Program

Benefits

The program includes many special features, such as:

• Key Leadership Challenge: Use real-world applications of the fundamental four skills to a current leadership challenge.
• Personal Leadership Map: Increase self-awareness and goal attainment throughout the program.
• Lead 4 Success Assessment: Benchmark 80 behaviors critical to leader development.
• Interactive Role Plays: Practice key skills with other leaders in realistic, challenging scenarios.
• Experiential Exercises: Accelerate development using hands-on collaborative team activities to build self-awareness, learning agility, influence and communication.

Who Should Attend Lead 4 Success?

The Program is Ideal For:

• • Emerging leaders with no direct reports, but on the path to leadership in the next 12 to 18 months;
  • First-time managers who have been in role for 6 to 12 months;
  • Leaders with 3 to 5 years of experience leading others;
  • Participants who want an intensive focus on the fundamental four competencies critical for all levels of leadership; and
  • Leaders who desire a compact yet compelling experience designed to enhance effectiveness in the workplace.

Why Lead 4 Success at Eckerd College?

Why Attendees Chose Eckerd

Top Ranked Institution and World-Renowned Executive Education

• • • Eckerd College is one of The Princeton Review’s Best 387 Colleges (2022), a member of Phi Beta Kappa and one of 40 schools featured in the book Colleges That Change Lives.
    • In addition to our designation as a CCL Network Associate, LDI is an Education Partner of the international association, the Society of Human Resource Management. 
    • Eckerd’s Certified Workplace Mediator and Trainer (CMT) program is accredited by the International Mediation Institute.
    • LDI’s proprietary assessments the Conflict Dynamics Profile (CDP) and Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile (EMP) are utilized globally by over +4000 certified practitioners

The Right Climate for Learning

• • • Eckerd College provides a world-class program in a world-class setting. The climate we’ve created for learning—one that is stimulating and challenging, yet relaxed and open-minded—is enhanced by our sunny, Florida location.
    • The retreat-style setting of our waterfront training facility allows participants to escape the everyday rigors of work and focus on their professional development in a safe and supportive learning environment.
    • In addition to Downtown St. Petersburg’s thriving arts, recreation and culinary scene complemented by the white sandy beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast, our proximity to Tampa, Clearwater, Sarasota and Orlando make Eckerd College LDI a key destination for business travelers and their families.

High-Quality, Assessment-Based Program Content

• • • Rich, research-based content is focused on what matters most for first-time and front-line managers.
    • Intense, personalized feedback gives participants an assessment of important competencies and a plan for learning.
    • The interactive, hands-on format prepares participants to take action back at work. Coaching and take-home tools support newly enhanced skills of influencing, conflict resolution and communication.
    • Participants consistently rate LDI programs 4.8 or higher on a 5-point scale in both value and enjoyment. Often, the ratings don’t even fully reflect the impact our programs have had on the individual lives and careers of attendees who have participated in LDI programs at Eckerd College.
    • Low instructor/participant ratio: 1:12.