Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams

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Oct 16–18, 2018	$6,350

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Liz N. Schultz
Senior Associate Director, Learning Solutions
+1 212-854-7613
Lns11@gsb.columbia.edu

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OVERVIEW
IMPACT
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
PARTICIPANT PROFILE & TESTIMONIAL
FACULTY

"This program will enable you to develop the skills and tools needed to maximize the potential of diverse teams in order to increase productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness. The key to organizational success is dependent upon harnessing the power of teams."
– The program’s Faculty Director Bill Klepper, Professor of Management at Columbia Business School

Hear from Faculty Director William Klepper about the program.

Well-constructed and well-managed teams are a necessity in today's work environment, and organizational success relies upon the ability to both create and lead high-performance teams. This three-day program designed for executives in leadership positions or on the cusp of assuming leadership responsibility integrates and applies Columbia Business School’s thought leadership to prepare you to develop and guide your team to its highest potential.

In a highly interactive learning format, Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams will allow you to immediately apply techniques and tactics to hone your team's strategic objectives and improve your leadership abilities.

You will gain immediately applicable knowledge to better manage your team and its strategic challenges; you will also develop a team success strategy for high performance and a detailed team-meeting plan for desired results by the end of the program.

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

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Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at 212-854-3395 to learn more.

IMPACT

During this intensive 3-day program, participants will learn to:

Utilize the success formula for high-performance team leadership
Leverage your behavioral style as a team leader
Improve team performance by leveraging your role and your team members roles
Match the right people to the right tasks
Apply proven tools for optimal teamwork including communication, decision-making, and learning
Influence and persuade others to buy in
Lead change from your current state to your desired future state
Maximize the potential of diverse teams
Generate high-quality decisions in order to gain support from key stakeholders who possess unique agendas and interests

Through an exercise-based curriculum, you will identify direct applications of the learning to your role. You’ll walk away from the program with an action plan for your team, ready to implement improved team leadership and work towards a higher team performance.

You will further benefit from:

CBS interactive learning process
Learning from highly acclaimed Executive Education faculty
Direct application to your strategic challenge
Tested team tools to optimize your team's performance

Upon completion of this program, you will earn three days towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The program is structured around three interactive days of learning.

Day one focuses on team leadership and behavior including approaches to a team success formula. Participants take part in simulated meeting exercises to help identify behavioral styles and illustrate common conflicts between them. A toolkit for developing and leading high performance teams will be the takeaway from the day.

Day two addresses different team roles, the importance of team communication, and how to achieve consensus during a team’s decision-making process. Participants are engaged in a series of interactive team decision-making exercises, receiving feedback from faculty and peers. An app will be employed to provide additional feedback on your team dynamics and will be a takeaway tool for your on-the-job application.

The morning of day three is centered on the power of persuasion. Learn how you and your team can leverage persuasion skills to influence stakeholders. The afternoon is dedicated to developing your personal team success strategy. Create an action plan for your return to your organization with a list of tools and concepts designed for immediate application for developing and leading effective teams back home.

For a complete program schedule download the agenda.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE & TESTIMONIAL

This program is designed for team leaders – or soon-to-be team leaders – seeking the knowledge to create diverse, high-performing teams by leveraging frameworks for effective team decision making and putting the right people against the right tasks.

Program participants may include mid-level executives, managers, directors, and VPs from across industries and functions.

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.

Typical Participant Mix

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Years of Management Experience

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Hear from a Past Participant:

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Alyse Wyler

Senior Director, Human Resources at SAP

"I believe that the best thing about the Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams course is the outcome. I say this because the teachings during the course are presented in such a way that the takeaway is simple, practical, and immediately usable.

Over the three day course, a key theme continued from professor to professor and day to day. The theme was the formula for developing and leading high performance teams. The first day we learned about the formula, the second day focused on how the formula applies to teams, and the third day focused on persuasion and negotiation using the formula. The tenets of the formula were repeated so much throughout the course that by the last day it felt as if I was habitually using it.

