This year-long series is designed for experienced and emerging leaders within the behavioral healthcare field who seek to energize and enhance their leadership abilities. The training assesses and explores leadership style through the use of instruments designed to provide students with targeted feedback. Using active learning techniques, participants explore leadership from the perspective of self, others, and organizational change. Participants discover their level of emotional intelligence and its impact on leadership. Systems thinking is the central core competency infused throughout the course.

Upon completion of the course participants are able to:

• Identify their ranking on High Potential Attribute Scale along three axis of ability, aspiration, and engagement
• Understand the four premises of Relationship Awareness
• Know their Valued Relating Style as indicated by Strengths Deployment Inventory
• Apply the premises of Valued Relating Style to styles of leadership
• Know how conflict may change their Valued Relating Style and the impact on leadership
• Understand the concepts of modeling, inspiring vision, innovation and risk-taking, fostering collaboration, and developing others as it relates to inspired leadership
• Know the impact of Emotional Intelligence on leadership by assessing self through the lens of the emotional intelligence competence framework.
• Use self to begin developing learning organizations by understanding concepts of personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning all within the core competency of systems thinking
• Compare and contrast management versus leadership
• Apply an eight-step process to change management while understanding the stages of change process of ending, neutral zone, and new beginnings.