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Developing Leadership Agility
Rapid changes in customer and employee needs, technologies, shifting competitive landscapes, and the increasingly global reach of many organizations reward leaders who can update continuously and demonstrate agility rather than adhering to one style in performing their role.

In this program, each participant will:

  • Discover what keeps you from becoming more agile as needed in a world characterized by unpredictability
  • Gain fresh and practical insights for strengthening your leadership "savvy" in day-to-day performance

    Program Dates and Fees
    April 25-29, 2011 $7,650.00
    October 24-28, 2011 $7,650.00
  • Who Should Attend?
    This program is appropriate for those in upper-middle and senior levels of management with positions such as department head, CFO, COO, and others in significant leadership roles. The approach is highly interactive and includes practice opportunities and the application of concepts and tools to participants’ current professional environments.
    Program Outline

    Developing Leadership Agility
    • Understand the performance power in a leader's role
    • Evaluate the impact of your personal philosophy on the ability to function with greater agility
    • Explore self-awareness as an essential ingredient in becoming a more fully-evolved leader
    • Employ tools to assess and develop your leadership capabilities in diverse contexts, including different roles within the same organization
    The Agile Leader
    • Enhance the ability to guide others in grasping critical issues, ideas or concepts
    • Explore hidden assumptions that can block personal and organizational agility
    • Discover more about how to persuade and influence others to change their attitudes and behaviors
    The Leader as Director
    • Discover the director’s ability to influence how people relate to situations, ideas and each other
    • Explore hidden assumptions that can block personal and organizational changes
    Expanding Creativity
    • Learn about the Field of Creativity© and diagnose the condition of your personal and your organization's field
    • Identify factors that constrain personal and organizational agility
    • Practice in real time with tools to expand your ability to perform more creatively in the workplace
    Objectives
    • Access unused, unrecognized leadership abilities
    • Appreciate the creative aspects of your leadership role in everything from managing relationships to inspiring others' performances
    • Apply innovative and proven tools to expand your effectiveness as a highly agile leader
    • Coach others in ways that nurture their growth, bring out their best, and inspire support for the organization's goals
    • Strengthen yoyour personal energy as a leader and use your energy more positively and effectively
    • Access unused, unrecognized leadership abilities.
    • Find a greater sense of importance and significance in your leadership role
    • Operationalize a personal definition of performance that matches your unique leadership qualities
    Harry Davis
    Harry Davis teaches MBA and executive education courses at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has been on the faculty since 1963. Dr. Davis received an MA in sociology and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern University. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of strategy, leadership, and creativity.
    Barbara Lanebrown
    Barbara has an MFA in theater from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her long career has spanned diverse roles on both sides of the footlights from actor, director and playwright to consultant, public speaker and fundraiser. She founded DramaSearch Production Co., Inc. and co-founded the Columbus Ensemble Theater.
    Classes are held at the Gleacher Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, situated along the Chicago River (one block east of Michigan Avenue), in the heart of the downtown district known as "The Magnificent Mile." The Center is within walking distance from some of Chicago's most exciting retail and entertainment areas.

    Hotel Accommodations and Reservations

    A limited block of rooms have been reserved for a discounted rate at the
    InterContinental Chicago
    505 N. Michigan Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60611
    Phone: 801.401.5226 or 800.235.4670 (toll-free)
    Fax: 312.321.8725

    For More Information Contact:

    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

    450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive Chicago, IL 60611-4316 http://www.chicagoexec.net
    Contact Us Online

    Pat La Malfa
    Associate Director of Executive Education
    Phone: (312) 464-8732
    Fax: (312) 464-8731
    E-Mail: pat.lamalfa@ChicagoBooth.edu

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