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UNDERSTAND, STRENGTHEN, AND ADAPT YOUR STYLE
Strengthen your leadership ability through a variety of exercises, resulting in personal reflection, learning, and action planning. Improve your understanding of contextual demands and how different leadership styles and behaviors best meet those demands. Draw out personal learning based on tangible opportunities to practice the art of leadership.
What You'll Learn
Leadership Fundamentals
- Critical distinctions between leading and managing
- Qualities and characteristics that make people effective leaders in different situations
- Identify your preferred leadership style and strengths
- Identify skills or behaviors you can develop to effectively practice a range of leadership styles
Improving Your Performance of Essential Leadership Activities
- Motivating people to engage and excel in their work roles
- Providing feedback that gets heard and acted upon
- Evaluating and rewarding people in ways that are fair and effective
- Creating a culture of candor so people can speak up (with new ideas, with feedback)
- Influencing and persuading people to embrace change
Attending this Course
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Individuals
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Teams
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Requirements & Credit
There are no prerequisites for this course. Participants earn 2.8 CEUs and/or 28 CPEs for this course, as well as a certificate of completion. Our classes are available for university credit. Please contact us for more information.
Course Schedule
Monday: 1pm-4:30pm
Tuesday-Thursday: 8:30am-4:30pm
Friday: 8:30am - 12pm
The overall curriculum and professors were great! I have a lot of take-aways I can use immediately at work and home.
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Reimbursement Options
Learn more about course credits and options for course reimbursement. Get tips on the best way to approach your manager and download a customizable template to facilitate making the ask.
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Course Location
In person courses take place at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and adjoining Rowling Hall on the UT campus in Austin. These world-class facilities provide a comfortable and convenient learning environment, with direct access to the 40 acres of campus and within walking distance of downtown Austin. Live online and on-demand course options are available for many courses.
Additional Courses
Advocacy, Influence, and Power
Good ideas don’t sell themselves – they must be sold! Become a more influential leader by developing a better understanding of how to effectively advocate for your ideas and vision.
Building Engagement: What Leaders Do to Manage Talent and Build Allegiance
Analyze and discuss what leaders worldwide do on a daily basis that makes them successful.
Cultivating Ethical Company Culture
Creating Competitive Advantage Through Ethical Decision Making
Fostering Innovation and Creativity
Undertake the fundamental challenge of capitalizing on your existing capabilities while exploring innovations to support your future.
Leading and Motivating Dispersed Teams
Examine what it takes to successfully work with, and lead, distanced teams. Acquire critical skills leaders and members of a virtual team need for creating, maintaining and motivating successful virtual teams.
Leading Change
Sharpen your leadership acumen, learn to anticipate and adapt to change, and clearly articulate your vision to a diversified team.
Leading High Performance Teams
Be an effective leader. Know how to generate group cohesiveness, mutual respect and support, and company loyalty.
Negotiation and Collaborative Decision Making
A hands-on approach to enhancing your negotiation and collaboration capabilities, equipping you to drive better outcomes in challenging one-on-one and multi-party situations.
Resources
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Developing Trust in Leadership: Challenges of Today's Work Relationships
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Characteristics of a Leader: Advice from Two Straight-Shooting Female CEOs
What makes great leaders stand out? Receive authentic insights from two women who have been in the trenches and succeeded through good times and bad. -
Push and Pull: Understanding Resistance to Change
Understanding how your team works allows you to anticipate resistance before starting a change initiative.