If you want to maximize your managerial effectiveness and develop personally as both a leader and individual, this program is designed for you.

In this course, you will:

1. Challenge basic assumptions and beliefs about leadership
2. Assess reactions to conflict and uncertainty
3. Grow as a leader and help others become leaders as well
4. Improve leadership skills in decision making and problem solving 
5. Survey your managers and team members about your leadership impact
6. Work individually with an executive coach to discuss your leadership vision and action plan

A Philosophical Model for Understanding Leadership

1. A new leadership foundation
2. The purpose of business
3. The meaning of power in your performance
4. A model of values and ethics: dealing with instability, ambiguity and conflict

Team and Corporate Leadership

1. Trust and ethics in team organizations
2. Key roles for team synergy\
3. Defining the role of the team leader
4. Leading exceptional teams
5. Leadership styles and the learning organization
6. The use and misuse of power

The Leadership Challenges and Requirements of a Turbulent Business World

1. High-performance to business strategy: revisited
2. Reinventing business, cooperation and work: your participation and contribution
3. Leadership mind-sets and behaviors for a fast-changing world: managing mental constructions
4. The creation of knowledge: information with meaning
5. The importance of imagination, creativity and courage
6. Matching personal aspirations with business needs

Passion as a Motivator for Corporate Performance

1. Re-evaluating the importance of emotions
2. Passion as a condition for high performance

Program Specific Feedback Instruments

1. Get feedback from your manager, direct reports and team members on the key elements of leadership that will be discussed in the classroom. Get a sense for your current leadership capabilities.

   One-on-One Coaching Sessions

2. During the program, meet with a Kellogg Leadership Coach to privately discuss your feedback and begin developing action plans for your own personal strategies for leadership effectiveness.

   Optional Post-Program Coaching

3. For an additional fee of $2,000, you may choose to partner with a Kellogg Leadership Coach at the conclusion of the program. This package includes three 45-minute, post-program private coaching sessions via phone.

Pierre Casse - Academic Director; Senior Lecturer of Management, Kellogg School of Management, Professor, Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo); Professor, Steibeis University (Germany); Professor of Leadership at the IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia), and the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE), Aix-en-Provence (France).

Stephen Burnett - Professor of Management & Strategy

Paul Claudel - Professor of Organizational Behavior, and Faculty Associate at the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) of the University of Aix-en-Provence (France)

Brenda Ellington-Booth - Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations

J. Keith Murnighan - Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Risk Management

Leigh Thompson - J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations; Director of Kellogg Team and Group Research Center; Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)