The Leadership Development Center

Foster College of Business Administration

                                                    



 

 

BUILDING LEADERSHIP CREDIBILITY

Are you a credible leader?

Is credibility important to your effectiveness?

How do you earn credibility?

True leaders are those rare people who know their strengths and strive to master their developmental needs. Just as the business world continually renews itself, you must also renew yourself.  Building Leadership Credibility provides the tools to make those changes and gives you the skills so critical in spurring a company to succeed.  You will identify values and behaviors that are seen as strengths, and uncover developmental needs that can bolster your leadership skills.

Credibility is the basic foundation of effective leadership. It makes a SIGNIFICANT difference in your ability to influence others in your organization.

Designed For

This three-day program is designed for experienced managers.  Its focus is to identify capabilities required for effective leadership in changing organizations. The goal is to define, identify, and build on leadership strengths, and uncover development needs for building leadership credibility.

Objectives

Skills you can take into any team environment:

  • Learn how to create an environment where commitment, respect, results, motivation, energy and creativity soar

  • Eliminate barriers to open dialogue

  • Discover the importance of your colleagues’ perception on your leadership style

  • Value others’ opinions and understand how that can result in higher quality decisions

  • Build and maintain partnerships with constituents

  • Understand how to create a trusting work environment, reduce conflict, and build teamwork

  • Create a plan of action organizing the skills and insights learned into specific, challenging personal and company goals

Assessments

Structured feedback from a leader’s constituents can be powerful and is most valuable. Such feedback can provide a stimulus and concrete focus for personal and professional growth. Confidential feedback from questionnaires you and your colleagues complete before attending are used to help you develop awareness of your leadership and personal style.

Benchmarks is a research tool that provides 360º feedback (boss, peers, & direct reports) on 16 key executive skills, identifying both strengths and developmental needs.  It also pinpoints problem areas that can stall or derail your career.

SYMLOG® (System for the Multiple Level Observation of Groups) matches your pattern of effective teamwork values against a research-based norm, and provides feedback on how others judge your effectiveness as team leader  - as well as their "ideal".

Contract Program

This program can be brought in-house to your location. For scheduling and costs, please call The Leadership Development Center at  309.677.4420.