Leadership Development Program

The Leadership Development Program examines the attitudes and core competencies of leaders in contemporary organizations, assesses the skill sets of the participants, and engages participants in learning process designed enhance current and build new competencies. Too often organizations or institutions, place individuals in leadership positions without providing the support or mentoring needed for a successful transition into a leadership role. In response to this need Organization Development created a Leadership Development Program which examines leadership on an individual and organizational level. 

Based on traditional and emerging management principles, the training provides opportunities for supervisors and managers to experience and examine leadership from a multi-dimensional perspective that includes concepts, experiential learning, and practical application.  The training is designed to consider leadership in the context of daily interactions with all levels of the organization/institution and incorporates case study analysis, group exercises, role play, and presentations. The core training modules for this program can be presented as a complete course or as individual modules. CEUs will be awarded to those participants who complete the Leadership Development courses.

What Are They Doing and Why?  
Session One – Understanding Self and Others - assesses the skills needed by managers and employees in contemporary organizations using Myers-Briggs. Attendees gain knowledge and understanding of self and others and learn how this knowledge and understanding helps to lead and motivate others.   

What Now?
Session Two – Situational Leadership – utilizes a situational leadership model and case studies to provide the context for gaining knowledge and practical experience to effectively adapt leadership style when needed, to understand leadership from the individual, team and organization perspective and to examine power, politics and influence in organizations.

What’s Right? What’s Wrong?
Session Three – Ethics – considers ethical behaviors and decisions in the framework of moral reasoning, organizational citizenship, workplace civility/respect, situational dynamics, and State of New Jersey policies and guidelines. 

How Do I Do That? Why Do I Do That?
Session Four – Learning Combination Inventory (LCI), Multiple Intelligence (IQ) Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Social Intelligence (SQ) – serve as the conceptual and experiential context for a highly interactive format to understand and improve learning, leadership and management techniques. 

What Do I Say? How Do I Say It?
Session Five – Essentials of Communication – leads to an understanding of the dynamics of communication as a leadership competency beginning with how individuals perceive and process verbal and non-verbal messages and ending with the role of managers as coaches and mentors.

How Can I Resolve This?
Session Six – Conflict Resolution; Same Problem Different Day – identifies the causes of conflict, the values of conflict, constructive and destructive conflict styles, individual preferences for dealing with conflict, and techniques for resolving conflict. 

What Do I Need To Know and Do? 
Session Seven – Management Skills – effective, objective performance management approaches are discussed along with the effective and efficient management of organizational resources, classification of employees, and institutional, state and federal employment regulations.