Leadership development is an integral part of success in the insurance and risk management industries. IAIP is recognized for the development of leadership skills that members utilize in their professional careers and within the association. Take advantage of one of the many benefits of IAIP membership – develop your inner leader with the IAIP Certified Leadership Program.
To receive credit for each course –
- Purchase a Student Guide for an instructor-led event (including Virtual or eLearning events) from the IAIP Store OR an On Demand course to study on your own from IAIP’s Learning Management System (LMS).
- Pass successfully a ten question online quiz with a minimum score of 80 (8 out of 10 questions answered correctly). Your score is provided at the end of the quiz and if the score is less than 80, you will need to retake the quiz and pay a quiz-retake fee.
- Individuals completing the entire 52-hour program are eligible to apply for the Certified Leadership Professional (CLP) designation. Application for CLP renewal must be submitted every two (2) years.
READ MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
Module One: Leadership through Strategic Management
Ethics in the Workplace
Explore the ideal ethical workplace and learn how to create the guidelines and tools to implement policies that support them to better assist you with unethical behavior in your workplace and with customers. (4 hours)
Fundamentals of Strategic Planning
Identify the elements of an effective strategic planning model and learn how to create a strategic team to move your company forward. (4 hours)
Succession Planning
Create future leaders by bringing selection systems, reward systems and management development into alignment with the process of identifying current and future leadership needs. (4 hours)
Module Two: Leadership through Business Essentials
Critical Thinking Skills
Improve your critical thinking skills by studying tools and practicing techniques on how to understand a problem, evaluate the evidence and make logical and thoughtful decisions. (4 hours)
Effective Negotiation Skills
Learn how to be in the ideal space to really listen, prepare, and persuade with skill and integrity. These skills offer tremendous leverage to reap great rewards and create win-win relationships. (4 hours)
Financial Intelligence
Contribute to planning and strategy discussions with more confidence by understanding the purpose and benefits of budgets, identifying essential financial statements, conducting a break-even analysis and learning which ratios may be important to your organization. (2 hours)
Leadership 101
Discover the key tools and techniques for developing and refining yourself as a leader. (4 hours)
Why We Struggle with Tough Decisions
Study strategies to overcome your concerns about making and implementing tough decisions. (4 hours)
Module Three: Leadership through Business Mentoring
Challenging Negative Attitudes
Learn how negative norms become entrenched in an organization, department or team and how to create a more positive working environment. (4 hours)
Coaching Conversations
Identify the steps of a coaching session and how these steps can be applied in various contexts to hold an individual responsible for proactively defining goals and becoming accountable to their commitments. (2 hours)
Diversity Awareness
Explore the subtle ways that limitations occur and how to combat them by fostering an environment that focuses on building respectful interactions. (2 hours)
How to Make Yourself Indispensable
Take initiative to go above and beyond, expand your sphere of influence, perform well under pressure, adapt to changing situations – become indispensable! (2 hours)
Module Four: Leadership through Motivating
Adapting Your Leadership Style
Identify the qualities of an effective leader and recognize style differences in others to build rapport and develop individual motivation approaches. (2 hours)
Delegating for Growth
Develop a team-driven culture by understanding the purpose of delegation, preparing and applying the steps to delegating effectively, and learning to recover from inevitable mistakes or disappointments. (2 hours)
Employee Engagement
Cultivate an environment of engagement where you recognize employees as individuals, show you support them, give feedback to develop their skills and acknowledge all employees for their contributions. (2 hours)
Managing Teams
Understand how to find the balance between directing and supporting a team by clarifying team roles, defining responsibilities, making decision making beneficial, troubleshooting problem situations and more! (4 hours)
The Exceptional Manager
Study how to balance the qualities of an exceptional manager – developing self-awareness, demonstrating consistency, displaying humility and confidence – to increase employee engagement and satisfaction. (2 hours)