An introduction to the foundational principles of leadership.This course incorporates the Golden Circle that contains three key elements of leadership: The What, The Why and The How. The course defines what a leader is, various leadership styles and building a leadership mindset. Participants will develop their character, competence and challenge their own belief systems, the belief systems of their organization, world, and fellow team mates.A focus on personal development through emotional intelligence helps prepare participants for coachable moments throughout the course.

Understanding that creating a corporate culture consists of weaving together a variety of ever-changing organizational components. A focus will be on: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs; Changing with Changing Times; Conflict Resolution/Management; Critical Thinking & Problem Solving; Decision Making; Effective Communication; and Feedback Essentials.

A resilient leader is one who can sustain optimal well-being and performance even under the most difficult of conditions. This includes balancing their personal, family, and organizational needs. A focus of this course is on having the courage to see and meet life exactly as it is and choosing to learn how to respond to each adversity with confidence, hope and renewed vigor. Ways to build resiliency and stress management are put into day to day practical application.

This course helps participants identify a team with the right mix of skills and personalities. Different individual talents that incorporate finance, human resources, management and leadership skills to determine the makeup of various organizations will be discussed. Students will learn to recognize a culture that promotes collaborative work, diagnose common problems that impede organizational progress, and learn corrective measures to mitigate those problems and improve overall performance.

Organizations increasingly recognize the need for professionals who possess the skills to function in the global economy and are ready to take on leadership and supervisory roles. Optimizing the leadership pipeline and closing the leadership gap depends on the organization’s ability to choose and prepare the best leaders for tomorrow. This building of character and competence of developing leaders comes with a partnership of the intracompany mentorship. We focus on the relationship building as well as the mind-set, skill-set, tool-set, and heart-set of future leaders to empower them to confront the leadership challenges of the 21st century. A focus is on developing leaders in: talent, engagement, loyalty, preparedness, diversity, learning and growth. Creating a Mentorship Plan and Personal Development Plan is held throughout the course and in constant review/change.

Managing responsibility includes: challenges in transitioning roles and responsibilities; directing, delegating, and managing a diverse team; and recognizing and managing toxic leadership, peers, and employees. Participants will produce an action-focused plan to be followed across a leader’s career path that will ensure that continuous, timely and targeted growth and development occurs. Participants will utilize identified values and principals to document specific plan steps.

This course focuses on the subject of influence and its application and effect on leadership.  Participants will take and apply the Influence Style Indicator (ISI) and interpret the results.   Recognizing the skills and characteristics of effective leaders requires motivating others, creating an inspiring vision, as well as influencing people to support and work towards goals. Developing courage through trust management is an integral part of this process.

Participants will take this complex topic and apply it squarely to their working world, day to day environment, activities, and leadership behaviors. Exposure to organizational ethics will be provided. Focus areas include: ethics policies, ethical decision making and current events.

This course identifies common traits evident in a crisis with a focus on looking at failure as a learning tool, preparedness, and taking appropriate risks. Various organizations’ crisis management plans will be assessed.

The mentoring partnership matters. Coaching matters. Understanding and strengthening mentoring-coaching skills facilitates the professional growth of self, team and the organization. Techniques utilizing building team performance is centered around interpersonal needs and behaviors. A variety of effective communication skill-sets are required and developed with courage and candor. Setting goals, realistic goals matters. As humans, we must hold ourselves and help others hold themselves accountable to realistic goals, prioritize tasks, and track milestones to improve performance and morale.

Organizations increasingly recognize the need for professionals who possess the skills to function in the global economy and are ready to take on leadership and supervisory roles. Optimizing the leadership pipeline and closing the leadership gap depends on the organization’s ability to choose and prepare the best leaders for tomorrow. This building of character and competence of developing leaders comes with a partnership of the intracompany mentorship. We focus on the relationship building as well as the mind-set, skill-set, tool-set, and heart-set of future leaders to empower them to confront the leadership challenges of the 21st century. A focus is on developing leaders in: talent, engagement, loyalty, preparedness, diversity, learning and growth. Creating a Mentorship Plan and Personal Development Plan is held throughout the course and in constant review/change.

The mentoring partnership matters. Coaching matters. Understanding and strengthening mentoring-coaching skills facilitates the professional growth of self, team and the organization. Techniques utilizing building team performance is centered around interpersonal needs and behaviors. A variety of effective communication skill-sets are required and developed with courage and candor. Setting goals, realistic goals matters. As humans, we must hold ourselves and help others hold themselves accountable to realistic goals, prioritize tasks, and track milestones to improve performance and morale.