{"id":2114,"date":"2025-06-06T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/?page_id=2114"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:04:59","slug":"leadership-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/leadership-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-justify-content-center\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column 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auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;max-width:75%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;border-top-width:4px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><img class=\"wp-image-2325 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand.png\" alt=\"Black handwriting on a white background that reads \" width=\"415\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand-200x50.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand-400x100.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand-600x150.png 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/workforce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/161\/2025\/09\/Back-by-popular-demand.png 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><br \/>\nDates:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Five Wednesdays starting March 25 &#8211; April 22nd, 2026<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Place: <\/b><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hcct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MWSU\u2019s Houlne Center for Convergent Technology<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">4141 Mitchell Avenue<br \/>\nSt. Joseph, MO 64507<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Cost:<\/strong><br \/>\n$799 per person for the entire series<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div 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!important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>This five-part leadership series is designed to engage both new and experienced leaders. Each session is strategically scheduled for two hours to ensure learning objectives are reached before mental fatigue sets in. Additionally, each session is intentionally interactive to both engage participants and allow for application of each leadership concept.<\/p>\n<p>Participants who complete the series will have:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A complete understanding of the critical factors that lead to successful leaders<\/li>\n<li>The know-how to execute those leadership concepts, and<\/li>\n<li>Materials to take back to their workplace to use as resources in their leadership journey<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Next session begins in the spring of 2026. Final dates TBA. Pre-registration is OPEN!<\/p>\n<h2>SESSION 1<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Why of the Work: The Importance of Compelling Navigation Statements<\/strong><br \/>\nLearn why asking why is critical to guiding your organization onward and upward towards your goals. We will discuss understanding the purpose, vision, mission, and values of your team\u2019s work, how to update these navigational guides to ensure they align with your strategic objectives, and how to share them with your followers using communication techniques that motivate follow-through actions with emotional appeal and attainability. Samples and templates for compelling statements will be shared in this interactive session. Bring a copy of your current statements to get the most out of this foundational session of the Critical Success Factors of Leaders Workshop Series.<\/p>\n<h2>SESSION 2<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Modeling What You Want: Your Influence on a Toxic or Transformational Culture<\/strong><br \/>\nAs a leader, your words and actions matter a great deal in shaping the culture of your organization. In this session we will discuss the difference between transactional and transformational leadership characteristics and how what you say and do can contribute to toxic working environments that experience high turnover, high stress, and low productivity versus workplace cultures that enjoy the benefits of low turnover, high loyalty, and greater bottom lines of all kinds. We\u2019ll discuss promising practices for fostering trust, ensuring respect and inclusive consideration in decision-making, and maintaining credibility with your team through consistent behavior even when everything around you constantly changes.<\/p>\n<h2>SESSION 3<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Solving Problems by Getting to the Root of the Issues\u2019 Emotions, Attitudes, and Behaviors<\/strong><br \/>\nFinding solutions requires understanding what is causing the problem. We\u2019ll practice uncovering this mystery using the proven tools of the Five Whys exercise and the design thinking process. Both are practical and efficient methods for empowering your team to innovate through intelligent risk-taking, productive friction, failing forward, and creativity. Being comfortable with some discomfort gives you the freedom as a leader to show personal vulnerability and transparency in a way that fosters the freedom of your team to do the same with breakthrough thinking to new ideas. Active listening is a key communication technique that we\u2019ll cover in this session together.<\/p>\n<h2>SESSION 4<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Motivation, Mentorship, and Meeting Your People Where They Are<\/strong><br \/>\nUnderstanding your strengths and helping your team members understand their own, and each other\u2019s strengths, is a critical key to giving everyone individualized consideration while also building collective genius. In this session, we will discuss several tools you can use to know when giving people autonomy is the best choice and when empowering collaboration is the better answer to the challenges and opportunities you and your team are facing. Empowering personal growth and linking individual roles to organizational goals is a high-impact pathway for moving your team forward.<\/p>\n<h2>SESSION 5<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Leadership Models and Performance Metrics Designed for Reaching Goals<\/strong><br \/>\nThis final session in the workshop series covers the importance of measurement, analysis, and knowledge management of your personal leadership and overall team performance. We will discuss how different leadership models can serve your organization in various circumstances and how systems thinking supports continuous improvement through feedback loops and proactive behavior. While hope is not a strategy, it is a critical success factor for leaders. 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