Leadership Development
- Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment
- Advancing Your Personal Leadership Skills
- Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority
- Striving for Leadership Self-Mastery: In Continuous Pursuit of Your Personal Best
- Spark the Leader Within: How to be Better than Average
- Influencing Management and Peers
- Capitalizing on Your True Leadership Talents: A New Model
- Leading Through Change and Transition (custom only)
- Delegating: Leading vs. Managing vs. Doing
- Change can be Good: Why Change Initiatives Fail and What You can do About It
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. Come to this session to acquire 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
- Recognize ways to 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:
Anyone who wants to strengthen their leadership style and skills
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| Cost: $139 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Jacqueline Doneghy Competencies: BI CO DO
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Dates & Times: Wed. 9/21/11, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1205 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 1/11/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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| Dates & Times: Fr. 6/8/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1207 |
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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:
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: $149 |
Dates & Times: Fri 2/17/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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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: $239 |
Dates & Times: (3 day course), Thu. 9/15, 9/22 & 9/29/11, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
| Dates & Times: (3 day course), Tue. 3/20, 3/27 & 4/3/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1210 |
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| Dates & Times: CANCELLED: (3 day course), Tue. 7/10, Thu. 7/12 & Tue. 7/17/12, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Code: LDC1211 |
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Striving for Leadership Self-Mastery: In Continuous Pursuit of Your Personal Best
To lead others we must first effectively lead ourselves. Come to this course to learn how to develop the practice of continuous improvement, through which you can tap into your talents and optimize your opportunities.
You will learn to:
- Review areas for personal improvement in the areas of your life that matter most to you
- Use tools and techniques to get you from where you are to where you want to be
- Apply the key attributes of continuous improvement strategies to increase your leadership abilities
- Prioritize your personal development activities to maximize your improvement in the areas that matter most to you
- Use simple strategies to help you turn your actions into productive habits
You will benefit by:
- Taking steps to evolve into the best version of yourself
- Increasing your ability to give and receive feedback for improvement
- Maximizing what you can accomplish every day
Audience:
Anyone who has taken previous personal leadership development programs with a desire to check their progress and make adjustments to their goals
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: CANCELLED: Wed. 10/26/11, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Spark the Leader Within: How to be Better than Average
There is no such thing as a natural-born leader. We all have the potential to be a leader. Leadership is about taking responsibility for your actions, your inactions and most importantly, your faults.
You will learn to:
- Identify opportunities for leadership inside and outside of your profession
- Discover your inner leadership strengths
- Embrace the gift of a leadership experience to further stretch your abilities
- Recognize new leadership challenges and determine the best ways to exceed at meeting them
- Apply the “lessons of leadership” to your work and personal life
You will benefit by:
- Discovering opportunities for leadership that transcend your current position
- Developing the confidence to accept new leadership challenges
- Understanding how you can take your actions and turn them into leadership opportunities
- Using the “lessons of leadership” to realize the power of the leader within you
Audience:
Anyone who does not currently hold a formal leadership role, but desires to move into one
Program Note:
Participants will receive a copy of Todd’s new book Better than Average: Excelling in a Mediocre World.
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 2/9/12, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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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 various sources of your influence
- Examine when to use strategies that will enhance your power
- Recognize how others influence you
- Apply the best ways to “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 more successfully 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: $149 |
Dates & Times: Tue. 11/29/11, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Capitalizing on Your True Leadership Talents: A New Model
Effective leaders foster commitment, creativity and productive attitudes in others. In this session, you will learn how to initiate a strengths-based leadership approach and discover how to motivate others to reach their peak performance.
You will learn to:
- Discuss the philosophy and benefits of using a strengths-based approach to enhance performance capabilities in others
- Identify and describe your five key strengths as a leader and how they impact your team
- Examine your own attributes in light of the characteristics of successful leaders
- Determine your personal fit within the four domains of “leadership strength”
- Identify ways to respond to hope, trust, compassion, and stability needs of others
- Develop a plan to leverage the strengths of your team for greater organizational productivity
You will benefit by:
- Achieving high impact results from those you lead
- Gaining new personal insights in your leadership style via the StrengthsFinder® Profile
- Discovering new ways your strengths compliment those of others you work with
- Maximizing the collective talent of your team for optimum performance
Audience:
All managers, supervisors, and team leaders who want to enhance their leadership skills and organizational productivity
Note: As a pre-requisite of the class, you will be asked to complete the online instrument, StrengthsFinder® 2.0.
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Cost: $159 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 5/3/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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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 create a plan that addresses your organization’s most urgent needs.
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: $149 (see custom training rate policy) |
Dates & Times: This course is available as a custom training event for your department. Contact HRD for more details. |
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Delegating: Leading vs. Managing vs. Doing
As an organization grows, effective managers and leaders need to increasingly rely on the competencies and capabilities of others to complete work. You will leave this course with the skills to become a successful delegator.
You will learn to:
- Identify the shift in responsibilities needed for developing leadership and managerial skills
- Apply the three phases of transition to move from expert to successful manager and leader
- Leverage team resources through the delegation process
- Determine the important communication skills needed for delegation
- Use engagement strategies in follow-up and feedback to increase the success of delegation
You will benefit by:
- Knowing how to identify which tasks to delegate
- Transitioning from doing to getting work done through others
- Improving your organization’s overall productivity
Audience:
Managers or future managers who would like to better delegate tasks to others
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Cost: $259 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 10/12/11, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Change can be Good: Why Change Initiatives Fail and What You can do About It
Words like tension, resistance and uncertainty are often used whenever people talk about organizational change. Come and gain valuable insight to help you explore the business and personal implications of change and provide solutions to overcome common obstacles often standing in the way of managing change events successfully.
You will learn to:
- Apply the five required elements to successfully manage a change initiative
- Determine the reasons why people really resist change and how you can better assist them to accept change
- Use a process to guide your team through the change process more effectively
- Identify ways to effectively manage an individual’s tension levels related to power, stress and apathy associated with any change initiative
- Use tools and techniques essential to managing major change events including planning, executing and communicating
You will benefit by:
- Understanding the implications of a changing world on higher education
- Gaining better insight into the nature of change and how it impacts individuals, departments and entire organizations
- Knowing how the failure to change and adapt can result in becoming extinct
- Being able to better plan, identify and involve stakeholders, assess risk, communicate and encourage buy-in
- Minimizing confusion, anxiety and frustration often associated with change events
Audience:
Anyone in a leadership position responsible for making tough choices, future decisions and implementing changes while meeting the goals and objectives of the university
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| Cost: $159 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Mark Czekaj Competencies: BI CO LA |
Dates & Times: CANCELLED: Tue. 3/6/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1203 |
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