Training Emerging Leaders

Let's say you wanted to help emerging leaders in your community enhance their leadership skills. How would you do that?

In Muncie, Indiana, Ball State University's Emerging Leaders Training Program provides an example you might follow.

Participants

The program is designed for those individuals who:

* are deemed high-potential employees who will be leading their organizations in three to five years;
* hold mid- to upper-level management or executive positions;
* earned a degree five or more years ago (or have the equivalent work experience) and wish to update their knowledge base; and/or
* have a liberal arts, engineering, and/or technical background and want to develop an integrated view of business operations.

Program Highlights

* To accommodate participants' work schedules, each of the six courses will be six hours in length and conveniently held every other Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with one hour reserved for lunch.
* The program was designed through the input of CEOs and Training Directors from several diverse companies.
* Instructors will include faculty members from Ball State University and seasoned, professional trainers, all experts in their topic areas.

Program Agenda

* Leadership and Change Management
* Marketing and Building Client Relationships
* Strategic Thinking and Shared Vision
* Intrapreneurship: Applying Entrepreneurial
Skills within Organizations
* Mentoring, Coaching and Developing Employees
* Appreciative Inquiry