Effective leadership is an important topic for everyone because all of us find ourselves with the lead role more or less frequently, whether as a project leader or administrator/supervisor, or in a task-related activity.

More has been written about leadership than perhaps any other topic in organizations.

The diversity of this literature is great and includes Situational Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Servant Leadership, Primal Leadership/Emotional Intelligence, Principle-Centered Leadership, and Transformational Leadership, to name a few.

Columbia Energy 's leadership program highlights the value to be gained from several of the most currently-recognized and valued theories and then focuses on the dominant model in use today.

Participants will complete two inventories and receive feedback on his/her personal leadership style. A variety of methods for improving your leadership skills and abilities will be presented and each participant will be assisted in creating a personalized action plan for improved leadership. Survey after survey reports that employees report more negative feelings about the stress they experience in the workplace and their lack of opportunity to develop skills to master this stress than about any other area of their work experience.

Columbia Energy offers six trainings designed to help managers and employees transform their work experience from one that is tension-filled to one characterized by focus and learning:

1. Power Thinking describes the effective thinking skills that directly impact employees' ability to perform successfully as leaders, team members or individual contributors. What we think really does create the reality we experience. This training includes a diagnosis of participants' current thinking skills profile (using the Yale Assessment of Thinking), identification of areas of strength and areas needing improvement, and training to improve thinking in specific areas.



2. Mindfulness at Work training uses the work of many recent writers on meditative and visualization skills that, used regularly, are amazing effective at reducing tension and changing attitudes among employees. If people are really entrenched in problems and work issues, Power Thinking skills often are not enough to change employees' perspectives. Processes that include "releasing" or letting go of ruminative thoughts and beliefs are necessary to produce change. Methods for achieving "flow," a state of optimal performance, are taught in this training. For many years these skills occupied the fringes of organizational change because they were considered too radical. Recent research shows otherwise.