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• EMERGING AS A LEADER: What New Supervisors and Managers Need to Know (Open Enrollment Class)

  Cost: $1295.00

  
  

  There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people." — Thomas Sowell, writer Every field of learning has basics one must know—and it is the basics that we tend to forget and not do well. Just as a house cannot stand without a strong foundation, so it is with leadership. To lead, one must study leadership. This course increases leadership effectiveness by presenting: — Good and bad leadership traits, — The skills one needs, — A focus on ethics and development of wisdom — The types of influence one can exert, — The many varieties of styles or roles one can play, and — Assessments to determine strengths and weaknesses. It covers: — Why people follow good leaders, — Why they obey the bad ones, — How culture and the situation impact leadership, — Specific tactics useful in creating goal and path expectations, — What elements of culture impact leadership effectiveness. — The essence of success as a team leader, and — Characteristics of great transformational leaders. Finally, the course focuses on the differences between the two star roles one must play on the stage of business and government—that of leader and manager. This 15 week class will is currently closed.

• The Make a Change Boot Camp

  

  
  

  "A competitive world has two possibilities for you. You can lose. If you want to win, you can change." — Lester Thurow
  

  
  

  Changing yourself is hard, must harder than it appears. Changing others is harder still. Yet, change we must if we are to innovate and adapt to shifts in the environment. In this course, you will begin the transformational processes necessary to become a great transformational leader.
  
  In this intensive course, you will experience three courses in one:
  
  

  • Learning to Learn: Discover the Major Tools of The Trade
    
  • Leadership Foundations: What Leaders Must Know, and
  • Mastering Stress.

  
  Technically, a “boot camp” is a military orientation program for new recruits, designed to push them to their limits. Our boot camp is different. Over the next six weeks, you will:
  

  
  

  a. Meet other members of program
  b. Spend face-time with the instructor
  c. Assess your leadership knowledge and skills
  d. Experience learning module in the program
  e. Better define your unique opportunities to lead
  f. Get a more detailed briefing on the seven classes in the main program
  g. Decide if this program is right for you.
• The HERO'S JOURNEY: The Challenges of Transformational Leadership (The Tranformational Mindset—Level 1)

  

  
  

  “People don’t remember bosses. They are like the rocks on the beach. They are remember by leaders—the jewels among the rocks.” — Murray Johannsen Most people you meet float like a leaf in the river of life, simply going with the flow. It you want escape the trap of the status quo, to innovate, to change others, to evolve groups into teams, you must master transformational leadership. And if you are an entrepreneur, this style helps transform small business into a big one. It’s not enough to be a manager—the universities create hundreds of thousands every year. In fact, people don’t want to be managed, they want to be led. But what is in demand are skilled transformational leaders. So if you want to stand out, accomplish something unique, to be all you can be, then this is where you should start. In this course you will: Discover the four core competencies of our transformational leadership model: the transformational mindset, social influence, self-mastery and skills development. Emotional intelligence: What it is—why great leaders need it. Choose a transformational leader to model and benchmark Develop a guiding philosophy Know the nature of wisdom and why most in positions of power are not wise Focus on your ethical development and know the fundamental reasons so many in business are not ethical. "Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets" - Nido Qubein

  
  
• WORD MAGIC: Must Have Interpersonal Communication Skills (Skill Building — Level 1)

  

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  "Just because you have two ears and a mouth, doesn't mean you know how to communicate." — A Mother's Advice To Her Son.
  

  
  One never gets too good at the art of communication. Studies show that over 70% to 90% of our work time is spent in some type of communication activity. It consistently ranks as one of the most important skills you can develop—one essential to reaching the executive ranks.
  
  Yet, we continue to see a number of problems in this area. For example, a leading cause of things not getting done right is misunderstanding between boss and subordinates. Direct reports frequently complain that, “My boss doesn’t listen to me.” And both employees and executives are frustrated about the flow of timely information and “not being in the loop.”
  
  This class fine-tunes communication skills—Learn, Practice and Improve:
  

  • TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION: Using the Full-Duplex Method to drastically reduce miscommunication
    
  • LISTENING Skills: Six types of listening: Five that improves listening and one that doesn't
    
  • NONVERBAL Communication: How to read face and hear the meaning in tone and intonation
    
  • Use of QUESTIONS: That shape the power to shape a conversation
    
  • Improve RELATIONSHIPS: How to generate positive impressions, increase trust, & be better liked
• TOUGH AS NAILS: Enhancing Resilience and Mental Toughness (Self-Mastery — Level 1)

  Cost: $945.00

  
  

