Leadership Development Program

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1 Leadership Development Program Certificate in Leadership Excellence

2 Program Overview Leadership Development Program Earn a Certificate in Leadership Excellence What do great leaders have in common? They never stop learning. They understand that leadership development begins with a deep level of self-awareness. Great leaders take personal accountability for their professional growth, and the growth and development of their high-potential employees. And great leaders see leadership development as a lifelong commitment. The Leadership Development Program offered by Georgia State University s Robinson College of Business is designed for professionals seeking to accelerate their development as leaders. We help good leaders become great. We help great leaders learn new ways to mobilize others to step into the unknown. We help leaders master the tools and techniques of adaptive leadership. This fast-paced and highly-interactive program features today s hottest leadership topics presented by world-class faculty and world-tested executives. They offer thought-provoking content using multimedia presentations, relevant case studies, computer simulations, and small-group exercises. The Leadership Development Program Topics: Day One: Adaptive Leadership: Improving Data Collection and Problem Identification Day Two: Creative Problem Solving: A Deep Dive into the Peer Consulting Methodology Day Three: Strategic Innovation: Integrating Innovation with Strategic Thinking Day Four: Change Management: Featuring the ExperienceChange Simulation If you want to help your organization thrive in a changing world, while at the same time advancing your career, then this program is designed for you. This program will be held at the GSU Executive Education Center in Buckhead (classroom pictured at left) which is located on floors 4, 5 and 6 at the Tower Place 200 building and offers easy access to Interstate I-85 and Georgia 400. The Center offers tech-savvy classrooms and innovation labs. Upon program completion, participants receive a GSU Certificate in Leadership Excellence (a sample certificate pictured at right). GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 2

3 Day One: Adaptive Leadership: The Diagnosis Phase Improving Data Collection and Problem Identification Session Overview: If you want to strengthen your practice of leadership no matter where you sit in your organization, this Leadership Development Program is for you. Adaptive Leadership is a practical leadership framework that helps individuals and organizations adapt and thrive in challenging environments. It is being able, both individually and collectively, to take on the gradual but meaningful process of adaptation. It focuses on how to best diagnose the essential from the expendable. The session facilitator will facilitate focused discussions on Adaptive Leadership which was made famous by Harvard Business School professors Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky. According to Heifetz, the adaptive approach to leadership will help you think and execute amidst changing complexity. With its comprehensive and systematic approach to assessing candidly the situation and yourself, adaptive leadership goes beyond the theory to provide a practical set of stories, techniques, and activities that will help you better assess and address the toughest challenges that lie ahead. Participants Will Discover How To: Effectively implement the key principles of adaptive leadership Utilize the peer consultation technique to better diagnose a leadership dilemma Make your leadership both more effective and more powerful Lead with the courage and skill to challenge the status quo Lead, and survive, through the dangers of change Adapt current activities to face future opportunities and challenges Articulate the difference between a technical problem and an adaptive challenge Meet the challenges of leadership in a complex and rapidly changing world Day Two: Creative Problem Solving: Peer Consultations Developing System-Level and Self-Level Solutions Session Overview: This portion of the program focuses on the actions needed to develop the leadership capacity to operate more creatively and courageously in mobilizing collaboration and innovation across the organization. According to Ron Heifetz, founder of Adaptive Leadership; You are a system as complex as the one you are trying to move forward. To understand your personal system, you have to take stock of many different things your personality, life experiences, cognitive and other skills, and emotional make-up. Understanding the system that is yourself can help you make the personal challenges needed for you to lead adaptive change successfully in your organization. The Leadership Development Program offered by Georgia State University utilizes the Hogan approach to leadership development and assessment. The Hogan Challenge Report describes your characteristic way of interpreting the world and treating subordinates and colleagues while under stress and pressure. It predicts GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 3

