The Kansas Leadership Center offers intensive courses for leadership developers:
Advanced Leadership Development
Practice an experiential method that turns real-time interactions with a team or class into a case study for building leadership.
Leadership Coach
Your path to professional coaching or a coach approach to managing others: 60 hours of ICF approved training, practice and assessment.
Advanced Leadership Development Intensive
Do you need to build leadership capacity on your team or in your organization? Do you want new methods to help people practice leadership skills in real time? Looking for ways to make learning experiential? There is no better time to expand your skills with KLC’s advanced course in group dynamics and the Case-in-Point teaching method.
With KLC’s Advanced Leadership Development Intensive you develop capacity to:
- Engage people in experiential learning about leadership using Case-in-Point.
- Foster productive group dynamics within teams, organizations and coalitions.
- Identify patterns and roles within a system for improved outcomes.
- Leverage tension and navigate conflict in a group.
- Use coaching skills to encourage people to disrupt patterns and create change.
- Manage self when emotions run high.
When you add Case-in-Point to your toolkit, the people you teach, consult or manage will:
- Recognize their own behavior patterns and the roles they typically play in systems.
- Understand how they can influence group dynamics.
- Exercise more leadership.
- Make more progress and solve problems faster.
What is Case-in-Point?
Case-in-Point is an experiential method in which facilitators use a group as a case study to learn about and practice leadership in real time. It is a pillar of Adaptive Leadership, developed at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. In classrooms and boardrooms, the Case-in-Point methods helps you co-create learning experiences with your participants.
What is the Advanced Leadership Development Intensive?
Our four-day program offers a rare opportunity to learn and practice incorporating this transformative technique in your teaching, training or consulting. You’ll connect with leadership development professionals from around the world and find a strong support system of Harvard-trained master-practitioners Tim Steffensmeier and Jill Hufnagel. This new virtual version of KLC’s Advanced Leadership Development Intensive gives you the training and assistance you need to make full use of this singular tool for leadership education and practice.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who seeks to enhance the impact of experiential learning about leadership.
- Professionals in leadership, organizational and human resource development.
- Executives and managers seeking new tools to analyze and address leadership issues, including change management.
- Internal and independent consultants.
- Professionals familiar with the Adaptive Leadership framework or the KLC Leadership framework.
Through this immersive experience, you will:
- Prepare to use Case-in-point virtually and in-person.
- Practice using Case-in-Point in your teaching, training or consulting.
- Get real time feedback from peers and KLC’s master practitioners.
- Experiment with what works, and what doesn’t, in a supportive group environment.
- Connect with other accomplished leadership development professionals.
Endorsements
Marty Linsky, co-founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates and co-author with Heifetz of the best-selling book, Leadership on the Line, highly recommends this program. “KLC is the perfect place to perfect your Case-in-Point delivery skills. Using the class as a case is a challenging and powerful method of enhancing people’s leadership capacity. And for me at least, doing it well is a life-long learning journey.”
Read what others are saying about this intensive (formerly called Case-in-Point Intensive).
Program Details
Program Date: February 20-23, 2024
Program Days: 9 AM – 5 PM (CDT/GMT-5)
Location: All sessions with be held at the Kansas Leadership Center, 325 E. Douglas Ave, Wichita, Kansas, 67202.
Deadline to register: February 6, 2024
Tuition fee: $2,995*
*Scholarships available including one full tuition scholarship in honor of KLC’s Senior Associate, Lynette Lacy. Learn more and apply.
The texts for this course include KLC’s Teaching Leadership book (available for purchase January 2024) and the Advanced Leadership Development handbook (provided at no additional cost).
Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at [email protected] or 316.712.4950.
Leadership Coach Intensive – All 60 hours offered virtually
The Leadership Coach Intensive pairs the Kansas Leadership Center’s proven framework with the International Coaching Federation’s Core Competencies in a one-of-a-kind program designed to develop your coaching mindset. Multiply your impact by helping others unlock their own potential and make greater progress for the organization.
Imagine making an even greater impact in the lives of others; an impact that leads to transformation.
With excellent coaching skills, you’ll develop the ability to ask just the right question at the right time to help unlock potential in others. You’ll enable your participants, clients, or employees to find greater purpose, enhance performance, and make more progress toward their goals.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as partnering with clients (or employees) in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Our own Leadership Coach Intensive supports all ICF updated credentials and standards of the Level 1 Accreditation. The program is designed to help build professional coaching skills through a 60-hour coach training that will qualify for ICF’s Associate Certified Coach credential (ACC), a Level 1 Accreditation program.
Learn and understand the mastery of coaching techniques, ethics, and core coaching competencies from experienced leadership coaches Tim Link, MCC, Joyce McEwen Crane, PCC and Seth Bate, PCC. All courses are offered in English.
Through the 60-hour intensive, you will:
- Learn and practice all 8 International Coaching Federation (ICF) Core Coaching Competencies.
- Experience coaching as an act of leadership based on the KLC principles and competencies.
- Experience the possibilities for transformation and progress in a leadership coaching partnership.
- Practice skills and get feedback from certified coaches.
- Prepare to coach professionally or put skills to use in your context.
Requirements for KLC’s Leadership Coach Intensive:
- 25-hour week-long course
- Written knowledge assessment
- 30 hours of virtual training including Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges, Practice Skills and Mentor Coaching
- Practice with feedback from ICF certified mentor coaches
What Alumni Are Saying
Anne Pratt
Harvard Fellow, multi-awarded businesswoman
Michelle Vann
CEO, Vanntastic Solutions
Joe Charleston
Director of Engineering, Qual-Tron
Rommy Vargas
Owner, Spanish Ad Hoc Translations
Kristena Shiflett
Engineering manager, NetApp
Emily Wilder
Associate director, University of Kansas Transportation Center
Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg
Director, Center for Anabaptist Leadership and Learning
Andrea Dalton
Consultant and trainer, Center for Trauma Informed Innovation, Truman Medical Centers
Heidi Unruh
Consultant, Congregations & Community Outreach Project
Lynn Wood
Vice President, Wood Communications
Angela Gieras
Executive Director, Kansas City Repertory Theatre
Program Details
Week-long course: June 3-7, 2024; 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM (CDT/GMT-5)
Coaching to Make Progress on Adaptive Challenges course: Six 90-minute online classes – dates TBD
Coaching Skills Practice course: Three 3.5 hour online classes – dates TBD
Group Mentor Coaching: Five 90-minute online classes – Dates TBD
Location: All hours delivered virtually via Zoom Conference Software
Deadline to register: May 20, 2024
Tuition fee: $3,995
The texts for this course include KLC’s Teaching Leadership book (available for purchase January 2024) and a Leadership Coach handbook (provided electronically one week before the program).
Have questions or want more information? Contact KLC Programs at [email protected] or 316.712.4950.
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