CCC Leadership is a four-month leadership program for women, in the nonprofit and education sectors, adapted from the transformational, year-long, Power of Self program founded in 2000 by Marsha Clark and Associates. This is an intensive nine-day leadership program that will help participants learn more about themselves and their natural tendencies (through six assessments), gain clarity on their values and vision, learn tools to lead with greater influence, and translate what they have learned into action working one-on-one with an executive coach.
At the conclusion of the program, participants will report growth in their ability to:
Authentically and confidently lead at work, within their family, and community
Gain clarity and self-awareness
Understand, value, and positively leverage differences of others
Optimize performance in organizational systems
Enhance their network and better support and mentor women
Become a powerful resource for shared learning in the organization and community
Program Cost:
$3,900. Cost includes delivery of program content, online assessments, and all collateral materials used in the modules along with 6 hours of individual coaching. Meals are included in the registration fees. Transportation and lodging costs are not included in the registration fees. Each class is limited to 16 participants. Assessments included: Lumina Spark, FIRO-B, TKI, and BrainStyles.
Scholarships and payment plans are available.
Alumni Benefits:
- Access to affordable continuing education at least 2xs per year
- Invitation to biennial networking/social gatherings to connect with alumni
- Receive annual directory of participants
“I would say in my own experience and that of those I watched go through the course, the biggest value in this experience is to equip women to be changemakers rather than sitting and letting change happen to them or sitting in the “way things have always been.” However, this had deep personal significance for all of us—though we were learning much of the material in an organizational context, the depth and breadth of the truths and skills we picked up reaches into our psyches, our histories, and our hearts. Huge win for me”
Module Details
Module 1: Seeds of Power, Self-Awareness & Perceptions of Others (Individual & Interpersonal Levels)
Examine beliefs about women and power. Gain a deeper understanding of how diversity, personalities, behaviors, and values can affect personal and professional performance. Explore your ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ attributes of leadership. Increase your awareness of issues affecting women in groups/organizations: self-image, good girl/bad girl behaviors, and opportunities based on societal norms and personal choices. Enhance your awareness of how being a woman affects your participation in groups. Increase your ability to build powerful partnerships with other women in both your personal and professional lives. Develop your personal vision – aligned with your values.
Module 2: Group Dynamics, Building & Sustaining Trust (Interpersonal & Group Levels)
Discover how trust and betrayal impact your personal power. Learn techniques for responding to trust and betrayal in a healthy way that honors both your relationships and your working environment. Experience how healing from betrayal offers strength and greater competence in group interaction. Learn how to create high performing teams. Learn how to set and maintain boundaries. Assess your leadership style in three critical elements of group development—inclusion, control and openness— and determine where you feel most comfortable and energized. Examine the impact of competition, explore how women negotiate, and learn how to be a more effective negotiator. Examine and expand your responses to conflict for greater effectiveness.
Module 3: Organizational & Cultural Dynamics, Leading Through Change (Organization & Community Levels)
Explore your experiences of feeling like an imposter as a leader. Learn how to have courageous group conversations and a process for discussing the undiscussables. Learn how to better lead your organization during times of change while managing your own perspective and resourcefulness as the leader of change. Discover your natural decision-making process by discovering your brain style. Experience the freedom and accountability that comes with being a powerful leader. Come back to your vision and develop your statement of leadership, serving yourself, your group, and your organization.
Program Approach
The CCC Leadership Program modules take a whole-systems approach and build upon each other. Working from the inside out, the modules offer an extended learning experience in which to develop the three levels of leadership skills: individual, group, and organizational.
Individual The training focuses first on individual power and offers the opportunity to appreciate one’s own unique qualities. Participants develop a common language with which to speak about their differences and create a safe environment to explore behaviors and beliefs about power. Each participant has the opportunity to gain valuable insights into her own views of authentic leadership.
Group Individual work continues, but the focus shifts to the development of groups and teams. Participants begin creating a genuine community of women supporting women as they explore issues of inclusion, control, and openness, trust and betrayal, and “feminine” and “masculine” approaches to conflict, competition, risk and influence.
Organizational Participants now learn to think systemically. Participants explore the dynamics of diversity and strategize ways to build powerful partnerships throughout the participants’ community. focused on leadership of all forms, in your organization, family, community, school, etc.
Personalized, Individual Coaching Professional coaches will begin working with individual participants to help each woman develop a Learning Contract to focus her professional goals for the duration of the program. Then, throughout the program, coaches will provide one-on-one support as she applies each module’s content to the goals of her Learning Contract. To ensure sustainable change, coaches will continue to work with each woman for three months after the formal training ends.