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Energizing People for Performance

Develop People Empowering Strategies

Brenda Ellington-BoothAs a participant in this program, you will learn to energize your team and maximize bottom-line results by implementing valuable people-related strategies in your organization. Whether you are the leader of a small team within a large organization or the head of a business unit responsible for hundreds of people, motivating and developing those who work for you involves more than good leadership skills. It requires effective people-focused processes and motivational tools designed to unleash the potential in others so they can achieve and sustain high levels of performance.

Kellogg Strategic People Management Series
Enroll in Leading High-Impact Teams and receive additional insights, concepts, and frameworks for interacting and managing people that will enable you to engage and inspire individuals in your organizations. By taking both programs consecutively you will be enrolled in the Kellogg Strategic People Management Series and qualify for a 10% discount on each program fee.
Upcoming Sessions (Fee includes lodging and most meals)
Session Date Cost
September 16-19, 2012 $5,900 Apply
April 14-17, 2013 $6,000 Apply
September 15-18, 2013 $6,000 Apply

Program Materials

This program is designed for managers who have, or will soon have, significant responsibilities for managing and leading people – with several direct and indirect reports. 

  1. Managers, directors, and vice presidents 
  2. High potential employees leading teams
In this course, you will:
  1. Motivate and energize individuals to produce bottom-line results
  2. Develop and implement a personal action plan
  3. Increase personal effectiveness as a manager and leader of people through a variety of experiential exercises
The Energizing Leader

  1. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

    2. Research suggests that the most effective leaders are those who are “Emotionally Intelligent.” In this course, you’ll learn how to improve your emotional intelligence quotient.

  2. Understanding Your Leadership Brand

    3. Stop trying to emulate other great leaders. Instead, discover and develop the leadership potential you already possess to energize people for performance. 


Strategies for Energizing Individuals & Teams

Individuals, Teams, & Organizations 

  1. Developing Positive Interactions

    2. Understand how to develop positive interactions with your direct and indirect reports.

  2. Coaching Others

    3. Research shows that coaching is the most effective way of grooming others for leadership. In this session, you’ll learn core coaching skills and practice with peers in class.

  3. Communicating to Energize People

    4. In this course, you’ll be exposed to strategies for effectively communicating with key stakeholders for maximum performance.


Special Features:

  1. Participants will leave with tailored action plans that they craft as they go through a series of reflective action learning exercises.
  2. Optional small-group coaching sessions with faculty and peer group: If you would like input from experienced faculty on your specific people challenges, you can sign up for an individual or small group coaching session.
  3. Partner with a Kellogg Leadership Coach who can work with you after the program to help implement your plan as you navigate those challenges that are specific to your people and your organization. For an additional $1,500, you will receive three 45-minute, post-program private coaching sessions via phone.

Brenda Ellington-Booth - Academic Director; Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations; Academic Director of Leadership Coaching Program

Karen Cates - Visiting Lecturer

Robert Dewar - Associate Professor of Management & Organizations; Co-Chair of Management & Organizations Department

J. Keith Murnighan - Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Risk Management

Leigh Thompson - J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations; Director of Kellogg Team and Group Research Center; Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)

What Past Participants Say

  • "Good, thought-provoking concepts that will help me be an agent of change."
     Vice President, Technology Development, Nextel Communications
  • "Wonderful 'take-backs' for our organization with individual and whole organization focuses - very useful."
     Mill Manager, USG Corporation
  • "The practical tools and techniques will be useful to help me take the learning right to work." 
    People Development Director, Appleton Papers, Inc.

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