Cause your possibilities into existence.

This leadership development series is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities of those in the professional, managerial realm of the organization to align with the organization’s vision, mission and goals.  The transition from great producer to great manager isn’t always a natural process.  The ability to interact more effectively with subordinates, influence better decision making and take a proactive stance with regards to work opportunities will have an increased positive effect on productivity and overall morale.  The Professional Series assists the individual in creating a management leader style that will cause a more fluid transition and encourage greatness in themselves and their employees.

Format:

The Professional Series is designed in a 5 to 10 module format, each module component having been identified as one of the top ten leadership variables.  Modules are delivered on bi-monthly basis on a designated day determined by the organization.  This format has been determined to be the most effective in the transfer of knowledge activities (TOLA) and integration into the workplace resulting in increased productivity in the shortest time span.

Program Modules

1st Module:  INSIGHTS Discovery into Personal & Professional Effectiveness

A Jungian-based personality assessment, INSIGHTS Discovery forms the cornerstone of the Professional Series program.  Participants will complete an on-line assessment from which a personality profile is compiled.  This profile enables the individual to better understand themselves which allows deeper understanding of others’ behaviors.  In better understanding these two concepts, more effective interaction with others is encouraged. 

2nd Module:  Emotional Intelligence – Competencies for Transforming Leader’s Styles

The degree to which a leader can understand one’s own feelings, empathize with others and regulate emotions can have a profound effect on their leadership style and capabilities.  The Emotional Intelligence Core Competencies will identify behaviors necessary to provide insightful, dynamic leadership within the institution.  An on-line assessment resulting in an emotional intelligence profile will be used to identify the participant’s EQi.  Core competency behaviors can then be addressed to attain maximum individual leadership effectiveness.

3rd Module:  Administrative Competencies

Overall competencies which will enable a supervisor to enhance and enable the talents of his or her employees will be the focus of this module.  Understanding the processes and procedures and the necessary components associated with administrative tasks will be explored.  Participants will be asked to identify critical areas, tasks and personnel within their departments, explore their competency level associated with those areas and develop action plans to increase efficiency and effectiveness for their department.

4th Module:  Communication and Active Listening

The ability to give and receive information in the manner in which it was intended is critical to any situation.  Regardless of whether in a personal or work-related setting, effective communication is the key to positive or negative interactions.  This module will focus on the critical components of communication, written and spoken, and includes an emphasis on the importance that the role of active listening plays in communication.

5th Module:  Conflict Resolution and Positive Discipline

One of the most difficult situations to resolve is a conflict situation.  Human nature dictates that we avoid conflict situations hence; individuals never truly learn how to use conflict for positive outcome.  This module will focus on the types of skills used in differing conflict situations and the most effective ways of dealing with conflict advantageously.  We will identify the 5 styles of conflict resolution and what each participant’s preferred style of resolution is and how different styles can be most effectively used.  Communication based upon personality styles revealed in the INSIGHTS Discovery module will enable matching resolution of conflict to those particular styles. In addition, participants will discuss the organization’s positive discipline strategy, integrating coaching of a problem employee to encourage preferred performance outcomes.

6th Module:  Planning and Setting Priorities and Performance Management

The ability to know where your work group is headed is vital to your organization’s success.  Issues discussed will be related to the vision, mission and goals of the organization.  Determining the goals that are critical to a department’s success, how to assign an order to them, and the planning phases directed to the successful completion of priority goals will be of importance in this module.  The performance assessment and how to use it as a proactive performance management tool will be explored.  In this manner, employees increase the working knowledge of their job duties, thereby enhancing professional growth and responsibility.

7th Module:  Change, Mentoring and Coaching

Working through the cycle of change, this module will explore at which stage the organization, department and individual currently are.  The professional will be able, through cues, to identify where their subordinates might be in the change cycle and encourage productivity regardless of which stage of the cycle they are in.  We will explore what mentoring is and isn’t and the responsibilities of a mentor.  In addition, the ability to have a profound effect on an individual’s personal and professional life through example will be illustrated.  We will delve into the utilization of effective tactics of all three subjects to enhance the performance and development of subordinates.

8th Module:  Conducting Effective Meetings, Oral and Written Presentations

The professional level leader is charged with disseminating a plethora of information.  Deciding which information is critical to all members of the department and which is to be relayed selectively can decrease the amount of time spent in meetings.  Methods of ensuring meetings will be an efficient use of time will be explored in this module.  Participants will be asked to conduct a 3 minute presentation on a work topic of importance.  Three minutes is the essence of the time allowed for critical information to be disseminated in meetings and will illustrate the need for concise coherence.

9th Module:  Team Building

In this module, professional level leaders will use the tools assimilated throughout the modules to ensure the congruency of their team.  We will explore the stages of team-building and the importance of successful navigation throughout each stage.  Portions of this module are conducted at a challenge course.  The experience of teamwork is thereby firmly illustrated through the dependence on each participant of the other to be a success.

10th Module:  Professional Best Practices

The sources of leadership influence, the difference between being a manager and a leader, development and communication of your vision, as well as how each of the previous modules ties into the participant’s success will be discussed in-depth in this module.  A legacy of the participants of the group is decided upon and a final commitment will be made to continue to espouse the principles articulated throughout the series, long after the final page of the participant’s workbook is turned. The call to live in their possibilities in answered through the question, “What will you do to cause your transformation into being?”