  “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” — Kennedy Family Motto Underlying all success is the mental toughness to overcome defeats, losses, problems, obstacles, mistakes, the critics, the naysayers, the pessimists, the complainers, and those who say it can’t be done. Once you realize it’s not going to be easy, you begin to take the steps required to get mentally tough and program yourself for journey toward success. This class is about developing more insight into the kind of success required to deal to deal with difficult times and challenging situations. For example, to be resilient in the face of adversary is one of the most important element of successful entrepreneurs. Learn, Practice and Improve six psychological pillars that support resilience. Understanding Mental Toughness and Resilience: Rebounding in the Face of Adversity Controlling Stress: To Move Toward Peak Performance Overcoming the “Monkey Mind:” The importance of Mindfulness and Focused Attention Employing Self-Talk to Stay Positive Developing the Ability to Control States of Mind Making Goals More Compelling: Turning Goal Setting into Goal Driven "Remember, anything worth doing, is going to be difficult." — M. Johannsen, Advice to future entrepreneurs

  
  
• THE METHODS OF MASTERS: How to Quickly Develop New Skills (Skill Building — Level 1)

  

  In the 21st Century, each of us must continually upgrade knowledge and skills. To not do so means we risk unemployment, under employment and a life of stagnant wages. While we live in an Information Age, few schools and universities bother to teach us how to convert theory into skills. Few understand the steps--the process—of how to build skills. The goal of this class is to accelerate someone going from the novice stage to the mastery stage. This course presents many insights useful in: Defining good theory, Increasing our internal motivation Using feedback methods Learning to practice, and Reaching the mastery level. This is an applied class that presents detailed step-by-step actions to enhance learning of complex skills. It also includes a practice assignments designed to try out new skill development techniques.

• INFLUENCE AT WORK: Must Know Techniques To Get Things Done Through Others (Social Influence — Level 1)

  

  
  

  
  

  "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." — Ken Blanchard
  

  
  Many managers and executives depend too much on their authority—a limited source of power that doesn’t work well on peers and the boss. Consequently, they fail to get the results they want.
  
  Additionally, many individuals rely too much on positional influence, rather than developing personal influence. Positional influence is typically limited and constrained, but personal influence is something that can be grown and expanded. Another fact limiting influence, is that many tend to act selfishly like dragons hoarding their gold; rather than socially, like philanthropists who spread the wealth of their influence to benefit others.
  
  This class expands one’s knowledge by providing practical influence techniques to increase one's influence to better match the scope of one's responsibilities. Participants learn:
  
  

  • The Use and Misuse of AUTHORITY
  • Practical insights into motivational consequences including POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT and PUNISHMENT
    
  • How to project EXPERTISE
  • Ways one can use developmental COACHING
• LEAD THE PACK: How To Build Teams and Facilitate Meetings (Social Influence — Level 1)

  

  

  Often "executive teams" aren't. They function like a group of feuding kids fighting to please a difficult father or mother. Without effective leadership, groups never evolve into teams—they get stuck performing on the floor of mediocrity, not the ceiling of possibility. Besides problems with group dynamics, research indicates that 30% to 60% of the time spent in meetings is wasted. Despite its importance, few managers run good meetings. More importantly, bad meetings result in problems not getting solved and wrong decisions getting made. Learn tools and techniques to increase motivation and participation; set codes of conduct; decrease conflict; evolve a group into a team; establish consensus; define roles and responsibilities; and play the critical communication roles that lead to action. This class shows you how to: Change group norms. Improve the meeting process. Evolve groups into high performance teams. Establish high performance teams Quickly set-up project teams

• TRANSFORM YOURSELF—TRANSFORM ANOTHER (Capstone Class — Level 1)

  

  
  

  This is a symbol is of Janus, Roman God of the home, typically at the entrance. Janus is regarded as a symbol of transformation. One head faces outward, another inward; symbolic of the future and past and the external and internal.

  This class is the application of knowledge applied and skills developed. Participants focus on two types of changes. Self-Improvement & Internal Change The first is a change that that involves some type of self-improvement. After all, its a poor sort of transformational leader who asks other to change, but cannot do so themselves. Influence and External Change The external focus of the project has as its goal influencing another individual or a group to make some type of change. Most likely, this would involve a shift from an undesired behavior to a desired one. One can also choose a work project that improves quality, productivity or service as long as there is a significant change in people component.

  
  
  
• Influence At Work: How to Enhance Your Personal Power (Level 2 — Advanced)

  Cost: $1495.00

  
  

  Some forms of influence are easy. For example, using authority is relatively easy—all you need to do is occupy a powerful position. This course puts together some of the most powerful, but some of the more difficult, types of influence one can use. This course focuses on: Charisma Vision Persuasion Relationships Vision is different than planning, it comes with the mind through the use of imagination, quite often while relaxed or during meditation. Persuasion is a combination of persuasive patterns—patterns requiring memorization and the presence of mind of being mindful in the moment. Sound relationships are important to be able to influence the use of the Law and Reciprocity. And charisma is a interesting set of behaviors best learn by modeling. It's sometimes said that you know it when you see it, and their is a lot of truth in that.

  
  

  Length: 6 weeks	Prerequisites: Influence At Work (Level 1) or consent of instructor
  This online class is currently available as a learning Intensive.	For More Information Contact the Instructor