Accelerated Leadership Proficiency Series (ALPS)

Assessing IDOT Programs and Issues – This seminar focuses on the ability of participants to analyze information and to prepare and deliver a 30-minute team presentation to Department administrators.

Conflict Resolution – This seminar focuses on the cause, effect, and consequences of unresolved conflict among IDOT employees.

Diversity Awareness – This seminar focuses on all areas of employee differences, including, but not limited to gender, ethnicity, race, age, disability, and cultural backgrounds.

Effective Coaching Skills – This seminar focuses on defining and managing the coaching roles of motivator, guide, teacher, and mentor.  Learners will evaluate issues that are present in coaching situations and identify skills needed to effectively perform coaching roles.

Effective Personnel Practices – This seminar focuses on IDOT personnel policies, procedures and practices as applied to the management and supervision of subordinates.

Positive Presentation Skills – Participants will learn how to develop and deliver highly effective, quality presentations and successfully engage in the flow of information.

Supervisor’s Guide to Safety – As a manager, you are responsible for every employee under your authority.  This responsibility includes their safety and health as they perform their daily job functions.  Through this course, you will gain a better understanding of safety in the workplace.

The Leader Within – This seminar focuses on applying management principles to create a climate that encourages individual and group motivation and enhances productivity.

Time Management and Goal Setting – This seminar focuses on the two skills of time management and goal setting as they relate to your IDOT career and personal life.

Understanding Yourself and Team Building – This seminar focuses on why teams do or do not work effectively as a group.  It identifies the consequences of poor teamwork, the importance of understanding different personality types on the same team and how to maintain quality teamwork.