In exclusive association with the Michigan Ross School of Business
Date: 3 to 5 November, 2008
Timings: 08.30 to 17.30 daily
Location: Dubai, UAE
Fee: US$4,250/ AED15,600

High-profile, accomplished managers know how to direct their skills and energy toward achieving goals that further their organisation's progress and improve its competitive stance. Leading and Managing People helps mid- to senior-level managers improve critical people skills for success.

Develop your self-assessment, employee empowerment, and team-building skills with this internationally recognised Michigan Ross School of Business programme. During these three days, you will learn how to use creative thinking, communication and motivation to effectively manage yourself and develop your employees. Following an examination of your individual style, the programmes shifts to an interactive group process with round-table discussions. Here, we explore the role interpersonal dynamics play in shaping your ability to lead a productive organisation, and you will learn to identify the turn "ons" and "offs" of motivating people, tap your own management style's strengths, sharpen your communication skills for increased effectiveness, strengthen your career and growth prospects, and enhance your group decision-making skills.

This programme may also qualify you for a Michigan Certificate:
Click here for details (pdf, 219kb).

Key Benefits

During this programme, you will:

• Gain insight into your individual management and leadership style
• Sharpen your communication skills so that you are more effective in the workplace
• Identify the "turn-ons" and "turn-offs" of motivation - what causes people to feel satisfied or unhappy with their work
• Create a learning organisation
• Periodically step back and review your approach to management
• Interact with, and gain insight from, other management professionals
• Develop and manage work teams for maximum effectiveness

Programme Content

1. Understanding the Context
   1. Hyperchange: It's a new world and will be again tomorrow
   2. Personal and organisational impact of hyperchange
   3. The human-technological revolution
   4. Mastering change and challenge in Middle East organisations
   5. It takes good leadership
   
   
2. Developing a Leadership Mindset
   1. Who shall lead us?
   2. It's not just a job, it's making a difference
   3. The passionate power of one
   4. Believing you can change the world
   5. Stubborn determination
   6. Great leaders are great teachers
   7. A proactive versus reactive response to hyperchange
   
   
3. Personal/Management/Leadership Style
   1. Self-assessment: The Meta-Motivation Inventory
   2. The roots of self-esteem; building blocks for leadership mindset
   3. Leadership for results: Goleman & McClelland research
   4. Assessing our leadership strengths
   5. Characteristics of successful leaders
   6. Dealing with stress of modern life
   
   
4. The Leader Within
   1. Self-transformation
   2. Embracing a proactive, efficacious approach to life and work
   3. Covey's seven habits of highly effective people
   4. An eighth habit: Stubbornness
   5. Creating scenarios for success in spite of adversity
   6. Jack Welch on effective leadership
   
   
5. The Power of Value Driven Vision
   1. Creating An Organisational Learning Environment
   2. Twelve step programme for productive engagement: Gallup research
   3. Inclusion/Exclusion: The impact within the organisation
   
   
6. Learning to Communicate Effectively
   1. Self-assessment with Communications Styles inventory
   2. Primary listening approaches
   3. Managing by walking around and communicating
   4. Communication: The essence of leadership
   
   
7. Great Leaders Are Great Teachers
   1. Coaching & counselling for peak performance
   2. Developmental counselling
   3. Principles of counselling: it's a learned skill
   4. Dealing with multiple problems and issues: a case study approach
   5. They empower their people by teaching them to be leaders
   6. Leaders establish teaching as a personal priority
   
   
8. Leading At The Speed of Change
   1. Competitive demands for innovation within the organisation
   2. Somebody will always being doing it better - count on it
   3. Failure is not an option
   
   
9. Managing the Creative Problem Solving Process
   1. The creative mindset: it is not just a set of skills, but a way of thinking
   2. Profile of a powerful business leader
   3. The Creative Efficacy Scale - a survey that measures potential and actual creative efficacy
   4. Creativity crushers
   5. Promoting creative problem solving within our organisation
   
   
10. Leading into the Unknown
    1. How to build a bridge to the future
    2. Building it together while walking upon it
    
    
11. The Power of Working Together
    1. Organisational transformation
    2. Establishing priorities
    3. Setting objectives
    4. Developing and implementing strategies
    5. Providing leadership and value shaping
    6. Establishing motivation and commitment
    7. Striving for excellence
    8. Communications, feedback and performance appraisal
    9. Capitalising on human potential through effective team work
    
    
12. Key Learnings and Action Planning

Who Should Attend

Leading and Managing People is for mid- to senior-level decision-makers in all functions, from private and public sector organisations. It is particularly well-suited for those who are responsible for planning and directing the daily operations of an organisational unit or whose success depends upon working with other managers or professional staff from a variety of functions.

In-House Programme Option

This and many other Business School programmes can be customised for in-house delivery. Contact us if you have a group of executives who would benefit.