Level: Excellence

Language: English

Duration: 3 days

Location: Doha

Next intake:

Tuition fees: 5,300 $US

The program is designed for experienced managers or experienced professionals preparing to take on enhanced leadership responsibilities.
 
Participants will learn how to effectively managed different profiles within their teams, how to effectively and efficiently delegate decisions and how to interact and integrate more effectively within their corporate cultures.

Four main objectives

Building on a practical approach and examining hands-on leadership, team management and self management, the program will help you to:

• develop deeper level of self-awareness in order to assess individual leadership style, goals and motivation,
• improve overall leadership and people management skills by exploring sources of power, examining personality types and behaviors, judging emotional reactions, diagnosing organization values and culture and identifying motivation key drivers,
• transform leadership into action by delegation, mobilizing people toward achievable goals, managing the change process and maintaining motivation in periods of uncertainty,
• create a personal agenda for self-improvement and set the goals to enhance leadership skills and practice.

Day 1: Models of leadership

• Group discussion about your concept of leadership
• Definitions of leadership from a variety of traditions—Western/Eastern, large company/small company, publicly traded/privately held, etc.
• Effective leaders; the crucial questions
• The missing ingredient from almost everyone’s definitions of leadership
• What General Managers really do

Day 2: Leadership styles 

• A further look into three models of leadership evident in the 20th and 21st centuries: command and control, empowerment, difficult learning
• A survey of difference: feedback on Myers-Briggs Type II Indicator
• Application of differences in perception on a leadership task
• Exploration of situational leadership model (command and control) with case study

 The leader shadow

• Introduce the concept that a leader is never a neutral actor. You will be able to identify how your relational behaviors create a particular ―shadow of the leader‖ in your organization
• Exploration of empowerment model of leadership with considerations of quality, acceptance, and time from Vroom and Yetton research
• Case studies used to illustrate points

Utilizing group resources

• How maximize group performance when the group consists of fellow leaders
• Conduct an individual project exercise leading to working with a group of peers

The small group exercise portion will be videotaped so each group can watch itself working after the fact and debrief the experience. People get to practice peer feedback skills.

Day 3: Developing your leadership potential

• Where does development occur—making an action plan for change
• Map your on-the-job learning experiences
• Discussion of VADI model—variety, adversity, diversity, intensity—as it relates to development on the job

Individual action plan

Translate learnings from the program into a focused, actionable plan.