“To the untrained eye, a relationship can look like a jumbled mess. A good coach observes what's happening below the surface, extracting insight that produces greater clarity, perspective and purpose.”
John Engels
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 eight months and features:
- A globally-reputable leader with more than two decades of executive coaching and group leadership experience
- 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 Emily Heider at Leadership Coaching, Inc. She can be reached directly at 585-581-1347 or by email at Emily@LeadershipCoachingInc.com.
Management teams, industry associations, or other groups interested in exploring a specialized version or location for the Advanced Leadership Course should contact Emily Heider.
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 $8500 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.