4 career-derailing behaviors that interfere with the ability to build cohesive and high-performing teams which is the hallmark of effective leadership. The Hogan leadership assessment process and reports have been validated by substantial academic research and corporate analysis. Participants Will Discover How To: Utilize the Hogan assessments to strengthen your practice of leadership Identify your contribution to the difficulty name your piece of the mess Find better ways to both compete and collaborate Help others understand that employee morale is a direct function of clarity Manage your default settings loyalties, bandwidth, and personal tuning Identify the value conflicts embedded in the strategy of the organization Build integrated competencies across the organization to create new and sustained value In practicing Adaptive Leadership, you make interventions that are designed to help people in your system (your organization, team, community, or society) address their most critical challenges. Interventions to diagnose and mobilize adaptive work will take the form of process ideas, frameworks and change initiatives. Day Three: Strategic Innovation Leading Innovation and Growth Session Overview: A recent IBM-sponsored survey of 1,541 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders worldwide reported that events, threats and opportunities aren t just coming at us faster or with less predictability; they are converging and influencing each other to create entirely unique situations. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity a more important leadership quality than management discipline or financial acumen. Developing and implementing an innovation strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO of a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a school, or a government official. In this highly-interactive session, you will learn how to use your unique leadership skills to more effectively develop and execute an innovation strategy. The Strategy Methodologies Presented in this Module Include: Porter s Five Forces Model The Competing Values Framework The IDEO and Stanford Design School Approaches to Innovation Participants Will Discover How To: Develop an innovation strategy Identify and overcome the common barriers to innovation Use proven tools that are useful in the formation an innovation strategy Learn from strategy formation best practices from highly successful and innovative companies Quickly identify when tactics and strategies are out of alignment Ensure that strategic initiatives don t get lost in the organization s systems Improve the leadership skills needed to execute your company s innovation strategy GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 4

5 The Competing Values Framework (CVF), displayed at left, is a popular business model that helps leaders at all levels better understand how to build and manage an innovative culture. It is the leader s responsibility to understand and manage the natural, and positive, tensions that exist between the competing values. Collaborate: These are the people who value doing things together. Their innovations are incremental and slow. Create: These are the people in the organization who value doing things first. Their innovations are typically breakthrough. Compete: These are the people who value doing things fast. Their innovations are breakthrough and fast. Control: These employees most value doing things right. Their innovations are typically incremental and internally-focused. Day Four: Change Management Featuring ExperienceChange Simulation Session Overview: Excellence requires practice. This concept is well known to athletes, musicians, and doctors, but is rarely applied by business professionals. The ExperienceChange simulation, developed by the firm ExperiencePoint, is an effective way to bring the discipline of perfect practice to professionals interested in mastering change management. Building change capability is both a leadership and organizational imperative. The ability to effectively manage organizational change has become a competitive differentiator. The simulation focuses on Global Tech, a fictional company fraught with realistic competitive pressures and change challenges. Through careful application of change management best practices, the program participants, in small teams, are asked to build stakeholder buy-in and lead the company to success. The teams will be instructed that Global Tech has hired them to save the company. With limited time and resources, the teams must identify the issues, create a change plan, and implement this plan in the face of resistance. Participants Will Discover How To: Identify forces for and against change Apply change leadership best practices Manage and overcome resistance to change Deal with the inevitable surprise that accompany change projects Ensure that change initiatives don t get lost in the organization s systems Better plan, communicate, and implement change ExperienceChange is a multi-media simulation utilizing the change process and steps created by John Kotter in his book Leading Change. The simulation has been used by hundreds of organizations including GE, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, NCR Corporation, the NASA Johnson Space Center, Nokia, and the U.S. Navy. GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 5

