Key Persons Leadership Development

This powerful forum provides participants with crucial tools for a great employee to become a confident leader.

An interactive forum for emerging leaders employed in small business, Key Persons Leadership Development helps you think with an ownership mentality.  Topics include leadership styles, communication strategies, financial acumen and time management tactics.

During this course  you will begin:

  • To identify and understand strengths-based leadership styles in themselves and others
  • Communication strategies for active listening, coaching, delegating and mastering difficult conversations
  • A basic understanding of financial statements to build a higher level of awareness related to the organization’s bottom-line performance
  • The importance of having standard operating procedures to efficiently deliver a consistently high quality product or service
  • An understanding of the interaction between the marketing and sales process, and an awareness of how each person in the business is critical for sales
  • Goal setting and time management strategies to work on the right things at the right time.

You should apply if you are a new and emerging leaders in small-to-medium sized businesses looking to take management skills to the next level are encouraged to apply.   

Program Fee

$2995/person ($2495 for additional participants from same company)

Where and When


Tuesdays, February 18-April 1, 2025 from 8:30-11:30 a.m.
UB Downtown Gateway Building, Suite 201
77 Goodell Street, Buffalo

Learn More

To learn more, contact the CEL office at mgt-cel@buffalo.edu or 716-885-5715.