These half-day seminars may be taken individually or as part of the Certificate in Strategic Leadership. Each may be customized and offered onsite for an organization.
Please click on the title to learn more about each seminar:
Influencing Others
• Strategies for Negotiating Effectively with Others
• Leading Effectively in a Matrix Organization
Strategic Thinking
• Leadership Essentials: Vision, Passion & Empowerment
• Promoting Personal and Organizational Success by Asking the Right Questions
Building Relationships
• Learn to Use Office Politics to Achieve Organizational Goals
• Using Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
• Essential Leadership Skills for a Global Business Environment
Building a Team
• Building and Managing Today’s Global Work Teams
• Coaching Employees to Maximize Performance & Potential
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Seminar descriptions:
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Given the centrality of negotiations in the workplace, individuals who apply key negotiating principles can increase their success. Blending practical lessons with research findings improves negotiation outcomes. Participants will learn about preparing for negotiations, diagnosing negotiating situations, matching strategies to the situation, negotiating styles, making concessions, developing alternatives, building trust, and persuading others. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program.) |
Leading Effectively in a Matrix Organization
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Matrix organizations exist to: innovate; capture synergies; create flexible and streamlined processes; address complexity, uncertainty, rapid change and diminishing resources; bring the business process closer to the customer; and drive sustainable growth. Achieving these goals can create a strong competitive advantage. However, leading a matrix organization effectively presents complex challenges for front line and middle managers. Role ambiguity, communications issues, the need to lead without authority while juggling multiple reporting chains, and competition for resources are just the tip of the iceberg. This seminar will help leaders transition to a matrix mind set and matrix leadership skills to address these critical challenges. Through structured discussions, role plays and case studies, participants will explore leading from an enterprise perspective - across as well as up; collaborating to build cooperative relationships; developing influence; aligning goals; clarifying roles and accountabilities, and streamlining decision-making. Presenter: Ann Gowdey, MSW, is president of Ann Gowdey Consulting, LLC, a Connecticut based consulting firm specializing in executive coaching and leadership development. Ann has over 25 years experience in leadership roles in business, government, and human services. In her consulting role, Ann has coached over 300 executives, managers and HR professionals in Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 businesses. Ann is a founding member of The Conference Board's Council on Executive Coaching and co-author of Guidelines and Ethical Considerations for Assessment Center Operations, 1989. Her speaking engagements include the DDI International Congress on Assessment Center Methods and the society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. |
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During times of transition and change, effective leaders have the ability to envision positive new directions for their organization and to inspire and empower their employees to be productive, innovative and creative as they work in a changing environment. This seminar is designed to explore and develop the characteristics of vision, passion and empowerment as a foundation for leadership. Integrating techniques from the field of entrepreneurship, participants will have the opportunity to understand and practice current methodologies that foster innovation, creativity, vision and passion and to relate these qualities to their leadership development. These personal attributes will then be examined as the foundation for inspiring and empowering others. Participants will also review how successful leaders consistently manifest these personal qualities and implement them as part of their organizational strategies. Additional fee of $15 for the book “The Passion Test”. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program). |
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Promoting Personal and Organizational Success by Asking the Right Questions
| Tue., Apr. 23 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon |
This seminar is ideal for managers, supervisors and project team leaders in business, non-profits and educational organizations who want to learn effective communication strategies to promote change, build engagement and grow winning teams. Participants will learn about the origins, art and practice of Appreciative Inquiry including the 4-D Method of Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry is an asset-based approach to planning and problem solving that starts with the belief that every organization and every person in an organization has positive aspects that can be built upon. Strategies for leveraging different styles of communication and types of listening to draw on potential strengths for promoting change and growing winning teams will be examined. During this session, participants will be asked to discuss real situations they currently face at work. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program.) Presenter: Diane Winston, MBA, is a communications professional with over 25 year of corporate experience with companies that include Citibank, AXA Financial and Pitney Bowes. She has led global initiatives impacting internal and external clients as well as defined revenue-impacting strategies for products, projects and change management efforts. After several years as a freelance consultant, she established Winston Strategic Partners, LLC, a specialized business strategy and communications consulting firm based in Norwalk, Connecticut. The firm’s clients include large corporations, small businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals. At the individual level, Winston provides coaching on presentation and communications skills for executives, writes their speeches and develops their presentations. She earned a certificate from the Executive Education Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago, and a BA in political science from New York University. |
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Learn to Use Office Politics to Achieve Organizational Goals
