This 32 hour program is designed for seasoned leaders preparing for upper middle to top leadership roles.

 Advanced Leadership Skills Academy

This is an intensive program designed to prepare the seasoned leader for additional management responsibilities. This course focuses on interpersonal skills necessary to track performance and communicate corporate strategies within a framework that encourages confidence, commitment and trust.      

Advanced leadership classes include:

• 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.

BEHAVIORAL STYLES AND THEIR IMPACT IN THE WORKPLACE (DiSC) (4 Hours)

As organizations strive to implement quality initiatives and self-directed work teams, it becomes increasingly important to improve interpersonal communication. 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. This program is designed to increase participants' understanding of the four primary behavioral styles and their effect on interpersonal interactions and relationships.

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.

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.

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.

Class Dates-Classes meet from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Lansing Community College-West Campus in classroom WCB S151

Tuesday, March 9                                                                                                                                                                                                          Tuesday, March 16                                                                                                                                                                                                        Tuesday, March 23                                                                                                                                                                                                       Tuesday, March 30                                                                                                                                                                                                       Tuesday, April 6                                                                                                                                                                                                           Tuesday, April 13                                                                                                                                                                                                             Tuesday, April 20                                                                                                                                                                                                     Tuesday, April 27

 This class is full contact Julianne to get on the wait list.  As the date draws nearer, it is likely that seats may open up due to schedule conflicts.