Track record:** Since 2008 · 2,000+ companies

Leadership capability building training is a practical program that develops five leadership capabilities in managers and team leads: communication, vision and conviction, accountability, empowering others, and feedback and feed-forward. Bodhih runs it as a 2-day in-person workshop or four 3-hour live virtual sessions, followed by a 90-day habit-building follow-up.

- Delivered in person at your location or as live virtual sessions
- Designed with the ADDIE model and evaluated for behaviour change
- Offered by Bodhih since 2008 to 2,000+ organisations across 7 regions

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Last reviewed 15 Oct 2026 by [Siddharthan VGJ](https://bodhih.com/siddharthan-vgj/), Founder · Bodhih Training, Bengaluru

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## What is the premise for Bodhih’s Leadership capability development workshop?

Are Leaders – Born or Made? Is the most often asked question about Leadership?

While several leaders are born with certain Leadership capabilities, anybody can learn to enhance their Leadership skills. Through continuous observation and training to enhance Leadership Capabilities; you can boost the impact you have on your team, which often has a tangible outcome on performance.

Leaders have many characteristics or qualities that play a fundamental role in the development of an organization, however, above all, they have a conviction to stand tall against all odds, strong vision of the future and the ability to take the organization and its people towards a more robust future defined by their vision.

## What are the Leadership capability model elements?

All Leadership capability framework programs should prepare individuals with advanced decision-making skills and the ability to implement skills they need to transcend as multifaceted leaders.

An exhaustive [Leadership training](https://bodhih.com/leadership-skills-training-in-india/) development program must include various Leadership styles, Leadership competencies, ethics, core values, people management skills and a procedure for crucial thinking in complex Leadership circumstances using teaching methodologies gained from personal and new experiences.

## What is Leadership capability aimed at?

Building Leadership Capability training must be aimed at giving leaders new Leadership skills that will assist them in changing their actions and behaviours to go from being great individual contributors to a leader of people. There is an immediate need to create a habit loop or a routine to ensure these skills are applied at work.

At Bodhih, Leadership Capability Programs talk about understanding the concept (and details) of the Leadership Capability paradigm itself.

## What does Bodhih’s Leadership Capability method workshops cover?

Leadership Capability building explores the various facets like Communication, Vision and Conviction, Accountability, Empowering, Feedback and Feedforward.

## Starting off with facilitator led presentation, Bodhih’s Leadership Capability program

Asks participants to work through a self-perception instrument that tests their Leadership behaviour. Through group discussions, the learners get an overview of individual Leadership challenges and ways to imbibe competencies to beat those challenges. Learners through individual activity and insightful analysis (of various critical competencies) appreciate the concepts of Leadership foundation and the approaches to work on [assertiveness](https://bodhih.com/assertive-communication-training/) and building and demonstrating trust.

## Leadership capability model tackles building Leadership attributes.

The next session is focussed on understanding the importance of building Leadership Capability in business. The targets given to participants is to use communication as a tool to build the appropriate the gravitas leaders need to project their vision.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles. This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the next session at the Leadership Capability process training – planning and organizing.

## Bodhih’s workshop includes a Leadership capabilities list.

The session uses class exercises, videos and facilitator presentations to detail out the elements like goal setting, action planning, time management, conducting [effective meetings](https://bodhih.com/effective-meetings-training/), and Delegation. The overall goal of the module is to create an understanding of the criticality that individual contributors can get to contribute and achieve results. Using meetings as an actual tool for effective Leadership and learning all aspects from assigning work, to ensuring, planning, organizing, leading and controlling smooth delivery for results.

## At Bodhih, Art of Leadership Capability program is a popular session that is part of a larger Leadership skills training suite.

The session draws richly from research done on current Leadership Capability techniques and also cultural studies that focus on the Leadership impact on contemporary cultures.

## What is Leadership capability?

The heart of the Leadership Capability method lies in the insightful session that highlights handling aspects of people management, coaching and mentoring, [giving and receiving feedback](https://bodhih.com/giving-and-receiving-feedback/), conflict management, self-confidence and charisma enhancement. Bodhih’s facilitator provokes questions and brings observations from the real world to simulate thinking around the essential aspects of Leadership – learning how to get the best out of people.

