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The Management Course Unit IV - Leadership
Seminar No: 15504 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 2.7
Length: 4.5 days
Realize your full management potential...with real-world knowledge about real business issues! The Management Course provides you with advanced thinking on the core principles of management--drawing on best practices to help you develop skills that will yield instant results and make you a more successful manager and leader. In just 4 separate one-week units that cover management, finance, marketing, and leadership, you'll learn proven methods for strategic planning, financial analysis, problem solving, team building, improving work relationships, leadership, and executive skill building.
Attendees:
Mid- to senior-level managers who seek new knowledge to enhance their careers, general management skills to understand the larger picture, and formal training to enhance on-the-job experience.
How You Will Benefit:
- Gain real-world knowledge from top-notch faculty
- Take part in problem-solving sessions, role-plays, and sophisticated business scenarios Take these 4 one-week units at your convenience. For maximum benefit, we suggest that you attend all 4 units within 12-18 months.
What You Will Cover:
- Managing Change: Learn what characterizes winners. Use change management to learn from the past, leverage the present, and shape the future
- Strategic Thinking: Use core competencies to create competitive advantage. Link mission, vision, and strategic intent to revitalize corporate performance
- Peak Performance Management: Recognize style differentiation, identify strong contributors, leveragecompensation, recognition, and rewards to build a winning team
- Communicating for Results: How to shape, share, and measure the impact of your business messages
- Coaching: Combine the power of rapport, the art of passing along wisdom, and the talent for listening to motivate, empower, and educate employees
- Team-based Management: Learn when and how to use teams, as well as the stages of team development and the requisites of team success
Extended/Detailed Seminar Outline
Learning Objectives
- How to Tune Your Leadership Effectiveness: Flex your Leadership Styles When There are Changes in People and Conditions
- Creating the Vision: The Leader’s Role in Defining an Achievable Destiny
- Forming the Bridge: Close the Gap between the Leadership Vision and the Daily Focus of People and Teams, Using Delegation and Negotiation Skills
- The Tools of Performance Leadership: Use Performance Characteristics Analysis to Identify and Close Performance Gaps. Understand the Difference between Coaching and Counseling
- Performance Planning and Appraisal: Manage the Cascade of Performance Planning and Bubble-up of Performance Appraisal as a Strategic Leadership Tool
- Understanding Individual Behavior: See How the Leader Uses Knowledge of Self and Others to Motivate the Creative Energies of People. Analyze Your Personal Leadership Profile
- Dealing with Interpersonal and Inter-group Conflict: Examine Causes and Issues to Find Resolution. Examine Your Own Corporate Culture
Building an Agenda for Action
- Effectively Approach the Program and Processes for the Week
- Articulate Your Personal Objectives for Learning from the Program and Reach Agreement with Others on the Highest Priorities for the Group as a Whole
- Interact with Other Program Participants, Having Gained Some Perspective on Each Others' Professional Lives
- Work Together in Formed Groups All Week
- Begin Using Prepared Tools for the Program and Beyond
- Revisit Actions Planned and Critical Results from Prior Units of The Management Course and/or Other Work-Related Development Efforts
Role of the Leader
- Apply Concepts of Manager vs. Leader Roles, Revisited and Reinforced from Unit 1 of The Management Course and/or Other Prior Leadership Learning Experiences
- Identify a Personal "Teachable Point of View"
- Differentiate the Learning Environment from the Teaching Environment
- Identify Your Personal Behavioral Preferences and Modify Them Proactively to Increase Your Leadership Effectiveness
- Learn the Principal Concepts That Define and Enhance EQ: Emotional Quotient
- Identify a Source of Personal Emotional Energy
Vision, Values, and Ethics
- Articulate Clarified Mission and Vision Statements Originally Developed in Unit 1 of The Management Course or Developed in the Workplace
- Assess Organizational Response from Mission/Vision Work Already Completed
- Articulate the Relationship That Ethics Has with the Success of a Vision
- Describe Organizational Values
- Plan a Workplace Approach for Promoting Organizational Values through Ethical Leadership Behaviors
Planning for the Future
- Understand the Strategic Planning Process Leaders Use to Set Short-term Actions for Long-term Success
- Identify Key Outcomes (KOs) for Major Business Strategies
- Explore the Link between Strategic Decisions and Critical Actions
- Define a Situation Analysis for the Work Units That Participants Manage
- Define a Critical Path of Tasks
Influence and Alignment
- Define Motivators That Can Be Used with Others in Both Reporting and Non-Reporting Relationships
- Demonstrate Skills of Influencing Others
- Form "Virtual Partnerships" in the Work Environment
- Develop Working Agreements that Align the Organization for Business Success
Driving Change
- State the Reasons Why Organizations and People Resist Change
- Use Ten Specific "Tactics" to Promote Innovation in the Work Environment
- Apply Leadership Actions That Will Facilitate Change in the Workplace
Turnaround-The Simulation
- Apply All Seminar Concepts in a Simulated Case
- Relate Concepts of Team Dynamics to Your Actual Experience
- Recognize Successful Team Behaviors
- Complete a Self-Assessment of Learning from the Seminar
- Identify Strategies for Use Back at Work
- Assess Your Progress in Using Team Decision-Making Skills Learned in The Ethical Challenge
Polish the Plans; Graduation
- Finalize Specific Actions You Will Take Immediately after the Seminar
- Reinforce the Network of Relationships/Friendships Formed with Other Studio Members and the Entire Group
- Celebrate Completion of This Unit of The Management Course Program!
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New York
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Chicago
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Chicago, IL 60631
San Francisco
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San Francisco, CA 94103
Atlanta
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Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
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Arlington, VA 22202
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