The Program

The CLI program includes off-site and in-house learning opportunities. Participants can explain their perceptions and attitudes about leadership and develop more self-awareness about their strengths and what is holding them back. The program utilizes small learning groups guided by professional facilitators who assist participants in gaining more effective skills in communication and feedback. Through the CLI program, participants are better able to comprehend and analyze their own leadership style and see how it affects other’s behavior.

The methodologies taught at CLI have emerged from research on effective organizations and leadership development, as well as the experience of working with hundreds of management and supervisory groups.

What you can expect from this program:

• Increased ability to influence by building strong relationships

• Increased skills in seeing and sensing needs for change

• Greater creativity in seeing solutions and pathways to finding solutions

• Improved clarity and congruency in presentation of proposals for change

• More confidence and risk taking to initiate and follow through

• Greater ability to help others reach consensus decisions and synergistic solutions

Program Description / Learning Model

Classic Leadership Institute is more than a traditional workshop

It is a long-term developmental experience that seeks to positively change and improve leadership behavior through a process of self-awareness and self-discovery.

Phase I: Personal Leadership Style–Concepts, Attitudes and Skills

Phase I consists of four days at a CLI conference facility. During Phase I, you will work on developing concepts of effective personal influence, increasing awareness of personal leadership styles and attitudes/behaviors which impact the ability to influence—positively or negatively—and developing skills in interpersonal communication, feedback and risk taking.

Concepts Explored

• Leadership styles

• Power vs. sources of effective influence

• Establishing personal relationships—the foundation for effective influence

• Developing social risk-taking

Skills Reviewed

• Clear and congruent communication

• Listening, perception and intention

• Interpersonal relationship building

• Developing self-awareness

• Giving and receiving feedback to improve performance

• Self-confidence & assertiveness

Phase II: Workplace Application–Organizational Leadership 

Phase II provides you with an opportunity and a context to immediately apply what you have learned. Before leaving Phase I, you will design a back-on-the-job project with the goal of improving some aspect of the job and to test what you have learned about leadership. During the month after completing Phase I, you conduct your project and prepare to report results during Phase III.

Phase III: Positional Leadership–Refining Leadership Skills 

Phase III includes another four days at the CLI conference facility. In Phase III, you will learn how to deal with the unique problems you face as “the leader” or “person in charge.” You will review your in-house project with your group for input and insight. You will also expand your understanding of the leadership role in an organization, as well as develop skills in planning, decision-making, conflict resolution and leading a team.

Concepts Explored

• Understanding the new, transformational role of leadership

• Characteristics of successful transformational positional leaders

• The effect of organizational structures on leadership effectiveness

• The relationship between positional leadership and team member leadership

Skills Reviewed

• Identifying and developing teams resources

• Strategy building & planning

• Consensus decision-making

• Creative conflict management

• Problem analysis & resolution

• Giving and receiving feedback to improve both team and individual performance