Course Information
Developing Effective Leaders
Parking for SAO, Professional Development courses is in Garage B (1511 San Jacinto Blvd.). The Garage signage may read 1511 San Jacinto or Garage B. The elevator in Garage B is not reliable. If you are unable to walk the stairs, please contact the professionaldevelopment@sao.texas.gov for alternate parking arrangements. Handicapped parking is free at the meters around the downtown area.
A course coordinator will email you a parking permit prior to the course start date. A permit must be displayed or you will be ticketed.
Course Description
In today's dynamic and competitive business landscape, effective leadership and management are indispensable for driving organizational growth, fostering innovation, and nurturing high-performing teams. This comprehensive training program is designed to equip participants with the essential knowledge, skills, and strategies to excel as leaders and managers in their respective roles.
Through a blend of theoretical insights, practical exercises, case studies, and interactive discussions, participants will explore various facets of leadership and management, ranging from understanding different leadership styles and approaches to mastering essential management fundamentals. They will learn to navigate complex challenges, inspire teams, foster collaboration, and drive sustainable change within their organizations.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Have developed a deeper understanding of their leadership strengths and areas for improvement
Leave with actionable insights, tools, and techniques to enhance their leadership capabilities
Drive performance
Make a positive impact within their teams and organizations
Detailed Course Outline
Self-awareness: identify areas for improvement
Communication skills for leaders
Emotional intelligence
Creative decision-making
Team dynamics
Effective conflict resolution
Effective change management strategies
Prerequisites
Prerequisite not required.
Instructors
Orit Ostrowiak is an international professional speaker, trainer, coach and consultant. She specializes in helping organizations and individuals improve their communication skills, including oral presentations, business writing, and general communications and human relations.
Orit has trained thousands of professionals over the last 25 years, traveling throughout the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, South Africa and Australia. She has been an award-winning trainer for one of the world’s leading training companies and has trained in numerous government, business, organizational, public and private settings.
Her client list includes: Aetna Insurance, Illumina, Price Smart, KPMG, Shell, Qualcomm, Rotary, The Salk Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, U.S. Marines, U.S. Border Patrol, USCIS, Rotary, Red Cross, City of Portland, City of San Francisco, Riverside, etc.
Her ability to work with a wide-range of backgrounds, cultures and of levels of professionals, managers, executives and others makes her particularly well-suited in organizational development, team-building and coaching environments. She is skilled in the application of team and individual work style assessment and analysis and integrates this work in her consultations and coaching.