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Leadership

GrassRoots Leadership: It's Your Ship

Empowering Your People to Share the Responsibility for Achievement

Overview

Leading change and producing results is challenging in the Federal Government. The controls necessary to manage the largest employer in the United States also create bureaucratic barriers to success. This is exactly what Captain Mike Abrashoff experienced when he took command of USS Benfold. Using GrassRoots Leadership, a principle that empowers every individual to share the responsibility for achieving excellence, he produced outstanding results. Mike would tell his people, “It’s your ship,” to encourage them to act in the best interest of the organization, and then he would support their best efforts. The strategies and tools behind Benfold’s success are brought to life in this seminar. Featured instructors have decades of experience teaching enlightened leadership principles, and will provide insightful debriefings of your pre-seminar DISC® assessment. This transformational experience serves equally well as a foundational seminar for those being groomed for leadership or as refresher seminar for upper-level managers.

How Will You Benefit
  • Learn the importance of leading by example
  • Understand the need to communicate purpose and generate unity
  • Learn techniques to create a climate of trust
  • Explore ways to listen aggressively, so you hear and understand what your people are telling you
  • Comprehend the power in strengthening others to create a winning environment
Who Should Attend

Beginning and experienced leaders and managers at all levels who are interested in building a people-centered environment as a foundation for a high-performing organization
Schedule
  • Nov 4 - 6, ‘08 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $1,975.00
    Starts 8:30 am on 1st day ends Noon on last day
  • Mar 10 - 12, ‘09 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $1,975.00
    Starts 8:30 am on 1st day ends Noon on last day
  • May 12 - 14, ‘09 @ WMDC - Aurora, CO Register
    $1,975.00
    Starts 8:30 am on 1st day ends Noon on last day
  • Sep 8 - 10, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $1,975.00
    Starts 8:30 am on 1st day ends Noon on last day
Note
Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
Competencies Emphasized
  • Flexibility
  • Human Capital Management
  • Influencing/Negotiating
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Team Building
Length

3 days.

Locations
  • WMDC - Aurora, CO,
  • EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV,
College Credits

N/A

 
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