Challenging situations require innovative solutions. Managers are being challenged to be highly effective leaders in the midst of budgetary constraints, fiscal, and organizational uncertainty. This course is a facilitated high-level session that applies critical evaluation to facilitate exploration of participants’ management practices and uncover any deeply held assumptions and/or blind spots that may hinder their leadership and/or authentic team engagement. Research driven practices are utilized to support identification of assets, challenges and opportunities. This is a highly interactive hands-on course that engages managers and administrators in the development of participatory leadership and authentic collaboration practices as a means to facilitate emergence of new perspectives and strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Achieve clarity around departmental needs, short- and long-term horizons
- Increase ability to discern between departmental and individual challenges
- Acquire tools to support critical evaluation of organizational challenges, assets and opportunities to gain inter-departmental support and follow-through
- Develop integral understanding of authentic collaboration and participatory leadership strategies to produce new thinking across and throughout lines of service
- Develop confidence and ability to apply authentic collaboration and participatory leadership practices to real time challenges.
