August 5-7, 2008
$2400
Registration is limited to 36 participants. Register now to secure your seat!
Listen to a podcast of an interview with Dr. Kinicki on "the principles of effective leadership".
Leadership makes a difference! Effective leadership not only enhances corporate performance, but it fosters employee motivation, job satisfaction, performance, and organizational commitment, while reducing absenteeism and turnover. Current thinking about leadership emphasizes that effective leadership spans a continuum ranging from managerial to transformational leadership.
This program uses a systems approach to leadership that incorporates the application of both managerial and transformational leadership. In addition to providing a practical approach for leading according to a systems approach, this program focuses on developing your managerial leadership skills of goal setting, providing feedback, managing resistance to feedback, motivating employees, and providing employee recognition.
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This program is designed to provide value to both experienced and new managers. It is relevant for anyone who supervises others or serves as a project or team leader.
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By attending this program, you will:
- Understand the difference between leading and managing, and the difference between transformational and managerial leadership.
- Practice applying leadership behaviors associated with transformational leadership.
- Learn how you can apply a macro systems model of leadership to manage at the organizational, divisional, or departmental level.
- Learn how to apply a micro systems model of performance management leadership to manage projects, teams, and individuals.
- Receive 3600 feedback on performance management leadership and use it to create a leadership development plan aimed at building on strengths and improving liabilities.
- Learn how to write specific, measurable, attainable, results oriented, and time driven (SMART) goals and associated action plans.
- Understand how to cascade organizational goals.
- Learn about the characteristics of effective employee feedback.
- Learn about the causes and consequences of defensive communication.
- Learn and then practice specific skills to manage resistance associated with giving negative feedback: using empathy, effective listening, asking good questions, and using “I” messages
- Practice applying a structured approach for providing performance feedback.
- Learn how to correct unacceptable employee behavior or poor performance through the principles of behavior modification.
- Learn how to provide effective employee recognition.
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The course is designed to be highly interactive and to engage the active learner. The following three step process is used to enhance learning. Specifically, the faculty first present new concepts/models about leadership and the skills needed to execute them. You will then practice applying the new concepts/models and skills through the use of individual exercises, group exercises, cases, and team-based problem solving. Finally, the faculty and participants provide feedback and coaching to each other about the mastery of the new concepts/models and skills.
You will receive a 3600 feedback report on the extent to which you exhibit behaviors associated with Performance Management Leadership. The report contains statistics for the eight dimensions of performance management leadership and their associated survey items. The dimensions of performance management leadership include: support and coaching, setting performance objectives and expectations, giving feedback, communication, monitoring performance, providing consequences based on performance, team empowerment, and holding others accountable. The report also contains feedback on 11 items associated with employee work attitudes that represent outcomes of leadership effectiveness. You will use this report to develop a preliminary leadership development plan. An exercise using feedforward input also is used to gain insights about building on leadership strengths and overcoming leadership liabilities.
During the morning of the third day, you will use your own personal case to role play the application of a structured approach for providing employee feedback.
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Angelo Kinicki is a Professor of Management and the Weatherup/Overby Chair in Leadership at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is an award winning teacher, researcher, author, and active international consultant. He has received four teaching awards from the W.P. Carey School of Business and several research awards from the Academy of Management. Angelo also has coauthored 22 textbooks on Organizational Behavior and Principles of Management and actively conducts research related to the topics of leadership, coping with stress, and relationships among organizational culture, employee work attitudes, customer satisfaction, and firm financial performance. Professor Kinicki received his DBA in Organizational Behavior in 1982 from Kent State University.
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- Managing verse leading
- Leadership behaviors associated with managerial leadership and transformational leadership
- Using a macro systems model of leadership within organizations as a whole, divisions, and departments
- Using a micro systems model of leadership to manage projects, teams, and individuals.
- Writing SMART goals and associated action plans
- Implementing goal cascading
- Predictors of feedback acceptance established by research
- Identifying the causes and consequences of defensive communication
- Applying the skills of empathy, effective listening, asking good questions, and “I” messages
- Using a structured approach to providing performance feedback
- Employee motivation
- Principles of behavior modification
- Providing effective employee recognition
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At the time of registration, you may pay the program fee of $2400 by credit card or request that an invoice be sent to you or your company for payment. The program fee includes all instructional material, lunches, and breaks. Classes will be held on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Please refer to the list of local hotels for lodging options.
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