Course Content

My Leader's Compass

• Why study leadership?
• Defining leadership.
• The ten most important leadership principles.
• Expectations of leaders.
• The four basic leadership styles.
• Your personal leadership philosophy.

Managing a Leader's Time

• What is your time really worth?
• Four tips for managing your time more effectively.
• Six ways to manage the time of others.
• Seven steps for maximizing time use.
• Identifying and using high-payoff activities.
• Eliminating unnecessary paperwork and e-mail.

Leading Productive Meetings

• Three types of meetings and when to use them.
• Learn the characteristics of successful meetings.
• Properly prepare for a meeting.
• Proper actions to chair a meeting.
• The keys to follow-up after the meeting.
• Coping with dysfunctional behaviors.

Goal Setting

• The SMART formula for setting goals.
• Providing direction and defining priorities.
• Clarifying roles and responsibilities.
• Linking team and organizational missions.
• Measuring results.
• Rewarding success.

Communicating as a Leader

• A systems approach to communication.
• Causes of organizational communications problems.
• How messages become distorted.
• Four ways to handle data overload.
• Effective listening.
• Four tips for improving communications.

Motivating People

• Why motivation is the key to success.
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
• Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory.
• Goal setting.
• Reinforcement, rewards, and punishment.
• Building a motivational climate.

Conflict Management

• Managing conflict for continuous improvement.
• The five styles of conflict management.
• Four steps to conflict resolution.
• Establishing a win-win environment.
• Six ways to prevent a conflict from recurring.
• Contrasting assumptions about conflict with implications.

Leader as Coach

• Nine characteristics of effective coaches.
• Five keys to great coaching.
• Conducting performance coaching.
• Coaching to correct substandard performance.
• How to be a mentor.
• Guidelines for gaining productive feedback.

Personal Leader Profile

• Identifies activities that energize a leader.
• Describes one's most challenging leadership relationships.
• Learn your preferred style and instinctive needs.
• Communicate better with people who are wired differently.
• Describes key issues on how one develops trust.
• Identifies the correct type of feedback needed.

Program Benefits

• Develop your own "Leader's Compass" to guide your leadership actions
• Professor Perry Martini, PhD, delivers the course online and will personally respond to your questions and provide you with invaluable feedback
• Chat rooms and message boards for rich interaction with the professor and students alike
• Ability to study anytime, anywhere
• No required login times — 24/7 access
• Timely feedback on your leadership development challenges
• Lead4Results™ Certificate

Who should register?

• Corporate professionals interested in taking on leadership roles within their organizations
• Project managers who need leadership skills to complete projects on time and within budget.
• Managers who desire to improve their leadership abilities in order to take on additional responsibilities.

Lead4Results™ Tuition — $1,950

Registration Includes:

1. A two month, online, goal-focused course that is outcome driven
2. Audio CD set for each topic
3. Workbook including self-evaluations, application and action exercises and feedback material.
4. Your Personal Leader's Journal Software
5. Your Personal Energize2Lead™ Leadership Profile
6. A copy of The Leader's Compass: A Personal Leadership Philosophy Is Your Key to Success, 2nd Edition, by Ed Ruggero and Dennis F. Haley. This new addition features the personal leadership philosophy of Bob McDonald, Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble
7. Professional Development Units (PDUs): Earn 40 PDUs

Tuition Assistance

Your tuition cost may be covered by your company's tuition assistance program and may also be tax deductible. Consult your HR department and your tax advisor for more information.

Partner, Military and Government Savings

Exclusive 10% tuition savings for active military service members, all federal, state and local government employees and Partner organizations listed below. Use promotional code PARTNER11 when registering online.

• AAA Mid-Atlantic
• AEGIS
• Allstate Insurance Company
• AMRI
• Avery Dennison
• Bank of America
• BankFIRST
• BearingPoint
• The Beck Group
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Boeing
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Bovis Lend Lease
• Brett/Robinson Gulf Corporation
• Cal State
• Celgene
• Cessna
• Department of Defense
• Department of Homeland Security
• DFAS
• Dress Barn, Inc.
• Exelon Nuclear
• Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
• Federal Goverment
• Force Protection
• General Mills
• George Mason University
• Habitat for Humanity
• Hampden-Sydney College
• Huber & Suhner
• IBM
• Inovis USA, Inc.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• JetBlue
• Johns Hopkins University
• Johnson & Johnson
• Kellogg's
• Lincoln Financial Group
• Lockheed Martin
• Merck
• Microsoft
• Minitab
• Moody's Services
• MorganFranklin
• Northrop Grumman
• Oracle
• PMI Members
• Poole & Associates
• Procter & Gamble
• SAIC
• Spirent
• Staples
• State Farm Insurance
• University of Delaware
• USDA
• U.S. Postal Service
• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
• U.S. Coast Guard
• U.S. Marine Corps
• U.S. Navy
• U.S. Navy Memorial
• Verizon Wireless
• Vist Financial
• Volvo
• Von Roll USA
• Wackenhut
• Wells Fargo
• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
• Westinghouse Electric Co.
• WSFS Bank

Overview

The Academy Leadership Lead4Results™ Online Leadership Course can help you jump-start your leadership career.

Thousands of executives, project managers and support staff have come to Academy Leadership to improve their results by becoming better leaders. And they have come away more confident...more productive...more in-command...and better able to get things done through other people.

In short, they have taken their leadership skills—and their organizations—to a whole new level.

Now you can learn these critical leadership skills from the comfort of your own home and at times that are convenient for you. The Academy Leadership online Lead4Results™ course brings the classroom to you with a proven and powerful leader development program.

