Balancing the Leadership Scale: Optimizing Individual & Team Effectiveness

Overview

In our roles as leaders, we often find ourselves pulled in many directions and navigating numerous competing demands.  We’re responsible for the success of our teams, but we have to balance that with managing our own projects and priorities.  Balancing the success of our teams while ensuring we are effectively navigating our own responsibilities requires a strategic approach. How can we optimize our time, energy, and efforts? What daily habits should we embrace to ensure our peak performance?   How can we cultivate a team environment that champions collaboration and high performance, fostering continuous learning and improvement?  These challenges call on us to bring our best selves to work each day, and create the right environment to ensure our teams are empowered to thrive and succeed.

This three-part series of workshops is designed for leaders and managers who are responsible for both individual and team-level results. Learners will gain valuable insights into creating a team-level culture of trust and accountability, delegating for success, and implementing daily practices to enhance their own personal effectiveness.

Part A – Personal Excellence: The Daily Habits & Behaviors of Leadership Success

• Discover seven transformative personal excellence practices designed to enhance your leadership skills.
• Translate these leadership practices into practical, actionable daily habits, empowering you to optimize your leadership capabilities and achieve lasting career success.

Part B – Building Trust & Influence: The Keys to Powerful & Positive Workplace Relationships

• Gain insights into the essential elements of building trust, enabling you to enhance relationships with your direct reports.
• Assess the level of trust within your professional connections, facilitating an environment conducive to exceptional work and team support.
• Develop skills for effectively repairing trust in the event of a breakdown, ensuring the recovery of damaged relationships.
• Leverage trust as a powerful tool to amplify your influence within your team, organization, and among customers, facilitating the accomplishment of your goals.

Part C – Accountability for Results: Creating a Culture of Ownership, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement

• Articulate the significance of fostering a culture of accountability while emphasizing continuous improvement.
• Model accountability behaviors for your team, setting a standard for ownership and responsibility.
• Lead your team in a manner that creates opportunities for accountability.
• Recognize and break down barriers that impede the establishment of a culture centered on accountability.
• Engage your team in cultivating a continuous improvement mindset, ensuring ongoing growth and advancement.

Registration

Location:  Online (Zoom link will be sent out shortly before class begins)

Schedule: 9:00 am – 10:30 am CST each date

Dates: Tuesdays, July 16^th, 23^rd, and 30^th, 9:00am – 10:30am CT

• Part A (July 16) – Personal Excellence: The Daily Habits & Behaviors of Leadership Success
• Part B (July 23) – Building Trust & Influence: The Keys to Powerful & Positive Workplace Relationships
• Part C (July 30) – Accountability for Results: Creating a Culture of Ownership, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement

Fee: $289

Register here for Spring 2024 or call 608-262-2451 to register. BONUS: Place 2 or more paid SBDC courses in your cart, and use discount code SBDC10 for 10% off. Classes must be purchased in the same transaction.

Registration Deadlines

Registration & Cancellation policies

• Payment will be required at time of registration. You must have either a credit card or valid UW-Madison funding string to be able to register.
• Cancelations at least 24 hours before the program begins will incur a $25 cancellation fee. Cancelations less than 24 hours before the start of the program will incur the full program fee. To cancel, call registration at 608-262-2451. Please note that in the case of a cancellation (by either the participant or the SBDC), participants can only be transferred one time into a new course.

Disability Statement: Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact the UW-Madison SBDC office at sbdc@bus.wisc.edu to request accommodations.

The Small Business Development Center at UW Madison is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.