| TBD | Wonder why some people always get their ideas heard and acted on and others don’t? Want to have more influence on decisions in your organization? Need greater informal power to get your job done? You may not like office politics; however, organizational savvy is an essential competency for successful performance in any organization. In this personally powerful seminar, you will discover your organization savvy strengths and development opportunities by completing the “Organizational Savvy Self-Assessment” as pre-work. You will be introduced to techniques for recognizing a range of political styles. Then, through entertaining role plays, you will learn to adapt to the political style preferences of decision-makers in your organization. You will return to your job able to use political savvy ethically to execute organizational objectives, put forward your ideas with influence, and avoid missteps that could hurt your career. Additional fee of $25 for “Organizational Savvy Self-Assessment”. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program.) Presenter: Ann Gowdey, MSW, is president of Ann Gowdey Consulting, LLC a Connecticut based consulting firm specializing in executive coaching and leadership development. Ann has over 25 years experience in leadership roles in business, government, and human services. In her consulting role, Ann has coached over 300 executives, managers and HR professionals in Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 businesses. Ann is a founding member of The Conference Board’s Council on Executive Coaching and co-author of Guidelines and Ethical Considerations for Assessment Center Operations, 1989. Her speaking engagements include the DDI International Congress on Assessment Center Methods and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. |
Using Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
| Tues., Feb. 19 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon |
Emotional Intelligence describes an ability and/or skill to perceive, assess and manage one’s emotions, interpersonal interactions, and relationships with groups in order to become more effective in dealing with people in the workplace and in personal life. In this seminar, participants will have the opportunity to evaluate their current level of emotional competence as assessed by the “Emotional and Social Competency Inventory”, interpret the results, and examine avenues to increase this competency. Small group exercises and skill practice activities will further demonstrate how one can increase emotional competence. (Additional $18 fee for the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory and Workbook.) (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program.) Presenter: Frank Bellizi, PhD, is a Professor of Management at Quinnipiac University including eight years as director of the BIC Leadership Development Program. He is the founding director of Associates for Consulting and Training which provides management and supervisory development training for business, industry, educational and health care institutions, as well as local, state and federal governments. His current areas of interest and research include emotional intelligence, leadership development, executive and managerial coaching, and self management. |
Essential Leadership Skills for a Global Business Environment
| TBD | In today’s world, developing the competencies required to operate in a global business environment is an imperative for strategic leadership. This seminar explores 10 key dimensions that characterize the essence of a global leadership perspective and a framework for understanding multiculturalism. In addition, your global awareness and competencies will be assessed and developed to prepare you to analyze multicultural situations and identify appropriate solutions to business and social challenges you may face as a manager. The implications of the model for management decision making, communication, negotiation, hierarchy, protocol and organizational development will be explored. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program). |
Building and Managing Today’s Global Work Teams
| TBD | In today's global marketplace, many leaders manage a distributed workforce made up of remote team members in various distant locations. The effective leader knows how to build and work with such a team. This seminar will address the issues of managing a team not only remotely but also cross-culturally and cross-functionally. The issues, logistics and planning for such a team will be discussed and strategies for involving, managing, influencing and empowering remote team members will be presented. Strategies for leading ad hoc project teams will also be discussed. Presenter: Andrea Lanese, MBA, has worked for nearly twenty years in human resources management and corporate human resources in a variety of functional areas. She is Corporate Director of Leadership, Staffing and Organizational Development at Barnes Group, Inc. Prior to joining the Barnes Group, she worked as Director of Human Resources at United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney and Otis Elevator divisions. In those positions, she developed corporate-wide strategies to enhance current and future talent and designed and developed leadership programs. Andrea began her career with the Travelers Corporation in their Corporate Compensation department. Her extensive background in leadership development and organizational planning is augmented by her MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2008, Andrea completed the External Coaching Intensive Certification Program from Columbia University. Her undergraduate in Business Administration is from the University of Connecticut. She is a member of the Society of Human Resources Management, the Human Resources Planning Society and the American Society of Training and Development. |
Coaching Employees to Maximize Performance & Potential
| TBD | Managers and supervisors play a vital role in developing employees to meet the changing needs of the organization. In the current economy, using coaching effectively can improve an employee’s performance and enable a manager to build on their employee’s strengths for the benefit of the organization. This seminar prepares participants to coach employees on their career development plans by teaching skills in preparing for coaching, conducting an effective coaching session, helping employees identify their strengths and their skills gaps, and utilizing the coaching process to position employees to be strong contributors to the organization. (Seminar in Certificate in Strategic Leadership program.) |
