Leadership Essentials

When organizations become flatter, requiring executives to work across departments more often, having strong leadership skills is essential for success.

Leadership Essentials is designed to help participants maximize their leadership potential in a minimum amount of time. During the program participants improve their abilities in such areas as team leadership, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and managing change—issues that organizations are facing more often in today's rapidly changing world.

Overview
Audience
Benefits
Faculty
Curriculum

Overview

Leadership Essentials identifies several of the skill sets that great leaders possess. Through engaging lectures delivered by Columbia Business School faculty, dynamic discussions with colleagues and hands-on workshops, participants explore the most crucial areas of leadership.

After just two days, participants emerge from the program with fresh insights into how to be better decision makers, negotiators, and agents of organizational change.

"This was a fully engaging course which has provided me with tools of leadership that I can use beginning tomorrow: tools with a lifetime warranty."
—Matthew Price, Director, Sales & Marketing, ACS

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

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Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.

Audience

Leadership Essentials is designed for mid-level executives looking to improve their effectiveness working with individuals and teams.

Alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for programs lasting up to seven days. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.

Benefits

In just two days, participants in Leadership Essentials take away several tangible benefits. They learn how to:

Enhance emotional intelligence and apply it appropriately as a leader
Strengthen the ability to lead and manage organizational change
Improve decision making
Negotiate more effectively
Manage conflict constructively

Note: This program does not include a 360-degree feedback tool. We encourage you to apply for High Impact Leadership should you be interested in benefiting from this specific feature.

"I felt the program touched on the most important topics I deal with in my day-to-day work experience."
—Janet Baye, Director, KPMG

Upon completion of this program, you will earn two days towards a Certificate in Business Excellence. Learn more.

Faculty

Joel Brockner
Phillip Hettleman Professor of Business

Curriculum

The two-day program consists of four, tightly connected half-day sessions:

I. Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence

Day 1 – Session 1

Key Questions

What are the different styles of leadership, and when is it appropriate to exercise one rather than another?
What role does emotional intelligence (or EQ) play in enacting the different forms of leadership?

II. Leadership Styles and Managing Change

Day 1 – Session 2

Key Questions

What are the key action steps needed to plan and implement change?
What do you think you do well versus not so well when it comes to planning and implementing change?
What leadership style makes people more likely to embrace rather than resist change?
What makes it hard for agents of change to adopt a style that makes others embrace rather than resist change?
What can be done to overcome the obstacles alluded to in the preceding question?

III. Negotiating Effectively

Day 2 – Session 1

Key questions

How can I collaboratively create value and also make sure I claim my share?
How can I preserve relationships without accepting an awful deal?
How can I prevent myself from being exploited?
How can I diagnose, build, and leverage bargaining power?
Should I make the first offer?
What information should I seek? What information should I reveal?

IV. Managing Conflict Constructively

Day 2 – Session 2