Leadership Development
- Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment
- Advancing Your Personal Leadership Skills
- Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority
- Leveraging Strengths for Organizational Success
- Influencing Management and Peers
- Elements of Leadership
- Leading Through Change and Transition (custom only)
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
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| Cost: $129 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Jacqueline Doneghy Competencies: BI CO DO |
Dates & Times: Fri. 7/24/09, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: LDC902 |
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| Dates & Times: Wed. 1/13/10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Code: LDC001 |
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| Dates & Times: Fri. 7/23/10, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: LDC002 |
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Advancing Your Personal Leadership Skills
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 bad relationships good and good relationships better 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.
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Cost: $139 |
Dates & Times: Fri. 3/5/10, |
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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
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Cost: $229 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 9/17, 9/24 & 10/1/09 |
| Dates & Times: Wed. 4/21, 4/28 & 5/5/10 (3 day course), 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Code: LDC004 |
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Leveraging Strengths for Organizational Success
Initiate a strengths-based leadership approach and discover how to motivate staff to reach their peak performance.
You will learn to:
- Discuss the philosophy and benefits of using a strengths-based approach versus a traditional skill gap approach to managing performance
- Identify and describe what your 5 key strengths are as a leader and how it impacts your team
- Describe the four domains of “leadership strength” and determine where your strengths contribute to it
- Identify ways that best respond to the four key needs (hope, trust, compassion, stability) of your staff or team members
- Develop a concrete plan to examine and leverage the strengths of your team for greater organizational productivity
You will benefit by:
- Discovering ways your strengths compliment those of the staff you supervise or team members you lead
- Receiving tools and templates assessing and strategizing work assignments
- Maximizing the collective talent of your team for optimum performance
Audience:
All managers, supervisors and project team leaders responsible for managing work performance in their unit
Note:
As a pre-requisite of the class, you will be asked to complete the online instrument, StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Companion courses:
Foundations of Supervision I and II, Take Charge of Your Career: Discover Your Strengths
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Cost: $139 |
Dates & Times: Tue. 3/9/10, |
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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
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Cost: $139 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 5/13/10, |
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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 demonstrate 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.
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Cost: $249 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 2/25, 3/25 & 4/1/10, |
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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
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Cost: See custom training rate policy |
Dates & Times: This course is available as a custom training event for your department. |