Leadership Development Program (LDP)

LDP is the foundational program for the Advanced Leadership Practices Certificate.
This program qualifies for 32 hours of elective credit in the Certificate in Adult & Continuing Education program.

Everyone can be a leader. This program unearths the leader in all of us.

- Don Cook, Past Participant

Effective leaders bring out the best in people. They are trustworthy, confident, promote personal growth, take risks, and serve as a role models. Leaders are needed at all levels of an organization and the optimal scenario is to have all employees take on a leadership role. Over 500 leaders working in private and public industries as well as profit and non-profit sectors have benefited from this skills-based experiential program.

This program provides a foundation for all our offerings. It is flexibly designed to help you balance learning with work and life.

The Leadership Development Program offers

• Client Centred Design: LDP was designed through extensive consultation with business and leadership specialists in Canada and the United States. This program is aligned with today's best leadership knowledge and practices.
• 360° Leadership Assessment: You will complete a 360° leadership competency assessment (Leadership Practices Inventory) to help you identify your leadership strengths and gaps.
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI): Learn about your personality type and others through the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), which describes your personality as a collection of preferences for how you are energized, how you take in information, how you make decisions, and how you choose to relate to the world.
• Innovative Learning Approach: Based on contemporary principles of interactive and experiential learning techniques, LDP will build knowledge, skills, and attitudes through group participation, practice, self-assessments, reflection, and up-to-date materials.

Saskatoon and Regina Offerings

• In Saskatoon: Twice per year in fall and winter. This eight-week program involves three-hour evening sessions (6:30 pm–9:30 pm) once a week for six weeks. The first and last sessions are extended (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) and include lunch.
• In Regina: Once per year in spring: this five-week Leadership Development Program involves five full-day sessions (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) once a week for five weeks. Each session includes lunch. The same material is covered in the five-week program as in the eight-week program.
• At your location: We can bring the LDP program to your site for your employees. >> learn more

Learn more about the Leadership Development Program.

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Questions?

Email business.leadership@usask.ca or call 306.966.1654