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Leadership Sprints

Leadership Sprints offers an immersive multi-day experience geared towards training managers—delving deeply into how to lead highly effective teams and how to have difficult conversations while fostering meaningful connections among participants.

Leadership Sprints

Leadership Sprints aims to equip participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to cultivate high-performance teams within their organizations. Within this interactive workshop series, participants will learn to foster psychological safety, cultivate conscious leadership, promote effective collaboration, and enhance communication skills.

Leadership Sprints 2024 is hosted in Louisville, KY, and designed for participants to invest in their leadership potential through an exchange of ideas, challenges, and solutions with leaders in other cities. This is a unique opportunity for the members of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, facilitated by the Leadership Louisville Center.

As part of our ongoing commitment to fostering leadership development and organizational growth within the network of leadership programs, we would like to offer a training program on Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams (which includes the 6 Cs of High-Performance Teams) & Courageous Communication. 

Program Objectives

Our training program aims to equip participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to cultivate high-performance teams within their organizations. Within this interactive workshop series, participants will learn to foster psychological safety, cultivate conscious leadership, promote effective collaboration, and enhance communication skills.

Participants will:

  • Engage with leaders outside of their organization and community
  • Work through the 6 C’s of High Performing Teams
  • Experience a three-day immersive leadership retreat away from the normal day-to-day
  • Increase in skills for team effectiveness and collaboration
  • Go a mile deep on topic of developing team for high output, efficiency, and health


Target Participants

Manager-to-director level leaders

Curriculum

Six C’s for High-Performance Teams:

  • Conscious Leadership
  • Common Purpose & Shared Goals
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Conflict Management
  • Celebration.
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Learning these will assist participants in decoding the characteristics and behaviors of high-performance teams, understanding how to overcome and manage common team dysfunctions, and how to harness the diverse strengths of your team for great creativity and productive collaboration … and much more. You will walk away with techniques that you can use immediately!

Unlock the full potential of your team and increase organizational effectiveness by developing and leading high-performance teams. Join our highly interactive course and learn the Six C’s of High-Performance Teams, including Conscious Leadership, Common Purpose, Communication, Collaboration, Conflict Management, & Celebration. Perfect for leaders looking to draw the best out of their teams and nurture individual growth. You’ll understand the science behind high-performance teams, increase self-awareness, develop shared goals, and learn to enable cohesion while allowing for productive conflict.

Program Timeframe

Sample agenda: 

  • Day 1 — Overview and foundation of high performance teams
  • Day 2 — Delving into three C’s: Conscious Leadership, Collaboration, and Communication
  • Day 3 — Courageous Communication (navigating difficult conversations and fostering a culture of trust)

Registrations

Registrations for Leadership Sprints will open January, 2025

Registration Fee

$50 (non-refundable). Registrants will be asked to pay via credit card at the end of the online registration process.

Questions? Contact Megan Liebenow at mliebenow@cincinnatichamber.com

Questions? Contact Andrea Mersmann at amersmann@cincinnatichamber.com

Pricing

$2,000 for Chamber Members

$2,500 for non Chamber Members


*Partial scholarships may be available for those with financial need, and can be requested within the registration. Payment plan options are also available.

Tuition covers hotel, excursion, meals, and programming.

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Andrea Mersmann
Andrea Mersmann
Director, Leadership Center

Discover the Right Leadership Center Program for You

The Leadership Center at the Cincinnati Regional Chamber offers leadership development programs that are built to grow and strengthen the regional talent base by developing civic-minded leaders. If you’re an individual looking to apply or a talent leader interested in sending employees through our programs, let us help you find the programs best suited for your goals.