Just like sailing a boat, becoming an effective leader involves acquiring skill. Understanding leadership components, learning how to combine those components in just the right way, and practicing what you learn will lead to success.
Objective
The goal of the Principles of Leadership Excellence series is to provide participants with opportunities to learn the skills, behaviors, and knowledge needed for effective, successful leadership.
Inside-Out Leadership Model
Knowing that the most effective leaders have a clear understanding of themselves, our leadership model takes an inside-out approach. First, you’ll reflect and learn about yourself. You’ll learn how to apply methods to your own work. Then, you’ll use your knowledge to connect with others and apply leadership principles within the context of your organization and the surrounding community environment.
In this certificate series, you’ll build not six, not ten, but 18 leadership competencies. You’ll learn how to communicate well with your crew and how to respond when the wind is against you. You’ll know how to change course to head for a brighter shore and ensure that every adjustment you make to the sails continues to take you to your goal.
Learning
This series is not yawn-filled lecture and tedious note-taking. It’s an exciting ride, with interactive learning that teaches you how to be a better leader through self-assessment, skill practice, group discussion, and application to your day-to-day work. You can stay connected to everyone in the series between sessions through the life-line of an on-line community. Instructors with real-world leadership experience in a variety of industries are at the helm, making the topics come alive and helping you catch steady wind in your leadership sails.
MRA encourages you to take the series in sequence because skill sets in each session build upon what is learned in the previous session.
Who Should Attend
Who will be around the table with you? There will be newly appointed supervisors, managers, or other professionals from manufacturing, service, healthcare, sales, distribution, office, or non-profits. Some will be experienced supervisors who have not had formal management training. Others may not yet hold a leadership or management role but have management potential.
Module Overviews
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 1: Trust And Influence: New-School Leadership
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 2: Communicating For Results: Gold Medal Performance
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 3: Productivity Through Coaching And Motivation: Striking A Balance
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 4: Training, Delegating, And Managing Performance: Heads Up!!!
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 5: Building Collaboration And Managing Conflict: Push And Pull
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 6: Leading Change: Ahead Of The Pack
Principles of Leadership Excellence Module 7: Aligning Goals And Strategies: Looking To The Future