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The Leader Within
Maximizing your authentic leadership impact
Today's demanding global environment requires leaders to possess self-awareness and self-management. Executives growing into leadership roles are best served by embracing a comprehensive, holistic leadership mindset, lived out in behaviors and practices that help them to be the most effective leaders possible.
This unique program provides an intensive leadership development experience designed to help you become a self-reflective, more effective leader. Through an in-depth exploration of self-awareness, self-management, mindset, feedback, influence, judgment, character, resilience and executive presence, you will develop the proficiency needed to propel your career forward. In addition to refining your personal leadership practices, you will leave with your own personal action plan for maximizing your impact.
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Who Should Attend
- High-potential mid- to senior-level executives; Federal Government managers
- Executives preparing for general management, cross-functional, or enterprise leadership roles
Key Benefits
- Create your distinctive, authentic leadership narrative
- Develop your own personal leadership action plan
- Hone your influence and persuasion skills
- Master frameworks, tools, and practices to help you become an effective leader at the highest organizational levels
Program Content
Maximizing Your Leadership Impact
- Assess your leadership landscape to identify individual and organizational leadership opportunities and needs
- Refine your own compelling, authentic leadership narrative and understand how to harness the power of narrative identity
- Discover how routines are a key factor in achieving superior outcomes
- Explore the science behind time allocation in the workplace and how to leverage your time for optimal results
Leading with Confidence and Impact
- Cultivate the leader’s mindset – how to increase awareness and focus for individual and organizational growth
- Deepen your understanding of executive judgment
- Integrate the dimensions of presence that typify strong, warm leaders at their best
- Learn techniques to assess and strengthen values-based character competencies
- Gain insights into emotional and intellectual toughness in demanding situations
- Understand how to use feedback as a power tool for growth
- Leverage the power of understanding trust, culture and influence communication and executive presence
Faculty
Robert Hughes - Academic Director; Clinical Assistant Professor of Executive Education, Managing Director of Executive Education
Gail Berger Darlow - Assistant Professor of Instruction, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering; Assistant Professor of Executive Education
Brenda Ellington Booth - Clinical Professor of Leadership
Jim Cohen - Founding Principal, Spark; Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, HERE Life, LLC
Timothy Feddersen - Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics; Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Fred Harburg - Clinical Professor of Executive Education
Dan McAdams - Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, School of Education and Social Policy
Loran Nordgren - Associate Professor of Management & Organizations
Nicola Persico - John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Director of the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management; Professor of Weinberg Department of Economics (Courtesy)
Brooke Vuckovic - Clinical Professor of Leadership
CPE Credits
This program is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and is recommended for 46.0 CPE credits.
Continuing Professional Education Information
The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
All Kellogg programs that qualify for CPE credits do not have pre-requisites. Advanced readings and case preparation is required. A packet of course materials is emailed to all participants before the program begins.
All Kellogg programs are group-live or internet-based. Program level: Advanced. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaints and refunds, please contact our office at 847-467-7000.
What Participants Say
"[I discovered] lots of actionable ideas that will help me in my journey to become an even better leader. This course gave me many areas to self-reflect on how to take my leadership profile to the next level." Executive Director, Merck & Co.
"I applaud the content and the structure of the course. The frameworks feel straight forward and set the table for meaningful, hard-hitting personal reflection and dialogue on all dimensions of emotional intelligence. Numerous people will be better off because I found so much value in I learned this week." Director, Sales Force Effectiveness, TransUnion
Personal Consultation
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2020 Sessions
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May 17-22, 2020 Start: May 17 at 1:00 PM End: May 22 at 12:30 PM Evanston Campus |
$10,350 Fee includes lodging and most meals |
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September 13-18, 2020 Start: September 13 at 1:00 PM End: September 18 at 12:30 PM Evanston Campus |
$10,350 Fee includes lodging and most meals |
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