Learning Outcomes
Upon becoming a certified leadership trainer, participants will be able to:

Identify key components of dozens leadership theories, models, frameworks, and topics from the past 
​100 years.
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Leadership Theories,
Models, Frameworks,
​and Topics Include:

Foundational Theories:

• Trait Approach
• Skills Approach
• Behavioral Approach
• Situational Approach
• Path / Goal Theory
• Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

Shifting Our Leadership
Mental Framework:

• Transformational Leadership
• Servant Leadership
• Social Change (7Cs) Model
• The Leadership Challenge
• Adaptive Leadership

Contemporary Theories:

• Fundamental State of Leadership
• Theory U
• Conviction in Action
• Spiritual Leadership
• Authentic Leadership

Important Leadership Topics
​& Themes:

• Leading as a Developmental Relationship
• Leadership & Gender
• Leadership & Culture
• Global Perspectives of Leadership
• Leadership Ethics
• Assessing Impact / Evaluating Leadership Development

Infuse leadership practices
- including hard and soft - 
​into both our own 
and our students' 
healthy leadership habits.
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Leadership Practices
(Hard and Soft Competencies)
Include:

Hard Leadership Competencies:

• Visioning
• Communication
• Balancing Reflection & Action
• Energy Management
• Embracing Risk /    Overcoming Risk Aversion
• Group / Team-Work
• Motivation / Reward Principles
• Change Management /  Project Management
• Navigating Crises

Soft Leadership Competencies:

• Utilizing Multiple Intelligences
• Emotional Intelligence
• Understanding Dissonance    & Toxicity
• Flow
• Compassion
• Hope
• Mindfulness
• Gratitude
• Intuition
• Strengths / Positive Psychology
• Storytelling

Implement dynamic facilitation techniques - including 
​experiential learning and 
​reflective dialogue, into our leadership training regimen.
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Leadership Facilitation techniques for Dynamic Trainings Include:

Cultivating the Leadership Development of Others:​

• Experiential Learning—        what is it?
• Reflective Dialogue—        what is it?

Crafting a "Training Story"

• Exposition                      (Setting the Tone)
• Rising Action              (Delivering a Message)
• Apex                            (Utilizing Experiential  Learning Activities)
• Falling Action            (Reflective Dialogue)
• Resolution                          (Closing a Training well)

Facilitation Skills 

• Trainer Presence
  
• Communicating Effectively       as a Leadership Trainer
  
• Time & Obstacle Management
  
• People / Group Management
  
• Recognizing Feedback and Levels of Participant Engagement
  
• Utilizing Praise & Celebration—with Appropriate Challenge.
• Creating Dyads and Groups
• Storytelling—as a facilitation technique

Program Philosophy:
Upon becoming a certified leadership trainer, participants will be able to:

If we intend to partner with students on their leadership learning journey, it is essential that we have the knowledge and skills to (1) effectively meet them where they are and (2) guide them towards enhanced leadership practices. Most of us are not prepared to serve in this capacity. Our formal leadership training is limited. The Leadership Trainer Certification Program will prepare you to serve as the leadership-learning partner and educator that our students crave.

The Leadership Trainer Certification Program is intentionally designed as an immersion into the triad of leadership theory, leadership practices, and facilitation skills. Our robust, comprehensive, and engaging 60-hour "train-the-trainer" curriculum will prepare you to serve as an effective leadership educator. Upon earning Leadership Trainer Certification, you will become a savvy leadership trainer who can dynamically facilitate leadership development and education in multiple contexts: one-to-one and small group engagements; retreats and conference presentations; and workshops and seminars. 
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The Leadership Trainer Certification Program has been specifically crafted as a hands-on opportunity so that your leadership learning can be directly - and immediately -  applied to your work.