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Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

This five-day program prepares new Green Belts to lead projects and contribute to improving services and manufacturing. Those who pass the exam, which is held on the final day, will receive Green Belt certification from the University of Kansas.

January 13-17, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Overcoming Resistance to Change

LIVE ONE-DAY WORKSHOP: Change is happening in your organization. Every day, new initiatives and projects are launched to improve performance, increase profits, and enhance your competitive advantage. In this program facilitated by change management expert Dr. Lee Stuart, you will learn the critical difference among task, relationship and identity changes.

Friday, September 13, 2019
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is an array of emotional and social competencies that determine how we relate to ourselves and others and how we deal with the demands and pressures of our work and family lives. All of us are deficient in some domain of EQ, but we can work to improve. Organizational leaders must be sensitive to EQ to communicate effectively with everyone in their organizations.

Thursday, October 10, 2019
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Personal Leadership Brand

ONE DAY LIVE WORKSHOP:Leaders with a strong professional brand are generally more impactful, influential, and effective in their roles. Having a better understanding of how your brand impacts your interactions with others can help you be a better leader.

Thursday, September 5, 2019, Regnier Hall 354
Thursday, January 9, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Say It Simply & Smartly

Don't let it be you! Don't be that person who puts an audience to sleep with a poorly organized business presentation, a stammering, "uh, um, you know," speaking style, and slides that feature a zillion words but no clear ideas.

To avoid this all-too-common problem, register for "Say It Simply and Smartly," the successful business presentations program offered by KU Professional & Continuing Education and presented by professional leadership coach Lee Stuart.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: How to Maintain Culture in a Remote Enterprise

Tele-working is great for many people; it's flexible, convenient, and usually results in higher levels of productivity. However, it can be harmful to workplace communication and relationships

Wednesday, October 16, 2019
May 7, 2020 to April 30, 2020

Leadership Link & Learn FREE WEBINAR: Coaching, Motivating, and Prioritizing for Project Teams

Whether you're a formal Project Manager or just the informal leader of an ad hoc project team, you'll find great value in this webinar. We discuss the PM's Job: Motivating, Prioritizing, Coaching, Personal and Positional Power, Coordinating and Executing (7 steps, 4 T's), Decision Making, and Coaching and Motivating: The 6-Question Process.

This course contains no sessions

Leadership Link & Learn FREE WEBINAR: Effective Decision Making and Ownership

Poor decision making frequently pivots on not only who decides but also on how decisions are made. In this webinar, we discuss who owns decisions (boss, team, delegated individual), which decision making framework was used, and making decisions stick.

This course contains no sessions

Leadership Link & Learn FREE WEBINAR: Foundations of Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is thinking about your thinking while you're thinking in order to make your thinking better... Whew! Critical thinking is a disciplined approach to working through problems. It encompasses root cause analysis, the good old scientific method, and elements of Socratic questioning. In this webinar, you will learn the 5 components of critical thought, 5 Whys, the Is/Is Not Model, and other root cause techniques.

This course contains no sessions

Presentation Skills 1-on-1 Coaching

Don't let it be you! Don't be that person who loses an audience with a poorly organized business presentation, a stammering, uh, um, you know, speaking style, and slides that feature a zillion words but no clear ideas.Through 1-on-1 presentation skills coaching, participants will learn to deliver impactful business presentations.

This course contains no sessions
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Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Building a Winning Culture

Organizational culture exists at three levels: in artifacts, with values, and by underlying assumptions. A deep understanding of those three levels is necessary before lasting cultural changes can occur. In this module, you will learn about tribal leadership, the 5 tribes in most cultures, laddering teams up, Trust: Task vs Relational, and Trust: Granted vs Earned.

Thursday, November 14, 2019
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Leadership Live One-Day Workshop: Coaching for High Performance

High-Performance coaching involves techniques used in the worlds of sports and the military - areas where optimal performance is key. High-performance coaching begins by identifying people's "starting points"- their life ambitions. Then, it explores the directions in which people need to move to achieve those visions, and steps they need to take to do so.

Thursday, October 3, 2019, Regnier Hall 354
Thursday, March 5, 2020

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

In How to Think Like Leonardo daVinci, you will learn to think in seven new ways, using principlesdeveloped by the most expansive thinker in human history: Leonardo da Vinci.

You'll work through a facilitatedcreativity session that will involve music, art media, and antique artifacts.This program accelerates the development of innovation capabilities in anyorganization, and its creative thinking methods can be used by individuals,teams, committees, or large groups.


This course contains no sessions
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Professional Leadership Coaching

This is a program of professional development and personal enrichment that elicits insights and self-awareness for executives and emerging leaders who are striving to improve business results.Through a confidential relationship with an executive coach, participants engage in an assessment of their personal and professional motivations and desires, their communication and decision-making styles, and how they are perceived by co-workers, clients, and others with whom they need successful relationships. APPOINTMENT ONLY.

August 13, 2018 to November 29, 2019

Certificate Programs

KU Professional Leadership Certificate