Drake presents this Certificate program designed for leaders who want to improve or refresh their leadership expertise.

Our leadership team has worked with industry professionals to develop and present this customized Leadership Program. These six one-day action-packed workshops present key business skills, knowledge and the leadership attributes needed to help you confidently fill your role in helping your organization reach and exceed its goals and objectives. Each session has take-home activities that are debriefed at the next session to further enhance transfer of learning into your own work environment.

All classes are action-packed with individual and group exercises designed to educate managers about the hardest job they tell us they will ever have - leading, coaching and inspiring others. Throughout each session, time is devoted to learning and applying the concepts to your individual situation.

Course Description

Today, leaders must demonstrate significantly higher levels of business and economic literacy – they must be conversant about all facets of the business and how these facets are interrelated. In addition, leaders must demonstrate unprecedented levels of personal toughness and resiliency. They have to continually get better at managing stress, ambiguity and change.

Compounding this challenging business scenario are the skills necessary to manage and lead employees. Loyalty is no longer a given and recruiting and retaining appropriate talent is one of the biggest challenges leaders face.

Business leaders today must inspire and excite their people through stimulating work to accomplish group or organizational goals. Leaders must give people the opportunity to change and grow within the organization at the same time creating buy-in by others about the value of that change. If not, the staff will take their skills and talents elsewhere. Twenty years ago people management skills were not critical. Now in order to be successful, leaders must master these interpersonal skills and master them well.

In these sessions we will explore how leadership is a function of the traits and abilities of the leader, of the situations faced and the behavior and reactions of the people being led. We will investigate topics of transformational versus transactional leadership, power and influence, effective communication, motivation and coaching, leading through change and developing a strong team structure.

In addition, the class will involve introspection for each participant. A good leader knows himself/herself. Good leaders are authentic in their actions and true to their values. These sessions invite participants to think about their own values and how they interact with others. Participants will explore their leadership strengths and areas needing improvement. They will be exposed to new ideas and to new ways of thinking about old ideas. The experiential exercises and practice sessions give each participant an opportunity to internalize these concepts to individual situations. The facilitators are available for coaching and for discussions of best practices both during and post session.

• Introduction to Leadership and Your Personal Preferences: Building productive relationships through understanding the personality preferences of yourself and others.
• Building Leadership Credibility Through Purposeful Communication: Strengthen relationships and address conflict using rapport-building communication models.
• Results-Oriented Performance Management: How to coach, motivate, manage and measure high performance through results-oriented leadership.
• Maximizing Change Opportunities: How to utilize change processes for continual improvement.
• Team Leadership: Experiencing leadership models that work to create productive, innovative teams.
• The Authentic Leader: Becoming a genuine leader who inspires others through understanding their own beliefs and values, and translating those into everyday actions. Personal leadership development planning.

• Master results-oriented leadership processes and minimize conflict
• Encourage innovative thinking and problem-solving
• Develop measurable performance work plans
• Motivate those around you to join in reaching common goals
• Understand how to apply personality preferences to achieve organizational and personal goals
• Maximize change opportunities
• Assess your leadership strengths and develop an action plan for on-going development

The cost for classes is $2,950 and includes instruction, personal coaching and handouts for six one-day sessions.

We are happy to offer a $200 discount to current and past clients. This discount is not valid with any other offers.

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