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Leadership Development Center
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The University of Virginia's Leadership Development Center (LDC) serves UVa's academic and administrative community in helping you and your staff in:

  • creating a collaborative and productive workplace
  • facilitating organizational and personal change
  • fostering enhanced leadership competency and decision making ability.

We accomplish this through carefully planned interventions and ongoing assistance in the design and execution of programs that impact workplace effectiveness. Our customized approach and creative methods allow us to nurture organizational growth to help leaders achieve results.

Through leadership development programs and organizational development services we fulfill our mission of fostering leadership ability at all levels of the University while helping key decision makers achieve their individual and organizational goals.

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Upcoming Programs
Exceptional Assistants Network Program
Fall and Winter 2008 Sessions
Registration open August 1 for both
Join us for this four-day leadership development experience designed to assist employees serving in administrative support or service roles. Participants will engage in a series of topic-specific learning sessions led by a team of experienced organizational development professionals. Sessions are designed to incorporate a high degree of experiential learning through exercises that expand understanding, skill, and professional competencies. Content is geared toward the practical, real world issues facing employees in higher education, and specifically those working for UVa.
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Organizations: Leading Through Partnership, Power and Systems
September 15th
Join us for this one-day interactive workshop seminar in an exploration of the important processes in the workplace and the outcomes in establishing change efforts; gaining clarity of all levels of one's organization, how to leverage one's personal position to achieve increased personal job satisfaction; managing sustained productive workship partnerships; developing specific strategies one can implement in dealing with one's unique work environment and increasing empowerment throughout the organization.
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Leading Through Change
October 8th
Join us for this half-day workshop seminar which will utilize assessments, individual work, lecture/discussion and small group work. At the conclusion of the program, participants will have completed the following components: understanding change and how it impacts you and your organization; learning how to leverage the strengths of the organization to implement successful change; identify your readiness and stage of transition in relationship to impending changes; evaluation of your team's readiness for change and generating strategies which will facilitate a successful transition for you and your team and acquire knowledge, skills and tools to lead yourself and your associates to achieve greater productivity during times of turbulence and change.
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Effective Coaching for Leaders
October 15th
Join us for this half-day workshop seminar which will utilize multiple demonstrations along with peer and group coaching. Objectives include increasing knowledge management and skill usage of the coaching element by seminar workshop participants, learning the benefits of utilizing coaching in one's leadership tool kit, short-term and long-term advantages of implementing coaching as a leader and an increased awareness of one's own style of coaching and how to use it most effectively to be a better leader.
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Contact Us
P.O. Box 400310
Charlottesville, VA
22904-4310

Tel: 434-924-4398
Fax: 434-243-0240
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Look What People Have to Say About Our Programs

“The networking opportunities have been extremely valuable. The resulting linkages have proven to be beneficial to me not only in connection with people, but also by gaining knowledge and a better understanding of other department/areas, discovering commonalities, and learning from others like (or unlike) myself.”
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