Essentials of Managerial Leadership

Overview

Leadership makes a difference. Effective leadership not only enhances corporate performance, 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 change approach to leadership that incorporates the application of both managerial and transformational leadership. In addition to providing a practical approach for leading, this program focuses on developing your managerial leadership skills of building high performance teams, goal setting, providing feedback, managing resistance to change, motivating employees and managing conflict and cooperation.

Who Should Attend

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.

Key Benefits

In this program you:

• Learn the importance of leadership in organizations
• Examine some classic examples of what leadership is and is not
• Learn the difference between leadership and power
• Explore the relationship between leadership and management
• Understand that leadership is a process, not a trait
• Explore the many different roles that managers and leaders play in organizations
• Learn how to improve your leadership communication
• Focus on what leaders do rather than who they are
• Learn what actions leaders engage in that really make a difference
• Learn how to diagnose a situation and apply appropriate actions

Design

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 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.

During the morning of the third day, you use your own personal case to role play the application of a structured approach for providing employee feedback.

Faculty

Gregory Moorhead is an associate professor of management at the W. P. Carey School of Business. He has taught courses in management principles, management policy and strategy, personnel management and operations management, as well as graduate seminars in organizational behavior and international management. His research has concentrated on groupthink, group decision making, job design, leadership and organization structure. Moorhead earned his B.S.I.E., MBA, and Ph.D. in organizational behavior and management from the University of Houston.

He has been active in working with organizations in strategic planning, redesigning of organization structure and developing training and development workshops for executives, middle managers and supervisory personnel. A partial list of clients includes Pulte Homes - Arizona Division, Motorola, QDI, Valley National Bank (now JPMorgan Chase Bank), the Washington School District in Arizona, and the Office of the Auditor General of the State of Arizona.

Topics

• Managing and leading
• Leading change
• Managing conflict and cooperation
• Leadership and communication
• Leading groups and teams
• Motivating people in the right direction
• Leadership behaviors
• Situational leadership

Fees

At the time of registration, you can pay the program fee of $2,400 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 are held on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Please refer to the list of local hotels for lodging options.