TARGET AUDIENCE
Leaders looking to better understand and utilize their top strengths to elevate their leadership impact.
Program Schedule
- Session 1: April 24, 2025; 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
- Session 2: May 15, 2025; 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
- Session 3: June 3, 2025; 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST
PRICING INFORMATION
$1,395 for NACWA members
$1,595 for non-NACWA members
ENROLLMENT DEADLINE
Enrollment is open until April 3, 2025. Click here to enroll.
Program Overview
Have you ever tried “fixing” one of your weaknesses? Did it feel like a daunting task accompanied with a heavy time and energy investment, yet yielded minimal ROI? In this session, leaders will learn to shift their focus from improving weaknesses to leveraging strengths. By identifying and building upon your top 10 leadership strengths, you can set yourself and those you lead up for success. Together, we’ll explore your top strengths, the potential blind spots associated with each and strategies for maximizing your use of strengths to be a stronger leader. Note: Participants in this ConnectEd Series will be required to complete the CliftonStrengths for Leaders assessment. The assessment link will be distributed to all participants prior to the launch of the series.
Session Descriptions
Session 1: Discovering Your Leadership Strengths
Instead of trying to improve something you struggle with, it is better to focus your energy on enhancing the use of your strengths. To best utilize your leadership strengths, you must first know what they are. In this session, we’ll review your top ten leadership strengths identified through the CliftonStrengths for Leaders assessment and how they are currently being used in the workplace.
Participant Take-aways:
- Discovery of your top 10 leadership strengths.
- An understanding of the domains your strengths fall under (strategic, executing, relationship building and/or influence) and how they benefit your leadership.
- Exploration of how your strengths are currently used to lead in the workplace.
Session 2: Being Mindful of Your Blind Spots
Leaders must use their strengths in just the right ways at just the right times in order for them to be truly effective. In fact, a strength can work against a leader if not aware of potential blind spots. In this session, we’ll assess the use of top strengths and build awareness around potential blind spots. We’ll end with specific actions to keep blind spots in check.
Participant Take-aways:
- Discovery of potential blind spots associated with top leadership strengths.
- Awareness and prioritization of the blind spots that are hindering your current leadership situations the most.
- Actions for keeping your blind spots in check in order to lead more effectively.
Session 3: Maximizing Your Strengths
The greatest leaders know what their strengths are, own them and use them. But this also means leaders accept the fact that they can’t be great at everything. In this session, we’ll explore how to elevate your leadership strengths from good to great by pairing them. Strengths are maximized when they are partnered with another… either one of your own or the strength of colleague. Together we’ll explore ways to elevate the use of your strengths by strategically pairing them.
Participant Take-aways:
- Identification of the ways you are currently pairing your own strengths to lead effectively.
- Understanding of the domain (strategic, executing, relationship building and/or influence) that needs some attention for leading effectively in your role.
- Discovery of strengths that could benefit from pairing with the strength of someone else to maximize your leadership impact.