Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University

Programs, Workshops and Seminars

The following programs highlight the tangible aspects of leadership:

  • Defining Leadership
  • Models of Leadership
  • Time and Stress Management
  • Goal Setting
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Consensus Building and/or Robert's Rules of Order
  • Budgeting and Fundraising
  • Working with the Media: Print, Radio and TV
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Problem Solving and Strategic Planning
  • Event Planning
  • Evaluative Tools for Assessment
  • Leadership Practice Inventory
  • Knowing Yourself and Others
  • Six Hat Theory of Effective Planning*
  • Situational Leadership Theory
  • TIPS Training (Training in Intervention Procedures)
  • Communication Skills (attentive listening, assertion, etc.)
  • Primal Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership without Easy Answers (based on Ron Heifetz's book of the same name)
  • Social Change Model of Leadership
  • Five Disciplines of Learning Organizations

These emphasize the intangible aspects of leadership:

  • Leading with Virtue (with faith, hope, love, prudence [wisdom], fortitude, temperance and justice)--programs available for each virtue
  • Managing Diversity
  • Integrity
  • Civility
  • Masculine and Feminine Spirituality*
  • Honor
  • Soul and Spirituality: The Inner Work of Leading
  • Servant Leadership
  • Brotherhood and Sisterhood
  • Learned Optimism
  • Ethical Decision Making: Where Do You Draw the Line?
  • Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition
  • Transforming the Powers: Influencing Long-Term Campus Cultural Change

Each seminar, workshop and program lasts up to an hour in length and are interactive. Those with asterisks last almost two hours, and involve significant role playing. Effective leadership involves theoretical possibilities and practical applications, which all of the above programs provide. To schedule any one of these, or to discuss customizing any of these for your group or organization, please email: bdatz@wlu.edu, or call 458-4045.

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