When does leadership matter most? At those moments, how do you lead? What can you do to inspire employees to assume more responsibility for leading themselves? How can you use your personal leadership skills to tackle organizational challenges? With the simultaneous rise in mergers and acquisitions and the creation of startups and more autonomous divisions within established companies, the demand for exceptional leadership has never been greater. This course will enhance your ability to lead and build leadership not only in your current position but throughout your career. You will examine the role of the leader and your fit within it. Arguably the most important part of being a leader is deciding if you truly want to be one.
The program is designed to develop your leadership learning both during the course week and the journey beyond, and we will do so with a combination of learning methods. They include team exercises, case discussions, computer simulations, physical challenges, Shakespearian drama, and a battlefield visit. Faculty draw upon a variety of sources, including academic research, business cases, history, politics, and literature, to explore the role of the leader and the qualities of leadership. Though we draw many of our illustrations from the U.S., we seek to include other national experiences as well.
Program Focus
• Seizing leadership opportunities
• Thinking, depicting, and enacting leadership
• Leadership in practice
• A leadership dialogue
• Leadership and history
Approach
A strategic self-development exercise, this course will prepare you for current and increased leadership responsibilities by examining your definition of leadership and of yourself as a leader. You will participate in simulations, give and receive feedback, and study leadership moments; moments that challenged leadership, yours and others. You will identify your strengths and weaknesses as a leader and review your handling of key leadership moments.
Program Outcomes
• Increase your awareness of the qualities of great leadership.
• Strengthen your leadership.
• Examine your own views of leadership.
• Increase your ability to prepare for, navigate through, and learn from leadership moments.
Participant Profile
Anyone who wants to push his or her own leadership development in new directions can benefit. Middle and senior managers from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors are welcome.
Date:
May 22-27, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by May 18)
October02-07, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by September 28)
Location - Philadelphia, PA (Residential)
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