Leadership Development Programs/Workshops (Samples):

Most programs are custom-designed and typically conducted in two, three, and four day formats although some special topics courses are presented in one-day or shorter time-frames. Powerful assessment tools, simulations, project team work, and interactive exercises stimulate practical learnings. Benchmarking and assistance with action plan improvement projects are recommended options.

The Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program

"Enhance your leadership skills through 4 interactive workshops featuring personal feedback, evaluation tools and hands-on simulations. A program that is GUARANTEED to improve your management and leadership skills."

“What's more important--visionary leadership traits or your ability to motivate and support your staff when facing challenges? I suppose it depends...on your perspective, timing and objectives at any particular moment. You might say they are two sides to the same coin. The leadership abilities you bring to any situation manifest themselves in the way you deal with your people and the task at hand. I would argue neither is more important, they're both key if you're going to achieve your career and personal goals. So what does this mean? If you're not already great at everything, you'll never be a great leader? Not at all. The most successful people I know aren't the ones who think they can do everything. They're the ones who learn from every experience, and seek out new challenges and new ideas.

That's why I'm suggesting you consider the Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program. It includes four seminars designed to help you reach your personal and corporate best. Each one is designed to help you enhance your existing skills as well as build new ones. All four workshops can be taken as valuable stand-alone seminars dealing with one topical area, or you can receive your full certificate by attending all four programs.

The Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program provides:

• Confidential assessments before and during selected programs
• Skill-building activities focused on applying proven theories to real situations
• Continuous feedback during the program as well as post-program follow up to support you in applying program learning back on the job
• Support in action plan development designed to improve performance
• Limited class sizes to ensure interaction with your instructors
• Opportunities to meet and network with professionals from other organizations

Evaluation/Assessment Instruments

The Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program uses assessment tools to give you insights into your leadership effectiveness and style, through evaluation of your interpersonal, attentional and communication styles and behaviors.
Some instruments ask for your own insights about your behaviors, skills, thinking styles, and attitudes. Others ask your colleagues for insights into your abilities. All work toward giving you an understanding of how best to apply concepts learned given your unique pattern of leadership traits and style.

The assessment tools used include:

• "Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ)”
• "The Organizational Description Questionnaire (ODQ)”
• "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" ("MBTI")
• "Hermann Brain Dominance (Thinking Style) Inventory" ("HBDI")
• The “Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B)” Survey
• The “Team Leadership Practices (TLP)” Survey
• The “Strategic Leadership Styles Instrument (SLSI)”

Empower yourself to build the skills that will help you focus your efforts on stellar achievement. Take the first step, through your choice of the Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program.

- Leadership Skills For Managers -The Full-Range Model shows you how to enhance your current leadership skills by moving beyond traditional leadership styles and current mind-sets to meet the special challenges of more competitive and changing times.You learn how to apply the powerful “Full-Range Leadership” model, receive feedback from the internationally acclaimed “MLQ” and MBTI inventories, and are challenged by the dynamic “Search For The Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine”. Interactive class activities, project team work, and individual development plans unlock your leadership potential.

- Leadership EQ - How to Develop and Use Emotional Intelligence for Success: This program provides guidelines, principles, and practical suggestions for effectively developing and using emotional intelligence as well as for helping participants to be better managing and preventing conflict. The program also includes assessments, opportunities to practice skills, and development of a personal action plan to apply program insights back on the job.

- Leading and Empowering High Performing Groups and Teams: is a hands-on workshop where you will learn the latest principles, techniques and skills proven to be the essential ingredients for building and empowering high-performing groups and teams. Assessments, simulations, and skill-building exercises show you how to develop and sustain a self-directed team that achieves and exceeds performance goals, even in conditions of high stress and change.

- Strategic Leadership: Planning and Change: focuses on specific steps on how to create a culture of quality and excellence, foster innovative change, use the full-spectrum thinking model, overcome barriers, and build on strengths for long-term results. Assessments include the MLQ, ODQ, and HBDI inventories and you participate in the “Chaos” simulation exercise. Learn how to apply the powerful “transformational leadership” model to enhance personal and organizational performance outcomes.

