What do all of your business priorities have in common? They require the right people to succeed. Join the Making Your People a Competitive Advantage program and emerge with the skills to create strong talent management processes, ensuring continuous improvement and long-term success for your organization.
This program is in partnership with Global Alumni.
In this program, you will gain frameworks to align talent management with strategic goals, identify and nurture future top talent, and build high-performing teams. You will enhance your ability to create a culture of sustained high performance by focusing on key leadership principles, such as personal feedback and action planning.
By focusing on effective talent management and strategic leadership, you will cultivate a high-performance culture, navigate the complexities of cultural reinforcement versus necessary changes, and balance specialized expertise with broad leadership skills. You'll emerge with the skills to foster a resilient and adaptable organization in an ever-changing market.
By attending, you will gain:
Insights into human behavior to create a high-performance culture.
Knowledge to improve talent management and develop future leaders.
Frameworks to enhance team dynamics and performance.
Applicable tools for personal leadership development.
In this interactive, collaborative program, you'll learn through a blend of self-paced and live-online learning. You’ll experience a blend of classroom sessions, group discussions, a case study, assessments, and simulations with real-time practice. Each module builds on the last, ensuring an impactful learning experience that makes you confident in your new skills and ready to drive change.
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.
As the founder and Managing Partner of Spectacular at Work, John Philbin helps companies compete and win and helps them create cultures where their people thrive.
John advises CEOs and develops future business leaders around the world. John and his team coach leaders and up-and-comers, help companies determine who to hire to make their company stronger, and architect leading people processes to make sure companies have a steady flow of future leaders that fit their culture.
John works with some of the most respected companies in the world (Blue Cross Blue Shield, PWC, Aon, Reebok, McDonalds) and with companies who aspire to be great. Really any company that wants to be better at the people stuff, no matter the size or industry. John is regularly invited to speak on People Literacy®, building better leaders and corporate culture (What’s Really Going On at Work?™), creating a competitive advantage through people and culture (“The Four Stages of Talent Management”), and strategic talent management + succession planning.
John completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at Loyola University and is an adjunct faculty member at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Module 1: Strategic Leadership and People Literacy
Aligning business strategy and people strategy
People Literacy
Making a strong talent management practice the responsibility of all leaders
Module 2: Fundamentals of Talent Management
Defining talent management: key deliverables for leaders
'9 box' and the alternative talent review
Talent risk assessment
Module 3: Advanced Talent Management and Integration
Building people development plans using principles of People Literacy
Team/department talent action planning
Integrating your talent strategy with business and people strategy
Module 4: Team Dynamics and Psychological Safety
How style and temperament affect team dynamics, cohesiveness, and performance
The importance of psychological safety
Building trust and avoiding derailers
Module 5: Team Alignment and Cross-Cultural Dynamics
Getting your team aligned, performing, and agile
Cross-cultural considerations
Courage, Conflict, and Challenge
Module 6: Leadership and Personal Talent Management
Self-empathy and high standards
Strategies for continuous growth as a leader
Personal action planning
October 8 - November 18, 2024
December 3, 2024 - January 27, 2025
Fee: $2,800