Leadership Development Courses
Building Emerging Leaders’ Competencies
This course is designed for both emerging and experienced leaders who want to develop and refine their leadership skills and dispositions. The course covers all three levels of leadership: organizational, group, and individual. It is paramount for leaders to be aware of organizational leadership’s macro tenets of culture, learning organizations, and systems thinking. These big picture leadership principles will provide participants a strong foundation from which to better focus on improving their individual skills, dispositions, and attributes. Participants will be given before the course a DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance) behavioral self-assessment that will be covered in class. These core behaviors are related to 26 additional behavioral attributes, both naturally and in work settings, to give participants a deep look into their communication styles. Participants’ individual skills will then be honed as they develop their capacity to better lead individuals, groups, and organizations. This course is highly experiential with group and class discussions and includes role plays.
Leading Through Emotional Intelligence
This course is designed for everyone from line level employees to emerging through top level C-suite leaders. Research shows that 80-90 percent of both top performing leaders and employees have high levels of EI. Participants will be given before the course a short, 10-minute EI self-assessment as well as other resources that will be covered in class. This assessment will help participants gain an understanding of their own levels of EI. The course is highly experiential with group and class discussions, role plays, and an opportunity to self-reflect throughout. These experiences will give participants a deep dive into what EI is and how to improve it on the road to high performance.
Effective Communication
This course is designed for all employees, especially emerging and experienced leaders who want to be a more effective communicator. Research shows that not only what you say, but, more importantly, how you communicate (both verbally and in writing) has the most impact on relationships. This course will help participants explore how to communicate more effectively, both at work and personally, enhancing their relationships. As a result, employees and leaders will become more influential and impactful through their interactions involving individuals, groups, and organizations. This course is highly experiential with group and class discussions and includes role plays. These experiences will help participants better understand the importance of how they communicate and start their journey to becoming more effective communicators and leaders.
Job Interview Skills Course
(Set yourself apart from the competition)
This course is intended for anyone, from those who have no job interviewing skills to moderate and experienced job and role seekers who want to refine their interviewing skills. No one usually tells you why or how to say what you do during job interviews. While all industries and organizations have their unique cultures, way of doing things, and expectations during interviews, there are foundational interview strategies, techniques, and best practices. As a result, this course will provide you the reasons behind and strategies and techniques to use during interviews. In addition, this course will cover (based on participants’ needs) other exercises included in job interviews and what some organizations call assessment centers to evaluate for potential roles in an organization. These additional exercises include role plays or simulations, presentations, meetings, in-tray or in-basket exercises, group discussions, and mind-mapping to help prepare for any scenario.