Becoming a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change
IESE Business School
How long?
- 5 days
- in person
What are the topics?
IESE Business School
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Who should attend
The “Become a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change” program targets human resource professionals and their teams; executives who are spearheading change or in the midst of a career transformation; and leaders who aspire to develop creative, committed and constructive teams.
About the course
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.
Experts
Kim Cameron
Kim Cameron is William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations in the Ross School of Business and Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education. His past research on organizational virtuousness, downsizing, effectiveness, corporate quality culture, and the developmen...
Alberto Ribera
Areas of Interest Self-leadership: personality assessment and character development of managers Positive leadership: values, virtues, meaning/purpose, fulfilment Coaching, mentoring and therapy Stress and burnout, mid-life crises, mindfulness Management in Middle East and Africa, Business for pe...
Anneloes Raes
Areas of Interest Top management teams Relationships between top and middle managers Teamwork Temporal dynamics of teamwork Anneloes Raes is an associate professor in the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Maastricht University...
Shawn Quinn
Research Shawn Quinn is The Managing Partner for LIFT Consulting and a Partner in the Competing Values Company. He is also an instructor in the Executive Education Program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He teaches courses on leadership, change and innovation. Shawn also ...
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Becoming a Positive Leader: Accelerating Individual and Organizational Change
Becoming a Positive Leader to Accelerate Positive Change at IESE Business School
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