SBE Leadership Development Course

We are looking ahead to 2025 for a new date and location.

Please visit this page for the most up-to-date information about this SBE educational offering. Questions? Contact Education Director Cathy Orosz at corosz@sbe.org or 317-846-9000.

Interested in sending a group of five or more from your company? Contact Education Director Cathy Orosz at corosz@sbe.org to discuss special pricing.

Date: 2025 date TBA

Course Description

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Leadership Development Webinar Series

Course Description

The SBE has presented the SBE Leadership Development Course since 1997. The NAB sponsored this course from 1965 to 1995. This intense course is designed specifically for broadcast engineers who have or aspire to have management responsibilities. The SBE offers the course in cooperation with instructor Dr. Abram Walton, the founder of Ivory Bridge Group, a management consulting and training firm.

Designed to take technically adept people and instill in them sound leadership, supervisory and management skills, the SBE Leadership Development Course is equally beneficial for those who are already in management and for those without prior management or supervisory experience.

This highly interactive course will be challenging and rewarding, and includes training in the following areas:

Understanding the Dynamics of Leadership
CAPS Study: Discover Your Leadership Behavioral Style
Communications
Effective Motivation Techniques
Building Winning Teams (team process and team advantage)
Responsible Management
Insights into Generational Differences
Leadership is an Attitude
Managing Conflict, Counseling and Discipline

This three-day event challenges you to refine your leadership skills as you better understand and improve how you interact with others. Bring a team and share the experience of this highly interactive event. Come, enjoy, learn and have some fun growing as a leader in the process.

Enrollment

Registration includes all course materials, three days of instruction, the Leadership Development Webinar Series of three webinars, a certificate of completion, light breakfast items and classroom beverages.

Here’s what 2023 attendees had to say:

“Just good stuff. The course helped me learn more about myself and equipped me with good information to make better decisions.”

“The content is applicable to my job and helped me to frame my thoughts and approaches around managing versus leading.”

“Dr. Walton is an excellent instructor. Good content and great personality — made the course material interesting.”

“I have already applied a lot of what I learned, mostly in how I deal with different employees and be more in control
when I speak to fellow leaders.”

About Your Instructor

Dr. Abram Walton is the founder of Ivory Bridge Group, a management consulting and training firm. He is also a full-tenured professor of management at Florida Tech, specializing in management and innovation. He serves as a U.S. Delegate for ISO 56000, on Innovation Management System standards and has been actively researching in the fields of innovation management, business analytics, and product lifecycle management for the past 20 years. He currently serves as the founding director of Florida Tech’s Center for Innovation Management & Business Analytics (CIMBA). He has authored more than 100 publications and conference proceedings, and his textbooks on leadership and management have sold more than 15,000 copies.

Dr. Walton is a regularly invited speaker at national and international conferences. He received his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems at Northwest Nazarene University (2001), and his Masters of Science (2006) and Ph.D. (2009) in Technology, Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. Before his academic life, he was a fire fighter and EMT, and he later held leadership positions as a manager of Wal-Mart stores.

When not working, Abram enjoys flying, sailing, motorcycles, or traveling with his family.

Recertification Credit

The completion of this course qualifies for 3 credits toward recertification, identified under Category G of the Recertification Schedule for SBE Certifications.

Location – NEW 2025 Date and Location TBA

Registration/Cost

SBE Members: $720.00

Non-Members: $775.00

Interested in sending a group of five or more from your company? Contact Education Director Cathy Orosz at corosz@sbe.org to discuss special pricing.

Questions? Contact Education Director Cathy Orosz at 317-846-9000 or corosz@sbe.org.

SBE reserves the right to cancel the course no less than 30 days prior to the first classroom day, if there is insufficient enrollment.

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