Boot Camps for Managers:
From May 2005
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In its 20th year, Leadership Sacramento melds organizational training with exploring resolutions to regional issues. One class identified the need for a community computer lab in Del Paso Heights and labored to make it a reality, from raising $50,000 in donations and organizing a press event to constructing the center themselves.
Challenge of Strong Personalities
The curriculum teaches participants how to identify roadblocks, handle friction and resolve conflicts while accomplishing a common goal. “But, less obvious is the challenge of strong personalities, of these potential or existing leaders, trying to work together.
“That’s a group dynamic that can be very hard to manage,” says Christine Ault, Sac Metro’s vice president of marketing and communications. “But that’s what this class project puts in front of them. It’s another way to strengthen their fiber.”
For Don Whitaker, principal of Auburn-based Ceronix, team building goes beyond the classroom and sails on the open sea. The leading U.S. developer and manufacturer of custom color video monitors, Ceronix builds its leaders’ skills through a combination of formal training, funded through the Employment Development Department and provided by California State University Sacramento professors and facilitated challenges. But each year, all employees and their significant others receive an all-expenses-paid cruise that includes daily two-hour team-building courses.
Private Tutoring Companies
People wanting to independently further their team-building or leadership expertise can grab the wheel and head to private tutoring companies, such as the Academy for Coaching Excellence. Recently earning its accreditation by the International Coach Federation, the academy was founded by Maria E. Nemeth, Ph.D., who received her doctorate in psychology from UCLA and is a Master Certified Coach.
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Challenge of Strong Personalities
The curriculum teaches participants how to identify roadblocks, handle friction and resolve conflicts while accomplishing a common goal. “But, less obvious is the challenge of strong personalities, of these potential or existing leaders, trying to work together.
“That’s a group dynamic that can be very hard to manage,” says Christine Ault, Sac Metro’s vice president of marketing and communications. “But that’s what this class project puts in front of them. It’s another way to strengthen their fiber.”
For Don Whitaker, principal of Auburn-based Ceronix, team building goes beyond the classroom and sails on the open sea. The leading U.S. developer and manufacturer of custom color video monitors, Ceronix builds its leaders’ skills through a combination of formal training, funded through the Employment Development Department and provided by California State University Sacramento professors and facilitated challenges. But each year, all employees and their significant others receive an all-expenses-paid cruise that includes daily two-hour team-building courses.
Private Tutoring Companies
People wanting to independently further their team-building or leadership expertise can grab the wheel and head to private tutoring companies, such as the Academy for Coaching Excellence. Recently earning its accreditation by the International Coach Federation, the academy was founded by Maria E. Nemeth, Ph.D., who received her doctorate in psychology from UCLA and is a Master Certified Coach.
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