Advanced Leadership Course
The Advanced Leadership Course offers small business leaders an in-depth, multi-month learning experience focusing on relationship management at work and home.
This nationally-acclaimed course meets one full day per month for nine months and features:
- Small class size (maximum of 12 leaders)
- A rigorous learning format emphasizing “application to self”
- Cutting-edge leadership research presented in brief, lively segments
- Interactive, practical advanced skills training
- Coaching demonstrations using “live issues”
- Supportive and challenging feedback
- Practical accountability agreements
- Applications to both work and personal relationships
- “Elegantly comfortable” lodge-type setting with gourmet meals
- Private meeting rooms with casual dress
- Topics include: emotional maturity in leadership, roles and functions of a leader, promoting responsibility within the family and within the business, self-awareness and self-observation, giving and receiving feedback, managing anxiety, pressure and stress, building stronger connections at work and home, coaching and mentoring skills, courage, stamina and perspective in leadership, accountability strategies, clarifying life/work values and beliefs, and fitness and well-being.
Qualifications
Successful candidates for the Advanced Leadership Course represent a wide variation of leadership positions, fields and circumstances, such as:
- Entrepreneurial heads of growing businesses
- Next-generation leaders of family businesses
- Key partners of law and accounting firms
- Family business owners
- Executive directors of not-for-profit organizations
- Government and political leaders
- School headmasters, superintendents, and principals
- Physician and dental practice leaders
- Hospital and nursing home administrators
- Mid-to-late-career executives
- Entrepreneurial heads of growing businesses
- Corporate division leaders
Three qualifications are required for acceptance into the Advanced Leadership Course:
- One must possess a high level of motivation to examine oneself and one’s leadership style, including openness to constructive feedback
- One must be in a current leadership role (with specific people management responsibility) or anticipating such a role within the 12-month period beginning with one’s enrollment in the Advanced Leadership Course
- One’s participation must be endorsed by John Engels, president of Leadership Coaching, Inc.
Course Registration & Fees
Leaders interested in exploring the Advanced Leadership Course should set up a telephone consultation with John Engels by contacting Heidi Kroft at Leadership Coaching, Inc. She can be reached directly at 585-381-9577 or by email at Heidi@LeadershipCoachingInc.com.
Management teams, industry associations, or other groups interested in exploring a specialized version or location for the Advanced Leadership Course should contact Heidi Kroft.
Please note: all interested individuals or groups must set up a mutual qualifying meeting in order to register for the Advanced Leadership Course.
The all-inclusive course fee of $9,400 per person applies to the Rochester-based course sections only. This fee covers tuition, materials, facility and food. Fees are negotiated for specialized course formats.