## How would you gain from build Leadership capability workshop at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Leadership capability development program along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the Leadership capability model workshop takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

**The edge in Bodhih’s building Leadership capabilities sessions comes from** researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Leadership capabilities framework by embedding practical application of Leadership competencies and aspects of [Leadership assessment](https://bodhih.com/leadership-assessment/) and inculcating participants’ feedback.

## What is Bodhih’s promise on Leadership capability development workshops?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on build capabilities talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, how team members have embraced the power superior communication skills through active listening, demonstrating critical Leadership competencies of building trust through empathy, and leading through planning and organizing and running effective meetings.

## Sample training plan: 2-day hands-on design

This two-day design builds six leadership capabilities as habits, not ideas: communication, vision and conviction, accountability, empowering others, feedback and feed-forward. Participants start with a self-perception check, then practise each capability on their own work: a two-minute vision talk, an accountability agreement, a delegation, a meeting they actually chair, and a feedback and feed-forward exchange. Each capability ends with a habit loop they design for Monday. The program closes with a leadership meeting simulation and a 90-day habit plan.

75% hands-on practice · 13.5 contact hours · Cohort: 12–24 participants · In person · Live virtual

### Day 1: Direction and ownership

Participants can state a credible team vision, set accountability agreements and chair a decision-focused meeting.

1. 09:30–10:00 · Born or made? (Debate)
2. 10:00–11:00 · Six-capability self-check (Diagnostic)
3. 11:15–12:15 · Vision in two minutes (Micro-teach)
4. 12:15–13:00 · Habit loops for leaders (Concept burst)
5. 13:45–14:45 · The accountability agreement (Role-play)
6. 14:45–15:30 · Meeting surgery (Case clinic)
7. 15:45–16:45 · Chair the meeting (Simulation)
8. 16:45–17:30 · Day 1 habits (Reflection)

### Day 2: Empowering and growing people

Participants can delegate with the right authority, give feedback and feed-forward, handle friction and commit to a 90-day habit plan.

1. 09:30–10:00 · Tied hands (Energiser)
2. 10:00–11:00 · Empower one person (Real-play)
3. 11:15–11:45 · Feedback and feed-forward (Concept burst)
4. 11:45–13:00 · Feedback that builds (Skill drill)
5. 13:45–14:30 · Assertive, not aggressive (Fishbowl)
6. 14:30–15:30 · Leadership week simulation (Business game)
7. 15:45–16:30 · Habit design lab (Peer coaching)
8. 16:30–17:30 · My 90-day capability plan (Action planning)

Recommended: 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 4 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 90-day habit-building follow-up. A sample design: every Bodhih program is customised after a short needs analysis.

### How long is Building Leadership Capability training?

The recommended design is two days in person, from 09:30 to 17:30, or four live virtual sessions of three hours. A 90-day follow-up tracks the habits participants build. A one-day version and a three-month journey are also available.

### What activities are included in Building Leadership Capability training?

Participants debate whether leaders are born or made, deliver a two-minute team vision talk, agree an accountability contract for a real deliverable, chair a meeting simulation with difficult role cards, practise feedback and feed-forward in trios and lead a team through a five-day leadership business game.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is leadership capability building?

### Who is the Leadership capabilities Training program for?

Managers, team leads and senior leaders at every level. Bodhih tailors the examples, case studies and depth to your industry, culture and team level.

### How long is the Leadership capabilities Training program?

Bodhih recommends 2 days in person (09:30–17:30), or 4 × 3-hour live virtual sessions, plus a 90-day habit-building follow-up. The length can be shortened or extended after a needs analysis.

### Can Leadership capabilities Training be delivered online?

Yes. Leadership capabilities Training can run in person at your location, as live virtual sessions for distributed or hybrid teams, or as a blended journey that adds self-paced learning on Bodhih.org between sessions.

### How is the impact of Leadership capabilities Training measured?

Success measures for Leadership capabilities Training are agreed with you before design, as part of the ADDIE model. Bodhih can add pre- and post-program assessments on AssessAll and manager check-ins to track behaviour change.
