Program content
The program leverages the educational power of multiple teaching tools, including class discussions, role play simulation, and exchange of ideas and perspectives with faculty and fellow participants.
Program curriculum
Module 1: Leading with Meaning
The first half of the program will focus on the leadership of teams. Participants will learn how to create meaning for themselves and their followers:
- Understand the psychological needs of your followers
- Motivate followers by promoting psychological experiences of autonomy, relatedness, and competence
- Promote creativity and innovation through intrinsically motivated followers
- Cultivate positive emotions in yourself and your followers
- Inspire followers with a growth mindset
- Understand how organizational structures create meaning for followers
- Change the conversation from ‘what’ to ‘why’
- Develop a broader understanding of how your team contributes to the organization and society at large
- Develop yourself as an emotionally intelligent leader
Module 2: Managing Your Talent
The second half of the program builds upon the leadership fundamentals by showing you how to put them in action through the management of your human capital.
- Understand how to choose new talent to prioritize alignment with your organizational goals and needs
- Develop the skills for effectively recruiting and hiring new employees
- Learn to identify and manage conflict as well as employees who are behaving in dysfunctional ways
- Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage employees’ performance with ongoing coaching, performance assessments, and performance improvement discussions
- Identify and manage your team’s performance through goal-setting and alignment with the larger organization