Emerging Leaders Bootcamp
Program Details
About the Program
In the face of rapid business changes, the next generation is stepping up. This course equips emerging leaders for the challenge. Course participants will acquire specific approaches to managing cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams. They’ll practice persuasive communication, negotiation, and using data to make a case. Through experiential learning, individual reflection, and small group discussions participants will increase their ability to execute complicated strategies and develop strategic relationships. The course finishes with a road map exercise to help participants accelerate career development.
Experience
Coursework begins with a foundational discussion on managing an ethical business environment. Participants will learn how the ability to understand and manage an ethical environment can become a source of competitive advantage for firms and for emerging leaders. Class discussion will then pivot to strategy execution. Without execution, the benefits of the great idea or big bang concept are not realized. This session will provide the practical insights and tools leaders need to effectively lead execution no matter how big or small the strategic initiative.
Results
A leader's success depends on their ability to work effectively in teams and across team boundaries. The inability to lead teams is one of four factors causing managers to “derail” off the track to higher-level positions. Course participants will discuss strategies to help them successfully manage in cross-functional, cross-enterprise, geographically distributed, and cross-border contexts. They will also deep-dive into strategies on how to increase personal influence and develop successful relationships with others who are critical to their success in a leadership role.
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Program Contact
- Email: croeckle@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-625-5412
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Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Professionals in the leadership pipeline
- Emerging leaders with two or more years of experience managing people, projects, or initiatives
- Experienced leaders seeking to update essential skills
- Understand how to manage cross-functional and cross-enterprise teams
- Increase personal influence and capacity to build strategic relationships
- Learn how to drive strategy execution via effective team management, project management, and governance
- Create an individualized career roadmap and identify experience needed for success
- Sharpen awareness of business ethics and the ability to lead ethically
Schedule
Session Overview
- The Competitive Advantage of Managing an Ethical Business Environment: Develop an understanding for why managing ethical behavior and perceptions is important for your organization’s competitive position and your own brand.
- Executing Strategy: Increase your confidence when executing strategic initiatives. Learn how to set your team up for success through simplified project management skills and effective team and stakeholder management.
Session Overview
- Team Effectiveness: How do you successfully manage intra and inter-team dynamics? Learn skills and communication tactics needed to manage in heavily matrixed, cross-functional, geographically disbursed contexts.
- Increasing Your Personal Influence: Learn how to thoughtfully engage in the workplace to persuade others. Role-play negotiation tactics and learn to prepare data for a solid argument.
Session Overview
- Building Strategic Relationships: Create a plan to increase effectiveness with those critical to your success. Diagnose success factors and barriers to advancing relationships and learn how to successfully interact with others at all levels of the organization.
- Accelerating Your Development: Develop a targeted action plan to accelerate your own development. Identify the experiences needed to create an accelerated career roadmap.
Session Overview
- The Competitive Advantage of Managing an Ethical Business Environment: Develop an understanding for why managing ethical behavior and perceptions is important for your organization’s competitive position and your own brand.
- Executing Strategy: Increase your confidence when executing strategic initiatives. Learn how to set your team up for success through simplified project management skills and effective team and stakeholder management.
Session Overview
- Team Effectiveness: How do you successfully manage intra and inter-team dynamics? Learn skills and communication tactics needed to manage in heavily matrixed, cross-functional, geographically disbursed contexts.
- Increasing Your Personal Influence: Learn how to thoughtfully engage in the workplace to persuade others. Role-play negotiation tactics and learn to prepare data for a solid argument.
Session Overview
- Building Strategic Relationships: Create a plan to increase effectiveness with those critical to your success. Diagnose success factors and barriers to advancing relationships and learn how to successfully interact with others at all levels of the organization.
- Accelerating Your Development: Develop a targeted action plan to accelerate your own development. Identify the experiences needed to create an accelerated career roadmap.
Faculty
Jeffrey Kaufmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship group at the Carlson School of Management where he teaches courses on Strategy, Managing the Strategic Process, Ethics, Leadership, and Competitive Economics. His interests focus on systemati