College
The Ken Blanchard Companies has a remarkably successful college leadership training program for freshman through senior students. The content is adapted directly from the corporate leadership materials that are used world wide in various businesses and organizations, including many of the Fortune 500 companies. Students will be able to include this leadership training in their resume.
What's in it for College Students and Business?
Economic Relevance
- Students are better prepared for today's challenging job market.
- More competitive and employable.
- Educating students to take the initiative and lead themselves is an investment that schools and businesses can both benefit from.
- Investing in teachers/professors/volunteers and trainers will benefit the school or organization. Adults who teach the Blanchard leadership model to students learn a new and better way to connect with students. This can increase enrollment through word of mouth.
- Faculty members gain a good sense of their own leadership style.
Future Relevance
- Students will have the ability to apply skills to future work challenges.
- Essential communication and self leadership skills can be used with professors, parents, and friends.
- Skill can be used by the students whether they are individual contributors or in leadership or managerial positions.
- Students find that self empowerment improves their work and personal relationships.
Life Relevance
- Program focuses on improving communication and working skills with professors, managers, peers, friends, and family.
- Students learn to diagnose what they need to succeed and how to ask for it.
- Problem solving is the #1 concern of most managers. Students learn how to problem solve and make good decisions at work and in life.
- Students learn that it is in their own best interest to be a self leader and take responsibility for getting what you need to achieve their outcomes, goals and expectations.

