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Leadership Development


Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment

Your leadership style is characterized by the way you interact with your colleagues, supervisors, family and friends. This course assists you in acquiring tools and strategies that will strengthen your leadership skills and further define your style.

You will learn to:

  • Assess your personal leadership style quickly, accurately and privately
  • Determine which areas of your style need refinement
  • Assess candidly the influence your personality has on others
  • Lead through “empowerment” not power

You will benefit by:

  • Gaining respect and appreciation from those with whom you interact
  • Experiencing a sense of personal growth

Audience:
All staff members who want to strengthen their leadership style and skills

Schedule Selection(s)

   
Cost: $129
Location: HRD
Presenter: Jacqueline Doneghy
Date: Fri. 7/25/08
Time
: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC802
   


Date: Wed. 9/24/08
Time
: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: LDC850

   
  Date: Wed. 1/14/09
Time
: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: LDC
   
  Date: Fri. 7/24/09
Time
: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC902
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Advancing Your Personal Leadership Skills

New!Personal leadership skills allow an individual to be more effective in their relationships at any level of the organization. A sequel to Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment, this course will focus on learning how to make good relationships better and bad relationships good while enhancing your personal leadership skills.

You will learn to:

  • Recognize your personal style
  • Access those aspects of your style that help increase self-confidence and self-esteem
  • Apply the unique characteristics of your style to further develop your leadership ability
  • Utilize your personal leadership traits to balance the personal and professional areas of your life

You will benefit by:

  • Feeling more empowered as you confront and resolve problematic relationships
  • Managing your stress in a more positive manner
  • Choosing more effective responses to people and situations

Audience:
Anyone who attended Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment, Enneagram: 9 Ways of Working Smarter, or has a working knowledge of the Enneagram or DiSC™ instruments and would like to delve more deeply into their ability to lead others at all levels

Program Note:
The book: People Styles at Work: Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better by Robert Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton is included in the course fee. To enhance course learning, you may also want to read the book The Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide by David N. Daniels and Virginia A. Price.

Schedule Selection(s)

   

Cost: $139
Location: HRD
Presenter: Jacqueline Doneghy

Date: Wed. 3/11/09
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC900

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Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority

No matter what your organizational level, everyone is a leader. This class will help you identify your innate leadership skills and show you how you can use them to be more successful and effective in your daily work life.

You will learn to:

  • Build confidence in your leadership competencies
  • Recognize how your personality and leadership styles are similar to or different from styles used by others
  • Influence decisions made by others when you are not “officially” in charge
  • Use these improved leadership strategies and techniques in your various roles
  • Build upon skills and knowledge needed to be an effective leader

You will benefit by:

  • Developing core leadership skills that transcend your job position or role
  • Creating a comprehensive plan of action for furthering your development as a leader

Audience:
All staff members interested in developing their leadership abilities

Program Note:
This course will utilize brief online exercises before and/or after the session to augment classroom learning

Schedule Selection(s) - 3 Day Course

   

Cost: $229
Location: HRD
Presenter: Barbara Mulay

Dates: Wed. 10/1, 10/8 & 10/15/08 (3-day course)
Time
: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC852

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Influencing Management and Peers

To be successful in the workplace, you must be able to communicate effectively with your supervisors, and to do that you must understand their needs. Keen awareness of how your skills and roles meet the needs of others in your organization helps you assess your capacity to influence others.

You will learn to:

  • Identify the sources of your influence
  • Examine strategies to enhance your power
  • Recognize how others influence you
  • “Sell” issues to your boss and improve your chances of having others hear you

You will benefit by:

  • Evaluating the powerful dynamics in your workplace
  • Using your influence to accomplish your goals
  • Communicating your ideas to your boss and others
  • Discovering the resources you already have and how to develop them

Audience:
All staff members who want to communicate well with management and their peers, and build interpersonal strength

Schedule Selection(s)

   

Cost: $139
Location: HRD
Presenter: Elizabeth Wierba

Date: Wed. 5/20/09
Time
: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC904

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Elements of Leadership

Effective leaders foster commitment, creativity and productive attitudes in others. This class will identify your unique strengths and skills and show you how to use them to bring out the best in your staff and others you lead.

