Increasing Your Leadership Quotient: Workshops for Educational Leaders

Designed for current and future school leaders, this series of self-paced courses focuses on the skills, tools, and techniques needed to lead effectively.  The series offers a unique synthesis of three different perspectives you wouldn’t typically find in leadership courses and provides participants with a practical approach to leadership.

Taught experienced leaders with diverse backgrounds, this series provides an exploration into personal leadership, team leadership, and leadership into the future with focus on assessment and application rather than on theory.

Workshops

• Leading Yourself and Others into the Future

  This foundations course introduces the seven C’s that connect leadership components that encompass elements such as communication and collaboration. It provides insights into personal and team leadership and how to prepare for possible future scenarios.

   Outcomes

  • Align personal core values with leadership actions
  • Create a personal leadership philosophy statement
  • Become aware of hidden challenges and barriers to effective leadership, mutual trust, and positive culture
  • Keep teams running optimally
  • Develop a futures-based mindset
  • Align your futuring quotient with your own and your organization’s preferable future

  Instructors:

  Dr. Rich Bernato, author of Future-Based Change Leadership and Planning by Futuring, Futuring as Planning: Using Your Futures Mindset to Develop Social Media Policy

  Dr. Ed Del Gaizo, organizational leadership expert and author of  High Performance Sales Organizations: Creating Competitive Advantage in the Global Marketplace: Achieving Competitive Advantage in the Global Marketplace

  Professor Sue Ryan, nationally recognized athletic coach who transitioned SBU's soccer program from D3 to D1 and helms the East Region US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program, where she leads over 50 coaches and 250 athletes

  Course Details:

  Asynchronous course, 15 CTLE credits, $149

• Personal and Professional Leadership Action

  This course provides a professional roadmap for individuals who wish to navigate an enriched personal and professional path. This course focuses on helping learners to understand themselves and to take action for further and future development. 

   Outcomes

  • Build a framework for self-awareness about leadership strengths and weakness and a personal strategy for leadership effectiveness
  • Explore fundamentals and proven leadership best practices that utilize techniques in leadership roles and responsibilities
  • Discover and consider the key aspects to being part of a team and how to successfully lead a team in multiple settings and situation
  •  Examine professional and personal leadership experiences through authentic learning activities

  Instructor: Sue Ryan

  Course Details:

  Asynchronous course, 15 CTLE credits, $149

  Registration link coming soon!

• Leading High Performing Teams

  Exceptional leaders assemble and direct a team that maintains a high level of effective performance. This course examines how leaders leverage the dynamics of their teams to achieve their goals. Topics such as team diversity of thought, creating a collaborative environment, establishing a shared vision, and facilitating effective self-motivation will be examined in depth.

  Outcomes

  • Develop teams where members strive to work toward a shared vision
  • Learn how effective leaders maximize an inclusive environment that values a variety of perspectives and talents
  • Keep teams motivated even through times of conflict or setbacks
  • Identify common dysfunctions that derail teams and strategies for avoiding or correcting them
  • Explore how leaders can apply appropriate strategies to manage various types of teams

  Instructor: Edward DelGaizo

  Course Details:

  Asynchronous course, 15 CTLE credits, $149

  Registration link coming soon!

• Futures-Based Change Leadership

  This course seeks to empower leaders to use effective combinations of futuring / planning decision theory, design thinking, collaborative leadership, systems’ disciplines, and dispositions. Through self-assessments, case study, and research projects, participants will enable their schools to effectively anticipate their emerging futures and make strategic decisions to take purpose-based actions that will align with their preferable futures.

   Outcomes

  • Recognize how an organization’s capacity to change is based on its ability to practice and master Futures Based Change Leadership
  • Recognize how a school’s capacity to change is based on its ability to practice and master Futures Based Change Leadership.
  • Connect their school’s ability to change with their dispositions and beliefs about the extent to which futuring is embedded in their practices.
  • Identify the sources of their individual and their school’s futures-mindset.
  • Recognize how Futuring’s Three P’s are served by specific futures forecasting skills and dispositions.

  Instructor: Richard Bernato

  Course Details:

  Asynchronous course, 15 CTLE credits, $149

  Registration link coming soon!