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4 Thursdays: 10/1, 10/15, 10/29, 11/12

8:30am – 4:30am

Brentwood Community Center
2505 S. Brentwood Boulevard 63144

Module 1: Leading to Mission and Culture
• Defining culture, climate, and behaviors that reinforce and create climate and reinforce culture
• Review and work with DiSC Manager’s Assessment Report on how to manage one’s
behavior and recognize the behavioral sets in the people being led to create better
communication and results
• Leading to the Mission, Vision, and Values of the organization
• Exhibiting the behaviors that align to the Mission, Vision, Values and culture
• Understanding how to create alignment to the organizational goals
• Being clear with employees using the outcome directed (forward) thinking
• Reviewing the Communication Model and creating messages that drive Impact and
Results, what to say and when to say it, how to say it – a deeper dive into communication
tactics
• The role of asking great and powerful questions and how to frame excellent questions,
plus understanding how to frame strategic questions
• How to deliver bad news

Module 2: Developing People for Growth
• Responsibility as a leader to develop people and create organizational leaders
• Working with giving people the “why” of their work
• Defining coaching and mentoring and coming up with approaches
• Creating structured coaching plans
• Themes in generational approaches, particularly for what leaders need to know about
the success profiles of employees entering today’s workforce
• The key question for the way to work through all generational “sticking points”
• Differences in leading and coaching generational themes with laboratory work
• How to make a business case to influence organizational leaders
• Developing people every day and without a budget
• Defining succession planning both informally and formally
• A template for creating a formal mentoring program

Module 3: Emotional Intelligence
• Identifying the difference between IQ vs. EQ
• Understanding the components of “self”
• Working on self-awareness in your own life
• Learning tactics for self-control and self-management
• Learning to deal with emotions
• Identifying moods and patterns in your life
• Learning to do a mindset reset to adjust your thoughts
• Working on social awareness strategies
• Learning strategies for relationship regulation
• Assessing your and other’s EQ habits

Module 4: Leading with Critical Thinking Skills
• Use techniques to analyze problems at a deeper level
• Recognize and avoid critical thinking mistakes
• Use mind mapping to quickly breakdown issues and resolve issues
• Implement the critical thinking process
• Learn to generate ideas as a group and organize them as they are generated
• Avoiding Rationalization and Emotional Thinking
• Turning Thinking into Action
• Leading your people through Crisis
• Identifying Prioritizations within Crisis Mode

Module 5: Accountability
• Understanding Accountability vs Responsibility
• Understanding the consequences of not instilling and enforcing accountability
• Identifying excuses
• Understanding leadership’s accountability avoidance
• Recognizing the top barriers to accountability
• Learning the 5 C’s of Accountability
• Acknowledging accountability in action
• Managing accountability in others
• Creating a culture of accountability

Laurie Calzada is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and media host. She has written and presented on many topics, such as successful leadership, mastering change, emotional intelligence, dealing with generational gaps in the workplace, and building high-performing teams. Her focus is to motivate those who desire to excel, and she believes you can accomplish anything with enough determination and ambition.

Ms. Calzada’s unique style makes her an exceptional storyteller and presenter. Laurie will change your perspective on life and business. Using her personal experiences, Laurie reaches into your hearts and minds to make you think about the most important things in your life. Listening to Laurie’s journey and advice will make you think about where you are and where you are headed. She gives practical exercises for you to incorporate into your daily life.

With an entrepreneurial spirit, she has successfully founded or co-founded eight different operations over the past 30 years. She has been a board member of numerous corporations and non-profit organizations. Her successful career began in 1987 in Oxford, England, while studying psychology at the University of Maryland, European Division. She also graduated summa cum laude with a business degree from Purdue University. In addition, she received a certification in Broadcast Journalism.