For more information on the Leading for Excellence Series or to schedule an on-site workshop for your organization, contact Megan Watson Kramer, Associate Dean, Executive Education, at 800-753-0444 or watsonma@eckerd.edu.
Organizations are increasingly recognizing that coaching skills are a critical leadership competency; effective coaching skills help leaders to build bench strength, enhance employee motivation and develop true followership.
During this 90-minute workshop, you will
To supplement your learning, you will receive a Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) guidebook–Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges–and additional coaching resources, including a roadmap for implementing a formal coaching process with your direct reports.
While opportunities to negotiate exist every day, women frequently avoid them. As a consequence, creative solutions to problems may remain unexplored, and important needs may continue to be unfulfilled. The Leadership, Negotiation & Gender workshop examines many of the special challenges and constraints that women experience in initiating personal or professional negotiations. Participants will learn new tactics, backed by years of research, which will help them to maximize bargaining power. By viewing negotiation from a mindset of confidence rather than of fear, women can be far more successful in communicating concerns and achieving appropriate, satisfying results.
In this workshop, you will
Featuring the Conflict Dynamics Profile-Individual (CDP-I)
This workshop features the Conflict Dynamics Profile-Individual (CDP-I), an assessment instrument that enables participants to understand how they behave when faced with conflict in the workplace. The CDP-I measures both constructive and destructive responses to conflict. The CDP-I also examines “hot buttons,” which are behaviors in others that can irritate or frustrate an individual and lead to conflict.
In this workshop, you will
Participants will also receive the developmental guide, Managing Conflict Dynamics: A Practical Approach, which provides tips for both improving behavioral responses to conflict as well as cooling down hot buttons so they become less likely to trigger conflict.
Featuring the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI)
In this workshop, you will explore basic differences in approach to problem solving, creativity and decision-making, three key issues in managing change in an organization. Using the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory, you will learn to identify your own problem-solving style and assess the styles of others. The resulting awareness will enable you to recognize sources of conflict, value diversity of contributions, increase productivity and enhance team collaboration.
In this workshop, you will
For more information, contact Megan Watson Kramer at 800.753.0444 or watsonma@eckerd.edu.
Featuring the Baron Emotional Quotient Inventory
Emotional Intelligence has become a very popular and powerful concept in leadership training. This workshop reviews research demonstrating the critical connection between emotional intelligence and high performance. After identifying the key components of emotional intelligence, you will discover your own strengths through feedback from a self-report assessment instrument, the BarOn EQi. Because these crucial skills can be developed and enhanced over time, you will learn practical tips for significantly increasing your leadership impact.
In this workshop, you will
For the 17th year in a row, the Financial Times ranks CCL as one of the world’s Top 10 executive education providers in the 2018 survey of executive education! CCL remains the only institution among 85 in the survey focused exclusively on leadership development.