Leadership Development
Wherever you are in your career, MRA can help you grow to the next level.
Leadership Training
MRA recognizes that effective leadership impacts your organization’s growth and works as your partner in delivering knowledge and skill development through our premier programs. Our classes provide practical, real-life material that is relevant to what your leaders experience every day. The classes are delivered by instructors who relate to their students through the stories they share, the activities they facilitate, and the relationships they build.
MRA offers several programs to meet development needs ranging from the newly-appointed leader to the more experienced leader who wants to enhance or refresh their current skills.
Learning tracks provide a suggested list of courses for various experience levels and topic areas. They are not certifications. For specific recommendations based on your training needs, please contact Registrations at 262.696.3319.
Leadership Learning Tracks
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Emerging Leader
A high-performing employee who has or shows leadership potential.
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Lead
Employees who provide oversight and direction to others but do not have responsibility for hiring, termination, or performance management.
- Frontline Leadership Certificate Series
- Mastering Challenging Conversations to Resolve Conflict
- Diversity & Inclusion Conversations at Work: Step Out or Lean In? (Webinar)
- Increasing Your Influence
- Time Management: From Overwhelmed to Empowered
- Harassment Prevention: Creating a Respectful Workplace (eLearning)
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Supervisor or Manager
Employees who hold a leadership or management position and have the responsibility to hire, terminate, promote, and evaluate performance.
- Principles of Leadership Excellence Certificate Series OR Supervision Fundamentals
- Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams Workshops
- Diplomacy and Tact
- Effective Interviewing and Hiring
- Diversity & Inclusion Conversations at Work: Step Out or Lean In? (Webinar)
- Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Leader
- Harassment Prevention: Creating a Respectful Workplace (eLearning)
- Mastering Challenging Conversations to Resolve Conflict
- Project Management: The Human and Technical View
- Supervisor and the Law
- Time Management: From Overwhelmed to Empowered
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Director or Executive
Leaders of leaders who manage the overall performance of departments. Responsible for producing strategic operating plans and long-term objectives.
- Principles of Leadership Excellence Certificate Series
- Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams Workshops
- Coaching for Development
- Coaching Certificate
- Enhance Your Project Management Skills
- Emotionally Intelligent Leader
- Organization Development (OD) Certificate
- Project Management: The Human and Technical View
Our leadership training programs include:
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Principles of Leadership Excellence
Principles of Leadership Excellence
This series is delivered over 12 days, but modules may be taken independent of the series. Through the completion of all modules, you will build 18 leadership competencies. With MRA's interactive learning, you learn how to be a better leader through self-assessment, skills practice, group discussion, and application to your day-to-day work. You can stay connected between sessions through an online community.
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Supervision Fundamentals
Supervision Fundamentals
This course is delivered in either 6 half days or 3 full days and provides a practical approach to the crucial knowledge, skills and techniques that managers, supervisors and team leads can use immediately. Often referred to as a supervision "boot camp," the course is taught from an "in-the trenches" perspective, as opposed to a textbook approach. Every session includes a mix of lecture, group discussion and the opportunity to apply a skill or technique taught in class to the workplace.
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Frontline Leadership Certificate Series
Frontline Leadership Certificate Series
This series is delivered over 5 days, but modules may be taken independent of the series. Developed for those individuals who provide leadership or guidance to a work group without the power to hire, terminate or conduct performance reviews. Participants learn the basic supervisory skills, as well as expanded lessons in interpersonal and influential skills, conflict resolution and on-the-job training techniques.
Meet Our Team
Andrew C. Marris, CPTD
Cheryl Lucas-DeBerry
Dan Bielenberg
Deb Larsen
Denise Jamison
Janet Kloser
Janet Stoffer
Jodi Medley-McMahon
Joseph C. Feest, CPTD
Kate Walker
Kathy Price
