THE ART OF LEADING - THE SCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP

2009 Tuition: $3,200
Program Schedule
    •4 Hours Per Month
    •Six Consecutive Months
Average Class Size: 24
Instructor/Participant Ratio: 1:12
Location: Center for Innovative Technology

What does it take to engage your team? How do you establish powerful relationships among your team members? How do you reach a level of sustained confidence and trust with those you work with?

We sometimes think of a leader as someone who gets the job done in spite of the odds. This has resulted in many hero stories in our culture, but the overwhelming evidence is that high-performing leaders get things done through others. The best leaders have highly competent teams that are engaged, can be trusted to get the job done while keeping an eye on the long-term success of the organization.

Join our six month program: The Art of Leading - The Science of Leadership. Learn how your leading impacts others as well as yourself. This program uses self-assessment tools, faculty presentations, case discussions, coaching and selected readings to build your capacity for leading.

You will learn strategies for continuous development through extensive assessment, group discussions, self-reflection, small group activities and personal coaching. Throughout the program, you will engage in development planning which provides a direct transfer of your learning from the classroom to your workplace.

This developmental experience will change your life–both personally and professionally.

Program Features
This unique program is delivered in three phases: pre-work, classroom learning experience, and sustainability. We believe that learning to lead is a process not unlike gardening. It takes time, care and nurturing before it matures and blooms. To provide that time, this program is distributed over three phases: a pre-work phase that lays a foundation for the program, a classroom phase that meets once a month for four hours and provides concepts, models, frameworks, ideas, coaching and practice for becoming more effective as a leader, and a sustainability phase that ensures follow through on development commitments with web-based sessions and podcasts. The program duration for all phases is approximately ten months.

Who Should Attend
Mid- to senior-level managers who are seeking a new level in their capacity to lead and are willing to engage in the development process with 100% commitment to listen to assessments, work with faculty on developing new understanding and skills, and act on what they have learned.

Outcomes
You will discover your potential for leadership, develop confidence and build skills that will help you:
•Engage your team to increase productivity and results
•Build stronger relationships that are based on trust and integrity
•Make better decisions in less time with increased confidence
•Discover your core beliefs and how to align your actions with those beliefs
•Give and receive feedback more effectively
•Lead change in your organization
•Develop others confidence and ability to leverage their strengths
•Understand emotional intelligence and the difference it can make for you and your team
•Set clear developmental goals and identify actions to achieve them through one-on-one coaching sessions with professional leadership coaches

Pre-Course Work
Understanding your leadership strengths and your approach to leadership are core building blocks for our program. You are asked to complete several assessments prior to attending the program to help our faculty and coaches fully leverage your time and optimize the benefits of your participation in this program. You will of option of having your direct reports, peers, and superiors complete assessments about your leadership style. The surveys will be sent to you in sufficient time to be completes prior to your program start date and you will be given a deadline for completion. For answers to commonly asked questions about pre-course work, visit our Pre-Work FAQs.

Phase I: Assessments
•Distribution and completion of pre-course assessment materials.

Phase II: Classroom Learning Experience
Session 1 Leadership Matters: Understand the Proven Impact of Leadership for Personal Success and Organizational Performance
•Meet your colleagues and initiate collaborative learning
•Explore your core beliefs about leading and leadership and identify associated behaviors
•Discuss the elements of creative leadership and their implications for results
•Launch a personal behaviors-based, leadership development plan

Session 2 Discovery: Cultivate a deeper personal awareness for your role as a leader and learn about the impact of your behaviors for yourself and others
•Understand results on a 360 degree assessment of leadership skills and approaches to leading
•Identify established patters of action and habits of thought and assess the impact on your leadership role Understand your values and how to align behaviors with values Understand how generational values impact communications styles and the implications for the leader

Session 3 Design I: Learn what motivates your actions as a leader
•Understand a framework for engaging in powerful conversations for generating understanding, innovation, action and results
•Practice powerful conversations in a group activity and discuss a model that describes the communications process in organizations
•Prepare for a coaching activity and set personal developmental goals

Session 4 Development: Draw on your leadership strengths to analyze and integrate feedback into your developmental plan
•Describe your starting point by drawing from assessment tools and concepts introduced during the program
•Understand the distinctions of trust and the conditions for building trust
•Receive and provide peer feedback
•One-to-one session with a certified executive coach

Session 5 Extension: Reinforce and expand the benefits of your learning by coaching your team
•Practice coaching to learn how to provide feedback to your team
•Know how to design powerful team meetings that result in finding good solutions, making better projections and choices
•Schedule one-on-one coaching sessions for interim period
•Plan to engage your team by establishing direction and generating powerful conversations

Session 6 Transition: Applying the lessons to your life
•Chart a course for where you want to be by setting your mission and goals and putting the goals in the context of the bigger picture that is your life
•Take action to continue your development into the future and consider carefully what kind of support you''ll need along the way to be successful

Phase III: Sustainability
•Sustain and build on your learning experience by participating in a six week program epilogue. Web-based sessions and podcasts will help you remain focused on your goals and follow-through on your commitments. You will have the opportunity to discuss your progress with one of our coaches and other Art of Leading participants.
•You and your team can complete an optional assessment of your leadership culture three months after the program to assess the impact of your leadership