Overview
At Texas A&M, leadership is more than a role. It is a commitment to service, integrity, and excellence. The learning opportunities below are designed to help employees and supervisors develop the skills needed to lead effectively and contribute to the university's mission.
New Supervisor Bootcamp
Time: 8 Hours
Stepping into a supervisory role comes with new responsibilities, expectations, and opportunities. New Supervisor Bootcamp is designed to help you start strong by building confidence in the essential skills, systems, and processes every Texas A&M supervisor needs to know. Through interactive, hands-on learning, you'll gain practical experience, learn key compliance requirements, and develop a clear understanding of your role.
Whether you're a brand-new supervisor or recently transitioned into a people leadership role, this course provides the foundation you need for success and serves as the starting point for your continued development through the New Supervisor Bootcamp learning series.
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Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
Time: 13 Hours (Multiple Meetings)
Whenever you’re not getting the results you want, it’s likely an important conversation either hasn’t happened or hasn’t been handled well. In fact, both individual and organizational success are largely determined by how quickly, directly, and effectively we speak up when it matters most. Despite the importance of crucial conversations, we often avoid them because we’re afraid we’ll make matters worse. Mishandled conversations have a huge impact. In fact, they’re at the root of most persistent problems in organizations, teams, and relationships. At the heart of healthy and high-performance organizations are people willing and able to hold crucial conversations.
Backed by 30 years of social science, “crucial conversations” skills represent the standard in effective communication and the marker of high-performance individuals and organizations. This course will teach you how to engage in those difficult or high-stakes crucial conversations.
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Crucial Conversations for Accountability
Time: 16 Hours (Multiple Meetings)
Any manager who's struggled to close a significant performance gap or anyone who has ever walked out of an annual review feeling like they've just been processed rather than prioritized knows there's nothing easy about it.
Performance management is about addressing behavior routinely and consistently. It’s about candidly coaching through challenges and fostering a culture of accountability for lapses in behavior. It’s about identifying goals, fast-tracking careers, and in the process, improving the bottom line.
The good news is these accountability skills are replicable and learnable. We’re all just a few crucial skills away from learning how to manage people and performance daily and directly. Crucial Conversations for Accountability is an engaging classroom course rich with group discussion, real-time practice, and group support and coaching.
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Crucial Influence
Time: 2.5 Hours
When facing persistent, resistant challenges, leaders often surrender to poor results or invest in change efforts that waste time and resources. And yet it’s possible to influence behavior with surprisingly predictable success.
For the past thirty years, we’ve studied leaders with a proven ability to influence rapid, profound and sustainable change. And here’s what we know: human behavior is grounded in six sources of influence. Effective leaders know how to leverage and apply these sources of influence to solve everyday leadership challenges.
Crucial Influence® teaches leadership skills that are essential to leaders at every level. Drawing on five decades of social science research and work with successful leaders around the world, the Crucial Influence Model reveals why people do what they do and how all leaders—from aspiring leaders to top executives—can influence others for lasting results. Crucial Influence is an engaging classroom course rich with group discussion, real-time practice, and group support and coaching. Delivered in one day, this in-person course offers the best in traditional learning and development.
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The Leadership Collective
Looking to grow your leadership skills through connection and shared learning? The Leadership Collective brings together Texas A&M employees who are committed to developing as leaders, regardless of title or role. Through ongoing learning opportunities, discussions, and community-building experiences, participants can expand their leadership capacity while building relationships across campus.
To learn more, visit: The Leadership Collective