Program Description - Leading Change

In today’s competitive world, leaders are faced with a very difficult challenge: How to do more with less in an environment where the velocity of change is increasing. The ability of a firm to quickly adapt to changing competitive conditions and to fundamental shifts in labor markets is a very important predictor of success.

This program focuses on providing answers to questions such as these: What can organizations, and their leaders, do to create a culture that is change-enabled? What skills are essential to lead and manage a team where change is the constant? How can people profitably cope within an environment that constantly challenges their abilities to adapt quickly? How do organizations cope with a changing workforce? What new methods exist for recruiting and retaining people who are able to adapt to constant change? What makes an organization flexible, adaptive, and agile? In a fast changing business environment where a new “psychological contract” exists between employers and employees, what can organizations do to succeed and prosper? What can leaders do to generate commitment, loyalty, and performance when everything seems different than it used to be?... [-]

In today’s challenging business environment, the pace is fast and the competition is intense. Professionals from technology to service are being called upon to assume key managerial roles without the knowledge or experience necessary to carry out these additional demands.

The Institute for Managerial Leadership (IML) develops the skills required to excel as a manager so you can increase your organization’s efficiency and profitability. Through a comprehensive program structure, you will learn how to create and sustain a competitive advantage by developing innovative business plans, understand financial statements and the reality behind the numbers, manage teams for optimum performance, and implement aggressive marketing, production and distribution strategies. ... [-]

Program Description - Building Engagement: What Leaders Do To Manage Talent & Build Allegiance

Both formal and informal leadership is essential to creating engagement in today's competitive work environment. In this program, we examine what it takes to "make it" as a leader. The session offers a wide variety of very practical moves successful people do to create loyalty and build commitment. Different than many sessions of this sort, we look at very specific steps participants can accomplish that will enhance their interpersonal effectiveness as well as generate high levels of engagement among those that work with them. In this program we discuss findings of research done where leaders, world-wide, were asked to describe what they did, on a daily basis, that made them successful leaders. ... [-]

Program Description - Virtual Leadership: Leading Dispersed Teams

At a time of corporate belt tightening, people are traveling less and meeting less frequently with their fellow team members and leaders. Virtual teams are already a fact of the global marketplace as companies leverage talent diffused across the world and technology allows better communication. This trend is increasing rapidly as travel restrictions lessen face-to-face interaction. In this program, we examine what it takes to successfully work with, and lead, distanced teams. The session, drawn from recent research, identifies the necessary skills members of a virtual team need for creating successful teams. The session introduces a two-stage model of distance leadership and teaches participants how to more effectively work with, and lead, teams that work far apart.... [-]

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Managers in today's business world must become creative leaders who inspire productivity and motivate employees to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Faced with ever increasing demands, managers are being asked to perform functions formerly in the realm of human resource and other departments. A challenging task but definitely achievable if you understand how to use sophisticated management tools.

This program will provide you with a comprehensive toolkit of the major functions effective leaders perform: hiring, communicating, motivating, negotiating, teaming, evaluating, rewarding and creating a high performance culture. You will examine and learn the critical skills effective managers use to motivate and lead others, and how to foster group cohesiveness, mutual respect and support, and company loyalty. Drawing from recent research on management and leadership skills, you will learn how to be a more successful manager and deal with the difficult challenges encountered when leading others.... [-]