6 Anticipated Program Faculty The professors and practitioners who facilitate the Leadership Development Program change from program to program but typically include the following: Steve Olson, Ph.D., is a GSU Robinson College of Business Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. He is the Faculty Director for the Leadership Development Program. Steve fuses theory and practice in leadership, leadership development and ethics in addressing current issues of corporate responsibility. His current work focuses on corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining the Robinson College faculty, he co-founded The Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility and then founded the programs in Business and Professional Ethics for Emory University s Center for Ethics. He was also co-founder of Generative Consulting, a leadership development firm ( ), whose clients regularly appear on Fortune s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America (including the #1 Best Company in 1999). Nate Bennett, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at the Georgia State University s Robinson College of Business. Nate specializes in Leadership and Strategy Execution, Managing Innovation and Change Processes, Top Management Team Dynamics and Contextual Influences on Individual Behavior in Organizations. Professor Bennett has published in many widely-read resources for managers including the Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. He is co-author (with Stephen Miles, Managing Partner in the Leadership Consulting Practice at Heidrick and Struggles) of the 2006 Stanford University Press title "Riding Shotgun: The Role of the COO." Professor Bennett received both a Bachelor's degree in Sociology in 1983 and a Master's degree in Applied Social Research in 1984 from Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1989, he earned his Ph.D. in Management from Georgia Tech. Dale Gauthreaux, Ph.D., is a Clinical Faculty Member specializing in leadership development and change management for Georgia State University s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. He is also affiliated with the College s Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. Before joining the world of academia, Dale was a leadership development consultant at Capital One Services. He has over 20 years of experience in leadership development and executive coaching. Dale is also a founding partner of Accelerated Growth Resources, a leadership training and organizational effectiveness consulting firm. Before joining GSU, Dale was Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement at the UGA Terry College of Business. He earned a Bachelor s Degree from McNeese State University, a Master s Degree from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Organizational Communications from Purdue University. Rob Williams, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility at Georgia State University s Robinson College of Business. Before joining GSU, Dr. Williams served as Associate Director at the University of Georgia s Fanning Institute where he initiated several international leadership development programs in health care, higher education, environment and philanthropy. He consults regularly on leadership, group dynamics, change management and organizational psychology and has been a partner with Triangle Associates in Chapel Hill, N.C for 20 years. A former Associate Director of Duke University s Pew Center for the Health Professions. Rob is a social psychologist holding a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from The Fielding Institute, a graduate university specializing in psychology and organizational behavior. GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 6

7 Program Location The Leadership Development Program is held at the GSU Buckhead Center located in the heart of Atlanta s business and financial district. The Executive Education Center is located on floors 4, 5 and 6 of the Tower Place 200 building (pictured at lower right) and offers easy access to I-85 and Georgia 400. The Center offers 12 high-technology classrooms, 28 breakout rooms, and an Innovation Lab. Upper Left: Floor plan for the 6 th floor, GSU Executive Education Center. Left: Map displaying the location of the Center in relationship to GA- 400, Peachtree Road, and Piedmont Road Above Top: Photo of the exterior of the GSU Executive Education Center. Above: Photo of the executive education classrooms in action. GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 7

8 Program Details Leadership Development Program Earn a Certificate in Leadership Excellence When: Location: Cost: Discounts: Certificate: Option One: February 11-14, 2014; Tuesday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Option Two: October 27-30, 2014; Monday through Thursday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business, Buckhead Center Tower Place 200, Classroom 620; 3348 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta, GA $3,950 per person, standard registration fee The discounts are listed below. Please send an to execed@gsu.edu or call to confirm eligibility and to obtain the appropriate discount code. Early-Bird (30 Days Prior) 5% Non-Profit Organizations 10% Military and Veterans 10% Companies sending a team of three or more 10% Past GSU Exec Ed Program Participants 10% GSU Students or Alumni 25% GSU Staff Members 50% Upon program completion, you will receive a Certificate in Leadership Excellence (sample at right). About the J. Mack Robinson College of Business: The largest business school in the South and part of a major research institution, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University is located in Atlanta, an epicenter of business and a gateway to the world. With programs on four continents and students from 150 countries, the College is world-wide and world-class. Its part-time MBA program is ranked #7 in the nation and has been in the top 10 for fourteen consecutive years. The College has 200 faculty, 7,400 students and 65,000 alumni. Noted for an emphasis on educating leaders, GSU has produced more of Georgia s top executives than any other school in the nation. To register online visit or contact: Kellei Johnstone, Assistant Director, Executive Education, Robinson College of Business Office: ; kjohnstone@gsu.edu; or register online at To customize this program for your company, contact: Dennis Lanham, Assistant Director, Executive Education, Robinson College of Business Office: ; dlanham@gsu.edu; or register online at GSU Robinson College of Business Office of Executive Education execed@gsu.edu Page 8