Classroom Training The Leadership Initiative experience begins with a classroom component.  Groups of 24 - 30 participants will move through the program together.  Classes will form into smaller learning communities.  This achieves several objectives:  1 -- It begins to build a culture of collegiality among the County's leadership    2 -- It reinforces a larger collaborative "corporate" County culture    3 -- It assists participants in building a network of peers across the County.	Personal Assessments In order to open perspectives about yourself so that you have the information to become more self-aware, the Leadership Initiative begins the training with a series of "confidential" assessments for each participant.		Developing Crucial Conversation (Dialogue) Skills Extraordinary communication is at the heart of a leader's ability to create an open environment in which information flows freely.  It helps create trust which builds employee, peer & stakeholder relationships.  Communication is a the heart of effective strategic planning, change management, commitment building, conflict resolution, delegation, team building, empowerment, employee involvement, negotiations, and problem solving.
Mentoring Most successful leaders have a trusted & respected mentor who has helped guide them along the development path.  You will partner with a trained mentor.  And, later, you can reinforce your leadership abilities by choosing to become a mentor.  & Coaching Support is the key to change.  Coaches play an active role in orienting the leadership candidate to the realities of the organization, and helps him or her remove barriers to optimum performance while maintaining personal and prefessional integrity.  Coaching is usually a short-term generative process, and is a way of understanding and working with people in their "wholeness" and belief systems.		Organization Development Training Successful planning and management of "change" requires an understanding of the organization's culture, department, division, or work unit as a system of smaller systems.  Participants will learn the baiscs of managing through systems, and will learn the tools necessary to successfully "change" an orgainzations' culture, strategy, and design by using the theories, principals, techniques, and tools of organizational development.
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