Leadership Academy Certificate Program

• Understanding Organizational Structure: This program begins by introducing the skills needed to come to a good understanding of current work Organizational Structure.
• Leadership Fundamentals I & II: Focus is on the fundamentals of Leadership culture, structure and styles.  Training to recognize the leadership culture of their company to bring understanding and cohesive support of the company’s culture as they lead.
• Effective Teams I & II: Addressing how character applies to team relationships and scenarios that require integrity. We will examine moodiness, how to recognize it, what it does to our team’s productivity, and what to do to remain in control.  Utilizing ten essential character traits, these sessions address how virtue applies to teamwork.
• EQ & Conflict Resolution: Based on the principles of emotional intelligence, this session addresses self-awareness techniques such as mindfulness, the anatomy of rage, and conflict management.  The student will learn to spot stress before it manifests and develop techniques to mitigate its impact in the workplace.  We will also learn methods for recognizing the emotional states of those we lead.

• Title VII Lawsuits and Other Workplace Laws: In this course, we look at practicing inclusive, respectful, legally compliant management behaviors, providing the opportunity for all employees to perform at their best, and prevent most claims through training, education, and sound compliance practices.
• Time Management: In this session we discuss the common perceptions of time, effectiveness and efficiency, and the patterns we employ to produce results.
• Employee Engagement: Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has toward the organization and its goals.  In this session we discuss how to enhance that commitment by learning to identify and speak the employee’s specific engagement language based on the four drivers of engagement:  communication, growth, recognition, and trust.
• Effective Communication: There is a huge difference between communication and effective communication.  This session identifies 7 key factors to effective communication.  Whether it’s communicating a task to your team or developing a marketing strategy, intentionality is core to effective communication.  We will learn how to prepare a communication, focus it, and support it.  Then we will apply the power of framing, modes, and metrics to the message to ensure maximum results.
• Overcoming Workplace Dysfunction: The most important question you can ask yourself at work is, “Are we really a team?” Teams rarely live up to their potential because they almost never identify the dysfunction that undermines all their efforts.  Based on Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, this session examines those five principles at a far deeper level to provide the student with an analytical tool that recognizes dysfunction and provides a method for overcoming.
• Promoting Growth, Recognizing and Removing Hinderances: In this workshop, we will learn about management styles and mindsets that inspire your workforce to thrive in your company, and those which prevent growth.
• Effective Hiring 30/60/90: In this workshop, we look at supervisors, managers, and key contributors, who often work side-by-side with human resources, to assess organizational needs, recruit talent, make good hiring decisions, and integrate new employees in this tight labor market. These recommendation and decision makers need knowledge of the process (the how and they why), reliable and legal tools, interpersonal skills to engage candidates, and the ability to be flexible and agile.  Attendees will gain skills to design and implement an efficient hiring and a 30/60/90-day retention plan.

• • Recognizing Personality Types: In this session we will learn about the various dominate and secondary personality types, identify our own, and learn to assess those employed by others. We will apply that knowledge to organizational communication techniques for the purpose of enhancing corporate interaction and increasing productivity. We will also utilize team building exercises to develop our newly found skills.
  • Competitive Employers: Employees are your gold! Learn how to show so them in meaningful ways.  In this course we look at finding out what is meaningful to your employees, how to find competitors wages, enhancing supervisory performance and identifying actionable steps.
  • Cross-Cultural/Generational Communication: This session discusses cultural differences such as power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, and individualism.  It examines the cultural profiles and generational differences that produce a multi-cultural/multi-generational awareness.
  • Dynamics of Change: This session examines the DNA of thought and relates it to the eight stages of change to give us a paradigm onto which we can anchor the change initiatives of our career.  This mind opening class will help you overcome obstacles that have blocked forward momentum your whole career.  Discover the “how” you never knew was possible.
  • Promoting Functional Teamwork: This session examines five practices quality teams adopt. It addresses a culture of functionality as it relates to thought processes, mentoring, delegation constructive advice, and managing change. These skills are an essential part of putting all the work you have done thus far into practice.
  • Thinking Strategically: This class is designed to harness the power of thinking strategically at multiple levels of leadership while still maintaining an over-all corporate identity.  Learn how you can empower your teams to dream and implement innovative concepts that align perfectly with your organization’s core principles.  By simply asking 6 basic questions and implementing a plan around the answers to those questions, you can bring a fresh spirit of innovation to any initiative.

• • Mistake Proofing– Building quality into processes and difficult to create defects.
  • Standard Work– Standardizing training so everyone executes best practices.
  • Lean & 5S Overview- Exploring Lean & Getting Workspaces Setup for Success. Great for departments or processes about to implement 5S in the near future.
  • Fundamentals of Problem Solving-Root Cause Analysis & PDCA Learn how to quit dealing with the same symptoms and “firefighting” day in and day out.
  • Setup Time Reduction– Reduce the time between Value Adding cycles.
  • Value Stream Mapping- Visualize the Flow of Value & Sources of Waste
  • Certified Lean Six Sigma YELLOW BELT– Team Leads, Supervisors, Managers & Top Leadership, plus others who will go on to Green Belt level. Understand why improvement project teams do what they do & info presented by teams.  Helps with the improvement project selection & prioritization process.  Can execute improvements in their span of control daily. Attendees learn to make data-driven decisions, solve problems, & identify and remove waste.
  • Certified Lean Six Sigma GREEN BELT– (pre-requisite LSS Yellow Belt) Core Tools, Methods to Lead Improvement Projects & Teams, Drive Results.  Managers, Analysts, Engineers, Techs and Quality & Continuous Improvement staff.  Learn to lead improvement project teams to get results.  They drive improvements in their areas of the organization & work on improvements~20-25% of their time and deliver 1 or 2 small improvement projects per year.

Dates & Registration:

• Yellow Belt begins March 7, 2023 – $800.00
• Green Belt begins May 4, 2023 – $1,950.00 (Yellow Belt is a pre-requisite)

To register or for information about other dates, email m.asbury@elevate-outcomes.com.

This course is offered by RCCC’s partner, Elevate Coaching and Consulting, it will not be through RCCC.

• This 4-day course focuses on learning and practicing the core skills of results-oriented supervisory practices.  The workplace is demanding and anyone responsible for the productivity of others must have the skills, knowledge and abilities to manage and lead in a proactive and engaging manner.
• Supervisors are required to be strategic and proactive thinkers capable of uniting a wide variety of people around a common vision and mission. At the same time, be sensitive yet fast-paced, innovative risk takers who are practical in developing solutions that turn obstacles into opportunities.
• The course content and skill practices build upon each other throughout the course, beginning with identifying performance expectations and moving to coaching and feedback up to the use of a discipline process that includes how to legally terminate an employee.
• Target Audience:  Managers, supervisors, and team leaders.  The course is flexible to meet the needs of leaders newly promoted, new to an organization, and as a refresher for the more experienced.  Each course is adapted to the needs of the participants.Participants are encouraged to bring their team’s job descriptions on the first day of class and laptops may be brought to use in some exercises. Both are optional.

Cost: $4,500 plus $65 per person for materials cost
Class Size: Minimum 6 people, Maximum 15 people

This course is only scheduled by request for a group of 6 or more. To schedule a class for your company, please contact alesia.burris@rccc.edu.