BCI Advanced Leadership Skills Certificate
Advanced Leadership Skills is a 32-hour program designed for seasoned leaders preparing for upper middle to top leadership roles. Leaders who manage others have unique responsibilities for the deployment of strategy. They must communicate the case for change in a way that builds excitement and inspires commitment. To keep performance on track, leaders must approach evaluation and improvement opportunities in a manner that sustains morale, commitment, and trust.
Next session begins in January, 2010.
These advanced leadership classes build leaders’ skills in more challenging situations: (course descriptions below)
* Essentials of Leadership (Pre-requisite for all leadership classes)
Behavioral Styles and Their Impact in the Workplace (DiSC)
Coaching for Improvement
Reviewing Performance Progress
Motivating Others
Building Winning Partnerships
Delegating for Results
Building an Environment of Trust
Advanced Leadership Course Descriptions:
ESSENTIALS OF LEADERSHIP (4 hours)
This is the foundation for each of our leadership certificates. This course teaches leaders how to get results through people. Tools necessary for a successful "leadership journey" will be presented. Participants acquire a set of proven interaction skills, discover seven Leadership Imperatives key to meeting today's challenges, and realize their role as a catalyst leader who inspires others to act.
COACHING FOR IMPROVEMENT (4 Hours)
Builds the skills leaders need to help people with performance or work habit problems. Equips leaders to help people develop improvement plans, conduct effective improvement discussions, and handle the challenges they may encounter in improvement discussions.
REVIEWING PERFORMANCE PROGRESS (4 Hours)
Equips leaders to track progress, provide specific balanced feedback, and conduct performance discussions. Emphasizes the leader’s role of offering ongoing support, guidance, and resources while encouraging others to assume responsibility for achieving their plan. Focuses on revisiting objectives and tracking methods if priorities change.
BUILDING WINNING PARTNERSHIPS (4 Hours)
Helps leaders identify their role in establishing alliances among work groups, management, customers and suppliers. They learn how to establish effective partnerships to meet customer needs by developing strategies for gaining people's commitment to working together.
DELEGATING FOR RESULTS (4 hours)
Leaders learn skills for successfully matching people, responsibility, and authority to maximize involvement, productivity, motivation, and growth for individuals, groups, and the organization.
BUILDING AN ENVIRONMENT OF TRUST (4 Hours)
Trust is a key ingredient of employee engagement and loyalty, yet it's easy for leaders to inadvertently fall into trust traps. This course builds awareness of these traps and strategies, helping leaders create an environment in which people take risks, identify and solve problems, and work together.
MOTIVATING OTHERS (4 Hours)
Effective and consistent use of Key Principles and Interaction Guidelines is the foundation for motivating people. This course builds on the core leadership skills and helps leaders (with or without direct reports) understand motivation, have discussions with direct reports about their motivations, motivate a group, and avoid de-motivating people.
BEHAVIORAL STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT IN THE WORKPLACE (DiSC) (4 Hours)
As more and more organizations strive to implement quality initiatives and self-directed work teams, it becomes increasingly important to improve interpersonal communication among employees. One of the critical building blocks to improved interaction is an understanding of the different behavioral styles and how they affect the way people communicate. The purpose of this program is to increase participants’ awareness and understanding of the four primary behavioral styles and their effect on interpersonal interactions and relationships.
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