Back at work, the habit of using this formula continues — whether I am preparing for a meeting or doing something as simple as writing an email. I highly encourage others who are leading a team to find out more about this course as I believe it is truly impactful in developing and leading high performance teams."

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Abdulai Awudu

Programmes Director at The Multimedia Group

"After leading teams for many years, I was pleasantly surprised that the program opened new doors and presented new ways of enhancing my role."

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Olu Delano

General Manager Of Corporate Marketing at Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc

"This program helped me unlearn bad habits while providing me with new ways of doing things better at the same time."

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Bruce Campbell

Head of College at Nambour Christian College

"A must for all leaders of an organization. This program will change your ideas and leadership styles."

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Carlos Morales

Senior Assistant Chief Pilot at Copa Airlines

"Columbia's Developing and Leading High-Performance Teams program will greatly enhance the way you refocus your strengths to become more productive and effective in your business."

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Peter Trautmann

City Collegiate Director, The Navigators

The program took me beyond the limits of what I previously grasped into new ways of thinking about teaming, persuasion and international leadership!

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Alyse Wyler

Senior Director, Human Resources at SAP

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Abdulai Awudu

Programmes Director at The Multimedia Group

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Olu Delano

General Manager Of Corporate Marketing at Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc

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Bruce Campbell

Head of College at Nambour Christian College

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Carlos Morales

Senior Assistant Chief Pilot at Copa Airlines

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Peter Trautmann

City Collegiate Director, The Navigators

FACULTY

William Klepper, Faculty Director
Professor of Management
Faculty Member, Executive Education

William Klepper has served as a consultant to numerous corporations including AT&T, Bausch & Lomb, Bell Canada, Chase Manhattan Bank, Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, DuPont, Ericsson, Finmecannica, General Electric, Hertz, Johnson & Johnson, Nabisco, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, SAP, Sony, and Sun Microsystems. He also has consulted for colleges and universities, school districts and government agencies and served as an advisor to the Wounded Warrior Project. He participates regularly in the New York Stock Exchange Chairman and CEO Forum or the Financial Times / Outstanding Directors Exchange.

Profoundly interested in executive learning, strategic leadership and corporate governance, Klepper is the creator of the Klepper Leadership Model, first published in Key Account Management and Planning (2002). It was then updated as the Integrated Leadership Model in his recent book, The CEO’s Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom (2010).

Malia F. Mason
Associate Professor of Management
Faculty Member, Executive Education

Malia Mason is an expert on negotiations and social judgment and decision making as well as how people regulate their attention and the implications for their work performance. She has received several prestigious career awards for notable contributions as a scholar, including the American Psychological Society’s “Rising Star” Early Career Award (2011), the Rotman School of Management’s Dean’s Award for Emerging Leaders (2014), and Poet and Quant's World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors (2015). Numerous media outlets have featured her research, including: WSJ, CNN, CBS, Forbes, Reddit, NPR, AAAS Science, and the Atlantic. In 2015, she was awarded the Dean's Prize for Teaching Excellence in an MBA elective course.

Robert N. Bontempo, Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Management
Faculty Member, Executive Education

Robert N. Bontempo is a leading advisor to senior executives worldwide. He advises on the leadership of organizational change and the implementation of business strategy to such companies as Goldman Sachs, Citibank, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Sony, Boeing, Glaxo-Welcome, NASA, and Deloitte & Touche, as well as government and ministry officials from The World Bank and The United Nations. He has served on the board of directors of the Michael Baker Corporation, an energy services and engineering firm with operations worldwide, since 1997.

Bontempo’s research on the role leadership plays in the effectiveness of global organizations has been published in journals in Europe, Asia, and the US. His perspectives on management have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist, as well as network news broadcasts. He is also a consulting editor for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Bontempo’s recent research on international comparative management involves cultural factors in international negotiations and international differences in risk perception.

The winner of the 1994 Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, Bontempo teaches executives and students at Columbia Business School.

Along with Professor Klepper, Professor Mason, and Professor Bontempo, additional Columbia Business School faculty contribute to and teach in the program.