Leadership Development Programs

Increasing Your Potential with UCON's Professional Educational Series

UCON’s ongoing professional development courses support member skill development, leadership capacity, and problem-solving.

Participants are more effective in the workplace, make meaningful contributions to teams, and advance in their careers. They lead, manage, influence, coach, and elevate others.

Effective Virtual Leadership

  • March 11, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:00pm
Virtual Leader

Effective Virtual Leadership Techniques will give you simple, actionable tools that will help you lead online groups in a way that gets people showing up early for your virtual events. 

Leading online groups stretches facilitation skills. There are physical and psychological challenges to virtual meetings: sitting in one place, maintaining focus, and tech problems, but a skilled facilitator can use techniques to keep the online group effective, practical, and valuable.

Influence: Leading Others Even When You’re Not the Boss!

  • March 18, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Influence

This workshop will draw on scientific research around what makes a person influential. It will explain the factors that go into influencing others and provide tips for building on those factors. A clear connection will be drawn between influence and leadership, and how you can lead others regardless of your title or rung on the hierarchy.

Jobsite Safety Leadership Series

  • March 23, 2021 8:30am  -  9:30am

As a leader in your company, you need to have a more holistic view of how workplace safety and health affects the entire organization. This short-series will provide you a glimpse into the effects of jobsite safety from a high-level.

It’s not just the person who wears the safety hat who’s responsible for safety, everyone is! As a leader, you are someone who influences employee behavior, and encouraging positive safety behaviors benefits you, your company, and the people that you lead. 

Boldy Go: Goal-Getting and Accountability

  • May 06, 2021 2:30pm  -  4:30pm
Goals Class

People who write down clear, compelling, and worthwhile goals make more money than those who don’t. Goals tee you up for a bigger income, and they also give you purpose, energy, and focus. But let’s be clear, it’s not enough to have goals, you’ve got to achieve those goals for them to make a difference in your life. This webinar will do more than help you set goals, they’ll help you get the goals you set.