Leadership Best Practices

Leadership always has been a key differentiator between successful and unsuccessful organizations. In today's complex and competitive business environment, achieving and retaining the leadership edge often seems to be an unattainable goal. Leadership Best Practices focuses on proven leadership strategies and takes cutting-edge research one step further by giving participants the tools and techniques needed to both benchmark and enhance their leadership practices and those of their organizations.

The program features several stimulating modules facilitated by a well-experienced faculty who examine the phenomenon of leadership and who have broken new ground in the study of leaders or leadership development. Each expert will unveil his or her latest groundbreaking research:
• The essence of great leaders;
• Cultural perspectives and organizational performance;
• Service strategies that retain profitable customers;
• The power of confidence in organizations;
• The care and feeding of entrepreneurial leaders in companies;
• Ambidextrous organizations and their competitive edge; and
• Leadership with impact.

Through interaction with faculty thought leaders, senior executives acquire new knowledge and enlightened perspectives on innovative leadership practices.

Program Objectives
Incorporating a powerful mix of lectures, case studies, class discussions, small-group interactions, and informal gatherings, the program provides an important opportunity for participants to:

• Gain early access to groundbreaking research on leadership;
• Examine leadership best practices within complex organizations;
• Build relationships with other organizational change agents for ongoing collaboration;
• Strengthen their individual capacity to position contemporary organizations with the leadership edge by rethinking their approaches to leadership and leader development;
• Learn to bridge the gap between research theory and practical application; and
• Develop an implementable action plan for applying innovative concepts and best practices within their own workplaces.

Curriculum
• The Meaning Of Leadership
• Diversity And Its Impact On Performance
• Differentiating On Customer Service
• Building A Foundation Of Confidence
• Launching Businesses From Within: The Challenge Of Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Ambidextrous Organizations For Innovation And Performance
• Extraordinary Leadership In An Era Of Turbulence And Change

Participant Mix
Leadership Best Practices is intended specifically for senior executives with significant corporate management responsibilities. Typical participant titles include:
• Chief operating officer;
• Chief administrative officer;
• Senior vice president;
• General manager;
• Senior human resources officer; and
• Divisional director/leader.

Date:
January 24-28, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by January 19, 2005)

Fee - click here

Location - Boston, Massachusetts (Residential)

Participants’ Comments
"This intellectually challenging and invigorating program is an excellent opportunity to benchmark your leadership skills and style and to gain exposure to high-level thinking and best practices from one of the world's leading executive education providers. I have applied the lessons learned to improve our partnership selection, elevate our thinking with regard to strategy and direction, and lead change within our large organization. Leadership Best Practices examines the issues and challenges that are facing business managers, helping you to develop ideas and actions that will have a direct impact on the way you do your job, and on the way your organization is led and managed."
Stephen Gillespie [Partner], Allen & Overy LLP, U.K

"Leadership Best Practices provides an incredibly rich week. The program is a wonderful, condensed, intense opportunity to listen to a terrific lineup of leadership luminaries and to learn from their latest research and thinking on a portfolio of best practices. I came back very energized and with a renewed sense of what's important in my career and in how I lead others. Immediately, I was able to apply the learning to accelerate where we're heading in the organization with our leadership development. This powerful reinforcement event opened a lot of doors and absolutely has made me a better leader."
Patty M. McKay [Manager, Leadership Excellence], Guidant Corporation, U.S.