MASTERING THE ART OF LEADING

2010 Tuition: $1,390*
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
*Tuition includes all course materials, continental breakfast, and lunch. Participants may chose to provide assessments from the workplace or request that we administer a 360 degree assessment as part of the program experience (requires an additional fee of $395).

Program Overview
Achieve more as a leader and realize the full potential of your leadership role. Mastering the Art of Leading, provides knowledge, skills and tools you can use immediately upon returning to the workplace. You will engage in leadership that generates:
•Better business results
•Engagement of your team to increase productivity and results
•Stronger relationships based on trust and integrity
•Better decisions in less time with increased confidence
•New career opportunities
•Sustained executive presence
•Increased personal confidence
•Peer collaboration and respect

In two days, the foundations of leadership development are presented. Using core dimensions assessed in most 360 degree assessments for identifying strengths and gaps, this seminar teaches you how to go beyond the assessments and discover the critical skills, understanding and leader behaviors that underlie those assessments and drive performance. By investing two days in developing leadership potential, you will reach new levels of leadership and will have tools to renew and sustain leadership development initiatives for a lifetime.

Who Should Attend
Managers who want to maximize their performance as leaders and develop professionally and personally. Participants are those who have a strong drive to be self-aware, are willing to take risks, are receptive to new ideas and learning technologies, and are ready to engage in challenging learning experiences and intense personal coaching.  

How You Will Benefit
•Understand relevant and actionable models of leader behaviors performance and apply these in the right place at the right time
•Build your team’s commitment to the organization’s vision, objectives, and goals
•Create a work environment energized by mutual trust, confidence and purpose
•Apply tools for personal and interpersonal awareness and insight and use this understanding to guide recurrent, effective actions
•Master the use of tools for fulfilling the mutual needs of the group and the goals of the organization
•Positively influence the motivation and performance of direct reports while improving each person’s capacity to meet career needs
•Be intentional in your conversations and actions even under demanding conditions in the workplace

Program Content
•Leaders, Leading and Leadership: What Do We Need to Know and Why Does It Matter?
 oUnderstand what it is to be a leader, the effective actions of leading and the factors affecting the leader-follower dynamic and use this to increase your capacity to lead
•The Relevant Domains of Awareness: Understanding That Makes a Difference
 oHow the awareness of styles, needs, responses, and culture impact your capacity to lead and how awareness of relevant domains can shift our ability to become more intentional through design and resolution of breakdowns
•Language and Emotions: The Core Skills of Leading
 oWhat we say and much of what we feel are revealed to all those we interact with.  Developing a few readily applied tools will dramatically increase the power of your conversations and your ability to sustain moods and emotions for effective action
•The Dynamic Performance of Teams
 oTeams, regardless of size, are inherently dynamic with changing emotions, needs, interests and concerns. Learn how to identify the core dimensions of teams and take steps that will help ensure that your team is engaged, confident and ambitious.
•Valuable Exercises
 oPut theory into action with personal assessments and specific activities relevant to your role as a leader. Benefit from three personal one-on-one coaching sessions–one during the program and two within three months of program completion.

Faculty
Neil Sicherman
President
Center for Advanced Emotional Intelligence

Roy Hinton
Associate Dean of Executive Education
School of Management, George Mason University

Additional Information
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