The Advanced Leadership Program
- High Performance Leadership: Beyond Performance Management (Pt. 1): Discover how today’s most effective leaders, from high-powered executives to Olympic athletes, maintain their competitive edge. Learn about your own attentional profile as revealed by the powerful “Attentional and Interpersonal Style Inventory (TAIS) and participate in “attention control training” to fine tune your own performance levels.
- The Leadership Audit: Assessing Your Leadership Style (Pt. 2): You receive a thorough review of your leadership profile through confidential feedback from your boss, peers and staff on 15 leadership skill areas and 99 leadership behaviors. Prioritize your strengths, areas to improve, and develop an action plan for improvement.

The Foundations of Management Certificate Program
- Leadership and Supervisory Skills: You build the essential foundation skills required to move into the position of manager. Topics include: making the transition to manager, leadership skills, motivation strategies, performance management, and delegation.
- Communication and Managerial Effectiveness Skills: You learn, then practice core managerial skills such as interpersonal communication, managing time and stress, managing conflict and change, and improving your presentation skills.

Special Topics Programs

FASTART: Supervisor – New Manager Bootcamp is an intensive learning opportunity for new managers or those with limited supervisory experience. Designed to provide a jumpstart for managers, this “boot-camp” program combines classroom learning, assessments, project team work, and development plans to build confidence and skills in supervising/leading others.

Assertiveness Skills For Managers: Enhance practical communication skills in order to be able convince and persuade others. Learn how to take charge without being pushy and gain others respect by knowing when and how to listen, speak up, and tactfully express your thoughts.

One-On-One Leadership: Coaching, Counseling, and Communication Skills: You learn when and how to help others improve performance by using a flexible leadership style and get them to solve their own problems. Master the eight-step coaching model, the art of counseling, and the keys to establishing win-win outcomes.

Leadership Development and Personal Growth: A Retreat (Advance): This course provides an exposure to the concepts of leadership development, personal growth, leading with soul, managing stress and self-management, working effectively with people, and personal and organizational change. In a retreat setting, the course helps individuals develop a renewed sense of self and learn how to foster the development of confidence, esteem, and leadership effectiveness

Leadership Principles: Ethics, Values, Culture and Diversity: This program entails a broad understanding of the ethical, cultural, and value-based environments in which organizations operate. It builds a strong foundation for understanding and respect for alternative ethical frameworks, legal and regulatory systems, cultural diversity, and the role of values in shaping leadership style and organizational behavior and performance.

A Systems Thinking Workshop: Systems thinking helps you see patterns and relationships, as well as possible interventions and likely results. With this knowledge, complex problems become more manageable. Learn the “Systems” approach to leadership and participate in a challenging simulation exercise. Learn the powerful analytic tools of "systems thinking" to understand the complex systemic nature of any business issue or problem.

Managing Negative Thinking and Behavior: How To Build Employee Morale: This practical, hands-on workshop focuses on providing participants a better understanding of the sources and dynamics of conflict and negative thinking/behavior. Also, proven strategies and skill-building exercises are provided for guidance on how to build morale and de-bugg yourself and your organization from negative thinking and behavior for long-term benefit and gain.

How to Work More Effectively With People: You learn the secrets of positive relationships, how to build self-esteem and self-confidence, how to tune into the needs of others, how to understand and manage frustration, defensiveness, anger, hostility and insensitivity in yourself and others.

Other topics:
Interpersonal Communication Skills
Leading and Managing Organizational Change
Decision Making/ Problem Solving
Creative/Innovative Leadership
Leadership Development/Personal Growth
Conflict Resolution/Negotiation Skills
Project Team Management
Managing Time/ Stress
Effective Meeting Management
How to Achieve Peak Performance: Maintaining Poise Under Pressure and Developing Your Mental Edge