Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy fosters initial leadership development and increases basic skills contributing to professionalism in the workplace. This three-day in-person training will enable you to strengthen your own leadership skills, become more comfortable sharing your story, increase your ability to a become leader in your community, and contribute to fostering a “family-driven” and “youth-guided” system of care. We do a lot of hands-on learning with this training, relationship building, and learn the styles of leadership by practicing them with each other. Training outline:
- Leadership Roles
- General Styles
- Importance of leadership
- Leadership Skills
- Identifying group behavior roles
- Adapting your leadership style for the right situation
- Communication Skills
- Forms of communication
- Methods to communicate effectively in the workplace
- Understanding non-verbal communication
- How to be a more engaging speaker
- Communication planning scenarios
- Decision Making
- Culture and diversity
- Understanding the decision making cycle
- Culture and diversity in the workplace
- Strategies for effective teamwork to understand cultural differences
- Decision making scenarios
- Dealing with Conflict
- Causes of workplace tension
- Simple decision making process
- Conflict resolution in a leadership position
- Finding the right negotiation style
- Workplace conflict scenarios
- Effective Advocacy
- Defining advocacy
- Recognizing confrontation vs. advocacy
- Tips for being an effective advocate
- How to bring about change
- Self- and systems-level advocacy scenarios
- Partnership and Collaboration
- Purpose of forming partnerships
- Types of partnerships
- Group-effectiveness
- Strategies for collaboration and collaborative leadership
- Team charters
This training satisfies Kentucky DBHDID's requirements as a prerequisite to family and youth peer support certifications. 18 CEUs are available to peer support professionals upon completion.