The Lead4Results™ online course will help your leadership skills take a quantum leap to the next level of performance, productivity and effectiveness. The program combines the best leadership techniques of the world's most successful CEOs with those of the world's most successful military commanders.

When you take the Lead4Results™ online course you will discover:

• The eleven greatest leadership principles ever devised
• The benefits of having Your Personal Leadership Philosophy
• Techniques for building a motivational climate
• The three types of meetings and when to use them
• The four steps to conflict resolution
• How to utilize coaching to improve average performance
• Six ways to manage the time of others
• Your personal Leadership Profile and Energy Management Assessment

The results of completing the Lead4Results™ online course are leaders who energize their teams, enable their people to see a clear relationship between their daily duties and organizational goals, and instill smart work strategies to achieve tangible results.

Take the Lead — Earn A Lead4Results™ Certificate

Make a powerful impact in your organization and your career! Academy Leadership's Lead4Results™ Certificate empowers you with the skills and knowledge to become a highly productive leader within your organization. You'll learn strategies and skills that have been proven to get results.

Credit

Completing the Lead4Results™ Online Course earns you 40 PDUs from the Project Management Institute or 21 HRRCs from the HR Certification Institute.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HR Certification Institute's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

Are leaders born or made?

Can leadership really be learned? The answer, surprisingly, is yes: in a recent survey, CEOs said they were born with only 40% of their leadership abilities. The remaining 60% of their leadership skills they developed through education and experience.

Yet a recent Harris poll showed that only a third of senior management at Fortune 500 companies feel confident in the abilities of the next generation of leaders.

Superior leadership can turn your organization's future in today's uncertain marketplace from a "maybe" into a "sure-thing" — no matter what direction the economy takes.

And it can provide an unprecedented level of business success — and job security — for you and every member of your team!

After completing Academy Leadership's Lead4Results™ Online Leadership Course, our students report that:

• They are more focused on their key performance indicators for accomplishing corporate goals.
• They understand their contribution to the organization's overall mission.
• Their people are aligned and working together as a team.
• Communications are dramatically improved because team members now understand expectations.
• Turnover in their organizations shrinks, because workers now respect their bosses as leaders.
• Sales, revenues, productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, profit margin, and other key performance indicators improve significantly, demonstrating that the business is now getting the results it needs.

Spending a few hours each day on our Lead4Results  course can give you the same results, helping you achieve greater levels of organizational and personal success. In fact, we guarantee it — or your money back!

When you're a great leader, it naturally increases your employees' confidence in you -- and that can translate directly into a better bottom line: according to a WorkUSA survey, the 3-year return to shareholders is almost 3X higher at companies with high trust levels than at organizations whose employees don't trust their senior management.

A modest investment producing a major ROI

At Academy Leadership, we have spent more than half a million dollars researching, developing, testing, and refining the leadership training presented in our Lead4Results™ Online Leadership Course.

Now this accumulated wisdom of our decades of leadership experience in private industry and the military can be yours at a miniscule fraction of that cost.

You pay most of your managers and executives six figure salaries for their contributions to the business. Now, you can multiply the results every manager and executive on your team generates for you.

Earning an MBA today can cost at least $120,000 and takes a year or more — and leadership training is conspicuously absent from most MBA programs.

Now, you can benefit from the one-of-a-kind leadership experience you get in our Lead4Results™ Course ... at a cost that's LESS than you pay your managers and executives for just one week on the job.

We guarantee your satisfaction with your time spent on Lead4Results™...

That's right. Complete the Lead4Results™ Online Leadership Course at our risk. If you are not 100% satisfied for any reason, just let us know for a prompt and full refund of the program fee.

That way, you risk nothing. You'll have absorbed leadership principles that have taken us our entire professional lives to develop and refine. And it will have cost you nothing.

So what are you waiting for?

Register for Lead4Results™ Online Course today and get a hardcover copy of our book The Leader's Compass (value: $24.95). The leadership skills it teaches you can be priceless.

Enroll today and claim your free gift!

Course Facilitator
Perry J. Martini, Ph.D.
Director, Executive Leadership Programs

Perry J. Martini, PhD, is a 1971 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and later earned three Masters Degrees in Business, Education, and International Affairs. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Education with Distinction from The George Washington University. Perry was a Naval Aviator and served for twenty-seven years in several leadership positions, including Commanding Officer of a Navy P-3 Squadron in Keflavik, Iceland, special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War in 1991, and the Director of Leadership, Organization and Management for the Chief of Naval Operations from 1992-1994. In his last tour of duty at the Naval Academy, he was the Deputy Director of Athletics and served in a pivotal role in the development of the Leadership and Ethics curriculum as an adjunct professor. Perry has also served as the Assistant Secretary of Higher Education in Maryland, where he was a frequent speaker on leadership and ethics and appeared regularly before the Maryland General Assembly on issues of education, finance, and structure. He has published numerous journal articles and publications related to the governance and leadership for higher education in the State of Maryland and the University System, and is the author of My Father's Compass: Leadership Lessons for an Immigrant Son and co-authored Inspiring Leadership: Character and Ethics Matter. As an adjunct professor at Regent University, Villanova University and The George Washington University, he teaches leadership, ethics, research, doctoral dissertation writing, and organizational management. A graduate of the Buckley School of Public Speaking, Perry has been a sought after speaker on leadership and ethics as well as character development and has led numerous workshops and seminars for business leaders and human resource managers. Perry is currently the Director of Executive Leadership Programs at Academy Leadership. He and his wife Jean reside in Annapolis, Maryland.