Developing critical leadership skills can make the difference between success and failure in the workplace. This leadership development workshop series leading to a certificate in leadership will teach new, recently promoted and experienced managers the skills needed to perform effectively and successfully as leaders.
Participant Benefits
- Expert Leadership Training and Coaching
- 利记sbo Leadership Certificate
- Small Class sizes - 20 student max
- 1.5 CEU Credits or 15 SCECH CEU Credits
Spring 2025
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- January 23
- January 30
- February 6
- February 13
- February 20
Curriculum
Self-Awareness, Reflection, Global Leadership, and Valuing Diversity
Session Outcomes:
- Introductions and overview
- Contrast leadership and management
- Identify the skills and competencies associated with effective leadership
- Understand how self-awareness and reflection develop leadership skills
- Global leadership and leading in today's global work environment
- Valuing diversity
Values, Ethics, Credibility, and Effective Communications
Session Outcomes:
- Recognize how values and cultural differences shape perceptions and judgments
- Honor the differences in others’ fundamental values and beliefs
- Create and sustain an ethical work climate
- Build credibility skills and trusting relationships
- Enhance communication and active listening skills
- Apply assertiveness skills
- Learn effective delegation skills
- Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
Leading Groups & Teams, Managing Conflict, and Motivation
Session Outcomes:
- Compare and contrast effective and ineffective teams
- Learn how to lead teams and groups for successful outcomes
- Understand conflict and strategies for managing conflict
- Demonstrate effective meeting management skills
- Understand the importance of motivation and ways to promote performance
- Apply motivation practices to improve employee productivity and satisfaction
- Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
Attitude, Stress & Change, and Emotional Intelligence
Session Outcomes:
- Assess individual attitudes, negativity patterns and self-defeating behaviors
- Understand how change triggers stress and negativity in work-related situations
- Identify the symptoms and sources of stress
- Learn effective stress management techniques
- Define emotional intelligence (EI) and the benefits of developing EI
- Assess current emotional intelligence skills
- Apply EI principles to better manage emotions and optimize performance
- Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
Learning from the Dark Side of Leadership, and Diagnosing & Addressing Performance Issues
Session Outcomes:
- Understand the differences between destructive leadership, managerial incompetence and management derailment
- Recognize dark-side personality traits and learn how to overcome them
- Learn how to diagnose and address employee performance issues
- Share outcomes of leadership development planning exercises and discuss key findings with class
- Conduct leadership workshop series wrap-up and complete course evaluation