Course 1045
Leadership Excellence: Keys to Promoting Positive Behavior
Apply this towards your professional development requirements
Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete
You know that your school is only as good as your faculty and staff. They’re the ones affecting learning and behavior at the student level and getting the most out of them is a key part of getting the most out of your students. So how do you motivate even the most difficult teacher to focus on performance and results? What’ are the best ways to stop negative attitudes from infecting others? How should you handle difficult conversations with your staff? This convenient, online course covers it all.
Led by three of the nation’s foremost experts and educators, this new course lets you earn Professional Development credits, hours or certificates of completion whenever and where ever you like. It combines the following three learning modules, to give you practical learnings you can put in place immediately at your school:
(1017) Handing Difficult Conversations: Keys to Successfully Managing Staff
(1018) Dealing with Negative Attitudes while Promoting a Positive School Culture
(1019) Managing Difficult Employees Constructive Solutions to Achieve Results
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Module 1 (1017)
Handing Difficult Conversations: Keys to Successfully Managing Staff
What You'll Learn
Even the best administrators sometimes avoid difficult conversations with faculty and staff, hoping that problems will solve themselves. Unfortunately, left unaddressed, problems usually get worse. But there are ways to respectfully and effectively handle these conversations in a way that leaves everyone happy with the result. This module will help you:
Deliver criticism without creating confrontation and conflict
Eliminate the fear or discomfort of confronting employees
Handle bad attitudes that might surface
Prevent a worker's negative emotions from spreading to others
Highlights
Keys to Dealing with "Attitude Problems" and "Rule Breakers"
How can you deliver hard-hitting messages in an uplifting way?
What are the most effective ways to change bad behavior?
How do you head off negative emotions before they spread?
Specific Examples of What to Say - and When to Say it
Criticizing without trampling egos: The do's and don'ts
Eliminating the fear of confronting difficult employees
The most effective ways to turn difficult loners into valuable team members
Handle the Most Difficult Conversations with Employees
Tips to managing conflict - instead of having it manage you
How to build trust and create the most positive outcome
Keys to helping everyone become solution-focused, not problem-focuse
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Module 2 (1018)
Dealing with Negative Attitudes while Promoting a Positive School Culture
What You'll Learn
Negative people and bad attitudes can hurt morale and productivity in any workplace. In schools, they can find their way into the classroom and affect your students' attitudes and learning. Stopping destructive attitudes and bad behavior before they spread is critical to a successful school where the focus in on the students and not the system. In this module, you'll learn how to:
Effectively challenge negativity in others without making them defensive
Uncover and eliminating the root cause of the negativity
Put an instant end to bad behavior and the attitudes that create it
Boost everyone's morale by creating a more positive environment at our school
Highlights
Confronting - and Changing - Negative Attitudes
The Dos and Don'ts of confronting bad behavior
How do negative people contribute to teacher burnout and hurt retention?
Why negative attitudes spread (fast) and how you can stop them
Overcoming the Fear of Confrontation and Conflict
How to effectively address negativity in others - especially your best people
What specific words and phrases defuse difficult behavior best?
How to turn negativity around through assertive communication
Creating an Environment Where Positive Attitudes is the Norm
Coaching others out of negative thoughts, attitudes and beliefs
Increase staff loyalty by crushing bad behavior when it starts
How can you prevent negative attitudes from developing at your school
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Module 3 (1019)
Managing Difficult Employees Constructive: Solutions to Achieve Results
What You'll Learn
How often have you left work frustrated by someone on your faculty or staff? Do you have people who are always right, can't take constructive feedback, bully others, bring a bad attitude or big ego to work or is a bad role model for others? This module gives you proven ways to discipline them in a way that actually changes behavior and creates a more productive work environment. this module (one of our favorites) shows you:
Why most types of discipline fail - (and what really works)
How to constructively confront employees and disarm them before they get started again
How to quickly defuse bad behavior - before it spreads to others
Proven ways to rid your school of employee discipline issues altogether
Highlights
Discipline Dos and Don'ts
Are probationary periods even worth it anymore?
Dealing with difficult issues - absenteeism, gossip, disloyalty, politics and more
Improved behavior standards you can easily implement and enforce
Specific Examples of What to Say - and When to Say it
How do you counter an employee blaming the problem on you?
What's the best way to respond to "You're not being fair"?
What words should you never use in a verbal warning?
The Real Keys to Stopping Bad Behavior - Immediately
How you can show them the difference between performance and attitude
Why people don't respond to discipline at all - and how you can change that
When is the best time and what are the best ways to follow-up after you take action?
The Virtual Teachers Lounge™
Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:
Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7
All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!
Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion , you do not need to
complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to
receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development
hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Leadership Excellence: Keys to Promoting Positive Behavior
Tuition: $575 for all 3 modules complete