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Leadership Courses You May Take

Leadership and Negotiation: This course will focus on the tools needed to become a more effective leader and negotiator. Current leadership methodology will be examined along with the effects of cognitive bias on decision-making and the power of effective written communication. Negotiation skills will be taught which will enhance your ability to prepare for and execute a negotiation. These skills will be reinforced by utilizing role-playing and a mock negotiation with your peers.

Personal Leadership: Stephen Covey's book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", serves as the foundation for this highly interactive course. Participants are provided a strong understanding of the content. The course fosters personal and professional growth, empowers more meaningful relationships and productive collaboration, increases productivity, and results in a healthy work/life balance.

Team Leadership: This course teaches Franklin/Covey's book, "Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, and Great Results". Unleash the talent and capability of your teams by carrying out the four imperatives of great leaders. This course will help students learn how to build credibility and trust with others, define their team's purpose and align it with the organization’s goals, and encourage growth and responsibility of the unique talents of their team.

Tactical Leadership: Using Franklin Covey's book, "Leading at the Speed of Trust", students will participate in this interactive course that engages leaders in identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in their organizations. Instead of paying outrageous trust taxes, participants can begin to realize trust dividends, which are the benefits that come from trusting relationships.

Strategic Leadership: Using Franklin Covey's book, "4 Disciplines of Execution", students will act as managers creating actual work plans. The outcome of this course is to identify the most important goals for each manager and team to pursue, then to create measures and identify the key activities that will predict goal achievement.

Career Paths for Leadership

Companies look to leadership development programs to seek out and inject high performers into their workforce and deepen their pool of potential senior managers. They want hard workers and they want results. Successful graduates emerge with several key assets unique to leadership students: a network of senior leaders, visibility into multiple parts of the company and a clear view of where opportunity is and how to get it. Throughout your time in the program, you will be expected to drive your own career development and continually prove yourself, because individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit and an internal drive towards results have been the most successful.

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