In this program, you’ll gain leadership frameworks with two areas of focus: driving team engagement and performance and building the future for your business unit and organization.

You’ll become more effective at aligning people and talent to meet business objectives. You’ll discover how to develop and manage high-impact teams through communication, alignment, cultural considerations, diversity & inclusion, and psychological safety while utilizing techniques to support and challenge your team in achieving their targets.

You’ll also develop better talent management practices for your team. You’ll utilize best practices to build talent management systems and leadership development processes that create a long-term competitive advantage and ensure a pipeline of employees who are ready to deliver on your company’s mission. What’s more, you’ll learn techniques for rapid continuous improvement as a leader. You will discover how to use your own insights to find opportunities for development—and turn those opportunities into an action plan to enhance your performance in crucial leadership dimensions.

By attending, you will:

• Become more effective at aligning people and business objectives
• Grow your ‘people literacy’ skills to foster spectacular performance
• Acquire the skills to manage a high-impact, agile team
• Learn how to develop and nurture a pipeline of top employee talent
• Discover self-assessment techniques that result in rapid continuous improvement as a leader

In this interactive, collaborative program, you’ll experience a blend of classroom learning, group discussions, a case study, assessments, and simulations with real-time practice. You’ll come away with organizational and personal action plans you can put to immediate use.

This program benefits 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 to encourage an environment necessary for long-term, profitable growth—one in which people can take risks, make mistakes, generate new ideas, and seize opportunities.

Making People and Culture a Competitive Advantage

• Aligning business strategy and people strategy
• People Literacy: Inspire spectacular performance by improving your ability to read and understand others
• Tools to build a diverse and inclusive workforce
• Making a strong talent management practice the responsibility of all leaders
• Tools for strengthening your team

Talent Management

• Defining talent management: key deliverables for leaders
• 6 steps in the talent management cycle
• Talent risk assessment
• Building people development plans using principles of People Literacy
• Team/department talent action planning
• Integrating your talent strategy with business and people strategy

Leading Teams

• How style and temperament affect team dynamics, cohesiveness, and performance
• The importance of psychological safety
• Getting your team aligned, performing, and agile
• Building trust and avoiding derailers
• Cross-cultural considerations
• Courage, Conflict, and Challenge: How great teams challenge one another and make each other better

Leader as a Coach

• Techniques for supporting and challenging your team
• Using empathy and high standards

Personal Continuous Improvement

• Growing as a leader
• Using your own feedback to grow
• Personal action planning