Effortless LeadershipTM - Educational Leadership Development
GCA’s educational leadership development programs are designed to meet challenges facing professionals living in the 21st century. Program curriculum integrates the latest adult behavioral development and systems process theory.
GCA provides professionals, teams, and organizations with the skills to achieve optimal performance and success.
Developmental Training Programs
Customized programs available upon request.
How to Keep Winning When the Rules Keep Changing
Renewing Teams & Individuals
Becoming an Effective Leader
Coaching Others for Success
Mastering Your Future: A Mind, Body, Spirit Approach
How
to Keep Winning When the Rules Keep Changing
A half-day program that helps individuals proactively
manage the change process.
- Provides processes and tools through which to understand
the natural and predictable pattern of change.
- Cycle of Renewal: A developmental schematic of the
change process and a framework through which to
achieve and sustain meaningful change.
- Define the life skills necessary to successfully
navigate personal and organizational transitions.
- Regain a sense of control of your life and career.
- Examine the strategies and choices that support
success in your current environment.
- Create a 12-month action plan built upon choices
that support your goals.
Renewing Teams
and Individuals
A one-day program that provides tools to help groups
and individuals discover the best steps through which
to achieve their vision of success.
- Discover the skills needed for constructive change management, resiliency, and renewal.
- Navigate industry terrain and make the best decisions for your team and organization.
- Identify key milestones and experiences in shared team history.
- Explore how the team has responded to challenges and changes in the past.
- Identify lessons to ensure a successful future.
- Generate strategies and activities that support the realization of individual and organizational goals.
Becoming an
Effective Leader
For emerging leaders, this one-day program focuses on
developing the skills to positively influence and develop
staff. Ongoing post-program coaching integrates prioritized
developmental agendas. The program includes a performance
awareness appraisal through which leaders identify skills
necessary for success.
GCA's leadership model includes:
- Strategic Planning
- Managing Change
- Performance Management
- Managing Relations/Interpersonal Skills
- Communication
- Leading & Influencing
A one-day workshop to help managers achieve better results by learning to effectively coach their staff.
- Define coaching.
- Develop coaching skills: collaboratively identify developmental agendas and support others in goal attainment.
- Create a coaching model for immediate use.
Mastering
Your Future: A Mind, Body, Spirit Approach
This program addresses the socio-economic evolution of
the aging process as it affects longevity, quality of
life, performance, and organizational development. Ultimately
enhanced performance depends upon the interplay of mind,
body, and a sense of purpose. The focus of this program
is to provide executives with the skills to achieve optimal
health and peak performance.
Program delivery options include an ongoing 8-week class,
a 2-day intensive retreat, or a 5-day program integrated
with onsite spa/resort amenities.
- Discover the myths and realities of aging.
- Integrate a multidisciplinary approach to wellness.
- Understand the stages of adult development.
- Implement a proactive approach to nourishing your mind and body through each phase of life.
- Learn practical stress management techniques.
- Develop new competencies for sustaining resiliency; managing change, and maintaining a meaningful, strategic plan for the future.
- Identify goals for creating a successful wellness plan.
Available at spa/resort 5-day program locations only:
- Experts in the field of longevity and wellness (massage, physical therapists, stress management and nutritional professionals, etc.).
- Individualized coaching.
- Wellness, longevity, and alternative/complementary health care presentations.
- Seaside chats interacting with the Life Transition Institute Faculty.
- Spa amenities and resort activities.
- Full medical/diagnostic services including executive physicals and total body scan at some locations.
Maximize Your
Training Investment
“Executive coaching increases integration of
training programs by 88%. Training programs alone increase
productivity by 22%. Coaching initiatives included goal
setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback,
supervisory involvement, evaluation of end results, and
a public presentation.” (Public Personnel Management;
Olivero, Bane, & Kopeirnan, 1997.)
GCA strongly recommends providing coaching support as an adjunct to your training initiatives. Adults learn best through hands-on experience. Coaching provides a context for training to be successfully integrated and emerge as applied skills in the workplace.
Training alone is simply information. Practice leads to knowledge integration.