Top Level Leadership

TOP LEVEL LEADERSHIP

Here are just a few of the many companies that have found WCEDA's leadership courses valuable over the years. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see additional supporters.

WCEDA and its partner, Elizabeth Oplatka of Gateway Technical College’s Business and Workforce Solutions, are bringing together senior and executive-level managers, and those just realizing their potential, who are dedicated to creating not only the most technically proficient organizations but the healthiest, most nimble teams and dynamic organizational cultures.

This advanced leadership series isn’t a one-off course. We’re presenting an opportunity to join others and work with an expert in organizational psychology, organizational development and change leadership on building the human side of your business. We know that our local business community is the most technically capable out there. We also know that what prevents us from realizing our greatness has a human face.

A longitudinal study of more than 44,000 managers conducted in association with the U.S. Department of Labor shows that these human -- not technical-- capabilities pose the greatest existential threat to U.S. businesses.

Respecting differences
Compassion and sensitivity
Self-awareness
Conflict-resolution skills
Resourcefulness
Decisiveness
Change management
Building relationships
Participative management
Building leadership at all organizational levels

No trust falls here. No trite “inspiration”. Instead, we’ll work with the best practices available to set you – as a senior or executive leader of your organization – on a course that will take you forward through the life of your business.

Module I

8 hours classroom training

2 hours individual coaching

The Leader’s Job
The Qualities of Leadership
DiSC Behavioral Assessment
Beyond “Don’t Do That” – Feedback Communication that Works

Module II

10 hours classroom training

The Gorilla in the Room – Understanding How the Way We Give Direction has Unintended Consequences
Approaching Work with Emotional and Social Intelligences
Learning from our Mistakes – How to Build a Smart, Resilient Workforce
Coaching and Mentorship
Fear No Review! How to Deliver Formal Performance Feedback

Module III

10 hours classroom training

The Aligned Organization -- A New Approach to Accountability
Leading from the Center -- How to Become a More Team-centered Organization
Rethinking Conflict -- Moving Forward Together
The Good Fight – How to Encourage and Engage in a Good, Knock-down, Drag-out
Change Leadership

Module IV

10 hours classroom training

You Can’t Manage Time, but You Can Manage Energy
The Power of Difference
All About the Love -- Building Employee Engagement
The Future is Now

DiSC Behavioral Assessment

DiSC has emerged as the most reliable and valid of such assessments.

The DiSC Model is a simple tool that's been helping people to connect better over thirty years. This report uses your individual assessment data to provide a wealth of information about your workplace priorities and preferences. DiSC helps you determine your default behavioral "style" -- the ways in which you "act" when you are either at your most comfortable or your most stressed. It is not a personality assessment or some deep, dark probe into your psyche. Instead, the results are designed to help you and your colleagues understand how you work best and how you approach day-to-day interactions.

As part of DiSC assessment, your enrollment includes two hours of coaching with Liz Oplatka, a board-certified leadership coach and certified DiSC facilitator with experience conducting more than 500 such assessments.