Leadership Training: Tools and Models for Success. In this business leadership skills course, you will learn how to inspire employees with a common vision and purpose and guide them in converting the vision into reality.

 

Leadership: The People Challenge

The goals of leadership are to align and engage the energies and actions of the people with the customers’ needs and to grow the people and the organization. To do this, leaders help create a common purpose and vision worthy of commitment; and then help people convert their vision into a reality that adds value to the customers.

Achieving alignment requires different actions and roles on the part of the leader. This workshop provides the tools and models to help you as a leader accurately assess the workers, the situation, and yourself. You will receive guidance to take appropriate actions for the challenges you face.

Key Benefits

	Enhance trust and credibility as a leader
	Utilize the skills, talents, and energies of each individual on your team and align them with customers’ needs and values
	Provide positive direction for your team

Specifically, you learn to:

	Assess your leadership style and skills
	Manage the culture—the beliefs and values of the organization to promote growth
	Create a vision for yourself as a leader and instill your vision/direction into your team

Key Topics Leadership: A Dynamic Developmental Relationship
	Leadership as a learning process
	Trust, the foundation of leadership
	The leadership model
	Leading and managing

Effective Leadership
	Assessing your organization’s mission, core competencies, and vision
	Identifying how your organizational culture builds trust
	Determining your customers’ needs and values
	Identifying unmet and unknown needs to grow the organization

Aligning and Engaging Competence and Commitment to Meet Customer Needs
	Identifying aligned and misaligned symptoms of competence and commitment
	Determining underlying needs and appropriate actions for reinforcing alignment and creating growth
	Using tools to better align, engage, and grow
	Identifying leadership actions to assess and align competence and commitment

Assessing Your Leadership Style and Challenges
	Looking at how your strengths in excess become your weaknesses
	Exploring how your ‘Learning Style’ preferences impact leadership
	Identifying your ‘Influence Style’ and how it fits the organization
	Assessing and defining options for your leadership challenges

Instructor: Ray Thorn
Fee: 2008 - $1795
Credits: 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
               14 Professional Development Units (PDUs)
CPE Credit Information
Field of Study: Communications, Personal Development
Program Level: Overview.
No prerequisites or advance preparation is required.
Instructional Method: Group-Live offering
Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits: 16
Dates: June 11-12, September 23-24, November 5-6, 2008
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm 1st Day; 8:00am - 4:00pm 2nd Day
Program Coordinator: Judy Donohue, 626.395.4045

Leadership: The People Challenge - pdf brochure

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