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ERG Leadership Courses

with Certificate of Completion and individualized Customized Reports

We offer a wide range of tailored ERG leadership courses. The course below is one amongst a larger series. The ERG Leadership Series tailors leadership development for Business & Employee Resource Groups (BRGs & ERGs), representing among the most engaged, passionate team members who both volunteer and inherently build diverse and inclusive talent pipelines.

Participants receive a Certificate of Completion and an individualized Customized Report with what they have learned for their performance files.

AUDIENCE

These courses are designed specially for the dedicated members of Employee Resource Groups, also known as Business Resource Groups, Affinity Groups, and Employee Network Groups.

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UPCOMING COURSES

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The Strategic Lens

Strategic Thinking for Individual and Institutional Impact

The Strategic Lens shifts your thinking in focused and systematic ways. The tools from this course provide practical, yet straightforward frameworks that guide your thought processes in methodical ways. Strategic thinking improves your future state and can work beyond institutional levels; it can help you at the individual level—and on a daily basis. The course provides fresh approaches to maximize opportunities, minimize risks, and focus your lens toward strategic success.

COURSE TOPICS INCLUDE:

Foundations And Contexts For Strategic Thinking
Key Elements To Shift Your Thinking Toward More-Strategic Approaches

Visual Views Of Key Methods That Lead To Visionary Directions
Systems That You Can Apply At The Individual Level
Practical Concepts That Help Elevate Your ERGs

AGENDA OF TOOLS

Strategic Thinking Assessment

A Tool to assess your strategic thinking breadth

Context Circles

A Tool to leverage contexts, both grand and subtle, to support your ERG’s strategy and overall effectiveness

Steer Positioning

A Tool that helps us look in directions we may not have otherwise; to build context for strategic decision making

H.I.L.I. Model

A Tool to help optimize resource usage by leveraging their exponential properties

The Contingency Diagram

A Tool that uses reverse logic to find practical solutions. By thinking of all the ways to make a situation worse and ideal, you gain insight into how to

EnERGized Plus/Delta

A Tool for the evaluation process that is quick to use and provides ideas for improvement

HypERGolic Propulsion

A Tool to visually identify forces that help or hinder progress and growth from the current state to the desired goal

FACULTY BIOS

Vu H. Pham, Ph.D.

As the CEO of Spectrum Knowledge & Chair of Elevate, Vu H. Pham, Ph.D., works with hundreds of organizations from the Fortune 500 to major federal government and international non-profit agencies. He heads several communities of practice with ERGs and Executive-level mastermind groups. He has taught Executive Education and leadership at UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine. Elevate is a multi-university partnership, along with Spectrum Knowledge and the University of California Office of the President—MESA. The Elevate Program features leadership development in diversity & inclusion (with a specialization in Employee Resource Group strategy), strategic thinking, innovation, and influence.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Virtual

April 20 – 21, 2023

9:00 am – 2:00 pm PDT

Virtual: Zoom (link to come later)

Event Info

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Stand Out

Channel Charisma & Your Personal Brand

The Stand Out course synergizes the key ingredients of charisma with your personal brand. The intersection of these two elements will increase your influence and interpersonal effectiveness. You will explore the different types of power that can benefit others and your own brand. All of this culminates into a professional presence that will boost your reputation.