The Institute for Leadership Development & Research
Developmental Offerings
Successful development takes time, commitment, and direction. Ultimately, leadership is the critical factor to achieving personal success and organizational strength. If you are a leader seeking a learning experience to help sharpen your skills and abilities to reach new depths of personal and professional development, one of our leadership development programs may be the right option for you. Time is of the essence. If you have the commitment, we can help you with the direction.
Through our leadership development programs, the Institute helps strengthen the talent pipeline managers and hone the skills of leaders. By building a comprehensive curriculum of stair-step programs, targeted for different levels of leadership and management, the Institute programs continue to support leaders throughout their careers. These programs give leaders the opportunity to develop skills needed for current and future positions
Bright Futures
Principles of Leadership for New High-Potential Talent
August 22-25, 2010 in Miami, FL
Bright Futures is a 3-day program designed for new managers, new project leaders, and/or individual contributors who have had little formal training. As these high potential individuals gain technical competency and their organizational responsibility increases they must also be prepared to assume the additional responsibilities required to manage broader aspects of the business, to lead others, and be cognizant of their own individual development.
This program will help participants gain an understanding of core concepts in leadership and management skills necessary to succeed and achieve short term objectives and long term career goals. Bright Futures participants come from a wide variety of industries, organizations, functional areas, and locations. This heterogeneous mixture of participants helps build a diverse network of high performing managers who are focused on merging technical competence, management capability, and execution of vision.
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Executive Outlooks
Leadership Without Limits
Executive Outlooks is a 2-day program designed for black executive women with more than 15 years of management experience. Executive Outlooks participants should be seasoned professionals who are currently no more than three levels from the top of the organizational management hierarchy and possess cross-functional or general management responsibilities. As seasoned professionals, Executive Outlooks participants will learn to develop and confidently present their leadership skills as they work to successfully guide the organization to the next level of profitability and sustainability. This development is done by helping participants understand and question their fundamental assumptions about themselves and the roles and responsibilities of leadership; and by having them work through the dynamics of organizational relationships and strategy. The program will assist participants in modifying or eliminating outdated paradigms and associated behaviors, while giving them insights into current organizational needs and industry trends.
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Mid-Level Managers Symposium
October 15, 2010 at the New York Hilton
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6078
The current workplace requires leadership proficiency at every level of an organization. To successfully navigate a variety of business situations, managers have to think and act differently. They must think and be prepared to act beyond their current responsibilities. So what is new on the horizon for African American managers? What next steps can they take to ramp up their capacity and perspectives to execute more effectively to meet the demands of unprecedented times—to be proactively prepared?
The Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium (MLMS) provides an opportunity for managers to learn and network in professionally safe settings. The MLMS also honors the achievements of African Americans and pro-diversity companies working to make the business case for diversity and for making the corporate workplace more inclusive, equitable, and successful. In the MLMS, participants interact with leading experts in business and education to help themselves achieve greater levels of success and recognition. These experts offer candid and unflinching personal stories about their leadership journeys. Participants also exchange ideas with senior executives and peer managers during breakout workshop sessions and the networking lunch. Each year, this annual conference attracts more than 1,000 managers and executives from more than 200 companies.
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Strategic Pathways
Directing Your Momentum
Strategic Pathways: Directing Your Momentum is a 2-day leadership development program designed to assist mid-career black women as they continue to chart their career course towards the executive ranks of today’s organizations. In this unique developmental offering, these managers, sr. project leaders, directors, and new vice-presidents will create a strategic plan for their personal and professional development. The plan will take into account the double-outsiders status faced by many black women in today’s organizations. Additionally, Strategic Pathways is a program designed to help these women gain more clarity about the types of experiences they will need to create options for themselves in the future.
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Strengthening the Pipeline
Critical Factors for Successful Leaders
August 2-6, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV
The Strengthening the Pipeline: Critical Factors for Successful Leaders is the flagship leadership developmental program offered by The Executive Leadership Council’s Institute for Leadership Development & Research. Strengthening the Pipeline is a 5-day program designed for mid-career, managers, sr. project leaders, directors, and new vice-presidents. As these experienced high-potential leaders transition from managing people and projects to leading people and implementing concepts they must begin thinking and behaving in different ways. In addition, these leaders must be prepared to lead people without relying on technical mastery and potentially without real organizational authority. These mid-career professionals must also be cognizant of their own individual development as well as the development of their direct reports and how individual development enhances the overall effectiveness of the organization.
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