XLRN X800.7 - Strategic Leadership and Management

Course Description

Enhance your managerial and leadership skills so you can build a high-performing, stronger team and organization! 

Taught by Emeritus Faculty member of the Technology Management Program, and current CEO of Seibold & Associates, Dave Seibold, this 2-day course aims to bring strategy and coherence to your management style. 

You will learn skills crucial to your success as an established Manager, Supervisor, Director, and/or Executive. 

 
Dave Seibold, Ph.D, CEO

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Learner Outcomes

Building a Strong(er) Team and Organization

• Formalizing System Norms -A Contract
• Creating a Team with Teamwork
• Methods of Team- and Organizational-Development
• Key Functions that Leaders Must Perform
• Strategies for Increasing Members’ Desire for Success

Developing Strategy

• Key Questions Leaders Must Ask
• Leadership Lessons from Prominent Leaders
• Strategic Planning (vs Its Cousins)
• Eleven Components in the SP Process
• Strategies for Communicating Organizational Strategy

Enabling Innovativeness

• Setting the Right Challenge
• Experimenting before Decision Making
• Preparing the Rest of the Organization to Accept Ideas
• How Much Time & Which Other Resources?

Leading Change

• “Good” Leadership – A Baseline
• Humility, Respect and Trust – Leadership Cornerstones
• Traits of Inclusive Leaders
• Parachuting into a Crisis – Admired Leadership
• Why Transformation Efforts Fail (and Steps to Take)

 Communicating and Influencing

• The Foundation: Listening
• Pillars of Leaders’ Credibility: Character and Competence
• Steps in Non-Directive Coaching
• Better Coordination thru Better Meetings
• Making Teams Smarter

Motivating Members

• Understanding Motivation
• What Members Value (Extrinsic & Intrinsic Rewards)
• Demotivators and Motivators
• 10 Evidence-Based Tips for Motivating Members

Understanding and Managing Conflicts

• Assumptions versus Realities about Conflict
• Organizational + Group + Interpersonal Elements
• Delivering Negative Feedback Constructively
• Dealing with Your Difficult People
• “S.U.I.T” - Fostering Controversy, Not Conflict
• How Teams Can “Fight” Well
• Simple vs Pseudo vs Ego Conflict Management

Dealing with Power and Politics

• Mistaken Assumptions about Power
• Sources of Power, and Acquiring Power in Organizations
• Dynamics in Dysfunctional Decision Making