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BCI Executive Leadership Skills Certificate

Executives define leadership vision, and they need to possess the knowledge and skills that are critical to achieving business results. An organization’s success increases when top leaders and employees:

  • Know where the organization is going,

  • See a compelling reason for change,

  • Express support for using skills learned during training,

  • Support and encourage their work groups’ efforts to form effective partnerships with internal and external customers.

 

This 32-hour program can increase strategic leadership capability and overall organizational performance:                                      (course descriptions below)

*Essentials of Leadership (Pre-requisite for all leadership classes)

Influential Leadership

Problem Analysis and Decision Making (Two days)

The Extraordinary Leader: Going from Good to Great

Developing Others

 

Next session begins in September.

Executive 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.

INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP (4 Hours)

Influential Leadership helps leaders get their good ideas heard, accepted, and enacted. Leaders learn influencing strategies and how to package ideas to gain the commitment of even the most skeptical coworkers and partners.

PROBLEM ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING (16 Hours)

This workshop provides tools that enable leaders to solve problems proactively and gain others' commitment to solutions and decisions. Leaders will make high-quality, effective decisions and learn to recognize how personal bias, tunnel vision, and marginal commitment influence decisions.

THE EXTRAORDINARY LEADER: GOING FROM GOOD TO GREAT    (4 Hours)

This workshop is designed to help leaders develop the specific competencies needed to produce extraordinary results in their organizations and uses practical applications of research detailed in the book, The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders, by Zenger and Folkman.

DEVELOPING OTHERS (4 Hours)

Provides leaders, coaches, and mentors with the necessary skills and a practical process to develop talent. It focuses on a leader’s critical role before, during, and after the development plan.

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