Leading from the Middle: Essential Skills to Drive Success

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This event ended on December 10, 2024
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Leading from the Middle: Essential Skills to Drive Success

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Lean into the opportunity to maximize your effectiveness and influence as you lead from the middle.

Event Information

Leading from the middle is a complex task. You must understand, communicate, and operationalize strategy while staying attuned to the needs and expectations of your supervisor, your team, and other partners with whom you collaborate.  

Join other experienced middle and senior managers to explore such critical topics as leveraging your scope of influence, deepening your self-awareness, building effective relationships, and the intersection of agency and followership. We’ll use our leadership framework to guide you from personal mastery to interpersonal and team mastery, helping you to:  

  • Enhance your influence as a mid-level leader by serving as the liaison between senior leaders and members of your team.
  • Develop your unique leadership style.
  • Build your network through collaboration and application in a small and interactive setting.

Extend Your Stay to Enhance Your Skills with Additional Training 
Stay an extra day with us and experience our Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: Engaging in Difficult Dialogues in the Workplace workshop taking place December 11, 2024. At this event, you’ll dive deeper into managing the feelings around difficult conversations, focusing on creating an orientation around fairness. By attending both events, you’ll gain valuable insights and strategies to strengthen your team dynamics. Register for both workshops and save $500!  

Who should attend?

Given the intensive nature of the program, middle and senior managers who have experience in leading teams or units will benefit from attending. We have intentionally designed this program for administrators across the institution from academic affairs, student affairs, finance, human resources, and other functional areas. Bring a team to develop a cohort of mid-level leaders on your campus! Register 3 or more people and save more than $1,000! Discounts will be automatically applied at checkout.

 

Agenda

Day 1 – Monday, December 9, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. MT
Day 2 – Tuesday, December 10, 2024 | 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. MT

Meals provided: 

  • Day 1: Breakfast, lunch, and networking reception 
  • Day 2: Breakfast and lunch 

Day one sessions focus on leading self and others through self-reflection and self-learning as a foundation for building trust and include: 

  • Personal Definition of Leadership, Values, and Purpose 
  • Self-Awareness: Understanding Your Leadership Through the Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment  
  • Using the Five Paths to Create Effective and Collaborative Meetings  
  • Courageous Leadership: A Model for Leading from the Middle  
  • Building Effective Relationships: Empathy and Trust  

Day two sessions focus on skillfully leading teams through conflict and navigating power dynamics and include: 

  • Practical Conflict Resolution Skills for Leaders 
  • Navigating Power Dynamics 
  • The Courage to Challenge and Be Challenged  
  • Drafting Your Personal Professional Development Plan  

 

Location

Academic Impressions Office 
5299 DTC Blvd, Suite 1400 
Greenwood Village, CO 80111  

Recommended Hotels: 

Hyatt Place Denver Tech Center – 3-star hotel 
8300 E Crescent Pkwy, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 
303-804-0700 
Distance from office: 0.5 miles if driving, 0.3 miles if walking  

A room rate of $114/night is available if you book your room using this link.  

This reduced rate and room availability are subject to general hotel availability and not guaranteed. So, we recommend booking as soon as possible!  

Denver Marriott Tech Center – 4-star hotel
4900 S Syracuse St, Denver, CO 80237
303-779-1100
Distance from office: 0.9-1.2 miles, depending on route 

A 10% discount is available if you book your room using this link.  

This discount is subject to general hotel availability and not guaranteed. So, we recommend booking as soon as possible! 

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Sandra Miles, PhD

Head of Practice for Team Development, Academic Impressions

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