Leadership Development Program

1. "The Self Created Life": A highly motivational proprietary presentation and discussion designed by Dr. Vance Caesar, that has been successfully used with thousands of individuals facing career and life transitions. This session's discussion is aimed at helping each participant accept they are the leader of their own life and that there are relatively easy to understand and easy to use basics that build the foundation".

Benefits include each individual's having the tools and some practice using each as they learn how to create their own life mission, life vision and goals, while integrating these into their career and work plans.

2. Know yourself ? then act: Adding to session one, this session includes Individualized Self-Assessments employing a battery of instruments. They include the Meyers-Briggs Temperament Indicator, FIRO-B, a 20 page personalized Styles Preference report, an Emotional Quotient Assessment and a Life-line exercise,
as each individual learns more about themselves as they develop tools to better create their own future. This session further lays the ground work for the creation of each person's life plan and career plan, giving him/her more power to create their own future and to earn other's follower-ship.

Benefits include a well equipped client who is positioned to better take charge of their own life, and to better serve their organization and themselves with less stress and effort.

3.  Strengthening interpersonal skills for improved results: Interpersonal (one-on-one) relationship competencies are further developed with each participant using their own self-assessment results introduced during session two. The participant's relationships with his/her most important five "stakeholders" is discussed and scored on our "Stakeholder Scoreboard". The reason each of these stakeholder relationships is crucial to the participant's success is presented and discussed to a point where each participant has improved awareness of the importance of meeting and exceeding each stakeholder's expectations.

Benefits include more self-confident and better prepared individuals as each participant produces improved results on their current job, therefore strengthening their ability to create more and better career options for himself or herself.

5. Team Development skills toward on going performance improvements: All of us work in teams. The team leadership skills building session uses the best seller, The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams, which is given to each participant. This easy to read and powerful hard cover book is used by thousands to better serve on teams and to better lead them.

Self-analysis of each participant's team's performance and how he/she could personally further improve their team's performance is the first half of this session. The second half focuses on what leadership style is best, based on the stage of the team's development, and how to further perfect your leadership techniques appropriate for each stage.

Benefits include a group leadership workshop based on further strengthening the participant's ability to recognize different group situations and to better provide appropriate leadership in each situation. This will better prepare him/her to immediately add value on his/her current position and to better compete for future supervisory, managerial and executive positions.

6. Political Power: Get it or Lose it ? is the initial focus of this sixth session in this powerful series on self development for those confronting unusually high levels of change. Using an easy to understand list of the most effective ways powerful people gain and use political power in any organization, this highly interactive session helps participants get more of what they want for their department, their organization and for themselves, while reducing the risk in using power building techniques we see all around us.

Included in this session's handouts is an article written by Dr. Caesar that was published in "Priorities... The Journal of Professional and Personal Success", a Franklin-Covey publication.

The second half of this session is a comprehensive integration of this series into an action step commitment module, resulting in ongoing personal and professional development for each participant.

Benefits include increased awareness of how to get more of what you want for your department, your company and your career while integrating all of the previously covered material into an action plan committed to publicly.

7. More Growth: This last session focuses on the action steps each participant wants to achieve following the completion of his/her 360-degree surveys completed during the sixth month of the series. Following a group discussion of each participant's 360 results, individualized one-on-one review sessions with Dr. Caesar are completed as personalized leadership development plans are created and shared with the participant's boss, for review, agreement and monitoring the rest of this unique year of professional growth.

Benefits include fresh and anonymous feedback on how each participant's leadership is perceived by each person important to the participant's success as a leader. This feedback is the basis of the structuring of a totally individualized and a highly leveraged learning plan for each participant as continuous leadership learning becomes ingrained into his/her career.

Note: Included with this series is personalized one-on-one coaching for participants who want coaching during the two hours following each session. Dr. Caesar and his colleagues are uniquely qualified to assist participants in their integrating this material into their careers and lives, as they become even better at self-leadership.