Based upon the popular management book, For Your Improvement, this instructor skillfully presents competencies needed for leadership, as organized into six factors: Strategic Skills, Operating Skills, Courage, Energy & Drive, Organizational Positioning Skills, and Personal & Interpersonal Skills.

Participants will be guided to reflect upon their own strengths and weaknesses and be taught how to decide which competencies to develop, recognizing that sometimes it is more useful to compensate for a weakness with other strengths and that it is possible to unproductively overuse one's strengths.

Participants will learn about behavioral indicators of unskilled performance, skilled performance and overuse of certain competencies. Using this knowledge and the tools mentioned below, they will formulate an action plan for self-improvement.