CCL Webinars

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has a wonderful and affordable webinar series.  Each webinar costs only $50 US and focuses on a different aspect of leadership, taught by their highly regarded faculty.  Here are a few of the upcoming webinars:

• January 30 - Advancing Global Leadership - In the complex environment of virtual communication, boundary spanning responsibilities and cultural differences, the context in which leadership takes place has changed. Effective global leaders must manage the tensions of competing global and local issues while learning to become more agile in their approach to business challenges. Further, global leaders must develop skills that allow them to successfully lead in cultures other than their own.
  
• February 8 - Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership - This session offers practicing leaders and managers a more complete understanding of what character is, its importance in leading others, and how it can be further developed in one's self and in others. Gene Klann will explore the "Five E's: example, education, experience, evaluation and environment" and share insights from his new book, Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership.
  
• February 15 - Selling Yourself without Selling Out - Hard working individuals and groups are often not adequately recognized for their skills and contributions. Self-Promotion is an important skill to gain visibility, communicate value for you and your team and is essential to being an effective leader. Unfortunately, a 2005 CCL survey confirms that many leaders associate self-promotion with bragging, showing off or selling out. At the same time, self-promotion is seen as important to career success.
  
• March 7 - Making the Most of Talent: Tools, Techniques and Tactics - When you think of your personal potential, how do you put it in context with the broader organizational setting you find yourself working in today? How does an organization design and implement succession planning, leadership development and talent management systems? How does your team strategically take advantage of position openings? How does your own talent management process shift as external factors drive new business requirements?
  
• March 16 - Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create - Networking is essential to effective leadership in today's organizations. Leaders who are skilled networkers have access to people, information, and resources to help solve problems and create opportunities. Leaders who neglect their networks are missing out on a critical component of their role as leaders. By seeing networking as an integral part of your role as a leader and by taking action to develop and nurture related skills, you begin to create benefits for yourself, your team, and your organization.

For more information, visit their webinar site.