Leadership
in a Changing World – Certificate in Leadership Skills Presented by G. Kent
Nelson, Ph.D. New dates have been posted, program will start on April 11, 2008.
Leadership
in a Changing World emphasizes the knowledge and skills that managers
need to become more effective and successful in their organizational
roles. Workshops emphasize assessing leadership practices, dealing
with conflict, creating powerful teams and developing effective
interpersonal communication competency.
Participants
awarded the certificate will:
Identify personal leadership practices through feedback and self
discovery
Establish goals for improving leadership competency
Learn techniques for creating effective teams and team relationships
Plan and implement strategies for accomplishing individual and
team goals
Develop strategies for leadership competence
In
addition, participants will develop an action plan to increase leadership
competency and enhance their performance in order to lead more effectively.
To
receive the Certificate in Leadership Skills, participants
must take all six sessions listed below.
Register for the entire series. Use
course number TBAL-EZ; total cost $1260; total CEUs 2.4. Students who started the program before Winter 2007 and needing to complete the series should contact our office at (253) 692-4618.
Challenge
of Leadership
Explores the power and adventure of learning self-leadership;
provides tools to assess your leadership practices; offers development
opportunity to shape and control your behavior for leadership success.
Focus on learning self-leadership before learning to become effective
in leading others. Introduces the leadership assessment measure
and focuses on the five practices of exemplary leaders: challenging
the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act,
modeling the way and encouraging the heart.
Focuses on envisioning, understanding the role of intuition and values, developing relationships, and leading with a shared vision. You will examine your values, attitudes and behaviors and create a vision statement for personal and organizational application.
Focuses on searching out challenging opportunities to change, grow, innovate and improve. Designed to emphasize interpersonal communication competency and provide opportunities for you to learn supportive communication, communication styles, accuracy, coaching, diagnosing communication problems and fostering balanced interpersonal interactions. Helps you be more effective in working with peers, supervisors and clients.
Emphasizes analyzing conflicts and dealing with
them proactively through fostering collaboration and strengthening
others with negotiation and mediation. Key aspects of learning include
the underlying psychological and sociological issues that make personal
and organizational conflict challenging. Emphasis on skill building
culminates in an interest-based negotiating exercise. Learn how
to strengthen others and develop competence in collaborative relationships.
Focuses on creating powerful teams. Designed to explore interpersonal and management skills necessary to create and maintain effective teams that contribute to the success of an organization. Provides an opportunity for you to learn and experience interdependency, collaborative relationships, feedback, conflict management and goal setting within a team environment. Focuses on understanding how successful team performance can lead to productivity and effectiveness.
Takes
a realistic look at managers’ daily lives and the leadership
challenges they face on a regular basis. Leadership challenges range
from treating employees equitably to dealing with difficult people.
This session culminates with participants creating leadership plans
that integrate the issues presented in the series and identifying
strategies for success.
G.
Kent Nelson, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer in Management and Communication, Milgard School
of Business, University of Washington Tacoma
G.
Kent Nelson’s scholarly interests include informal and emergent
forms of coordinated collective action, communication in mixed-status
relationships, leadership, and interpersonal communication. He is
actively involved in the community as a public speaker, facilitator
and trainer. Nelson has a broad and varied background as a management/communication
consultant to several prominent service organizations in the South
Puget Sound, as well as multiple companies in the private sector.
Instructors and courses are subject to change.
KeyBank Professional Development Center University of Washington Tacoma (253) 692-4618, uwtpdctr@u.washington.edu
