Dr. Johns shares her vast experience in leadership in profit, non-profit, governmental, and community-based organizations to help advance women in leadership

Using advanced conferencing technology these live teleclasses give you the opportunity to actively engage with the conference leader and other participants, ask questions, share experiences and receive on-the-spot guidance and the benefit of lively discussion.

Teleclasses being offered in 2011:

• Creating, Coaching, and Managing High-Powered Work Teams (see details below)

Winter Series:
February 23
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST   
Registration Closed
Wait List:  Click Here for Wait List Form

Spring Series:
April 20, 17
May 4, 11, 18, 25
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

• An Introspective Leadership Journey (see details below)

Fall Series
September 21, 28
October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

Winter Series Dates:
February 16, 23
March 2, 9, 16, 23
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

Spring Series:
April 20, 17
May 4, 11, 18, 15
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

Creating, Coaching, and Managing
High-Powered Work Teams

Today's workplace demands the ability to function in multi-disciplinary teams.  However, effective teams just don't happen and women in particular have unique challenges that they must face in forming and managing teams.  This six-week, hands-on teleclass uses simulation with tools and techniques and various technological applications to help women develop their leadership skills to create, coach and manage a high performance team. 

Content and Format:
A interactive and experiential, six-week teleclass that focuses on developing skills in applying strategies for successful teamwork and project management. Treatment of specific women's challenges in team development and management is provided. 

Attendees participate in group activities to understand the importance of solidification of team belief and team diversity in creating a high performance team.  Participants explore approaches to managing conflict and strategies for conducting productive meetings.  The use of tools such as team charters and norms, project definition documents, project performance monitors and after action reviews are demonstrated through group activities and simulations.

Complementary copy of Creating, Coaching and Managing High-Powered Work Teams is provided.

Session 1: 
Key Actions of High-Powered Teams

Coming together as a team is a first step, but no guarantee of success.  By evaluating real cases and through discussion you will learn the nine key actions that leaders use to fine tune a workforce team, leading to optimal performance and extraordinary results.

You will gain hands-on practice in using the tools and techniques for creating, coaching and managing high-powered teams by working in a team with fellow participants throughout the remainder of the course.  At the conclusion of this first session you will receive your team assignment and a fun, but challenging, project.

Session 2:
Organizing the Team and Establishing Common Purpose

Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”  The failure of many teams can be directly traced to the team’s inception.  Establishing belief among team members that a cohesive work group can outperform and out-produce any individual or random collection of individuals and coupling this with agreement on mission, goals, and ground rules is essential for team success. 

Using exercises, inventories, and other tools you will learn how to establish team belief, develop common purpose and vision, and define operating norms that form the foundation for a high performing team.

Session 3
Conducting Productive Meetings and Handling Conflict

According to some experts 25 million meetings are held yearly in corporate America, but about half of this meeting time is wasted.  Poorly structured meetings are notorious for creating conflict, stress and polarization, not to mention lack of positive outcomes.  Poor leadership is the primary reason for meeting failure. 

Through examination of real cases and using techniques and tools you will learn how to turn this dynamic around, making every meeting successful, productive, and producing great outcomes.

Session 4
Defining and Planning the Project

Unrealistic expectations, idealistic timelines, poor budget and resources planning, scope creep and poor communication are among the major causes cited for project failure.  The origin of these can all be traced back to ineffective leadership in defining and planning the project.

In this session you will learn how to demonstrate leadership and use tools and techniques in guiding teams in mitigating these problems.

Session 5
Managing the Project

Execution and planning is the handshake that make projects work.  Without planning there is no execution; but without good execution all the planning in the world will not guarantee project success.  High quality execution requires leadership on many fronts:  communication, resource allocation, and keeping the team on target in meeting goals, schedules, within budgetary plan.  It also requires flexibility and optimal problem solving and decision making in confronting unpredictable events that may threaten the success of a project.   

In this session, using project management tools and techniques, you will learn how to keep your team motivated and your projects on target. 

Session 6
Project Closeout and Post-Mortum

Leadership is a continuing learning process.  Taking stock of the “whys” of what went right and what went wrong and what could have been improved in a project helps your team and company learn from your successes and mistakes.  Building a portfolio of project evaluations helps to establish best practices and avoid repeating time-consuming and costly mistakes.

Fall Series
September 21, 28
October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

If you want to lead but are unsure of your next steps and feel like you’ve hit a wall, this six week telecourse will help you discover your core strengths, match them to clear goals and take charge to make things happen.

Using discussion, journaling, exercises, and collaborative techniques the course will help you recharge, set a course of action to achieve your leadership goals by innovating inspiring, initiating, and improving the world in which you live.

What’s In The Course

Session 1: 
Knowing What Makes You Happy and Why That’s Important for Leadership

Before you can truly inspire and guide others, you must be your authentic self and have a deep connection to your work.  Happiness opens up innovation, inspires and motivates others, and gives us energy to initiate and improve.  This week, using journaling and other exercises you will reflect on what makes you happy and why that is important for leadership.

Session 2:
Tapping Your Core Strengths & Dreaming Big

Many women force themselves into work that does not match their core strengths. Knowing your core strengths and purpose is the basic pathway to success.  Leaders that are enthusiastic about their purpose dream big, nourish their own happiness and inspire others to trust and follow them.

Using exercises, inventories and journaling you will assess your core strengths, and use them to the best advantage in developing your leadership.

Session 3
Optimism and Realism

Some see the glass half-full; others see the glass half-empty.  Optimism goes hand-in-hand with success.  People follow leaders whose optimism (not fantasy) is complemented by realism. Innovation, inspiration, initiation and improvement require optimism.  Through exercises and journaling you will identify your optimism quotient and develop skills for achieving a balanced mind-set essential for leadership.

Session 4
Taking Charge and Making Things Happen

Planning and preparation don’t make things happen.  Action, calculated risk taking, and seizing opportunities that place you in positions for success allow you to shape your own destiny.  This week you will learn strategies that help you make your own good fortune.

Session 5
Be Your Own Best Caregiver

Women’s traditional role as nurturer frequently leaves them caring for others more than themselves.  Leaders cannot lead and nourish others unless they first care for themselves.  This week you will evaluate discrepancies between caring for yourself and caring for others and develop strategies to be the center of your life. 

Session 6
Ten Actionable Steps

Leaders must take action to innovate, inspire, initiate, and improve. Opening the windows of awareness you will develop ten practical and actionable steps that help move you forward to success in your personal leadership journey.

Dates for 2011

Winter Series:
February 23
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST
Registration Closed
Wait List Click Here

Spring Series:
April 20, 17
May 4, 11, 18, 15
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

Fall Series
September 21, 28
October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2
Time:  7:30 p.m. CST

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