Organizational and Leadership Excellence (OLE) Series
You know what you do now, but do you know if it’s optimal? Can your team understand and replicate your effective processes? Can you leverage the impact of your decisions laterally, hierarchically, and over time? Evolve from manager to leader, coach, and consultant through understanding your and team strengths. This uniquely designed 4-5 day experience is focused on developing leadership capacity through enhancing decision effectiveness and fostering Design and Systems Thinking perspectives. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and apply tools and best practices to enhance the organization’s capacity for change and achieve higher performance.
Participation Requirements
Normally ten years of corporate experience, with five years in leadership roles or strong recommendations from corporate leadership and/or those responsible for management development and advancement decisions.
Program Goals
- Develop new, strengths-based, perspectives on leadership and how to achieve higher individual and team performance.
- Apply new tools to understand firm performance and find drivers of excellence.
- Enhance decision effectiveness through systems thinking and understanding customer needs and business conditions impacting strategy and its implementation.
- Act intentionally to design a high performance work culture informed by individual motivation and organizational learning theory.
Topics (Four or Five Modules)
- High-Performance Leaders: The Role of Leadership
- Strengths-Based Leadership
- Strengths-Based Team Building & Coaching
- Intentional Leadership: the Power of Vision, Style, Communication, and Motivation
- High-Performance Leaders: Understanding Firm Performance
- Financial Statements and Ratios
- Productivity, Efficiency, Capacity
- WACC, Capital Budgeting, Dupont Analysis, Earnings per Share
- High-Performance Leaders: Effective Decisions
- The Rational Decision Making Model and Project Management
- Design Thinking and the Voice of the Customer
- Systems Thinking and the Business Environment
- High-Performance Leaders: Leading Change and Enhancing Organizational Culture
- Organizational Change: Need/Capacity and High-Performance Cultures
- Change Management Tools
- Change Management Implementation
Optional Fifth Module Choices
- Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Risk Management, or
- Global Business Certification Experience, or
- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, or
- Internal Consulting and Problem Solving – Facilitated Experience and Client Driven