Leadership and Self Deception: How to Think Out of the Box – School Administrators, Teachers – Educators move into school administration positions with perspectives and methods of interacting with others based upon experience, education, environment and multiple other factors. These factors serve to limit thinking, communication, creativity, vision, and problem solving ability. This development program empowers people to increase their influence and ability to lead others by equipping them with rationale, strategies and tools for thinking “out of the box” and increasing the performance, engagement, productivity, and creative problem solving of those they lead.
Top Down Management Style: Building or Bullying Your Organization?- School Administrators
Strong leaders of schools and school districts are often remembered long after they leave them, for better or worse. This development program, through the self reflection and personal discovery process, takes a long look at top down management. Recognizing that leaders must recognize their strengths and their weaknesses, it focuses on how and why the authoritarian leadership style often crosses the line into bullying. In crossing that line it often breaks rather than builds the organization. It helps the leader build personal improvement plan to sharpen and strengthen strategic organizational skills.
Moving Forward after the Loss of a Loved One – Funeral Directors
While many people are aware that grieving the loss of a loved one is a process, few are familiar with how to begin moving forward with life after suffering such a traumatic loss. This personal growth development program focuses on the realities of overcoming unfamiliar challenges faced by a survivor or survivor family. This program will serve to equip and empower those who are counseling clients starting out on a new path in life to be successful in overcoming the many challenges that lie ahead.
Leading and Facilitating Discussion Groups – School Administrators, Teachers
Group discussions can be extremely frustrating, and unproductive, if not guided correctly by a leader. Group dynamics must be managed constructively. This development program equips people with facilitation skills that are necessary to guide individuals within a discussion group to meaningful participation, engagement, and productivity resulting in increased management and employee engagement. The techniques explored are necessary additions to any administrators or teachers tool belt.
Possibility Thinking; How to Make the Shift- School Administrators
People and organizations are often plagued by limited thinking and doubt. Why is it that when we get an idea or set a goal we are initially excited and energetic then loose our enthusiasm and vision as we face the hurdles that are in our path? Equipping school and school district administrators with a strategy for maintaining a fresh perspective despite hurdles, and learning how to avoid the pitfalls that often destroy great ideas before they get off the drawing board is the subject of this program. Shift into possibility thinking and watch your schools take off!
