Emerging Managers Satellite Series
Give your managers the critical management skills they need to become top performers
The Linkage Management Development Certification Series
Series Dates: May 9, 16, 23, 30
Time: 2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Program
The Linkage Management Development Certification Series is a skill building training series aimed at providing managers a core skill set and the opportunity to learn from nationally recognized trainers in their respective fields. Program materials include weekly homework assignments, assessment instruments, articles, cases and more. Each participant receives a certificate of completion; the series is not available by individual session.
Session 1: Leadership, with Dr. Philip Harkins, President Linkage Inc. and author of Powerful Conversations, Ph.D. Harvard University
To manage in today's e-complex world requires new levels of speed and agility. This session presents the new manager/leader competency profile, which participants can use as a benchmark. Participants will engage in an action learning dialogue using proven communications skills and the discipline of Powerful Conversations to drive their high impact leadership style. Participants will receive action steps and practice exercises for gaining new skills and competencies around Linkage, Inc.'s Leadership Assessment Profile.
What you will learn:
- How to use the LAP as a teaching and learning tool;
- The tools of Powerful Conversations to maximize your leadership strengths and improve on your competencies
- The discipline of using communication tools to increase your trust quotient as a leader; and
- How to plan and manage conversations in fearful and difficult situations.
Each participant will take a self-managed assessment test indicating his/her leadership strengths and development areas.
Session 2: Negotiation: Principles and Techniques, with Stuart Kliman, founding partner CMI/Vantage Partners
Managers, no matter their specific functional expertise or what their day-to-day roles entail, need the ability to negotiate effectively so they can consistently achieve extraordinary negotiated results. Effective value-creating negotiation is fundamental to success in internal and external customer relationships.
What you will learn:
- A prescriptive framework to be used in preparing for, conducting, and measuring the success of your negotiations;
- Increased personal negotiation skills;
- A plan to develop your negotiation skills;
- A clear vision for what effective negotiation in today's interdependent world looks like; and
- How to coach others to negotiate effectively.
Session 3: Foundations in Project Management, with Paul Plotzyc, Consultant Worksystem Associates with over 20 years consulting/project management experience
This session offers a means to make rapid gains in the quality of your performance as a Project Manager. Participants will learn the principles and key practices of systematic project management. Core topic areas include project management as a process, clarifying client expectations during initiation, tools for creating a project plan, successful project close out.
What you will learn:
- How to approach project management as a process not as a series of tasks by using a 7- step project execution process
- How to clearly define outcomes and expectations in the project initiation phase by asking 7 key questions
- An understanding of the 8 critical success factors for project managers and their role in project success; and
- How to apply specific tools to create a project plan which includes the project objective, project tasks and deliverables, as well as a simple easy-to-use tool to define stakeholders and the contribution that is best suited to the project objective.
Session 4: Coaching with Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D., one of The Wall Street Journal's "Top 10" executive development consultants, and co-editor of The Leader of the Future, Leading Beyond the Walls
Coaching for behavioral change is one of the greatest challenges for the leader of the future. In this interactive session you will learn the keys to achieving positive, measurable, long-term change in behavior - for yourself, your people and your team. Learn how to use the latest approaches to giving and receiving feedback so that the behavioral change process can be more enjoyable and more productive. You will also learn how to create an environment where people can achieve maximum behavioral change while minimizing wasted time.
What you will learn:
- How to encourage feedback in a way that will lead to a positive, measurable change in your leadership behavior;
- How to effectively help your people achieve positive behavioral change; and
- How to build teams without wasting time.
Each participant will take a self-managed assessment test indicating his or her coaching strengths and development areas.
Series Pricing:
$395 per person up to 20 participants, over 20, call for
pricing. Taping rights: $3,500 for the series.
CLICK HERE to register!
FOR FURTHER DETAILS, CONTACT:
Sally Solis-Cohen
WHYY, Inc
Venture Marketing
150 North Sixth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-351-1699
Fax: 215-923-7475
Email: workforce@whyy.org
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