High-Performance Leadership

Booth School of Business

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Booth School of Business

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Who should attend

This program will benefit mid- to senior-level managers whose business unit is charged with creating value for the organization. It is designed to provide those in leadership roles with techniques for encouraging an environment necessary to sustain long-term, profitable growth and one in which people can seize opportunities—take risks, generate new ideas, and make mistakes. Titles include: innovation leader, change manager, senior project manager, operations manager, mid- to senior-level manager, director, vice president, and C-suite.

About the course

Learn to create a high-performance environment that drives financial results, inspires innovation, and accelerates growth.

Tasked with creating value while managing change, today's leaders need to tackle complicated problems in innovative ways. Built on the largest performance study ever conducted, this course will teach you the theories and tools needed to create a high-performance work environment that drives financial results and innovation.

Throughout the course, you will learn the behaviors that accelerate or stifle high performance, the techniques that create a collaborative work environment, and the tools that build performance drivers. Interactive exercises and discussion will reveal whether your own behaviors are encouraging the right environment or discouraging it.

You will develop plans to improve your team and create a place where people can seize opportunities, take risks, and generate new ideas.

By attending this program, you will:

Create a plan to eradicate the barriers to high performance in a business unit.
Identify, replicate, and nurture high-performance behaviors and workgroups throughout the organization.
Develop a structured approach to preparing for and thinking about negotiations and everyday influence situations.

Program Outline

Introduction to High-Performance Leadership

Learn what drives high performance in uncertain economic times
Identify the three drivers and corresponding attributes of a high-performing work environment

Leadership: Encouraging a High-Performance Environment

Explore familiar leadership styles and the correlation between leadership style and resultant behaviors
How can you identify and enable top performers?

The Tenets of a High-Performance Environment

How should leaders manage change?
Learn how to optimize thinking during change
Discover the power of the 20/60/20 rule, unspeakable subjects, and making loud statements of change

Respectful Communication

How do leaders communicate to encourage high performance?
Discuss the key concepts of communication that allow thinking to thrive

Building a High-Performance Environment

What are the key leadership attributes in a high-performance environment?
How to learn from each other's experiences and brainstorm new ideas
Quick wins to take back and begin implementing immediately

Influence and Collaboration: Negotiation

How can you become a more effective negotiator?
Prepare for negotiations and everyday influence situations
Practice and improve influence and collaboration skills

Now Discover Your Strengths

Take the StrengthsfinderTM profile to discover your strengths
Leverage your personal strengths to lead transformational change

Critical Thinking and Consensus: Decision Making

What is the importance of group process dynamics?
What are the pitfalls and benefits of team decision making?
Explore the elements of team processes for making decisions

Celebrating Heroes

What is the importance of recognizing and celebrating heroes within the company?
Craft real-life examples

Experts

Susan Lucia Annunzio

I am the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance (CfHP). In this role, I act as a strategic advisor to CEOs of leading global companies on strategy attainment and business transformation. I have a strong track record of helping leaders maximize returns on strategi...

Linda Ginzel

Linda E. Ginzel has been on the Chicago Booth faculty since 1992. She specializes in negotiation skills, managerial psychology and executive development. Recent interest is focused on what she terms Leadership Capital: the courage, wisdom and capacity to decide when to manage and when to lead. In...

Sonny Garg

Combining operational excellence and financial discipline with values-based leadership to accelerate change and drive innovation, Sonny Garg is a seasoned executive who has led organizations through critical points of inflection, including large-scale integrations and disruptive innovation. He re...

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