Professional Development Workshops

The Center for the Advancement of Learning provides customized training solutions to enhance the skill needs of your employees in a format that works best for your team. Workshops can take place on the employer’s worksite, virtually, or on the beautiful University of Evansville campus.

Multi-day Workshops

Leadership Coaching Bootcamp (non-degree seeking): Four-Session Series

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Price: $395
Date: September 19, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: J. Henry Schroeder Boardroom, Library Second Floor
Instructor(s): Timothy A. Dickel, PhD

Leadership coaching is an effective approach to develop employees through customized development plans, setting expectations, providing regular feedback, and having one on one conversations. The goal of this program is to apply a coaching approach to leadership that will build up the capacity of managers and supervisors to improve the performance of their direct reports.

The fall session dates are:

  • September 19, 2023
  • October 3, 2023
  • October 17, 2023
  • October 31, 2023

SESSION 1:

  • Introduction to leadership theory
  • Characteristics of effective leaders
  • What is coaching? What is not coaching?

SESSION 2:

  • Introduction to behavioral change
  • How leaders can help change behaviors

SESSION 3:

  • Applying effective leadership and behavioral change to coaching
  • Framework for leadership coaching

SESSION 4:

  • Application of leadership coaching
  • Providing effective feedback
  • Tools for leadership coaching

A 10% discount is available to organizations sending six or more participants. Call 812-488-1046 for more details.

Dr. Timothy A. (Tad) Dickel serves as the Executive in Residence in Leadership and is the interim faculty director of the Master of Science in Leadership program at the University of Evansville and the president of T.A. Dickel Group, LLC. He is a leadership, strategy, and creativity consultant who works with a wide variety of businesses, universities, nonprofits, government entities, schools, and churches. He holds a PhD in educational leadership from Indiana State University and is a certified Basadur Simplexity Thinking facilitator and trainer and a certified MeyersBriggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) practitioner. In 2019, Tad was named to the Evansville Courier & Press’s “20 Under 40” cohort for his professional accomplishments and service to the community.

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