Enhancing Your Leadership Skills

A 4-day Intensive Workshop

About this course

This course is ideal for current and prospective leaders who are technically proficient but need to strengthen a critical success factor: leadership. Through lecture, case studies, exercises and group discussions, participants will practice building leadership competencies while examining outcomes that enhance the mission of an organization.

Participants complete the course with a tool box of leadership skills and more self-confidence about their critical roles in your organization. They also analyze the effect of their leadership behavior and its impact on your organizational mission. Students explore three professional assessment instruments - Blanchard's Leader Behavior Analysis II (LBAII), Porter's Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) and Rokeach Value Survey.

Who should attend

Government supervisors

Team leaders

Program/Project Managers

Contracting Officers

Contracting Officer Training Representatives

Contract/Subcontract managers

Course Highlights

· Developing and improving leadership skills

· Resolving conflicts

· Building effective communication skills

· Providing counseling techniques

· Enhancing customer service

· Understanding motivational influences

· Creating cultural awareness

· Developing team effectiveness

Each training module is complete with hands-on learning experiences. The program is designed for participants to have fun while building the students' emotional intelligence as well as integrity as they deal with others.

This program can be tailored to meet your organization’s unique learning objectives.

Past Attendees Say

“ I wish I had received this training several years (or months) ago when I first became a supervisor.”

“My fears about my new role in leading a department were addressed and I was given real ways to deal with them”

About Your Instructor

Linden Accurso has developed and successfully presented this course to dozens of individuals, corporations and government entities over the past 10 years.

Mr. Accurso has served in the Federal Civil Service as a Budget Counselor for the U.S. Army Community Services, Fort Stewart, Georgia. In 1979 he became an Operating Accountant with the Ft. Stewart Finance and Accounting Office and in 1981 was assigned to the Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Georgia as a Supervisory Operating Accountant. He returned to Ft. Stewart as the Chief of the Accounting Branch, Supervisory Operating Accountant in 1983. In 1987 while still at Ft. Stewart he became the Deputy Finance and Accounting Officer. In 1995 he was selected as the Deputy Director of Finance, Defense Finance and Accounting Service - Orlando Operating Location, Orlando, Florida. Among his many awards for his federal civilian service are two Army Civilian Commander's Awards and he is a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM).

In May 1979 he became a Certified Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Facilitator with the United States Army Center for Army Leadership and conducted comprehensive 40-hour programs in leadership and management training for more than 250 students at Fort Stewart Georgia, Orlando Florida, and Washington DC.

Since his retirement in December 1999, he has served as the Director of Finance and Accounting for Senior Citizens, Inc. Savannah, Georgia until October 2001.  In January 2002 he became a facilitator/Instructor for the USDA Graduate School.  In 2008 he was awarded a "Faculty Excellence Award" from the Graduate School, USDA.

He is a member of the American Society of Military Comptrollers, Association of Government Accountants, Association of the United States Army, The Reserve Officers Association, United States Army and Finance Corps and Vietnam Helicopters Pilot Association.

He is a U.S. Army Veteran.

Onsite Training Available

To discuss your organizations learning objectives or obtain a price quote, please email training@trainingoutreach.com