Human Resource Services
Training and Development - Coaching & Leadership
"The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority."
-Ken Blanchard
Leadership is about coaching your employees to success, helping them develop their strengths, not their weaknesses, and fostering employee involvement and empowerment to enable them to contribute their best effort at work. Additionally, leaders should understand the differences between leading and managing and understand different leadership styles. Leadership styles should be situational and depend on the task, the team or individual's capabilities and knowledge, the time and tools available, and the results desired.
Who should participate in the Coaching & Leadership Learning Module?
- Leaders and aspiring leaders of work teams
- Managers and supervisors needing to enhance their coaching abilities within their management responsibilities
- Employees seeking to identify their leadership abilities
What are the goals of the Coaching & Leadership Learning Module?
- To help participants determine their own leadership abilities
- To provide a series of workshops intended to increase the leadership and coaching skills of managers and supervisors
- To introduce various leadership styles and techniques that inspire participants to practice in their work environments
- To express the differences between management and leadership
Enrolling in the Diversity Learning Module (certification track)
- Workshops within this learning module may be taken individually as needed or as part of the focused curriculum. Upon completion of any learning module, participants are awarded a Certificate of Achievement from HRS. Participation in any or all of the provided learning modules may be included in an employee’s professional development and/or PMP plans designed by employees and their supervisors.
- To enroll in the certification track and complete all workshops within this learning module, you should complete the Supervisors Approval Form. This form, when completed on-line, is automatically forwarded to your supervisor for approval of your participation. Once the training and development office receives this approval back from your supervisor, you will be sent an enrollment confirmation by e-mail.
- After completing the approval form, sign-up for workshops within this learning module by clicking here.
Individual workshop-only registration (non-certification)
If you would simply like to participate in an individual workshop and not complete an entire learning module, you may register for workshops within this and other learning modules by visiting the HRS Workshop Registration Page.
Workshops and Descriptions in the Coaching & Leadership Learning Module
| Title | Brief Description | Facilitator |
|---|---|---|
| Recognizing the Leader in You | This workshop develops your leadership skills by using "followership" as a method to determine your leadership abilities. You will learn to identify and apply skills of other effective leaders, work with negative emotions, deal with value challenged, and still gain followers. Note: This is a 2-day workshop. |
Jason Morris |
| Painless Performance Improvement | Great leaders "coach" when addressing performance related issues, not simply discipline. This workshop introduces a six-step technique that helps address poor performance issues while focusing on behaviors and not attitudes. | Jason Morris |
| Time Management | You can’t lead if you don’t have the time to do so! Techniques for prioritizing and managing tasks more effectively are discussed during this workshop. | Jason Morris |
| Situational Leadership | Ken Blanchard’s One Minute Manager and Situational Leadership emphasizes that there is no one right leadership style, but instead a combination of styles should be practiced based on your specific employees and task at hand. | Jason Morris |
| Psychology in the Workplace | This workshop investigates employee motivation, attitudes and behavior, and occupational health from a psychological perspective. | Grant Buckner/Jason Morris |
| Making it a Winning Team; What’s Trust Got to do With it? | The importance of team trust and the behaviors necessary for achieving that trust to enable leaders to build stronger, more cohesive teams is discussed during this workshop. | Jason Morris |
| Would I Work for Me? | Recognizing the impact of a leader’s behavior on the success and productivity of the team. | Jason Morris |
| Whale Done! Building a Positive Workplace | The power of positive relationships in the workplace and its effect on productivity, moral, and employee success. | Jason Morris |
| Managing Change | Research shows that, in general, people resist change – even good change – and are often caught off balance when it occurs. How about you? | Jason Morris |