Executive
Lead in the Future by Learning from the Past!
Today’s economy and the sweeping changes of health care reform are creating unprecedented challenges for the leaders of health and human service organizations. Give your executive team the opportunity to learn leadership from the masters at this year's re-designed Executive Leadership Institute. This is the only leadership experience for health and human service executives that focuses on the historical leadership lessons of the Battle of Gettysburg – the Civil War’s most decisive battle.
"The best training event I have ever attended... It was greatly beneficial to get information and perspective in and outside of sessions from your friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful staff. I'll recommend this to everyone I work with." - Past Attendee
Battlefield Sessions Include:
- Transactional and Transformational Leadership: Joshua Chamberlain at Little Round Top
- Buford and the High Ground: Positioning for Strategic Advantage
- Pickett’s Charge: Lee & Longstreet at the Moment of Decision
- The Gettysburg Address: Lincoln and Leadership
Classroom Sessions Include:
- The New Financing & Customer Dynamics in the Behavioral Health & Social Service Field: Drivers of Future Organizational Strategy
- Third Annual National Executive Leadership Recruitment, Retention, & Compensation - What Do the Results Tell Us?
- Managing Change: The Leader's Challenge
- Leadership Survival Guide for Uncertain Times: Tools Your Need Today
Faculty Presenting at ELI 2010
- William Rosenbach, Ph.D., Evans Professor of Eisenhower Leadership Studies & Professor of Management, Gettysburg College
- Ambassador Lawrence P. Taylor, Former Ambassador to Estonia & Former Director of the Foreign Service Institute & National Foreign Affairs Training Center
- Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer, OPEN MINDS
- John F. Talbot, Executive Vice President, OPEN MINDS
*Click here to check out our institute photo gallery featuring pictures taken from last year's Executive Leadership Institute!
"It is a unique format to go to the battlefields and listen to such marvelous historians! It was enlightening, great learning experience. " - Past Attendee
Top 5 Reasons to Attend ELI 2010
- Learn the skills that you need to lead your team in uncertain times.
- Examine transactional and transformational leadership styles and the roles they play in any given situation.
- Learn how to use initiative, understanding and quick decision-making under pressure to lead your organization to strategic gains in the market place.
- Explore critical decision-making in times of organizational stress and change by studying the infamous Pickett's Charge.
- Learn how great leaders used leadership skills and language to create a new vision and inspire followers.
Institute learning objectives
- How to develop a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in your organization
- Leadership tools you need to survive in turbulent times
- How to identify your personal leadership style and learn more about the leadership styles of your management team, to communicate and lead more effectively
- Discover what great leaders do in times of crisis to maintain resilience and emerge even better-positioned for the future
- Understand the new financing and customer dynamics in the field, and the implications for strategy
- Ways to apply the century-old lessons of Civil War leaders to your organization today
