Leadership Development
- Developing Personal Leadership: Mastering the Art of Empowerment
- Advanced Personal Leadership
- Peer Leadership: Getting Results Without Authority
- Spark the Leader Within: How to be Better than Average
- Moving Mountains: How to Become an Agent of Change
- Capitalizing on Your True Leadership Talents: A New Model
- Leading Through Change and Transition (custom only)
- Delegating: Leading vs. Managing vs. Doing
- High Performance Leadership: Leading with Impact in all Situations
- Delegating for Results: Even When You're Not in Charge
- You, Inc.: Building Your Personal Leadership Brand
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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: $149 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Jacqueline Doneghy Competencies: BI CO DO
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Dates & Times: Wed. 9/19/12, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1308 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 1/9/13, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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| Dates & Times: Fri. 7/12/13, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1310 |
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Advanced Personal Leadership
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. 2/15/13, 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. 9/13, 9/20 &10/4/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
| Dates & Times: (3 day course), Thu. 3/14, 3/21 & 3/28/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1304 |
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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. 2/14/13, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Moving Mountains: How to Become an Agent of Change
Some say that you cannot change others. While that may be true, there are many skills that can be used to foster change in other people. In this session you will learn how to understand change and build skills to become an agent of change.
You will learn to:
- Apply strategies to identify and address the four types of change resistance
- Identify exactly where the change process is stuck so you can push it forward
- Apply the key ingredients for influencing change to make the process go smoother
- Use a strengths-based model to help assist the change process within you
You will benefit by:
- Knowing why individuals do or do not resist change in your organization
- Identifying when and how to use your power to insist on change
- Understanding what you need to change before you ask it of others
Audience:
Managers and leaders looking to build positive, energized, and productive teams
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Thu. 10/18/12, 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: Wed. 1/16/13, 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: (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: $269 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 10/3/12, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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High Performance Leadership: Leading with Impact in all Situations
Doing what comes naturally does not always work. Depending on the situation, different aspects of leadership are needed. In this session, learn to adapt your leadership style to accommodate the situation at hand.
You will learn to:
- Identify and describe your natural leadership preferences
- Apply four specific leadership approaches that best meet the contextual needs of the situation
- Assess situations with better accuracy and select the best actions to take
You will benefit by:
- Developing a strong understanding of your own leadership preferences
- Improving your communication and becoming more responsive to the needs of your staff
- Building trust with your staff
- Using a hands-on simulation to immediately put into practice what you learn
Audience:
Managers who would like to expand the effectiveness of their leadership ability
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| Cost: $159 Location: HRD Presenter(s): Stu Tubbs Competencies: AM CO DO LA |
Dates & Times: Thu. 10/25/12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: LDC1311 |
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Delegating for Results: Even When You're Not in Charge
You don’t need to be a manager to delegate tasks to others. This course will give you an opportunity to examine your delegation and leadership style and will provide tools, techniques and strategies to help achieve results by successfully delegating work.
You will learn to:
- Identify the process, skills and attributes required for effective delegation
- Analyze your delegation style and determine what and how to delegate work to others
- Identify methods for empowering others to appropriately respond to tasks that have been delegated to them
- Determine methods for delegating work to other team members and co-workers who may not directly report to you
You will benefit by:
- Increasing personal productivity by maximizing available resources
- Enhancing skills and knowledge needed for effectively delegating work to others
- Increasing morale and motivation
Audience:
Anyone who needs to better delegate tasks
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Cost: $149 |
Dates & Times: Wed. 3/27/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
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You, Inc.: Building Your Personal Leadership Brand
Your identity or brand helps communicate your value and what you stand for as a leader. Knowing this helps you make smart decisions about the work you want to engage in, identify opportunities where you need to stretch and grow, and let others know what you can contribute. In this course, based on the latest concepts by experts, you'll actively work to translate your core strengths and talents into a tangible personal brand.
You will learn to:
- Discuss the strategic and practical use of developing a personal leadership brand
- Use the results from your peer feedback and StrengthsFinder assessmens to identify talents and strengths
- Translate your feedback and assessment results into a compelling personal brand
- Use your personal brand to evaluate if you are on track and in alignment with professional and personal goals and results you want to achieve
- Integrate your leadership brand into your resume, social networking sites and other communications to promote your unique talents and abilities
You will benefit by:
- Becoming more intentional and strategic in developing your leadership identity and capability
- Receiving feedback from others that builds on or validates your unique talents and contributions to establish your leadership identity
- Leveraging and incorporating the self-knowledge gained from other 360° assessments or personality tools such as the MBTI®, True Colors
- Learning a simple 5-step process that can easily be repeated to evolve your leadership brand over time
Audience:
Anyone who would like to increase self-awareness of their unique talents and use the information make more informed career decisions and lead others more effectively
Program Note: As required class preparation, participants will gather peer feedback and complete the StrengthsFinder® 2.0 assessment to actively work with during the session. Participants will also be required to complete and share their personal leadership brand.
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Cost: $239 |
Dates & Times: CANCELLED: Thu. 4/25/13, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. & Thu. 5/16/13 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
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