Leadership Essentials: Advanced

This workshop will enable participants to know what a successful leader is and does. Participants will explore their leadership strengths and challenges to better seek help, mentoring, and advice and invest your effort in high-value activities that deliver business results through the team.

This workshop will enable participants to recognize strengths and challenges for individuals and the team, provide reinforcing and developmental feedback, manage performance problems quickly and effectively, and use coaching to build competence and confidence.

This workshop will enable participants to develop and communicate clear, meaningful performance objectives, keep the team focused on critical priorities, delegate work to leverage and enhance the individual’s capabilities, experiences, and developmental goals and set clear expectations and create accountability.

This workshop will enable participants to know what drives employee engagement, attend to individual differences in engagement needs, strive for high levels of engagement for individuals and the team, and maintain a climate that encourages people to give 100% effort.

Working remotely has been on the rise for many years now, with research showing that hiring managers expect nearly half of all their workers to be working remotely over the next decade. While many trends feed into this way of organizing work, managing the work effectively will be key to the success of organizations globally. In this course, instructor Phil Gold provides managers with a clear approach for getting the most out of their remote teams. He zeros in on the key factors that will ensure productivity, engagement, and growth, as well as a manager’s role in building trust, removing roadblocks, nurturing connections with team members, and setting clear goals. Note: This course was featured in Market Watch, Inc., Fortune, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. 

Understanding our own biases is the first step to building a more inclusive workplace. The training sessions will be led by Brian Gittens, EdD, a nationally recognized leader in this field, and his team. Dr. Gittens has worked with us in the past. He has decades of experience working with the military, higher education, governmental organizations, corporations and non-profits, as well as academic medicine. We are confident that you will find these sessions to be both informative and inspiring. 

This online module focuses on giving you exposure to critical policies that you should know as a supervisor in PSOM. This is to It is not intended to cover all policies. 

By the completion of this module, participants will be able to: 

• Recognize frequently referenced University of Pennsylvania HR Policies & Procedures
• Develop awareness to address situations appropriately
• Discover resources available through Penn HR and Perelman HR

Strongly Recommended: This collection of self-guided web-based training courses provides new leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to hit the ground running as they step into management roles for the first time. This program is also useful for seasoned leaders who are looking to refresh their knowledge of Penn policies or keep up to date on best practices, or for non-management staff who are interested in someday stepping into a leadership position. Topics covered in this program include: 

• Penn's Core Policies
• Recruiting and Selection
• Time, Attendance, and Pay Practices
• Performance and Engagement
• Safety On Campus
• Health and Wellness 

(NOTE: This program will be required for all managers within the EVP divisions hired on or after 6/1/2021, and will also be a required prerequisite for Essentials of Management starting in October 2021.)