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Mid-level Management: Performance Leadership Academy

The Performance Leadership Academy aspires to elevate organizational performance and encourage cross-functional collaboration through enhancing the leadership capabilities of operational leaders.

Curriculum

The Performance Leadership Academy's comprehensive curriculum covers key business and leadership topics. Course topics include:

  • Communicating for influence
  • Elevating staff performance
  • Evaluating department performance
  • Facilitating effective teamwork
  • Growth through innovation
  • Improving financial decision making
  • Instilling cost discipline
  • Leading change
  • Leading through vision
  • Managing amid diversity
  • Managing conflict
  • Negotiations
  • Problem solving and innovation
    • Application Resources

      A number of resources are available to facilitate and complement the Performance Leadership Academy's curriculum, including:

      • Executive leadership summit
      • Executive involvement in course planning and delivery
      • Dedicated faculty advisor
      • Leadership certification

      Delivery Method

      Courses are structured in trimesters and conducted on site; sessions are provided for both participants and institutional leadership.

      Staffing

      The Performance Leadership Academy has dedicated a full-time staff of researchers, education specialists, and faculty to the task of developing and teaching the curriculum.