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Management Development Seminar (MDS)

Transitioning From Manager to Leader

Schedule
  • December 7 - 18, 2009 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 6:00 PM on last day
    Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • January 4 - 15, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 4:30 PM on last day
    Sunday night lodging is included. Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • February 22 - March 5, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 4:30 PM on last day
    Sunday night lodging is included. Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • March 15 - 26, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 6:00 PM on last day
    Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • April 12 - 23, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 4:30 PM on last day
    Sunday night lodging is included. Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • May 10 - 21, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 6:00 PM on last day
    Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • June 14 - 25, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 4:30 PM on last day
    Sunday night lodging is included. Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • July 12 - 23, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 6:00 PM on last day
    Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course material.
  • August 9 - 20, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 4:30 PM on last day
    Sunday night lodging is included. Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • September 13 - 24, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $5300 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 6:00 PM on last day
    Friday is travel day. Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
Overview

This seminar helps experienced mid-level managers assess and improve their organization's overall effectiveness. Discover how to help guide your organization towards excellence during times of unprecedented change, challenge and expectation. Find out how to engage your workers and foster innovative thinking and action. This seminar also helps you gain a "systems" understanding of managing culture and productivity throughout your organization. You will learn four useful "frames" recognizing, understanding and improving interrelated, vital "systems" at work within your organization:

  • The Structural Frame: organizing and structuring groups and teams
  • The Human Resource Frame: tailoring organizations to satisfy human needs, improve human resource management and build positive interpersonal and group dynamics
  • The Political Frame: coping with power and conflict, building coalitions, honing political skills and dealing with internal and external politics
  • The Symbolic Frame: shaping a culture that gives purpose and meaning to work; staging organizational performance drama for internal and external audiences; building effective team spirit
You will share challenges and best practices with peers from other agencies, deepen your understanding of interagency systems and make connections for networked governance capable of delivering seamless customer service.

How You Will Benefit

  • Enhance your ability as a leader to think comprehensively and multi-dimensionally
  • Encourage flexibility with your organization and view opportunities and events from multiple angles
  • Try new approaches to managing that can lead to greater organizational efficiency
  • Practice collaborative management of workteam cultures
  • Create a powerful vision for your organization and set strategies for moving toward its realization
  • Forge productive negotiations and defuse wasteful, unproductive conflict

Who Should Attend

Second- and third-line managers (those who typically manage supervisors or other managers) who are seeking to refine and improve the performance of their organizations