In This Issue

Welcome: Join us in Center City!

Feature Article: Got Leadership Capacity?

Leading Questions: Quick CHECKlist

LEADERSHIP at Work: The County of Chester

Workshops

Leadership with Purpose Workshops:

Five week Summer Session July 1st-29th
New Philadelphia location
Complete leadership workshop

Fall Session - Save the Date!
West Chester location
Seven week workshop begins October 6th

Click here for more information about the Leadership with Purpose Workshops or to register.

Quotable

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

-- Will Rogers

LEADERSHIP at Work

"The Leadership with Purpose workshop helps you build on what you’re already doing right within your organization."

- Sue Currie, Employee Development Coordinator for Chester County

Contact Us

Contact Peter Guman and Elizabeth Guman at info@learningandvision.com.

Click here for Leadership with Purpose Workshop registration.

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Learning & Vision Partners
817 Shadow Farm Road
West Chester, PA 19380
610 696.5708

www.learningandvision.com
info@learningandvision.com

In collaboration with WHYY
Philadelphia location

Leadership with Purpose Workshop

Accelerated summer session
Five Thursdays from July 1 – 29, 2004:

• July 1, 15, 29 — 8am – 12 noon sessions and
• July 8 and 22 — 8am – 10 am sessions

Philadelphia location: WHYY offices on Independence Mall West

What will this Leadership Workshop mean for your organization?

• Employees that stay on track?
• Increased accountability?
• Conflict resolution that works?
• Clear goals and a shared sense of direction?

Our small group hands-on workshop gives your leadership team the right tools to stop managing and start leading.

The Leadership with Purpose Workshop includes:

1. Pre-session Leadership Assessment
2. Five hands-on Workshop sessions
3. Leadership Tools and Skills Manual
4. Three follow-up Leadership Excellence coaching sessions

Click here to learn more about what Delaware Valley business owners say about our Leadership Workshop.

You have a strong leadership team in place and it’s something you don’t even have to think about. But what would happen if two key leaders left your organization – tomorrow?

Would you –

(a) Rebound quickly, relying on “leaders in waiting” you’ve already trained to carry on?

(b) Struggle to find other employees with leadership potential (and hope they “get it” quickly)?

(c) Worry that your business might never recover from the loss?

As a business owner or the head of an organization, if you’re not answering “a” right away, then the Capacity for Leadership within your organization may be something to worry about -- today.

Click here to read more about using Leadership Capacity to safeguard your business’ future.

Use the Leadership Capacity Quick CHECKlist below to review your organization’s capacity for leadership today!

Does your organization…

• Have employees who can take INITIATIVE, make suggestions and resolve problems within their area of responsibility - without always asking for approval?
  
• Have a culture throughout the entire organization where behavior is based on an underlying feeling of TRUST?
  
• Have a practice of tackling difficult ISSUES head on?
  
• Have a healthy practice of holding people ACCOUNTABLE?
  
• Have the ability to LEARN from successes and failures and build on that learning in future situations?

Is your business facing the FUTURE without effective Leadership Capacity? Our Leadership with Purpose Workshop can help you focus on building Leadership Capacity for tomorrow.

Commitment, discipline and structure

The County of Chester with over 2800 employees within 55 diverse departments is an example of a dynamic organization striving to build leadership capacity through commitment, discipline and structure. Tom Czulewicz, the Director of Human Resources for the county, sees leadership development as “a work in progress and one that I am committed to continually improving” through training and by building it into the structure of the organization.

Managing cultural change

The latter is taking place through a new performance management plan that the county began implementing last year, in which leadership is a key competency for supervisors and managers. Director Czulewicz and Sue Currie, the Employment Development Coordinator responsible for the training program for county employees, knew that the new plan would challenge the entire organization to make a large cultural change and that supervisors and managers would need the right the tools and training to make that change.

Leadership learning at every level

To that end Tom, who had already established his leadership skills during a 34-year career in the Navy, showed his commitment to his own continuing leadership learning by being the first to sign up for Learning and Vision Partners’ Leadership Workshop. Eighteen other county employees from various levels also participated and more are preparing to attend in the fall, reflecting an emerging discipline for leadership development throughout the organization.

Sue feels it was especially valuable to have employees from different areas and levels of the County participate in the Leadership Workshops. In particular, she adds that the solid workshop content combined with the unique coaching support from Learning and Vision Partners helps participants focus very specifically on what they want to achieve and then successfully take this knowledge back to the workplace.

Empowering the present and the future

This on-going commitment to training and leadership development works to strengthen the county’s present and its future, by building leadership skills that foster today’s mission and by developing the leadership capacity that will work to build a vision for the county’s future.

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