Leadership Beyond Management

Transition to a Place of Higher Purpose and Performance

Leadership Beyond Management is an empowering, interactive, and self-reflective journey that will give you a 360° view of your leadership strengths and developmental needs. You will acquire real-world strategies to positively impact and influence individuals and teams in a way that improves business performance.

"This course gave me the tools and information necessary to help me lead with more purpose, passion, and intent."

• Julie Parks, Public Relations Director, American Girl

How You Will Benefit

• Assess the effectiveness of your leadership style via a globally-normed 360° feedback assessment process
• Increase your awareness of organization context and culture, allowing you to respond more thoughtfully to rapid changes in business circumstances
• Enhance your ability to lead intentionally via key foundational, situational, and strategic leadership competencies
• Explore how to positively impact your productivity and effectiveness in serving diverse customers by cultivating an inclusive workplace
• Discover your authentic leadership purpose and choose how it will impact your personal, professional, and organizational success
• Investigate how the best leaders design their organizations for success
• Engage in one-on-one post-program coaching to assist you in clarifying and committing to your leadership development goals

Curriculum

Monday–Leading within Context

• Understand the need for leaders to read organizational context in order to successfully lead
• Identify key contextual issues in your workplace that impact productivity and performance
• Use the ladder of inference to leverage the context of others to solve business problems

Tuesday–Leading with Intention

• Learn how to recognize successful leadership styles
• Receive 360° feedback on your most used leadership styles
• Learn how to choose leadership style appropriate for a situation
• Define next steps for your leadership development

Wednesday–Leading Inclusively

• Examine the links between business performance and inclusive cultures
• Understand how the diversity of customers and clients impacts business opportunity
• Respond to business opportunity with cross-cultural competence
• Assess your own cross-cultural competence
• Leverage the power of an inclusive workplace

Thursday–Leading with Purpose

• Assess your unique talents and values that shape you as a leader
• Name your core purpose as a leader
• Acknowledge your own personal actions that marginalize your purpose as a leader
• Impact the performance of others through your authentic and purposeful leadership

Friday–Leading by Design

Lunch at 12:30 p.m. concludes the program

• Understand the importance of leveraging business processes to achieve desired outcomes
• Know how well-designed processes can shape organizational behavior
• Examine how to apply and integrate learnings from the prior four days to design and lead a high-performing organization

Schedule

Day 1 – Includes breakfast, lunch, breaks, and dinner

• Check-In and Breakfast 7:30–8:15 a.m.
• Course 8:15 a.m.–5 p.m.
• Dinner 4:30–10 p.m.

Day 2 – Includes breakfast, lunch, breaks, and dinner

• Breakfast 7:30–8:15 a.m.
• Course 8:15 a.m.–5 p.m.
• Dinner 4:30–10 p.m.

Day 3 – Includes breakfast, lunch, breaks, and dinner

• Breakfast 7:30–8:15 a.m.
• Course 8:15 a.m.–5 p.m.
• Dinner 4:30–10 p.m.

Day 4 – Includes breakfast, lunch, breaks, and dinner

• Breakfast 7:30–8:15 a.m.
• Course 8:15 a.m.–5 p.m.
• Dinner 4:30–10 p.m.

Day 5 – Includes breakfast, lunch, and breaks

• Breakfast 7:30–8:15 a.m.
• Course 8:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
• Dinner 4:30–10 p.m.