More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Personal Definition of Leadership, Values, and Purpose
We’ll explore and define your leadership philosophy and its alignment with your core values, then clarify your purpose in your role. Through reflection and interactive exercises, you’ll gain tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness and foster a values-driven approach to your work.

Self-Awareness: Understanding Your Leadership Through the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment
The first step to building effective leadership from the middle is to understand who you are as a leader. In this session, you’ll have the opportunity to examine and analyze your results from the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment to identify your unique leadership strengths under normal circumstances as well as under stress.

Using the Five Paths to Create Effective and Collaborative Meetings
One of the most common ways to build collaboration and trust is in your meetings with your team. Building on what you’ve learned about yourself through the lens of the Five Paths to Leadership®, we’ll focus on how you can design, structure, and lead effective team meetings.

Courageous Leadership: A Model for Leading from the Middle
Leading from the middle means serving as a voice for your team to the leaders above you and communicating priorities and messages from those above you and your leadership peers. We’ll dive into why managing up, down, and across can sometimes feel challenging and identify practical strategies to help you successfully do this work to enhance productivity and collaboration.

Building Effective Relationships: Empathy and Trust
Strong interpersonal and team relationships start with trust. As leaders, you’ll need to be able to move initiatives forward and communicate tough messages with your team. But to do so effectively requires both empathy and trust. In this session, we’ll focus on how you can build these skills across your team.

Practical Conflict Resolution Skills for Leaders
Knowing how to navigate conflict is critical as a leader. We’ll focus on effective communication, active listening, and problem-solving techniques to address conflicts constructively in the workplace.

Navigating Power Dynamics
In this session, we’ll identify and describe sources of power in each of the Five Paths to Leadership®, and we’ll pair these descriptions with a practice scenario. In small groups, you’ll rotate through role playing and deconstructing the scenario to focus on how to understand the power dynamics involved through the lens of each path.

The Courage to Challenge and Be Challenged
Leaders need to have the courage to challenge their team members and to be challenged when they are wrong or communicating poorly. In this session, we’ll focus on effective communication and active listening. You’ll have the opportunity to work through a case study to practice confronting emotions—both those that arise when you are challenged and those that emerge when you need to challenge someone.

Drafting Your Personal Professional Development Plan
Reflecting on what you’ve learned in the two days, how you will continue growth as a leader when you return to campus? What steps can you take now that will help you be successful in implementing new ideas, tactics, or strategies? How can you build accountability to continue your development as a leader? We’ll use this time to identify concrete next steps.

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