| WELCOME TO HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP |
Leaders need to create an environment that fosters high performance. In order for a business unit to create value for the organization, the brainpower within the workgroup that will lead to innovative products, services, and markets must be unleashed. Participants will learn and practice a six-step collaboration model that high-performing groups use to encourage the flow of ideas and to solve complex problems. Through this course, participants will learn the behaviors that accelerate or stifle high performance, how to better leverage the positive attributes of the work environment, and techniques to build performance drivers into their company.
Registration deadline for the June 24-29 session: May 20. Late registrations will be considered if space is available. |
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 | | During this seminar, you will learn to: | - recognize the characteristics of high-performing workgroups
- encourage an environment that drives high performance
- effectively drive and manage change
- apply the principles of respectful communication
- collaborate to solve complex problems
- create a plan to eradicate the barriers to high performance in your business unit
- partner with other workgroups to effect positive change in the company
- surround yourself with people who have skills that complement your own
- identify, replicate, and nurture high-performance behaviors and workgroups throughout the organization
- develop a structured approach to preparing for and thinking more complexly about negotiations and everyday influence situations
- improve influence and collaboration negotiation skills
- develop a framework for avoiding individual decision traps and improving team decisions
- lead more effectively and drive strategic direction by leveraging your strengths
- develop an action plan to apply concepts and processes learned in the course to your own Personal Leadership Challenge
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| | Who Should Attend | This course will benefit mid- to senior-level managers whose business unit is charged with creating value for the organization and who are responsible for leading and managing change. 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. Participants will develop plans for improving the performance of their workgroup and the organization.
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| | High Performance Leadership Program Outline | Course Objectives
This leadership course was developed to help participants build a high-performance work environment and effectively manage change. It is built around the largest and most in-depth global study ever conducted on the factors that accelerate or stifle high performance. Participants will learn which attributes identified in the research are most critical to creating a high-performance work environment for driving financial results and innovation. Interactive exercises and discussion will reveal to participants whether their own behaviors are encouraging the right environment or discouraging it. The fastest and most effective way to achieve profitable growth is for companies to focus on increasing the performance of their best workgroups. Even the highest-performing business units have the capacity to do better. Through interactive exercises, the class will focus on what companies can do to help make their high-performing workgroups even more successful and boost their average-performing workgroups to higher levels of performance. Participants will learn how to optimize critical thinking in the workgroup; how to replicate high-performance practices throughout the organization for sustainable growth; and ways to remove barriers that hinder performance, including how to deal with highly politicized situations. As an important part of the course, participants will create and leave with an action plan for a Personal Leadership Challenge (PLC) or opportunity that could result in significant benefit for them and/or their workgroup, applying learnings from the course and PLC team feedback.
Course Outline
Introduction to High-Performance Leadership- What drives high performance in uncertain economic times?
- The three drivers and corresponding attributes of a high-performing work environment
- Leadership challenges and ramifications of the changing business landscape
- Discussion and exploration of your Personal Leadership Challenge (PLC)
Leadership: Encouraging a High-Performance Environment- How does leadership behavior encourage or discourage the behaviors of the workforce?
- Familiar leadership styles and the correlation between leadership style and resultant behaviors
- Identifying and enabling top performers
The Tenets of a High-Performance Environment- What happens in a changing environment?
- How should leaders manage change?
- Optimizing thinking during change
- The 20/60/20 rule, unspeakable subjects, and making loud statements of change
- Creating flexible work environments that adapt quickly to change
Respectful Communication: More than the Dissemination of Information- How do leaders communicate to encourage high performance?
- Key concepts of communication that allow thinking to thrive
- Implicit vs. explicit rules of communication
- How communication breaks down and stifles high performance
- The anatomy of a miscommunication
- Diffusing negative emotions
- Challenging assumptions
- Answering tough questions
Building a High-Performance Environment- What are the key leadership attributes in a high-performance environment?
- Learning from each other's experiences and brainstorming new ideas
- Quick wins to take back and begin implementing immediately
Influence and Collaboration: Negotiation- How can you become a more effective negotiator?
- Structured approach to preparing for and thinking more complexly about negotiations and everyday influence situations
- Practicing and improving influence and collaboration skills
Now Discover Your Strengths- What are your leadership strengths?
- Taking the StrengthsfinderTM profile to discover your strengths
- Identifying and learning to manage your strengths
- Managing around weaknesses without over-investing in them
- Focusing on and leveraging your unique, personal strengths to lead your unit more effectively and to lead transformational change within the organization
Critical Thinking and Consensus: Decision Making- What is the importance of group process dynamics?
- Pitfalls and benefits of team decision making as compared to individual decision making
- Elements of team processes for making decisions: group and interpersonal
- Contributors to group decisions: consensus and Groupthink
- Developing a framework for avoiding individual decision traps and improving team decisions
Celebrating Heroes- What is the importance of recognizing and celebrating heroes within the company?
- Discussion of examples from other companies and crafting real-life examples
- Behaviors that drove success in the class and implications moving forward?
- How to utilize lessons learned to drive strategic dire
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| High Performance Leadership Program Faculty
| | | Susan Lucia Annunzio |  Susan Lucia Annunzio is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance (CfHP). She is a strategic advisor to CEOs of leading global companies on strategy attainment and business transformation. Susan partners with senior executives to increase their ability to simplify complex strategic decisions through enhanced collaboration and creativity. She is a globally recognized speaker and thought leader on shaping and maintaining high-performance business environments. She has a strong track record helping leaders maximize returns on strategic, financial and human-capital investments.
Complete biography | | Linda Ginzel |  Linda Ginzel is Clinical Professor of Managerial Psychology at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1992.
Complete biography | | Howard G. Haas |  Howard Haas, a member of the faculty at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 1988 to 2009, taught MBA-level classes on the practice of leadership and strategy in business.
Complete biography |
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| Jun 24-Jun 28 2013 | $8,675.00 |  |
| Nov 04-Nov 08 2013 | $8,675.00 | |
| Mar 03-Mar 07 2014 | $8,675.00 | |
| Jun 23-Jun 27 2014 | $8,675.00 | |
| Nov 10-Nov 14 2014 | $8,675.00 | |
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