Our immersive, intensive, and highly-interactive program focuses on key attributes and competencies such as vision, integrity, resilience, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and stakeholder alignment. The emphasis is on practical knowledge and experiences that enable participants to immediately apply the lessons they learn.
The Learning Experience
Assessments
Leadership assessments help participants understand and utilize their areas of strength and where they might improve.
Class Instruction
Relevant and practical case studies, large-and small-group discussions, simulation exercises, and learning activities are designed to deepen understanding and facilitate application.
Simulation
Participants spend time in the Leadership Simulation Center, an advanced learning environment where leaders immediately demonstrate new competencies and receive constructive peer feedback.
Setting
The course is held at the inspiring Intermountain Kem C. Gardner Transformation Center in Murray, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. This state-of-the-art building, with commanding views of the stunning Wasatch mountains, was carefully designed to foster an environment of collaborative learning, simulation, reflection, and imagination.
Coaching and Mentoring
Leaders of the Institute are available for consultation and coaching during the cohort and by individual arrangement after the program concludes.
Session Topics:
- Values and Self-Awareness: From Purpose to Legacy
Understanding the importance of behavior awareness. Exploring espoused vs. enacted values.
- Developing a Trusted Leadership Brand
Applying classic branding principles to define an authentic and trusted personal leadership brand to expand one’s positive influence.
- The Neuroscience of Optimal Leadership
What good sleep, moderate stress, and positive emotion can teach us about leading and living well.
- Emotional and Social Intelligence
Understanding and acting upon individual participant results from the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory and other personal assessments.
- Emotional Agility
The gift and power of emotional courage.
- Leadership that Unites Divergent Stakeholders
Finding common ground and uniting shared purpose to bring together seemingly dissonant stakeholders.
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
Exploration of motivation, making optimal career choices, and insights to maintaining integrity.
- Creating a Positive Culture and Effective Teams
Creating a positive culture of psychological safety and developing high performing teams that enable innovation and successful execution of strategy.
- Mind and Heart: Tools for Effective Communication
A simulation of applied communication techniques to build a reputation as a trusted ethical leader.
- Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare Leadership
Exploring a framework for engaging with the ethical dimensions of difficult decisions in healthcare.
- Courageous Conversations
The latest in concepts, skills, and job aids to improve the experience of and outcomes from our most challenging conversations.
- Leading Amidst Uncertainty
Interactive case study discussing courage in leadership.
*Curriculum and faculty are subject to change.