You will learn to:

  • Distinguish how leadership and management skills coexist
  • Examine your own attributes in light of the characteristics of a good leader
  • Gather and use feedback to gain insight on how you are perceived by others
  • Explore with experienced leaders the actions that emonstrate leadership

You will benefit by:

  • Establishing long-term goals toward further leadership development
  • Identifying ways to lead for results
  • Participating in a personal style inventory
  • Receiving confidential feedback from your colleagues
  • Discussing key issues with a panel of expert leaders from across the University

Audience:
All managers, supervisors, and project team leaders who want to enhance their leadership skills

Program Note:
A unique feature of this course is having the opportunity to receive feedback from others (360° feedback). This is discussed in a one-on-one, 30- minute meeting with the class facilitator. Each participant has their own personal time that is scheduled during the middle session.

Schedule Selection(s) - 3 Day Course

   

Cost: $249
Location: HRD
Presenters: Joan Curran and Barbara Mulay

Dates: Tue. 3/3, 3/31 & 4/7/09 (3-day course)
Time
: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC903

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Leading Through Change and Transition (custom only)

Managing organizational change has been compared to riding “white water rapids” — it can be challenging, unpredictable, and even intimidating. This course helps you diagnose where and how your organization is changing and helps you create a plan that addresses your organization’s most urgent needs. The course will begin with brief, online reading assignments, assessment tools and access to the extensive change management course booklet.

You will learn to:

  • Recognize the importance of your individual role. in managing change and transition
  • Apply strategies and tools to help you cope with and facilitate change
  • Identify the elements of a transition plan for your unit or department

You will benefit by:

  • Acquiring skills and knowledge for managing the loss that accompanies change
  • Increasing your ability to deal with the frustration, fear, anxiety and anger that naturally accompany change
  • Developing strategies to help make a new start
  • Trying out various models for analyzing and planning for change

Audience:
All managers, supervisors, directors, decision-makers, and project team leaders who want to better manage resistance to change and lead others through transition

Schedule Selection(s)

   

Cost: $139*
(see custom training rate policy)
Location: Varies
Presenters: Barb Mulay &
Deborah Nystrom

Dates & Times: This course is available as a custom training event for your department.
Contact HRD for more details.

 

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Strategic Solutions: The Art of Influencing Others to Get Things Done (formerly Interest-Based Negotiations: Influencing Strategic Solutions)

BlendUsing a systems-based (“big picture”) approach you will enhance the communication and strategic planning skills that are critical for facilitating large scale decisions across multiple departments and involving multiple administrators. This course will utilize both small group and on line learning activities that enable you to learn and quickly apply new skills in creating desirable outcomes for your department.

You will learn to:

  • Develop an awareness of the necessary strategic planning steps involved in preparing for a successful decision-making process
  • Choose better options to propose throughout various meetings and one-on-one discussions
  • Recognize multiple strategies for effective problem-solving between multiple individuals and various departments
  • Apply the Interest-Based Negotiation process to a current work situation

You will benefit by:

  • Having a greater understanding of the Interest-Based Negotiation process
  • Recognizing the value of a systems approach to identifying multiple solutions throughout a decision-making process
  • Achieving optimal outcomes in complicated situations with limited resources
  • Participating in both small group and on line learning activities
  • Receiving individual online feedback from a counselor with expertise in workplace negotiations

Audience:
School, college and business unit administrators with responsibility and authority for influencing decisions within their programs and/or departments and across campus

Program Note:
This course utilizes pre-class reading assignments and includes the best selling book: Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton

Program Recommendation:
Attendance at the Influencing Management and Peers program may be helpful for participants to gain an understanding of negotiation skills at the individual level

Schedule Selection(s) - 2 Day Course

   

Cost: $189
Location: HRD
Presenter: Sally Schmall

Dates: Tue. 2/10 & 2/17/09 (2-day course)
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Code: LDC905

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