I-LEAD -- Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement, and Development, Inc.

In addition to the core programming for students enrolled in course modules, I-LEAD offers leadership development workshops to the general public. The workshops typically take place in I-LEAD's Training Center, located at 1425 Arch Street (4th Floor) in Philadelphia, PA (in the Central YMCA building). The cost for each workshop covers all materials, including books, as well as food and refreshments during the scheduled sessions. Please inquire about current availability, workshop schedules, fees and group discounts, and tailoring workshop presentation(s) to meet your personal or particular organizational needs.

You can register on-line for any workshop(s) that may be of interest to you. If you would like further information about any workshop(s), simply e-mail your name and phone number and an I-LEAD representative will contact you.

The following workshops are available:

Communicating and Negotiating Effectively
This workshop strives to improve the spectrum of core skills involved in communicating and negotiating effectively. Participants learn about and practice listening and reflecting, appreciating human diversity, identifying and shaping mental models, negotiating and resolving conflicts, advocating and communicating, and considering the role of advanced communications technology in enhancing and empowering dialogue. The learning promoted through this workshop grows out of the work of Peter Senge on mental models, Roger Fisher and William Ury on conflict resolution, and on many diversity training models.

Developing Personal and Organizational Effectiveness
This workshop improves the core skills involved in realizing personal and organizational visions. These skills include visioning, building shared vision, strengths theory, team building, team learning, and an introduction to systems modeling and analysis, focusing on systems awareness and causal loop diagramming. This workshop provides insight into the principles of creative leadership, including the difference between reacting and creating, the use of structural tension to achieve vision, and the relation of motivation and group dynamics to vision. Participants will read and focus intensively on the works of Peter Senge, Robert Fritz, Don Clifton, and Stephen Covey. Participants will learn to prepare a written personal vision statement and mission statement.

Understanding and Using Systems Analysis
This workshop strives to improve the core skills involved in systems thinking. These skills include identifying variables, exploring dynamic parallel relationships among variables, recognizing feedback loops, recognizing and analyzing system structure and archetypes, understanding leverage points, and designing effective system interventions. Participants will improve their awareness and understanding of complex systems, and learn the fundamentals of causal loop, and stock and flow diagramming techniques. Participants will read and focus intensively on the work of Peter Senge and Jay Forrester, and will prepare a written model of a complex system.

Leadership and Public Speaking
This workshop improves public speaking skills, with a special emphasis on the role of public speaking in leadership. The skills developed include creating a strong and clear message, understanding your audience, organizing and supporting a thesis, controlling nervousness, working without notes, developing persuasiveness, commanding attention, using props and gestures, and developing a plan for continuous improvement of public speaking skills. Participants will also explore the relationships between prescriptive and descriptive speech, as well as among important categories of argument (e.g., arguments based upon law, morality, ethics, history, science, and economics). The workshop works through intensive experiential learning involving participants in giving speeches, and in offering and receiving constructive feedback. During the workshop, participants will deliver speech(es) without using notes.

Leadership with an Eye to the Future

Non-Discrimination Policy
The Institute for Leadership Education, Advancement, and Development, Inc. (I-LEAD) does not discriminate against students, prospective students, employees or applicants for employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, age, or sexual orientation. I-LEAD admits students to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities accorded or made available to students at the school, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, age, sexual preference, or any other legally-recognized bases.