LEADERSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOPS

The following workshops are designed to be presented in a two hour time period. Those marked (*) are also available in a one hour format.

Management Styles
Identifies traits of successful leaders and provides the opportunity to learn about your own leadership styles. Teaches how to assess the type of leadership (directing, coaching, supporting or delegating) each employee needs. Through small group exercises, you evaluate an employee's supervision needs and learn how to give constructive feedback.

Goal Setting and Career Planning
By completing fact-finding exercises, you discover your life purpose and how that purpose affects your career goals. You will learn strategies to establish and clarify career goals and develop a plan to achieve these goals.

Dealing with Gender Bias
Explores issues central to the advancement of women in the workplace, and identifies strategies to counteract external (organization) barriers such as stereotyping and discrimination, and internal (personal) barriers such as patience, sensitivity, risk aversion and fear.

Presentation Skills*
Identifies characteristics of effective speakers and teaches skills for organizing a powerful presentation. It identifies ways to help you relax and feel comfortable, and how to engage your audience during your presentation.

Interpersonal Communications
Identifies personality types and communication styles (Intuitor, Sensor, Thinker, Feeler). You also learn how to identify your own style and those of others. Small groups explore the communication styles, their limitations and advantages, and how cooperation is gained. You learn how to communicate more effectively with those who have each communication style.

Male/Female Communication
Learn how gender socialization and personality preferences affect communication styles. Small group exercises will help develop your strategies for everyday use, along with seven guidelines to improve male/female communication.

Negotiating Conflict Situations*
Enables you to become comfortable with conflict by identifying the problems, the parties, and the process for resolution. Conflict styles--competition, accommodation, avoidance, compromise, and collaboration--are explained. Group exercises enable you to practice dealing with conflict and learn new strategies to change behavior.

Collaborative Skills: Building Effective Teams
Introduces you to the concept of collaboration defines and describes effective teams, and provides an opportunity to solve a problem in a group exercise. Characteristics of a collaborative environment are demonstrated. 'Me session closes with a commitment from you about a future action/ behavior.

Personal and Professional Balance*
Teaches you to recognize when you are "out of balance," and how to analyze the appropriate alignment between activities, goals and values. Relationships and support systems are also identified to enable you to get what you want out of life.

Facilitation Skills*
Teaches you to understand group behaviors and enables you to learn the skills needed to conduct workshops and lead meetings. With the use of large and small group discussion and role-playing, participants learn to be effective in a group meeting both as leaders and as members of the group.

Mentoring Relationships
Examines the mentoring relationship from the perspective of the mentor, the mentoree and the organization. The objectives are to define mentoring; to explore the steps to creating a relationship; to identify the career enhancement opportunities: to learn how to promote oneself; and to discuss the complexities of cross-gender mentoring.

Delegation Skills
Explores the art of delegating effectively and identifies the skills necessary to be most effective as a manager in the accounting profession. The objectives are to define delegation, what it is, what hinders delegation and how to assign tasks and responsibilities to others; to learn the essential management skills of delegation; and to apply coaching principles to ensure success in the delegation process.

Essential Skills for Managing Change
Examines how to deal with internal and external changes in the working environment.

Resolving Ethical Issues
Discusses how to apply principles to the resolution of business ethical dilemmas. A case approach allows participants to begin with and intuitive or instinctive way of resolving issues. Next, systemic ways of understanding, decoding, and addressing ethical issues are discussed.