Becoming a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change

Increasing employee engagement, driving innovation and change, and stimulating top-level performance involves taking a positive new approach to leadership that builds on strengths.

Run jointly by IESE Business School and Michigan’s Ross School of Business, this program will provide you with the techniques and tools you need to stimulate performance in others by focusing on their strengths.

Benefits

• Learn how to cultivate a mindful and mission-driven work environment that empowers and engages employees.
• Examine the importance of self-awareness to motivate growth at both individual and organizational levels.
• Learn techniques to unlock the highest potential within oneself and others.
• Make a step-by-step plan to address leadership challenges in your organization.

Content

In “Become a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change“, you will engage in an exciting, introspective, and intense opportunity to reflect on yourself and your organization. You will explore in detail the following topics:

Positive Leadership Framework

• The BPL framework
• Application of the framework to personal and organizational realms

Enabling Spectacular Performance and an Exceptional Culture

• Tools and techniques to motivate employees. • Setting the stage for implementation to excel.

Character development (nurture vs nature)

• Self-awareness and development of positive qualities. • Leveraging crisis situations as opportunities for resilience and learning

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica: Drawing Inspiration from Gaudí

• Motivate oneself and others with a sense of purpose and mission. • Creativity for overcoming challenges and constraints to accomplish great work. • Evaluating the present to create an alternative future.

Reflected Best Self Exercise

• Customized feedback on your strengths and strength profile. • Creating a picture of you at your best.

Deep Change

• Understanding the power of emotions and managing them in the work environment. • Clarifying values and purpose.

Creating a Positive Organizational Culture

• Positive climate: stress prevention; mindfulness and well-being. • Pros, Cons and sustainability of positive culture.

High-Quality Connections and Energy Networks

• Understanding the necessity for high-quality connections.
• Learning how to create the connections you need to influence the future.
• Trust and empowerment.

Action Plan: Change starts with you

• Planning and Positioning for Excellence.
• Development of a 21-day personal action plan

On-Campus Ed. Methodology

The program leverages a wide range of highly dynamic and interactive teaching methodologies, including group discussions, class lectures, exercises, the case study method and a computer simulation, all aimed to hone your skills as an agent of change. These teaching methods have been strategically combined to foster an optimal learning environment. The on-site edition takes place on the school’s Barcelona campus.

To ensure participants get the most out of the program, they will be asked to prepare the academic materials provided two weeks before the program’s start date.