New Professional Development Course Offers Leadership Lessons for all Levels

Learning & Organization Development’s new course on leading yourself helps employees find ways to thrive

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Duke Learning & Organization Development (L&OD) offers courses and programs that help leaders give employees what they need to succeed.

Now, with the skills taught in a new course, "Self-Leadership - Growing Your Career & Self-Awareness," individual employees gain a better understanding of what they can bring to their side of the relationship.

Developed as a companion piece to leadership courses for managers, "Self-Leadership - Growing Your Career & Self-Awareness" is designed to help employees learn how to identify their needs and confidently communicate them to managers.

The next session of the two-day online course will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Nov. 6 and 7.

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“With this course, we want to work with direct reports and teach them how to ask their managers and supervisors for what they need to be successful,” said Senior Learning & Organization Development Consultant Don Shortslef, one of the leaders of the course.

Course participants will learn how to set goals, identify potential obstacles and effectively articulate both to their managers. The goal is to give both managers and employees a common language with which to chart a path to both individual and team success.

“This course is for anyone,” Shortslef said. “An individual contributor can take it and a manager can take it for their own sake as well. It’s for anybody who reports to somebody.”

Duke Learning & Organization Development, a unit in Duke Human Resources, has a range of professional and technical courses available for the remainder of the year.

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