Who should attend
- Managers of managers
- Managers of high performance teams
- Managers who have been identified as “high-potential"
Does your organization face these challenges?
- Developing an organization that is focused, flexible and fast
- Aligning strategy and key business goals with team and individual goals
- Inspiring an entrepreneurial spirit within your organization
- Fostering productive change
- Balancing employee and customer needs
- Managing increased diversity
- Using more interdependent project teams
Organizations need more managers to be leaders
To succeed in today’s business environment, organizations need managers who demonstrate flexibility and empathy, while remaining true to the core values of the organization.
Successful leaders understand how their personal character and attributes can — positively or negatively — affect their credibility and the bottom line. Awareness of self and others is critical to organizational and career success, as well as developing maturity in managing ego, power and control.
This program will strengthen your potential to become a legendary leader by developing specific leadership skills and enabling you to successfully influence followers to accomplish desired goals for your organization.
Coaching other managers to become leaders
Organizations are facing a critical shortage of managers ready to take on leadership in executive roles. Effective leaders know how to develop others into leaders. This program will provide you with the tools to coach others to become leaders.
The strengths of our leadership training
- We provide timely, specific, real-time feedback to participants
- We focus on leadership style, not just skills
- We use stretch practice fields to help you build your leadership skills
- We create development coaching relationships with our participants
- We offer a small-group, interactive, seminar-style format for targeted learning
A powerful experience in leadership development
This dynamic program is designed for managers of managers or high-potential managers who want to enhance their leadership effectiveness to achieve organizational and career success.
When you leave this program, you will take home strategies for balancing your role as a manager, coach and leader. You will know how to effectively influence executives, managers, direct reports and peers, specifically in leading organizational changes that contribute to your company’s performance.
Observations from the manager of a participant
“Mike’s perspective on problems has changed. He now looks at problems from a big picture or holistic perspective and is better able to communicate with others about defining and solving problems.”
Tom Nohelty, Executive Vice President, Wausau Financial Systems, Inc.
Delivering value to you and your organization
This program offers you important insights into:- Leading through self-leadership
- Building your authenticity, credibility, integrity and influence
- Expanding your comfort zone
- Initiating real conversations with others
- Improving and using your emotional intelligence
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Coaching, enabling and encouraging the leader within others
Benefits to the participant
During this program you will:- Gain awareness of your leadership strengths and challenges
- Develop your personal vision of leadership
- Know how to influence others with positive personal power
- Gain cooperation and collaboration from key people
- Communicate clearly and confidently
- Develop courage and composure to engage in caring, candid conversations
- Gain insights into regulating emotional responses to situations
- Improve your ability to make the right decisions about critical issues
- Receive personal coaching to enhance your leadership and results
- Develop a supportive network of colleagues
Benefits to the organization
Your organization will benefit as you:- Communicate more clearly to others about performance expectations
- Gain increased accountability in performance feedback and reviews
- Spot resistance earlier and coach people through their emotional responses to change
- Recognize and respond to conflicts in a productive manner
- Conduct meetings that have more purpose and results
- Attain desired results quicker
- Increase desired employee retention and recruitment
- Demonstrate effective leadership during organization changes
- Increase deployment of organizational strategy
- Develop others as effective leaders
- Create a high performance motivation environment
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this program for 4.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 40 hours.
