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
- Executive leadership summit
- Executive involvement in course planning and delivery
- Dedicated faculty advisor
- Leadership certification
Application Resources
A number of resources are available to facilitate and complement the Performance Leadership Academy's curriculum, including:
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.