Over the course of an engrossing four-day session, you will examine the strengths and weaknesses of your personal leadership style. This leadership training program leverages lessons in leadership from today's top companies as well as your inner resources and innate skills to help you become a more effective leader.
Faculty lectures, self-assessment tools, videos, group discussions, and workshops provide a rich learning experience that uses introspection to unleash the power of your unique vision of leadership. The program encourages you to combine these insights with the latest research and best practices to tackle the toughest challenges you face in business.
The curriculum focuses on several key areas:
Leadership as a Personal Journey
Being a good leader requires some degree of introspection. You will gain a deeper appreciation for your personal leadership style by:
- Exploring the differences between leadership and management
- Studying the advantages and disadvantages of differing leadership styles
- Investigating the challenges of sharing leadership responsibilities
Communicating as a Leader
Effective communication is a hallmark of a good leader. The program improves your communication skills by:
- Showing you how to communicate more effectively, whether you are delivering complex information, managing a crisis, or advocating a position
- Using nontraditional techniques such as theater and storytelling in order to expand your communication skills
- Coaching in areas that will improve your ability to handle difficult situations
Creating Strong Teams
Inspiring and motivating a team is one of the most important responsibilities of a leader. By leveraging your core leadership skills, this part of the program explores diverse topic areas, including:
- Benchmarking and improving the effectiveness of your team
- Enabling factors you need to guide teams to greater productivity
- Confronting the pressures, complexities—and rewards—of team culture
- Championing diversity within the team, and getting the most value from individual differences
- Maximizing creativity
Leading Change
Emerging leaders are often called on to implement large-scale changes within the organization to align with new market initiatives or strategies. Topics to be addressed include:
- Fostering a climate that inspires change in the organization through personal leadership style, positive mindset, and individual action
- Aligning culture, strategy, and structure to accelerate organizational change and improve performance
Ongoing Learning
After the program ends, the faculty will also encourage you to work toward achieving the leadership goals that you established during the program. You will be able to use your close network of peers for guidance with ongoing leadership challenges.
"This program is inspirational and worthwhile—even for the busiest leader. I came because I wanted to expand my repertoire of leadership skills. The experience gave me tools and confidence that are helping me adapt my management style to address a broad range of leadership challenges."
Chris Brookes [Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Associate Medical Director], Salford Royal Hospital, U.K.