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10-Week Leadership Series   

Adapting/Developing Your Leadership Style 

Learn leadership qualities, styles, and behaviors to build rapport. motivate, and provide feedback effectively by recognizing style differences in others and providing constructive feedback. 

Communicating as a Manager 

Master communication strategies amid change and uncertainty through active listening, setting expectations, collaborative discussions, and guiding employees in learning new tasks. 

Developing Your Direct Reports

Distinguish between performance management and coaching while focusing on strengths. Learn to guide positive discussions and create individual development plans using diverse coaching methods like mentoring, job rotation, and delegation. 

Why We Struggle with Tough Decisions

Differentiate tough decisions, explore the emotions-decision link, and employ strategies for overcoming concerns and implementing change, including dealing with a fear of failure and delivering difficult messages.

Navigating Difficult Conversations 

Build trust with empathetic language, initiate positive conversations, deliver messages tactfully, practice effective listening, cope with difficult responses, generate alternatives, and follow up for relationship enhancement and minimizing negativity. 

Taking Control of Conflict 

Learn the five conflict management strategies, their appropriate usage, create a resolution plan, and establish expectations for preventing unnecessary conflict through clear communication and modeling right behaviors. 

Creative Problem Solving 

Navigate criticism. manage creative individuals, understand humor's impact. and sustain innovation amidst business challenges while addressing misconceptions and applying problem­solving laws and risk-taking techniques. 

Skillful Collaboration

Learn to recognize collaboration opportunities, set expectations, develop a collaborative mindset, navigate behaviors. strengthen networks, involve key players, define objectives, foster culture, and address obstacles. 

Creating Chemistry in Team 

Identify communication traits. assess strengths, set goals. Foster balanced team communication. accountability, integrity, connectedness, and confidence. Capitalize on creativity, improve skills, combat conflict. use user stories for outcomes. 

**Workplace DiSC Assessment and Training

The DiSC Workplace assessment evaluates workplace preferences and communication styles, categorizing participants into Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. This session guides participants in interpreting and applying insights for improved workplace interactions, fostering discussions, encouraging self-reflection, and developing strategies aligned with their DiSC styles. 

For more information call: 859-815-7796 or email: GW-WorkforceSolutions@kctcs.edu 
**Price includes DiSC Assessment ($90.00 value) and printed course materials ($50.00 Value) 

 
  • 10-Week Leadership Series

  • Item Number: GT2510WL1013

  • Fee: $499.00

  • Instructor: Heather Abbott

    Capacity Remaining: 25

  • Dates: 1/14/2025 - 3/18/2025

    Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Sessions: 10

    Days: Tu

  • Building: Truist Classroom & Training Building

    Room: 202

  • Deadline to register for course is January 13, 2025.

    Classes will be held in the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (Boone campus) building - Room B104-A.

 

  • 10-Week Leadership Series

  • Item Number: GT2510WL1014

  • Fee: $499.00

  • Instructor: Heather Abbott

    Capacity Remaining: 25

  • Dates: 4/8/2025 - 6/10/2025

    Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Sessions: 10

    Days: Tu

  • Building: Truist Classroom & Training Building

    Room: 202

  • Deadline to register for course is April 7, 2025.

    Classes will be held in the Center for Advanced Manufacturing (Boone campus) building - Room B104-A.

 

  • 10-Week Leadership Series

  • REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
  • Item Number: GT2510WL1015

  • Fee: $449.00

  • Instructor: Heather Abbott

    Capacity Remaining: 0

  • Dates: 10/1/2024 - 12/10/2024

    Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Sessions: 10

    Days: Tu

  • Building:

    Room:

 

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