Course Number: XLSU 0001 Workplace challenges and pressures have multiplied exponentially with every passing business quarter. Profit margins, employee morale, and discretionary time have all dwindled, yielding to unrelenting global competition. Never before has the need for effective leadership been more apparent at all organizational levels. Getting everyone on board so that the organization can execute notable strategies and plans will often fall to the first level of management.

In this program supervisors and emerging leaders will receive practical, proven tools to increase their effectiveness in the critical role they have within the organization.

Participants Will Learn How to:

• Build Leadership Skills
• Assess Strengths and Personality Style
• Develop Effective Communication Skills
• Effectively Interview and Select Employees
• Improve Employee Performance
• Manage Change for Improved Results
• Create Teamwork and Unity
• Resolve On-the-Job Conflicts
• Conduct Effective Performance Appraisals
• Delegate Effectively for Results
• And More!

Program Details:

• 12-week, 36-hour program resulting in 3.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
• Participants receive a Chapman University Extended Education Certificate
• Classes are held once a week in 3-hour sessions
• Program cost is $1,275.00 per participant including materials
• 10% corporate discount is available to companies registering five or more employees

Upcoming Sessions:

Fall 2009 Session

• Next 12-week session begins Friday, February 12, 2010 and concludes May 14, 2010. There will be no class meeting on Frebruary 19 and March 19. 
• Classes meet from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.
• Program location: This program is held at our home campus.  See our Registration page for campus address and maps.
• Advanced registration is required. Register now.

Instructor:

Irv Gamal, MA; has over 14 years of management experience with large national corporations and 20 years as a business consultant and organizational development expert. He also has extensive experience teaching business courses at local community colleges and regional private and public universities. Irv is the author and instructor for this popular Leadership Development Certificate Program and always receives rave reviews from his students. His other areas of expertise in leadership development are coaching, executive retreats, strategic planning, change management, and teambuilding. Irv has been actively involved with the Center for Creative Leadership as an executive coach and is also certified on a wide variety of individual and organizational diagnostic inventories/assessments.

For more information please contact Kathleen Wilson, 949-341-9865 or kcwilson@brandman.edu.

The Leadership Development Certificate Program for Supervisors and Entry-Level Managers is one tier in Chapman University’s Leadership Services Program signature series that is specifically designed to offer corporate training and development programs for 4 levels of business professionals: the supervisor/emerging level manager, the mid-level manager, the senior-level manager and the executive.