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The 2-day worshops offered by the Leadership Academy can be tailored to your group's unique needs. Contact us for details.

The Leadership Challenge
(Foundations of Leadership)

Objectives:

  • Introduce the fundamental principles of effective leadership and learn about the factors of influence
  • Understand how individual leadership abilities are developed through skills, knowledge and motivation
  • Assess individual strengths and needed improvements with the Leadership Practices InventoryTM(LPI)
  • Design a personalized leadership growth plan
  • Experience interactive real-world simulations that challenge and apply leadership principles
  • Learn techniques that can be immediately applied to produce positive results within areas of influence

Organizational Leadership

Objectives:

  • Discover the processes and structures that encourage (or impede) effective performance
  • Learn how to overcome organizational obstacles to practicing leadership and achieving performance
  • Through interactive role-play, experience effective leading techniques
  • Contemporary case studies reveal the relationships between organizational development and change management
  • Engage in simulations to experience effective teaming and conflict resolution

Strategic Leadership

Objectives:

  • Learn how to integrate strategic thinking and implementation into your role as leader
  • Designing a strategic plan to lead your managed area into maximized performance
  • Learn how to anchor individual and organizational actions to strategic objectives
  • Prioritizing and organizing for effective time management
  • Learn the proven methods of critical thinking and innovation
  • Understand the proven process steps for developing a strategy for sustainable performance

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The Leader's Decision Path

Objectives:

  • Assess personal decision making and facilitation skills
  • Understand the different levels of decision making and how to know when it is appropriate to use each level
  • Learn a proven eight step model of effective decision making
  • Plan how to best apply decision making tools to various stages of the process
  • Learn how to apply effective decision making at the individual, small group and organizational levels

Leading Through Communications

Objectives:

  • Improve personal communication effectiveness
  • Understand the interaction of communication, influence and performance
  • Improve presentation and communications skills through videotaped lab with professional evaluation
  • Learn to confirm and validate communicated messages
  • Acquire effective techniques to dramatically improve communications efficiency

Executive Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching

Objectives:

  • Develop advanced personal leadership competencies required for positions of increased responsibility
  • Learn how to achieve continuous improvement by leveraging human capital
  • Learn how to coach/mentor others' leadership growth and how to implement knowledge transfer
  • Discover how to facilitate knowledge transfer and implement leadership succession planning
  • Reassess personal leadership competencies with Leadership Practices InventoryTM(LPI) to measure growth and plan for continuous improvement

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