Participants learn the importance of moving from supervising their work group to leading their team.  The course focuses on how supervisors function effectively within a constantly changing business environment, how to manage diversity, and the effectiveness of developing and building teams within the organization.

The foundation to leadership development is getting to know yourself.    In this session, you will begin creating your Personal Leadership Philosophy (credo).  Define leadership, state your personal values, declare your expectations, and much more.  The final result is to create a living document in which you describe your personal philosophy on leadership. Understanding how you lead and sharing that with those you lead changes everything!
Understanding the dynamics that transform a group into a team contribute significantly in achieving results. In this session you will learn how to build a team that will work together collaboratively to achieve meaningful organizational goals.
This is the single greatest value in the leadership equation. Understanding trust, how it is developed, the barriers that get in the way, and cultivating an environment of trust will be examined.  From the very outset in any organizational setting, the trust individuals have among themselves dramatically impacts performance and credibility.   A clear understanding of trust and how you demonstrate trust is the ultimate result of this session.
The purpose of this session is to explore the impact of change in the workplace and the supervisor’s responsibility for effectively leading the change process of the work group.  Elements of the instruction include: the change cycle, the skills needed for taking charge of change, common reactions to change, and guidelines for change. The learning is reinforced with a video: “Taking Charge of Change.”
This is a session to strengthen leadership skills for more effectively leading a diverse workforce. Elements of the session include workplace trends and statistics, a role-play exercise to explore cultural diversity in work teams and a diversity self-assessment.  The learning is reinforced with an exercise – “Exploring Cultural Diversity in the Work Team.”
A large portion of time in the leader’s day is spent in meetings.  Make the most of your time while in these meetings.  Effectively prepare for meetings, set agendas, declare the expected outcome, and make sure proper assignments are made to the right people invited.
In the final session, each individual will be asked to share a summary of the key learnings that made an impact on his/her leadership over the course of the program.  In a very special format, each leader-graduate will have created a Personal Leadership Philosophy by which others will know them.  This time is set aside to proclaim your leadership qualities.