Teaching Good Leaders Great Skills

How do you lead? How do you present ideas with power and clarity? How do you engage people in meetings that actually end in action? How does being a good listener help you be an effective leader? How do you use your personal leadership style to power your organization, drive your success and impact your volunteer service?

You’ll find answers, insights, and action items at Leadership Education and Development (LEAD): an interactive, hands-on leadership training series that focuses on the skills you need to be an effective communicator, facilitator, and problem solver. LEAD will give you insight into the essence of leadership, help you understand your own leadership strengths, and teach you how to sustain business performance and personal success.

Facilitated by Len Mozzi of Dramatic Difference, LEAD includes two full-day and four half-day sessions that will provide you with practical takeaways on how to work effectively within today’s varied environments. You’ll have a chance to hone the presentation, meeting, listening, and creative problem-solving skills that can help to ensure successful leadership in the workplace and daily life. In addition, the interactive skills training will be complemented by discussions on civic and philanthropic leadership. You will gain knowledge on how to increase your civic engagement and put your leadership skills into practice.

LEAD is ideal for supervisors and managers, business owners, nonprofit executives, aspiring leaders, and anyone wanting to enhance leadership skills. It’s a program designed specifically to help you become a more effective leader!

TOPICS:

Presentation Skills – Leader as Communicator
Meeting Skills – Leader as Facilitator
Productive Thinking – Leader as Problem Solver
LEAD also focuses on a leader’s call to action and civic engagement 

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LEAD is an interactive, hands-on training program that focuses on various leadership skills. As a result of the LEAD program, participants will be able to be a more effective communicator, facilitator and problem solver.

Space is limited.

LEAD is ideal for supervisors and managers, business owners, nonprofit executives, aspiring leaders, and anyone wanting to enhance leadership skills.

Professional speaker, trainer and consultant Len Mozzi combines his 20 years of experience as a theater professional with an expertise in creativity to provide a unique perspective on innovation and communication skills. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from Boston University’s School of Theater Arts and is a graduate of the Creative Education Foundation’s Leadership Development Program.

The business world is now his stage. He delivers speeches, coaches individuals and trains business professionals in creative sales and communication techniques and the art and craft of public speaking. Len also developed "The Ten Commandments of Creativity" from his improvisation work and has taught creativity techniques throughout the country. Clients include DuPont, Ryder Trucks, NCAA, Sallie Mae, United Way, Delta Faucets, Eli Lilly and Company and the U.S. Defense Department.

Len Mozzi will focus on a variety of skill areas:

Presentation Skills – Leader as Communicator

• Use eye contact to personalize their message
• Employ vocal techniques to improve clarity and power
• Arrange the room to maximize focus and participation
• Master gestures that enhance their delivery
• Master techniques to eliminate tension and improve concentration
• Control stage movement to focus their delivery
• Utilize organizational skills to hook then hold your audience

Meeting Skills – Leader as Facilitator

• Set a positive tone for each meeting
• Set outcome agendas rather than just list topics
• Devise processes to reach agenda outcomes
• Engage every participant
• Master active listening
• Facilitate group listening and cooperation
• End meetings with action lists

Productive Thinking – Leader as Problem Solver

• Generate twice the ideas in half the time
• Select the best ideas and turn them into action
• Create an environment where ideas flourish
• Manage change and challenges with creative problem solving
• Tap into each individual’s unique creativity
• Define the correct problem before moving toward solutions

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR 2008 PARTNERS:

Platinum Partner
Gold Partners
Silver Partners
Bronze Partners
Childrens Bureau, Inc. - Lauth - Lewis Wagner, LLP - Locke Reynolds - Katz, Sapper & Miller