Details

Are you ready to stretch your leadership thinking and capabilities? Through Power and Leadership: Getting Below the Surface, you will explore the differences between coercive, power-based leadership and deeper “level three” leadership. Integrated themes incorporate a powerful leadership model that includes personal characteristics, strategic thinking, abilities in influencing others, creating inspiring organizational designs and principles of leading change to provoke your thoughts about leadership. You will see how to build trust, influence face-to-face, lead change and how to become a more influential manager. The program includes a half-day of experiential learning exercises and a day-long simulation on managing change, blending fresh learning techniques with practical business and some theory. This course will help transform your view of leadership, your influence capabilities and elevate your contribution in your current and future roles.

The fee covers all program materials, program-related meals and housing in a private room at the Inn at Darden for the specified program dates.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Audience

Managers who want to:

• Ramp up their leadership skills.
• Build world-class teams.
• Become change masters.
• Get beyound attempts to pay for engagement.
• Learn how to ramp up buy-in.
• Become extraordinary executives.

Participant Profile 

• Acquisition Functional Integrator 
• CFO 
• Directors all areas 
• Engineers all functions 
• Loss/Risk Analysis Officer   
• Senior Managers/Managers all functions   
• VPs all areas    

Benefits

• Clarification of personal and professional purposes.
• Deep-seated self-awareness and challenges to self-leadership.
• Guidance for managing work/life/self-balance in self and others.
• Improve change management and skills; master leadership capabilities.
• Mental map of leadership in all its elements.
• Learn to create world-class teams.
• Renew your energy for leading.
• Techniques for building trust.

This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.

Topics

• Balancing Your Life
• Building and Leading World-Class Teams
• Building Executive Lifestyles
• Building Trust
• Creating Your Personal Leadership Style
• Developing Personal and Organizational Charters for Action
• How Feelings Affect Performance
• Leading in Crisis
• Leading Strategic Change  
• Why Managers Do What They Do

Special Features

• The Falls River Experience: A half-day outdoor experiential learning opportunity that promotes team building and broadening personal boundaries. Put your case study and other learnings into action! (Wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothing, sturdy shoes and a hat. Please do not wear jewelry. Sunscreen and bug spray will be provided.)
• GlobalTech Exercise^©(ExperiencePoint Inc.): GlobalTech has hired you to save the company. With select parameters, you will actively engage in leading organizational change for the business. This full-day experience integrates challenges of change management, team-based decision making, customer focus and departmental silos.
• Personal Charter Model: Develop a personal charter model that applies to self, workgroups and the organization.

Faculty

James G. Clawson Johnson & Higgins Professor of Business Administration	Erika Hayes James Professor of Business Administration