Meet the
Optimized
CTLL Facilitators
Online Learning People unfamiliar with online learning often ask, “What is it like?” The WSU Global Campus is a national leader in online course delivery. Using contemporary tools such as Blackboard, participants learn through recorded lectures, interactive video segments, and discussion forums via their own computer or mobile device. Many of the activities are done on each participant’s own schedule, while a few scheduled activities are meant to be done live, as a group. Tidal Leadership combines the best components of convenient online learning with live, personal instruction.
Kim Kidwell As founding Director of the Center for Transformational Learning and Leadership in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences at WSU, Dr. Kidwell is an inspiring leader who has created highly successful lifeskill enhancement courses. She has won numerous awards during her 20-year research and teaching career.
CERTIFICATE FEE Mary Kay Patton Experienced in conflict resolution, social justice, and mediation, Ms. Patton has honed her skills while practicing civil and criminal law in both public service and private practice. She is dedicated to nurturing the human spirit as an essential dimension of leading a rich, full, and meaningful life.
■
Standard Fee................................................. $2,950
■
WSU Faculty & Staff...................................... $1,950
■
Enrolled Graduate Students.............................. $995
■
Workshops & Customized Training.... Call to discuss
Group discounts are available. Programs can be customized for organizations that wish to augment their existing management training. Call 509-335-2243 or email ctll.leader@wsu.edu for more information.
BE A CATALYST FOR POSITIVE CHANGE
Anna Whitehall With her focus on enhancing well-being through positive mental health, Ms. Whitehall is currently pursuing a doctorate in prevention science at WSU. In addition to teaching life-skill enhancement courses, her academic interests include the implementation and evaluation of theory-based, large scale prevention and well-being programs in university settings.
Tidal Leadership
@
Sample a free online preview or participate in a free online webinar. Sign up today at tidal.wsu.edu.
Denise Yost Proof that research scientists can also be highly capable leaders, Dr. Yost has a doctorate in marine, estuarine, and environmental sciences from the University of Maryland. She applies a creative and dynamic lens not only to her scientific inquiries, but to life itself. She has worked as a leadership facilitator, trainer, and coach.
NEW 12-Week Online Format! tidal.wsu.edu
Abbie DeMeerleer
LEARNING
INTERNSHIP
LEADERSHIP
CAREER NETWORKING
Passionate about helping others discover and live up to their potential, Ms. DeMeerleer is committed to supporting people in creating extraordinary lives. She has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communication and a master’s in higher education leadership and administration from WSU. She has taught courses on developing effective communication and life skills.
tidal.wsu.edu | ctll.leader@wsu.edu | 509-335-2243
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, HUMAN, AND NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES
Why
Tidal Leadership
It isn’t the prestigious job title that defines a great leader. Powerful, influential leaders project an authentic, compelling vision that inspires and empowers others. Effective leaders don’t have to fit a mold, but they do tend to share common traits, including a remarkable awareness of themselves and their surroundings, an ability to influence others, and a propensity for making values-based decisions. Tidal Leadership will help you develop these attributes and more as you build your own personal platform for becoming an effective leader.
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Tidal Leadership?
Leadership
Training Choices
“
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” » Lao Tzu
Tidal Leadership is available in a variety of modalities, depending on the needs of participants. Online delivery through the Tidal Leadership Certificate Program enables convenient learning, day or night, with worldwide access, in a 12-week format. Customized workshops (one day or multi-day) are ideal for organizations and corporations seeking to provide foundational leadership or team skills development to work groups. Finally, fully integrated corporate programs are customized to deliver Tidal Leadership modules while complementing a company’s existing management training, culture, and professional development plans.
Options
“
Leadership and learning are
This signature program is offered as a 12-week course for individuals. Specifically tailored programs exist for women, graduate students, and mid-career professionals.
indispensable to each other.”
CORPORATE TRAINING
» John F. Kennedy
The online certificate program can be delivered to your entire corporate management team and/or employees. Corporate clients have access to exclusive discounts and customization for the curricula to match organizational culture and goals.
WORKSHOPS Basic Tidal Leadership principles can be delivered in compressed, live, one-day or multi-day workshops. Groups as large as 120 have benefited from this abbreviated and focused leadership training.
Training
Modules Twelve Tidal Leadership modules support participants in charting a promising course toward personal and professional success for themselves and those they lead.
MODULE 1: “Tidal-” vs. “Title-” Based Leadership: Explore current theories of leadership, and identify individual values upon which your personal vision of excellence in leadership will be built. MODULE 2: Strength of the Currents: Establish a platform upon which to build goals for living and leading a values-based life. You also will explore the importance of using a values-based leadership strategy to create positive results, improve effectiveness, and expand impact. MODULE 3: Finding Your Balance: Explore the mindfulness tenets of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Training), a foundational platform of this course. Focus will be on maintaining present moment awareness and becoming familiar with a neutral third-person perspective. Practice observation and awareness techniques to maximize your leadership potential. MODULE 4: Catching the Wave: Build upon the mindfulness components of ACT to deal with challenging thoughts and uncomfortable feelings that frequently hinder effective leadership. MODULE 5: Discovering Your Wake: Find your natural behavioral tendencies, gain insight about your personality type, and evaluate how these factors affect your leadership. Understand the role you play in achieving individual and organizational objectives. MODULE 6: Reading the Waters: Learn a powerful, intuitive tool that, when applied in real life, will allow you to inventory a situation, implement changes that will improve the situation, and move yourself and the entire team towards a new, positive vision.
MODULE 7: Surfing Lessons: Gain an awareness of how you respond to challenging situations and then, from a place of personal accountability, make conscious choices to proactively address such situations when they occur. MODULE 8: Impact Zone: Learn to navigate obstacles that get in the way of living and leading a values-based life. Using the accountability model from Module 7, learn to take action in challenging situations. MODULE 9: Swimming with Sharks: Gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of five common conflict navigation styles. Practice your newly acquired tools to develop action plans for addressing conflict in common scenarios. MODULE 10: Lost at Sea: Explore team development and team decisionmaking processes. Discover the importance of positive team building, and have an opportunity to create consensus even in challenging situations.
The aim of the Center for Transformational Learning and Leadership (CTLL) is to help students of all ages and backgrounds realize their potential through:
LEARNING Enhancing learning through enriching experiences such as study abroad.
INTERNSHIPS Connecting students with prospective employers, enabling them to be job ready, day one.
LEADERSHIP
MODULE 11: Becoming A Tidal Leader Warrior: Work with coaches to develop and complete a minimum of two life-enhancing, action-based personal challenges that enable you to apply the lessons learned in real life scenarios.
Delivering workshops, seminars, and courses that instill leadership values.
MODULE 12: Charting the Course: Create a mechanism for assessing the alignment of personal behaviors with values that can be applied to real time experiences. Reflect on the entire Tidal Leadership experience, and develop strategies for continuing to integrate newfound skills into your daily life.
Providing students with opportunities to discover new industries and connect with accomplished professionals.
CAREER NETWORKING