Practicing Positive Leadership

Positive Leadership is the key to creating empowering, virtuous organizations that have strong employee engagement and consistently outperform competitors.

This three-week online course is designed to help you explore new techniques to increase employee engagement, leverage empowerment to drive productivity, and share best practices with your cohort. Drawing on a diverse body of research, Professor Kim Cameron’s real-world, evidence-based examples demonstrate how leaders can affect organizational culture, positivity, and ultimately, productivity.

What sets this program apart:

• Experience live, weekly interactive sessions with renowned faculty Kim Cameron
• Evidence-based research validated by real-world data and results
• Highly personalized learning experience created by live, online events, based on your own data and assessment results. Our Ross faculty collate and analyze the coursework to create a personalized discussion each week.
• This course gives you access to course content that is adapted from the frameworks taught by our Ross faculty who teach in our Top #3 ranked BBA and Top #10 ranked MBA full-time degree programs.

Program Structure

This three-week online course features weekly live, interactive sessions with Professor Kim Cameron, who will discuss data/feedback from each week’s assessments, surveys, and other coursework. Each week also features a live, virtual Positive Leadership Breakout Group meeting. These live sessions allow each cohort to have a highly-personalized learning experience.

Each week, you’ll explore important topics that form the foundation for practicing Positive Leadership with your team:

Week One: The Strength of Positive Leadership

• Positive Leadership
• Knowing Yourself and Your Organization
• Positively Energizing Leadership
• Breakout Group working session: Personal Assessment

Week Two: Changing Your Culture

• How Positive Leadership Creates Positive Culture
• A Culture of Engagement
• Engagement in the Global Economy
• Breakout Group working session: Positive Culture and Engagement

Week Three: Sustaining Positive Culture

• The Key to Sustaining Positive Culture
• How Can Leaders Empower?
• The Path Forward
• Breakout Group working session: Sustaining Positive Culture Through Empowerment

Your Action Plan

Time commitment:

• Daily online coursework will take approximately 30-minutes
• Breakout Groups meet 30-60 minutes each week
• The live, interactive sessions with Professor Cameron will be scheduled in advance. Sessions will also be recorded for availability at your convenience

Key Benefits:

• Assess and develop your key strengths and weaknesses as a leader
• Learn how to deploy the positive leadership toolkit in performance improvement initiatives
• Drive individual and team performance through the use of positive leadership principles
• Create measurable action plans for the individual, team and organizational performance improvement using positive leadership frameworks