Registration Is Now Open for Georgia Tech-Savannah’s Leading Well Workshop Series

Staff Report

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Georgia Tech-Savannah is excited to open registration for their highly anticipated Leading Well leadership workshop series, designed to take tomorrow’s leaders to the next level. These one or two-day seminars address topics such as: leading change, building and leading high-performance teams, living the project lifecycle, maximizing innovation and improvement, and meeting goals through focused performance management.

All training sessions will be offered on Georgia Tech-Savannah’s campus, located at 210 Technology Cir, Savannah, GA 31407 and will cost $900 per session. These workshops are designed to prepare emerging leaders in a variety of industries, covering a wide range of topics: 

July 23, 2020 - Leading Well: Leading Change

Change management is a structured approach for ensuring that changes are thoroughly and smoothly implemented, and that the lasting benefits of change are achieved. This session explores the wider impacts of change, particularly on people and how they, as individuals and teams, move from the current situation to the new one. Cost: $900 

August 13, 2020 - Building and Leading High-Performing Teams

This one-day course explores various aspects of teams. You'll discuss team dynamics, the team lifecycle, employee motivation models, conflict-resolution models, and the power of celebrating team and individual successes. You will gain hands-on experience leading high-performing teams through practice sessions and a team-based simulation. Upon completion of the course, you will understand the formula for successful teams and how to identify and leverage each team member’s interests, strengths, and experience to support overall performance in the workplace. Cost: $900 

August 13, 2020 - Living the Project Lifecycle

Organizations exist in an ever-changing world and implementation of new ideas is essential to adapting to the marketplace. Project management skills and techniques will provide managers with a framework for adapting projects to your organizational environment and ensuring success from applying known best practices. This one-day workshop will introduce you to the principles and practices of disciplined project management. Cost: $900 

September 24, 2020 - Maximizing Innovation and Improvement

As part of the Leading Well workshop series, this one-day course positions leaders to be effective change agents through continuous improvement. From the rationale for continuous improvement to the tools and techniques that support such efforts and how to assess the return on investment of your improvement projects, you will learn how to align continuous-improvement projects and innovation efforts with your company's business strategies. Additionally, you’ll discover the difference between incremental improvement and innovation, and why both are necessary. Cost: $900 

October 15, 2020 - Meeting Goals Through Focused Performance Management

The Leading Well workshop series encompasses the four key themes leaders need to be successful in today’s competitive and ever changing environment. This course will emphasize the second theme: achieving results. Leaders responsible for managing processes, departments, and teams are critical for ensuring targets are met and customers are satisfied. In short, leaders have to measure results and deliver results consistently. Cost: $900

“The goal of Georgia Tech-Savannah’s Leading Well Workshops is to help emerging professionals develop leadership skills they wouldn’t be able to gain otherwise,” says William Astary, Director of Industry Strategic Partnerships. “Our training sessions were built in order to take the time to fine tune fundamental leadership skills, delve into individual advancement, build confidence, and tool executives with experiential learnings”. 

Executives are searching for middle, and upper, level managers who are trailblazers; those individuals who connect with people, deliver consistent results, drive innovation and much more. With these Leading Well training seminars, Georgia Tech-Savannah is here to help reach these executives’ goals. Learn more and register today at: https://pe.gatech.edu/savannah/leadership-training#tab-leading-well-workshops-1