For the
past 20 years, many of the largest, most influential
organizations in the world have relied on LRA to help develop
talent at the junior levels. Usually through Graduate
Training
programs, LRA has played a key role in providing newly hired
graduates with powerful thinking tools and interpersonal skills,
tools and techniques that have given them a decided edge as they
launch their careers in today's constantly changing, highly
competitive and always challenging world.
These new leaders are typically among the top 3 - 5% of their
classes at the
best universities and graduate schools in the United States and
abroad. The feedback from these graduates on our programs is always
outstanding - and frequently accompanied by comments such as, "If
only I had learned about this in high school or college!"
Prompted by this recurring feedback and in
recognition of the increasingly challenging and competitive world our
young adults are now facing, we have now decided to offer these
courses on a limited basis to a select group of highly motivated
young adults looking to gain a competitive edge as they prepare
to compete for colleges and step out
into the real world. The target audience for our programs
is high school juniors and seniors through college, including
both undergraduate and graduate students.
Note that these courses are designed
for only those students mature enough to understand and leverage
the many advantages that these tools and skills offer, including
the ability to use personality type preferences to better
understand and influence others, the ability to use proven tools
to think creatively to develop new ideas or alternatives, and
the ability to understand the impact of change and to adapt to
it quickly. These are powerful skills, all of which can be
used in the home, academic, athletic, social, business and
career environments.
Although the subject matter is not
technically difficult, the days are fast-paced and the concepts
thought-provoking and challenging. They are very different
from typical academic programs. These courses are designed to equip
future leaders with a set of powerful skills that will give them
a decisive edge when dealing with the challenges ahead. To
ensure that participants get the maximum value from these
courses, participation is limited to only those college and high
school candidates who have the desire and potential to take
their leadership skills to the next level.
Participants are expected to
meet the following criteria:
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High potential, success oriented, highly motivated
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Desire to increase leadership potential
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Possess a mature attitude toward learning
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Possess and open mind and are ready to adsorb new concepts
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Are willing to commit 100% of
their energy to engage actively in the learning process
...all to advance their capability to perform in the
increasingly competitive world landscape.
LRA Leadership Institute's Next Generation Leadership Program
offerings
Influencing Others for Greater Impact
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A two-day course
designed to help individuals and / or teams understand and apply
tools and techniques to improve the process of building and
improving interpersonal relationships. This program is
designed to leverage knowledge of personality type preferences
to give the participants a competitive edge in all types
communication - especially face-to-face, a key element of
effective networking skills. Participants identify
specific “influence targets” and leverage the
Myers Briggs
Personality Type Indicator
(MBTI) to develop specific communications strategies
to improve interpersonal relationships. The program is
highly effective at improving relationship
development skills for such target areas as family, academic,
social, athletic and employment environments.
The
MBTI is a
self-assessment tool that helps a person to understand his/her own
personal preferences with respect to gathering and absorbing
information, processing information, making decisions, interacting
with people and driving toward closure, among other things. It
is an instrument that is frequently used in the work environment for
team building, leadership development and enhancing interpersonal
relationships (e.g. communication, conflict management, decision
making). It is based on the theories of Carl Jung and is one
of the most reliable and widely used instruments of its type in the
world.
When
it comes to MBTI, there are no right or wrong answers.
The instrument measures preferences by personality type.
Things like how one prefers to take in information, how one prefers
to process that information, the extent to which one prefers to be
open and flexible versus push toward closure can all have an impact
on interactions with others in business and social environments.
Differences on these and other dimensions of the model are what can
lead to poor communication, lack of understanding and conflict -
which can, in turn, lead to less than optimal individual and
team performance.
Lynn Reed is an expert in the application of the
MBTI
in organization, team and individual effectiveness processes.
He explains the model in clear, easy to assimilate terms and makes
it come alive through his extensive experience, knowledge of the
underlying theory, humor and anecdotes. Participants
quickly come to understand the impact and implications of their
preferences both in terms of how they perceive others and in terms
of how others perceive them.
Influencing Others for Greater Impact: $1,195
CALL 908-236-8002 FOR THE LATEST SCHEDULE AND FOR AN APPLICATION
Limited spaces are available on a first come, first served basis
Parallel Thinking
and Lateral Thinking Skills
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A three-day course designed
to provide participants with
a set of tools and structured
techniques to methodically develop creative thinking skills in
order to develop truly innovative ideas and solutions improve an individual's thinking capabilities and creativity.
The course also includes a segment on parallel thinking,
a process that segments
individual or group thinking that leads to significant increases
in the efficiency and effectiveness of the thinking process.
Developed by Edward de Bono, these powerful techniques enable
individuals, teams and entire organizations to significantly improve
their ability to develop creative ideas. In the business
world, these tools are used for new product development,
process improvement, customer focus and a variety of applications.
Parallel Thinking tools are
designed to structure individual and group thinking in a way
that increases in the
efficiency and effectiveness of the thinking process. They
facilitate a major behavioral shift away from traditional
thinking styles, which tend to be adversarial and/or
hierarchical in nature. Parallel Thinking equips one
to lead and to contribute to team and
group communication and decision-making processes with the
confidence. In
addition, many organizations have discovered that Parallel
Thinking techniques improve communication in both cross
functional and multi-cultural settings, opening the door to
Lateral Thinking.
Lateral
Thinking tools are designed to address the limitations inherent in
the asymmetric patterning
system of the brain – this patterning system, while quite useful in
every day life, is a major inhibitor of idea generation capability
for most people. While many creative thinking practitioners are good
at getting people excited about the topic of creativity, very
few actually provide structured tools to improve the vital skill
of idea generation capability.
Parallel
Thinking and Lateral Thinking Skills: $1,995
CALL 908-236-8002 FOR THE LATEST SCHEDULE AND FOR AN APPLICATION
Limited spaces are available on a first come, first served basis
Dynamics of Culture
Change
- A one-day course
that explores the barriers to driving change and
provides several models and techniques to accelerate and to
leverage change at
the individual and team levels. Primary goals are:
to clarify the nature of change and to
minimize the adverse impact of change on performance at the
individual and group levels.
The key to advancing
in many organizations is to become more adaptive to change.
This has become an critical skill given the ever-increasing pace
of change and the tumultuous environment in which
graduates will be expected to perform well.
Organizational, academic, social, technological changes will all
occur - with increasing speed - and those hoping to perform well
will be expected to adjust and to land on their feet. This
program provides models and techniques to do so.
Cost: $695
This course is not yet scheduled.
Contact us
directly for more in-depth information on any of our programs or
services.
info@lynnreedassociates.com
USA
908-236-8002
