Program List

CCL's open-enrollment programs can be segmented into four topic areas:

Individual Leader Development

• Leadership at the Peak - Focuses exclusively on the demands of top executives and gives them a comfortable, secure retreat in which to evaluate their leadership style and effectiveness in the company of their peers. This highly individualized program addresses both the leadership development and fitness needs of senior-level executives. Admission is by application only.
• Leadership Development Program (LDP)^® - Provides a variety of in-depth self-awareness tools and activities to enhance leadership capabilities. Participants learn strategies for continuous development through extensive assessment, group discussions, self-reflection, small-group activities and personal coaching.
• The Looking Glass Experience - Offers behavioral assessment through a realistic action learning process. Participants gain key insights into their leadership strengths and development needs in an organizational setting using a hands-on, in-depth organizational simulation, group discussion, assessment and peer feedback.
• Foundations of Leadership - Teaches effective leadership, focusing on personal awareness and growth, effective working relationships, influence skills, and handling conflict in the workplace. Participants receive honest evaluations of their leadership styles and behaviors and come away with realistic development direction. (3-day program)

Groups, Teams and Organizations

• Advancing Global Leadership NEW! - An action-oriented experience offering techniques for managing people from different cultures in order to work together more effectively on a day-to-day basis. Based on a behavioral simulation that takes place at multiple sites in real time, it provides an opportunity to practice new skills in a realistic setting with colleagues from around the world.
• Developing the Strategic Leader - Focuses on thinking systemically to understand the organization and set strategy, acting decisively on strategic issues, and influencing others to set and implement long-range organizational objectives. Designed for executives who want to contribute to their organizations' enduring success and whose actions and decisions impact several functional areas. Participants explore their personal effectiveness as strategic leaders, and learn ways to improve the strategic functioning of teams and the organization overall.
• Leadership and High-Performance Teams - Explores the challenges teams face, such as conflicting agendas and personalities, and draws from the Center's extensive research on teams to provide knowledge, tools and strategies that can be put to immediate use.

Specialized Topics

• Navigating Complex Challenges - Provides leaders with the opportunity to address a workplace challenge that has no clearly identified solution. Over the course of 12 weeks-including three days in the classroom-participants acquire skills and strategies to better understand their challenges, their leadership role in relation to the challenge, and the influencing dynamics within their organization.
• Coaching for Development - Teaches how to coach others through the use of multiple videotaped practice sessions and intensive small group time with a certified CCL coach. The program applies the Center's developmental framework to assess personal style and increase the ability to carry out effective coaching. It includes a telephone follow-up session with a CCL coach 30-45 days after the program to reinforce and extend classroom learning. (3-day program)
• The African-American Leadership Program - Provides a safe environment for participants to explore how their leadership style impacts managerial effectiveness. Through a frank and supportive peer discussion of concerns and development needs, participants create realistic and effective strategies for personal and professional growth.
• The Women's Leadership Program - Provides insight, through an intensive assessment-and-feedback process, about each woman's leadership strengths and development needs in the context of her professional and personal life. Participants weigh choices and trade-offs to build a plan for the future, and examine the unique challenges they face in using personal power and influence.

Human Resource Development and Talent Management

• Developing Leadership Talent: Strategies and Tools - Provides the tools to create a development system that links directly with organizational business strategies and goals. The program is relevant for organizations creating their first leadership development initiatives and processes as well as those that are updating and refocusing existing systems. It allows participants to develop an actionable plan mapping out what needs to be developed, who needs to be developed, and how development will be implemented and evaluated. (3-day program)
• Assessment Certification Workshop - Certifies participants to administer all of the 360-degree assessments in the CCL Assessment Suite, including Benchmarks^®, 360 BY DESIGN^®, Executive Dimensions^™, and Prospector^®. Blends pre- and post-program interactive work, classroom presentation and hands-on practice to prepare participants to structure, design and implement a 360-degree process in their company or business.
• Coaching for Human Resource Professionals NEW! -Teaches human resource professionals how to coach others by first using time-proven assessment tools to determine where they are-and intensive feedback overseen by a certified CCL coach to help them learn where they need to be. (3 day program)
• Leadership Development for HR Professionals - Offers an intensive learning experience aimed at giving human resource professionals the information, tools, practice opportunities and self-confidence to become organization leaders and more effective managers of people and processes.

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