What really drives the climate of your workplace and how much impact do you have as a leader? There may not be a simple recipe for how to lead, but there is a great deal of knowledge about how leaders impact lives and drive results. Join the class and prepare to put your growing leadership skills into ACTION. Participants will:

• Understand the importance of critical soft-skills in today’s workplace, and the special challenges of medical and STEM environments
• Learn from the growing body of research identifying the power of emotion in our work lives, including Google’s recent results from Project Aristotle
• Gain clarity and new insights on problems at work with the use of Haidt’s rider and elephant metaphor
• Learn about what drives workplace climate and the impact a leader has on bottom-line results
• Explore recent research on leadership to identify the models most helpful in today’s information-driven and collaborative work environments
• Understand the importance of contextual intelligence in order to recognize what your team needs from you right now
• Connect your emotional and social intelligence competencies and skills to the flexible and effective use of leadership styles
• Discover your favored leadership styles
• Examine and learn from your personal leadership successes and missed opportunities to build your toolbox of leadership skills and styles
• Build confidence and identify opportunities for growth and development beyond your comfort zone as a leader