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 techniques to unlock the highest potential within yourself and others.
• Discover how to develop high-impact relationships and a results-oriented work environment.
• Develop capacity to stimulate individual and organizational growth.
• Make a step-by-step plan to confront leadership challenges in your organization.

Content

In this Program, you will engage in an exciting, introspective, and intense opportunity to reflect on yourself and your organization. You will explore in detail:

Positive Leadership Framework

• Introduction to the POS framework. • Application of the framework to personal and organizational life.

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

Methodology

The “Become a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change” program combines a variety of dynamic methodologies, including a Reflected Best Self Assesment, case studies, team exercises, a personal development plan and experiential learning activities, all designed to help you grow as a leader and catalyze positive organizational change. The program also offers an enriching forum for interaction with faculty and peers.