Mastering Business Leadership
- A live face-to-face or synchronous online teaching experience.
- This program is intended for executives who are interested in progressing beyond the traditional leadership approaches for moving their organization (and themselves) innovatively forward as they prepare for the dynamic business and technical environment that we are all facing.
- Candidates, while already experiencing success, typically have an urgent desire for even better business and personal results.
- The MBL (Mastering Business Leadership) approach was designed by prominent leadership authorities to meet these objectives through the development of candidates’ leadership and emotional intelligence capabilities and address a wide range of essential topics.
Course Pedagogy:
- In addition to formal lectures, there are a large number of leadership exercises that support candidates understanding of how to become an effective leader.
- Takes a holistic view of leadership looking at leading self, leading teams, leading initiatives, and also creating culture to deliver sustainable results and leave a lasting leadership legacy.
- Incorporates the wellness approach to leadership that no one is talking about. While wellness is a massive industry, the wellness of our physiology directly impacts your ability to lead and perform your best.
- The course is derived from practical experience as well as including theory to offer practical, pragmatic and proven techniques
- Emotional intelligence is emphasized throughout the course.
- A supplemental coaching program is available.
- While most candidates are IT executives, this program can be made available to non-IT candidates.
Emotional Intelligence
The ability to accurately recognize and manage one's feelings, sentiments, reactions, and passions. The focus is on:
- The awareness of our emotions
- To positively direct our behavior
- To pick up on the emotions of others and understand how best to respond
- To use our emotions and the others’ emotions to effectively manage interactions
- Creating emotional connection between teams and goals to help drive engagement
Menu of bespoke course topics available:
- Developing your leadership brand
- How to increase your influence
- Career building activities
- Communicating, negotiating, and relationships
- Confidence
- Confronting inner dialog
- Difficult conversations
- Diversity
- Facing obstacles
- Emotional intelligence
- Goal setting
- Leadership skill building
- People & team leadership considerations
- How to create engaged empowered teams
- Planning with precision and purpose
- Creating a culture of accountability
- Systems Thinking
- Prioritizing
- Process of change
- Realizing concrete results
- Importance of recognition
- Retention in the sciences
- Understanding the key causes of failure and how to mitigate them
- Smart Risk taking
- Taking action
- Value delivery & demonstration
- Financial & budgeting considerations
- Understanding the key components of culture
- Simple approach to creating high performing culture
- Employee Accountability
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Retention
Candidate Benefits:
- Executive Brand Development & Career Advancement
- Increased Influence
- Repeatable and adaptable leadership approach that increases probability of success
- Revenue Growth & Market Share
- Preparing IT & non-IT Professionals for Inspiring Change
- Flow Leadership & High-Performance Teams
- Trusted Advisor Sales & Marketing Training
- Greater Employee & Customer Engagement
- Strengthened Trust Economy Networks
