SV01 – Developing a Shared Vision
This course examines the importance of developing a shared vision in improving organizational performance. It defines the meaning of vision and assists the leader with the process of developing a dynamic vision that matures with the organization’s learning and growth.
This course provides practical applications for working with stakeholders and staff to challenge the organization to create a shared vision that bonds and brings them together in a common cause, creating an enduring commitment to the vision.
This course provides a framework for implementing a shared vision. It provides leaders with tools to build a job-embedded structure to encourage professional growth and sharing of craft knowledge through teams focused on performance.
This course examines leadership ideas for nurturing a shared vision. It provides leaders with understanding and strategies to nurture relationships, connect purpose, and inspire action-in-common.
In both personal and organizational contexts, we behave according to what we have learned to be right. Professional leadership is moral and ethical.
The workforce is constantly changing and continues to increase in diversity. It is common in today’s workforce to stand alongside employees, stakeholders, and clients who come from a variety of different cultures, speak languages other than English, and have a range of abilities and experiences.
This course provides the rationale and specific strategies for understanding and using the duality of leader and manager in the leadership role. In a climate of competitive business and overwhelming responsibility, the tendency often is to focus on managerial functions and hope to somehow address leader responsibilities. This course identifies the 21 key leadership responsibilities and guides a leader in how and when to implement them.
An effective leader must efficiently prioritize the myriad tasks, decisions and activities that occur in daily life and communicate those decisions clearly, appropriately and in an ethical manner. This course includes strategies and best practices for effective and decisive decision making in everyday situations.
The values of your organization reflect the qualities of character that your organization tries to develop in its people. Ensuring and embedding such values in an organization is as old as recorded history. More than two millennia have passed since Aristotle referred to virtues and self-decline. Historically, civilizations have passed their cultural values to succeeding generations as a means of cultural preservation. The development of core values is at the heart of any organization’s vision and mission statement, and is key to its future success and sustainability.
This course provides key leadership components for business leaders who seek to develop an effective culture. Leaders discover characteristics of their organization’s culture by examining artifacts and seeking patterns and relationships among its components.
Successful leaders encourage, motivate, and inspire their staff to achieve excellence despite the daily challenges and stresses of unrelenting change and high stakes accountability. Inspirational leaders can transform their organizations into communities where staff thrive and survive.
This course examines effective ways to manage staff relationships, guiding the organizational leader in developing strong and high-quality relationships.
This course examines the critical importance of recognition in motivating individual and team performance.
Mediation can be a useful tool in any area requiring conflict resolution between individuals. Thousands of organizations have successfully implemented mediation and peer mediation programs. When staff attend peer mediation sessions, they are able to create lasting solutions to conflicts. Several studies have indicated a success rate of over 90%.
Business partnerships other than client relationships are an important part of any organization’s initiatives. They can take many different forms and have different definitions, depending on the partners involved.
This course examines symbiotic relationships between organizations that build a community of common interest. These relationships can be short-lived and serve one purpose or be widespread and sustained over years.
Organizational change is part of the lifecycle of any business; a necessary part of survival. An environment for change must become part of an organization’s DNA if it wants to do more than survive.
This course provides key leadership components for organizational leaders who seek to lead in a culture of change. Change leaders encounter rapid change in today’s society and in organizational ecology. Your challenge is to mobilize change within the organization to meet both current and future organizational needs.
This course provides the rationale and specific strategies for cultivating shared leadership. Shared leadership goes hand-in-hand with action-in-common, collective efficacy, and developing effective change management teams.