Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality

Facilitated by: Dr. George Watts

Thursday, April 24th 
1pm-4pm CST
Course offered for 2.75 CE credits
Fee - $66.00
Instructional level of activity best suited for: Mid-Advanced Career

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This workshop equips psychologists with a practical and easily applied system to integrate personality insights into creating high stickiness; clients and stakeholders find your solutions indispensable and critical to their success. Using interactive methods and research-backed approaches, participants learn to enhance their strategic thinking to create powerful impact, build alliances, partnerships. Attendees leave with actionable frameworks to maximize income, amplify influence, and build an ecosystem that supports their career.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify the role of personality in adding strategic value.
  2. Apply the Big Five Model tailored to create your individual brand.
  3. Design your own transactional cycle to expand your impact and influence.

Rationale: To maximize impact psychologist must be positioned as essential partners in helping clients, colleagues and their team achieve long-term goals. By demonstrating strategic value, they elevate their role from service provider to trusted advisor.

Learning Format

Each participant is mailed an autographed copy of: Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality. Published by the American Psychological Association (APA, 2024) the book blends personality theory with real-world strategy, giving psychologists and consultants the tools they need to understand exactly how they add value, supercharge their teams and win over key stakeholders.

  • 45 min: Introductory Lecture (PowerPoint) on the book’s core themes
  • 30 min: Professional branding exercise
  • 1 hour: Facilitator lead group discussion on creating your brand
  • 30 min: Q&A and Wrap-Up

Relevance to APA Audience

This workshop supports SPL’s mission to advance psychology as a science and profession by equipping practitioners with an evidence-based model for adding strategic value.

Presenter Qualifications

George W. Watts is the lead author of Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality, published by APA. He is Chairman of TLT Coaching. He led the development of a turn-key scalable program for leadership development used by global firms. He is on the forefront of applying AI to coaching as his firm is completing the development of a unique, proprietary coaching Bot to scale his firm’s program to thousands of leaders around the globe. (www.TLTCoaching.com)

The Society of Psychologists in Leadership (“SPL”) is approved by the American Psychological
Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPL maintains responsibility for this program and its content.”

The Administrator of Continuing Education for the Society of Psychologists in Leadership ("SPL"), has reviewed this presentation and determined that there is no conflict of interest or commercial support involved with said presentation. Questions or concerns should be directed to the SPL Continuing Education Committee [email protected]