Gallagher Leadership Academy

Gallagher Leadership Academy offers a combination of facilitated discussion, sharing of best practices, video, interactive exercises, at-work assignments, reading, monthly conference calls and assessment tools to support career wellbeing of your organization's current and future leaders.

The Gallagher Leadership Academy difference

Gallagher's training approach is different from other leadership programs, as we emphasize learning within:

Practical application in the workplace
Content retention by spreading the classes over several months

To maintain momentum and continuity between sessions, participants dig into leadership articles and engage in assessments to develop awareness of their leadership strengths. Gallagher Leadership Academy includes:

Leadership certification
35 credit hours of continuing education
4 assessment tools to build self-awareness

CheckPoint 360°™ that provides individual feedback from peers, direct reports and supervisors
Everything DiSC® Workplace Assessment® in which participants learn not only their own styles but how to flex to other styles when necessary
Conflict style measurement using Everything DiSC Productive Conflict
Trust Edge™ to gain baseline on your individual trust levels

To reinforce learning, we include a 12-month subscription to an engaging, online, microlearning tool. Participants read, practice and play games to help them solve leadership problems and make better decisions. Grounded in the latest neuroscience, participants receive up to 10 minutes of fresh learning challenges each day for a year. Through our vendor, Gallagher's microlearning approach provides:

Articles
Brief and engaging videos
Interactive logic puzzles
Brain training features

Tuition cost: $6,000 per person.

2024 Fall Schedule and Curriculum

Sessions are conducted virtually. The 10 half-day sessions occur on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central Time, over five months.

September 11
September 25
October 9
October 23
November 6
November 20
December 4
December 18
January 8
January 22

GLA Session Curriculum

Session	Module	Objectives
IMPROVING SELF-AWARENESS
1	Understanding Your Role as a Leader	Understand the purpose of Gallagher Leadership Academy Understand influence and why it's important to leadership Know the difference between managing and leading Identify critical leadership competencies Learn important leadership theories
2	Communicating Effectively	Know how assumptions and perceptions impact the way we communicate with others Develop communication strategies appropriate to the situation Recognize how to flex your communication style; debrief DiSC assessment results Learn effective listening techniques
3	Developing Personal Resilience and Leadership Presence	Identify your personal values Define resilience and what it looks like Learn how to leverage your values to build personal resilience Experience and practice leadership presence
LEADING GROUPS AND TEAMS
4	Managing Priorities and Delegating Successfully	Identify what gets in the way of effectively managing time Understand your ability to manage commitments and priorities Learn how to delegate effectively Know how to remove obstacles to productivity and delegation
5	Effective Recruiting and Onboarding	Understand the components of an effective recruitment process Define interview strategies Create a comprehensive recruitment plan Review steps in onboarding
6	Managing Conflicts and Difficult Conversations	Recognize the nature of conflict and different conflict styles Learn more about your personal conflict style Apply steps and techniques to resolve your own conflicts Understand your role as mediator in helping others resolve conflict
7	Coaching and Managing for Performance	Understand the role of coaching within performance management Know the difference between managing and coaching Understand coaching models and techniques Learn steps for coaching employees Practice coaching conversations
LEADING ORGANIZATIONS
8	Expanding Leadership, Influence and Accountability	Understand the value of influence in effective leadership Understand the leader's role in creating a culture of accountability Learn how to effectively hold yourself and others accountable Discover ways to communicate and demonstrate accountable behaviors
9	Leading Transitions and Change	Learn the dynamics associated with a typical change cycle Explore the human emotions accompanying organizational change Develop ways to lead people through the change process, including communication change management techniques Improve important leadership skills for helping people progress through change
10	Creating a Culture of Engagement and Graduation	Recognize levels of employee engagement and its impact on motivation and collaboration Apply generational differences with regard to understanding others and team building Understand the elements of a high-performing team Review key class learnings Reflect on your personal leadership journey and create your personal leadership statement Graduation

Enroll in the Gallagher Leadership Academy

The Gallagher Leadership Academy is offered as a customized program and a public enrollment with up to 15 participants. Complete the form for more information.