Leadership Through People Skills

Upcoming Information Session: Wednesday, February 26 at 7:30 pm
Meet with Sandy and previous participants of Leadership Through People Skills to hear more and ask any questions you might have!
Online via Teams: click here to register

Ready to change your life by enhancing your leadership?

Led by Dr. Sandy MacIver, learn how to lead through self-awareness, trust, and emotional intelligence, all while developing your own leadership style. Leadership Through People Skills focuses on leader success in outstanding teamwork led by thoughtful leaders (including high-performance work by executive teams). This offering affirms the importance of leadership values, including the practice of leading with authenticity. Consistent with research, Leadership Through People Skills emphasizes that great leadership comes from maintaining a balanced focus on people/process and task/results.

Grounded in outstanding readings on key leadership-related topics and based in research, Leadership Through People Skills translates theory into practice through hands-on activities that facilitate deep learning. The offering deepens learners’ leadership action experience even further through reflection in community and personal journaling.

Schedule:

In-person: Tuesday, May 13 – Friday, May 16
9AM-4PM
Held on Mount Allison University campus

Immerse yourself in 4 days of interactive learning and community-building. Lunch and snacks provided.

Online: Friday afternoons, May 23 and 30, June 6 and 13
1-4 PM

Apply your learning to your daily life, using each week’s session to deepen your reflection on and engagement with your daily practice of leadership.

Course competencies: 

• Develop leadership-focused self-awareness.
• Build personal independence as a foundation for leadership and bring interdependence to working with others.
• Learn to truly listen without the intent to reply.
• Communicate effectively in meetings and public by asking open-ended questions.
• Build vulnerability- and competence-based trust.
• Practice emotional intelligence.
• Value and leverage differences, diversity, and complementarity as leaders.
• Choose and practice sustainable, effective leadership styles.
• Lead effective and high-performing group work.
• Take a leadership role in dealing with toxicity in organizations.

Testimonials from previous participants:

“Sandy MacIver is a wonderful teacher who taught us how to assess our strengths, become more self-aware, and how to use our leadership skills – which we already possessed – to our advantage. I highly recommend Leadership Through People Skills and wish I could take it again!”

“Before taking Leadership Through People Skills with Sandy McIver, I had read many books and taken some short courses on leadership. I thought I knew a lot about leadership but knowing is one thing, doing is another. The practical, applied nature of this [offering] challenged me in ways that past learning did not. Sandy designs activities to be difficult and to target areas where the class members were 'not quite there yet' in our skillset. While [Leadership Through People Skills] was demanding, it was also very rewarding in terms of personal growth. Sandy is extremely supportive, and he creates an environment where the class as a whole reflects that support. The supportive atmosphere helped me feel ok being vulnerable and taking risks. I use the skills and insights learned from this [offering] on a regular basis.”

“I use what I learned in Leadership Through People Skills every single day, in most of my interactions with others – at work, at home, in public. I’ve gained invaluable insight into myself and others and how to make connections.”

"Sandy is amazing! This is [an offering] that could dig the real you from deep inside and help you find a better you which you never realized. He taught us leadership has many different types. You have your own unique leadership style. The class is always an intense intellectual and emotional encounter. There is no bystander, everyone can’t help but be actively involved and immersed in it. This is one of the life lessons that will always lead me on!"