NexGen Institute

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Unlock Your Leadership Potential

Ready to take your supervisory and leadership skills to the next level? The NexGen Institute offers an engaging, hands-on learning experience designed to empower mid-level managers to lead with confidence. Discover your unique leadership style, understand its impact on others, and master proven strategies for effective supervision and leadership. Each session will focus on practical communication techniques and how to apply these concepts directly to your daily work for immediate results. Upon completion, participants will receive a NexGen Leadership certificate and badge through Northwest Missouri State University.

July 17 & 18, 2025
8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Park University
8700 NW River Park Drive
Parkville, MO 64152

What Can You Expect to Learn?

Understand Who You Are as a Leader

Start by assessing your leadership and personality style through self-assessments. Next, recognize how your behaviors affect folloers and examine key leadership skills like emotional intelligence, communication, and adaptability to enhance your effectiveness as a leader.

Motivating, Inspiring, and Empowering Others

Understand various approaches to motivating others and learn how to implement them effectively in different situations. Identify best practices for empowering individuals to boost productivity, while also reviewing different personality types and how they influence motivation needs.

Shaping Organizational Culture

Identify your core values and recognize how they shape and influence the organizational culture. Learn to establish a constructive climate that promotes efficiency, effectiveness, and enjoyment, while also developing influence and persuasion skills to enhance leadership impact.

Teamwork and Team Development

Explore strategies for developing an effective team that collaborates to achieve common goals. Identify the various roles team mebers can play, learn how to overcome interpersonal and task-related challenges, and understand the impact emotional intelligence has on team performance.

Conflict Management

Explore and practice effective conflict management skills to resolve disputes constructively. Identify different ways people prefer to approach conflict, understand various conflict styles, and learn how to overcome barriers to successful resolution.

Employee Performance and Feedback

Learn various methods for assessing employee performance. Explore best practices for delivering both formal and informal feedback, and practice providing feedback that is constructive and effective.

Employee Development and Coaching

Understand how employees learn and identify the best ways to develop their skills for growth. Recognize cross-generational differences in the workplace and learn to apply effective coaching skills to support diverse learning styles.

Leading and Managing Change

Understand the various reactions individuals have to change and how they impact the process. Learn effective strategies for implementing and leading change initiatives while balancing task priorities and relationship concerns.