Leadership Development for Graduate Students

Graduate students: we are offering a CPI 260® assessment and interpretation at a significantly reduced rate of $170! Use coupon code CPIGRADSTUDENT

There are a lot of benefits to taking the CPI 260® assessment in the early stages of your career. This assessment provides a reflection of your leadership skill strengths and areas for development.

But, you are a graduate student, recent grad, or just starting out in your career path, and you don’t need ‘leadership skills’ in your chosen line of work.  Right? Wrong

Watch this video for a quick summary, then read on below to discover more details how these benefits can apply to your journey.

Defining “Leadership”

Leadership isn’t just about managing people who report to you or directing a group of employees through a project. Leadership, the way I see it, is so much more than that.  It’s about how we encouraging others to achieve their goals, help them realize their potential, or even how we manage our own lives.  Leadership encompasses both the way we conduct ourselves and how we interact with others.  It involves empowering those around you, as well as supporting yourself.

In the workplace, leadership may take the form of effectively communicating an idea you have for a new product or direction for the company with confidence and conviction.  It might be represented by giving your colleague credit for doing most of the work on a project that you collaborated on.  It may even be training a new employee or helping a current employee learn new skills.

Leadership is everywhere; most people just don’t always see it. Leadership skills can help you achieve excellence not only in the workplace, but in your relationships with family and friends as well. So how can you afford NOT to develop these skills that are bound to help you improve in so many areas of life, and what exactly can you gain from taking a leadership skills assessment and talking to one of our interpreters about your results?  I’m glad you asked.

See yourself through new eyes

The CPI 260® assessment can give you a new view of your preferences, attitudes and behaviors and how they are perceived by other people.  Looking in the mirror is one thing; seeing yourself through other people’s eyes is completely different.  You may think you are presenting yourself in a certain way, but you may be either misrepresenting your qualities or unintentionally misleading a potential employer regarding your strengths.  Knowing how you are currently perceived can help you present your strong suits and make sure that you are a good fit for a position.

  Prepare for your career

Would you like to stand out from other potential job candidates? To learn to represent your strengths in a significant way? This online assessment, and the related session with one of our certified interpreters, supports you to do exactly that.  We all know that the current job market is an extremely competitive environment, one that cannot be navigated without a good compass and a detailed map.  Let us help you unfold that map and see which course will be most beneficial for you in the long run.

Get a head start

Get insight into where you are now; your strengths that you can rely on, and target areas where you could focus development efforts.  If you take a generic leadership class, you will learn all kinds of theories and strategies related to different forms of leadership.  You may think you’ve determined which is the “right” way, but what really matters is how you can best shine as a leader.

Avoid holding yourself back

The CPI 260® assessment is excellent at pinpointing unusual strengths. It is also terrific at identifying areas of possible self-sabotage. Moreover, the resulting report it includes suggestions about ways that you can change those patterns for the better!  Discussing your report with a certified interpreter from our team will help you understand the meaning behind your results, and how to derive an action plan based on the feedback in the report.  

See how successful leaders do it

You will be able to see your scores next to a sample of people who are leaders in their fields, not just related to the population norm.  This can help you gain insight into the many ways personal qualities work together to create effective leadership.  You will be able to examine which characteristics are bound together to create strong leadership qualities.

Start setting goals today!

During your interpretation session, we will discuss the suggestions from the report and how to implement them in your life. We’ll help you translate that into setting smart goals to achieve excellence!  If you want to gain insight …

Don’t forget you can get the CPI 260® assessment and interpretation session at our special graduate student rate using coupon code CPIGRADSTUDENT. 

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