The Advancing Your People Leadership Skills Series, brought to us by CTA of Michigan, Inc. is designed to help faculty practice the critical skills they need to move beyond survival, to thrive in their leadership roles, and ultimately retain amazing people. 

This brand new pilot series was designed a la carte for faculty to take the courses that best fit their needs when they need it. It is not required to attend all of the sessions in the series. Those who complete all 4 stand-alone sessions will receive a Certification of Completion. Each session targets common difficult situations that many leaders encounter, while providing tools and opportunities to practice responding effectively to these various situations.

Overall Series Workshop Objectives

• Explain your leadership values and how that relates to managing people
• Practice skills used to determine which tasks can be delegated and when to delegate
• Demonstrate how to write objective and factual performance appraisals
• Determine how to conduct check-in coaching sessions with employees
• Identify new ways to motivate their employees, peers and supervisor(s)
• Recognize your own conflict style as well as others whom you will engage with

Facilitator

Lori A. Aemisegger
Corporate Training Associates of Michigan, Inc. (CTA of Michigan, Inc.)
VitalSmarts & Wiley Master Trainer

Sessions

All sessions for this pilot will be held on Zoom.

Handling the Tough People Leadership Stuff
Monday, September 9 | 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

The Handling the Tough People Leadership Stuff session uses common leadership case studies to create opportunities for participants to practice how to handle uncomfortable conversations, hold people accountable, and determine when is the best time and ways to delegate. A portion of the session will focus on identifying your leadership values and how to establish positive intent during these different conversations. Upon completion of this module, participants will have a strong sense of their leadership values and increased confidence in their ability to delegate.

Performance Appraisals & How to Have the Right Conversation
Monday, October 14 | 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

The Performance Appraisals session focuses on how performance appraisals can be effectively used to coach and develop a high performing team. During the session, participants will use case studies to hone their conversational skills to become more objective in their feedback and build their confidence in saying the tough stuff.   Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to write honest, objective,actionable and compassionate performance appraisals.

Coaching Towards Retention
Monday, November 4 | 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Retention and Coaching focuses on how to retain employees through coaching, motivation techniques and feedback. The session will offer practice with case studies and participants will receive resources with questions to ask that get results. Listening techniques will also be taught so that participants can listen to understand. Upon completion of this module participants will have the resources and practice to motivate and retain their team.

Productive Conflict & How to Proactively Curb Destructive Behaviors
Monday, December 9 | 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Productive Conflict is intended to improve self-awareness around conflict behaviors. Rather than focusing on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, Everything DiSC Productive Conflict provides participants with techniques to curb destructive behaviors and effectively respond to conflict situations. Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to understand their own conflict style as well as other people they interact with.