Leadership for Learning Seminar

Description of Seminars

There are two versions of the seminar. 

 

The Regular seminar is for individuals.  

 

They can be from any organization that is, or intends to become, a learning organization.  These individuals may just want to learn what this means.  These seminars are held in different cities, arranged to minimize travel for the largest number of students.  The participants pay their travel and hotel expenses, and stay in the hotel where the seminar is held.

 

The On-site seminar is for teams.  

 

They may be a leadership, functional or program-focused team.  It is conducted in your conference room and saves you the cost of travel and hotel for participants.  The on-site version of the seminar is the highest value both because its cost in training dollars is the lowest, and because it is customized to your leadership, functional or programmatic team.  The on-site seminar includes a gap survey of your leadership and organizational challenges, and team exercises in which the participating leaders develop plans to close those gaps.  We are the only instructors to offer the seminar which includes this customization and gap survey feature, or this type of team exercise.

The seminar helps Corps members be effective leaders.  This interactive seminar addresses and gives practical tools for:

 

 - mastering continual change,

 - developing oneself, and

 - transforming work and culture.

  

Participants learn to be more effective at these interrelated challenges of leadership today.

 

Seminar participants understand their assumptions about leadership, and whether these help or hinder them in their work.  They understand how leadership today is different than it was, and why.  Seminar participants discover their own strengths and personality as leaders in today’s world.  They learn the importance of building on their and others’ strengths, rather than becoming frustrated trying to repair weaknesses.  In this way they learn to build effective teams.

 

Every year billions of dollars are spent on leadership development, but few of these programs distinguish between knowledge, skill or personal development.  And these courses miss entirely organizational learning.  Participants have said Leadership for Learning is not a typical course because it is not gimmicky.   It is comprehensive, and provides a systematic approach to leadership in the Corps of Engineers.

The seminar engages Corps leaders about:

  

- How to create a common language of leadership effectiveness in their team.

 

 

- How leaders create learning for enhanced organizational innovation and performance.

   

- The selection and development of leaders.

 

 

- The Context Corps leaders operate in today, the Logic necessary for success, and the Leadership Process for organizational change.

 

- Using the leadership tools the seminar provides to move their organization forward.