CCCS Leadership Academy

The first three sessions focus on self-awareness about leading. We begin with creating a leadership learning community as we mentor, coach and support each other. We will review leadership approaches and examine which philosophies are most relevant to you, your specific departments, centers, groups or units. By articulating your professional values we will connect how those values translate into the ways you want to lead and communicate. As leaders, gaining self-awareness and then reflecting about your own style will provide the foundational components of how to build trust with yourself and effective relationships with others. We will create a common language of leadership competencies and develop an individual plan to continue your leadership learning. Additionally, we will focus on emotional intelligence and the critical need for leaders to have the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

Activities

• Building Leadership Community
  • Leadership lessons from White Water Rafting & Ropes Course
  • Additional leadership activities for ADA and other needs
• Understanding Your Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding Your Strengths/Style
• Interpersonal Communications
• Individual Leadership Development Plan

With a clearer understanding of your strengths, styles and approaches as a leader, we will engage in skill-building sessions that enhance your interpersonal relationships. We will refresh your active listening skills that provide the backbone to effective interactions.

Your understanding about why you would give feedback and how to give feedback, offers insights and ways you can address the nuances about how others hear and respond to feedback. Creating an open culture that gives feedback productively allows the flow of work and creativity to move forward and increase learning from our experiences.

We will define and demystify conflict by identifying typical conflict styles for you as leader and for others that will support choices for constructive conversations. These conversations intend to increase your insights and use the effective behaviors, sensitive to how conflict addresses, resolves and engages creative solutions.

Our work in understanding the factors and dynamics that foster collaboration will energize meetings and discussions. Understanding your own motivators and the motivations of others reinforces meaningful and productive relationships and collaborations.

Mentoring and coaching addresses how to engage others in thinking and planning for accomplishments. Being able to know the difference between coaching and mentoring provides a comprehensive approach for empowering others. Knowing how to delegate key tasks and how to communicate and coach others to accomplish those tasks establishes a clear path for achievements.

Activities

• Listening Effectively
• Giving and Receiving Feedback
• Managing Conflict Effectively (Styles)
• Leading Difficult Conversations
  • Firing
  • Discipline
  • Selection Process
• Managing Confidentiality
• Building and Leading Teams with Equity
• Building and Fostering Collaboration
• Motivating Others
• Coaching
• Creative Thinking Training

In the third and final part of this program, we will create a brief peer review of all the topics to refresh the key concepts that focuses the creation of an individual leadership development plan. The individual leadership development plan will direct your own leadership growth priorities as you continue your leadership journey.

Activities

• Leadership Topics Review
• Succession Conversation with Presidents
• Lunch Speaker Series – Leadership in Action
• Leadership Development Plans
• Continuous Journey
• Mock Interviews with Coaches
• Celebration