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
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
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!
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!
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!
MEMBER DISTRICTS
We can customize these workshops for your leadership teams – complete with private
coaching sessions with our faculty – and deliver them online or in-person.
Sue currently teaches graduate classes in coaching education, leadership and higher education administration at Stony Brook University. Sue led the SBU Women's Soccer
program from 1985 to 2015 and grew the program from a NCAA Division III program to
a Division I.
Edward Del Gaizo
Edward has taught both classroom and online courses at several universities on a variety
of topics, including applied psychology, employee development, organization change,
human resources management, leadership, and research methodology.
Richard Bernato
Richard is dedicated to catalyzing interactive and research-based effective curricula
through instructional learning environments. He enters his fifty second year in schooling
that spans higher education, research, K-12 leadership roles, consulting and more.
