Open Enrollment Programs

Dates: May 21-23, 2012; Oct 1-3, 2012
Tuition: $3,700

The Leadership Effectiveness Workshop will allow you to sharpen the leadership skills needed for both personal and professional growth. Learn more about your own leadership style and how to effectively maximize your strengths as a leader with this three day seminar.

The Leadership Effectiveness Workshop is designed specifically for business professionals currently serving in a leadership role, or anticipating leadership responsibilities in the future. The leadership skills training received will also benefit individual contributors who are not serving in a management role but who lead and influence others in their organization. Participants will earn 2.3 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) and include high-potential and mid to senior-level managers who want to:

• Reach their career potential
• Enhance their personal leadership skills and management effectiveness
• Gain a deeper understanding of their leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Accelerate their career potential

• Increased awareness of personal leadership strengths
• Understanding of how effective leaders influence attitudes and behaviors
• Enhanced strategic thinking, problem-solving and negotiation skills
• Ability to use power and influence others to drive results
• Improved ability in leading teams successfully

• Self awareness and other awareness – assess your leadership style and identify strengths and weaknesses
• The fundamentals of effective leadership – define the keys to leading teams successfully
• Strategic problem-solving and decision-making – become an inventive, logical decision maker using a structured way to approach, dismantle and solve problems
• The differences between managers and leaders – identify the differences
• The art of using negotiations, power and influence effectively
• Communication tactics when leading teams – learn how to engage effectively with others, set clear expectations and manage language and cultural barriers with local and remote teams

The Leadership Effectiveness Workshop features many esteemed members of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School faculty. Listed below is a sample of the faculty and topics that are typically included in this three day effective leadership development program.

Dave Hofmann, PhD, is a professor of organizational behavior and leadership who teaches about strategic problem-solving and decision-making and leadership strategies for success.

Mabel Miquel, PhD, is a professor of leadership and management who focuses on motivating performance in challenging business environments and leadership success.

The Leadership Effectiveness Workshop is held at the Rizzo Conference Center, our world-class facility in Chapel Hill, NC. The Rizzo Conference Center is designed to foster executive leadership and development and is wired for business so that we can integrate new technologies that facilitate the learning process into our teaching methodologies.