Enhance Your Leaderships Skills and Performance
The Madison College Leadership Academy will help you understand human behavior, improve productivity and manage relationships effectively at all levels of your organization.
Learn how to address challenges and find opportunities with practical tools and strategies you can apply right away.
In person, starting September 12 and October 9!
Madison Location - Rural Mutual Insurance Company
Thursday, 8 am - 4 pm (Lunch at 12-1)
Dates: 9/12-10/17
Fort Atkinson Campus
Wednesday, 8 am - 4 pm (Lunch at 12-1)
Dates: 10/9, 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4 & 12/18
Cost: $650
- Madison Location
Rural Mutual Insurance Company - 1241 John Q. Hammons Drive
- Madison, WI 53717
- Fort Atkinson Campus
827 Banker Road
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
Is your employer going to pay for your class?
Please have them complete the Third Party Authorization Form
Leadership Academy Session Topics
Explore eleven leadership topics and earn a digital badge.
- Essentials of Leadership
- Communicating with Impact
- Situational Leadership
- Engagement, Empowerment and Delegation
- Developing Workplace Culture and DEI
- Navigating Change
- Performance Management
- Coaching and Talent Development
- Critical Thinking and Decision Making
- Navigating Conflict
- Strategic Leadership
Earn a Leadership Academy Digital Badge
After completing Leadership Academy, you will be awarded a digital badge. Digital Badges have encoded metadata that validate your qualifications and can be displayed on social media platforms such as LinkedIn. With a digital badge you will:
- Give employers and your network a more detailed look at your abilities and qualifications.
- Demonstrate that continuous education and improvement are important to you.
- Share your verifiable skills and achievements in a visual way.
Leadership Academy Session Details
Essentials of Leadership
- Understand role as a supervisor or manager
- Identify key skills, traits and characteristics
- Identify ways to help transition and potential pitfalls
- Setting the tone, direction, and pace
- Determining and communicating expectations
Communicating with Impact
- Examine communication as a process and where common breakdowns occur
- Understand communication styles and the application of assertive communication
- Differentiate listening styles and those most appropriate for employees and clients
- Learn how effective framing of messages leads to trust
Situational Leadership
- Learn fundamentals of situational leadership
- Learn four basic leadership styles and behaviors
- Learn to identify employee stages of development
- Learn which style works best in different situations
Engagement, Empowerment and Delegation
- Understand impact of organizational culture
- Learn to engage and enable others
- Understand the value and process of delegation
- Address barriers to delegation
- Identify best practices for intentional empowerment and delegation
Developing Workplace Culture and DEI
- Define workplace culture
- Learn what makes workplace culture
- Understand the link between leadership and culture
- Explore key elements and learn how to develop positive, productive, engaging workplace cultures
Navigating Change
- Assess your organizations readiness and willingness to change
- Understand the driving and restraining forces of change
- Review common barriers and resistance to change and how to deal with them
- Understand why change initiatives fail and how to prevent failure
- Learn effective ways to lead and manage change initiatives
Performance Management
- Understand the components of Performance Management
- Identify employee performance and gaps
- Learn to develop SMART goals
- Learn to prepare and conduct employee feedback sessions
- Role of precedence and past practice
Coaching and Talent Development
- Learn and understand role in talent development
- Learn and apply coaching skills and strategies
- Learn methods of coaching based on time and purpose
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
- Understand the basics of effective critical thinking
- Learn the characteristics and techniques that lead to enhanced critical thinking
- Better understand how decision making and problem-solving impact performance and organizational effectiveness
- Explore basic problem-solving methodologies and tools
Navigating Conflict
- Explore the most common causes of workplace conflict
- Examine barriers to effective conflict resolution
- Examine different conflict modes and personal conflict style
- Learn strategies and a process to address conflict
Strategic Leadership
- Strategic thinking, seeking creative, workable solutions
- Strategic leadership, ability to motivate and influence others
- Key skills, traits and practices of strategic thinkers and leaders
- Best practices for thinking and leading strategically
- How strategic thinking and leading improves an organization’s effectiveness