REGISTER NOW for the first 2 programs in our 3 part SENIOR-LEVEL EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:

Leadership Skills for the 21st Century, (Part 1 of the Senior Level Executive Program)
Dec. 21-23, 2004
Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

High Performance Leadership for Executives program (Part 2 of the Senior Level Executive Program)
Jan 31-Feb. 2, 2005
Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

THE SENIOR-LEVEL EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

“Providing the KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and COMPETENCIES YOU NEED to achieve and excel as a 21ST century EXECUTIVE LEADER”

Dear Colleague,

Executives today have immense responsibilities in their hands as their companies and organizations. Do not neglect the most important ingredient for future success…..the enrichment and further of your own knowledge, skills, and competencies. Consider attending our “Senior Level Executive Certificate Program. Today’s challenging work environments need executives who have made the transition to becoming strong, agile, and empowering leaders. With increasing competition, a more demanding workforce, accelerating change, and increasing levels of stress, new leadership skills, mind-sets, and competencies are required. The Senior-Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program includes three challenging seminars designed specifically for the accomplished or high potential senior level executive. Their focus is to help you reach your personal and corporate best. You will learn how to use the most up-to-date models, skills and strategies for continuing to develop as a senior-level executive leader now and for your future success. Learn how the best CEO’s confront this new “leadership challenge” in ways that helps them continue to move from excellence to greatness. You are invited to attend these stimulating immersion workshops for the accomplished senior level manager.

The program will include the latest leadership models, research findings, case studies, assessment inventories, best practices, benchmarking, and challenging simulations. Participants will develop individual action plans and participate in a special project team assignment dealing with an actual work-related problem. A primary objective of this program is to provide attendees with practical skills and techniques that will enhance their performance at the work place as well support strategic planning initiatives.

My fellow faculty members and I look forward to working with you to boost your executive and leadership excellence!

John P. Keenan, Ph.D.
President,
The Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE)

At the Senior-Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program you will:

• Understand the new roles senior level executives must master and display to drive their organizations to new levels of accomplishment and success in a highly competitive 21st century global environment.
• Refine executive level leadership styles to harmonize with latest models and best practices draw from the study and analysis of successful executives from across the globe.
• Learn new break through thinking approaches to maintain top level analytical capabilities to deal with complex and changing problems and opportunities.
• Understand how elements of your character, such as self-esteem, your need for control, how you achieve power, decision-making skills and image, can affect your leadership style.
• Learn techniques for maintaining your poise under pressure and effectively manage the increasing levels of stress and the impacts of continuous change with more resiliency and energy.
• Apply the proven core principles of strategic leadership, planning, and change focused on developing and sustaining a culture of excellence.
• Assess in detail your executive-level strengths, areas needing to improvement through powerful assessment inventories and simulations as well new strategies to sustain your development and professional growth. continued development requiring different approaches than traditional management styles that inhibit motivation and creativity.
• Participate and learn with top level executives like yourself who will stimulate you based on their own professional experience and current approaches leading them to success.

Who should attend

• Presidents, CEOs
• CFOs, COOs
• Division Heads, General Managers
• Senior Vice Presidents, and EVPs
• Other senior level executives with top-level responsibilities
• Executives from diverse organizations
• Those being groomed for executive-level posts

The Three-Part Program
The following diagram presents the three parts of the program including competencies focused on in each. Take one program which emphasizes the special competencies you desire to focus on, or take the full set of programs for the optimum approach.

Part 1. Leadership Skills For the 21st Century

“Develop the skills differentiating top level executives from the rest”

Learn how to master and develop the proven skills and competencies that will ensure your ongoing success as an accomplished executive leader.

This stimulating and engaging program focuses on developing executive leadership skills and strategies proven to improve both the productivity and motivation levels of senior level executives, their teams, and their organizations. Through a series of simulations, interactive exercises and discussions, you learn how to apply powerful new leadership models for improved personal and work group satisfaction and productivity. You also explore topics such as transformational versus transactional leadership; the role of charisma and vision; situational/contingency approaches to a more strategic approach. During the program you will assess yourself with respect to your leadership profile and personality type, identifying your strengths and areas to target for improvement. Core senior-level executive competencies focused on include: leadership style, motivation and drive, personality style and diversity, executive decision-making, and ethical idealism.

You learn how to:

• Break out of traditional management styles that inhibit motivation, creativity, innovation
• Understand the new roles senior level executives must master and display to drive their organizations to new levels of accomplishment and success in a highly competitive 21st century global environment
• Improve quality and increase productivity by learning how to inspire, energize, and intellectually stimulate your staff and associates
• Understand how to apply the latest theories and techniques proven to be successful in getting people with diverse backgrounds and interests to work together, improve talents and abilities, and increase their performance levels
• Assess your own personal strengths and areas needing improvement through use of the powerful assessment inventories.

Schedule

Day 1
Executive Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century/Executive Decision-Making and Problem Solving

• Effective vs successful leadership
• Leader traits and skills: traditional and the new
• Leadership as philosophy, life role, developmental process, and full person
• Ideal leader – competencies and skills
• Full-Range Leadership - how to influence performance, accomplish goals
• Laissez-faire leadership – benefits and problems
• Management-by Exception – handling the difficult and poor performer
• Problem Solving and Decision Making

Day 2
Transactional and Transformational Leadership For Executives

• Transactional leadership: - how to influence performance, accomplish goals
• Applying situational leadership models: developing others
• Assessment and case studies
• Transformational leadership: - how to energize, and intellectually stimulate your staff and associates with the four “I’s” -
• The role of individual consideration – leading with compassion and understanding
• Using intellectual stimulation – developing “break-through” thinking for self and others
• Using inspirational motivation – developing a sense of mission, purpose
• Personal assessment: your strengths and improvement areas

Day 3
Personality type and leadership style/Simulatiuon: Lost Dutchman Gold Mine/Action Planning

• Identifying and developing your leadership style and personality type (MBTI / -Assessment)
• Differences in perception, judgment, and energy source
• Overcoming blocks to development and your personal effectiveness
• How to supplement and augment areas overlooked or not coming easily to you
• Increasing motivation of yourself and others
• Working with different personality types
• The Search For the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine " simulation
• Transferring what you've learned to your work environment

Part 2 - High Performance Leadership For Executives

“Develop personal and organizational excellence as achieved by the best through proven approaches”

Learn how to bring out the best in yourself and your organization’s culture through the latest strategies and tools guaranteeing excellence.

This practical, hands-on program provides an exposure to the concepts of high performance leadership, the nature and profile of a healthy organization and culture, and how to effectively uplift personal performance as well as improve performance at all levels throughout your organization., You will learn how today's most effective leaders, from high-powered executives to Olympic trainers, meet leadership challenges by using feedback from the top inventories and assessment tools available. You receive specific guidance on your current leadership, attentional, interpersonal, change, and conflict management style strengths and areas needing improvement. You learn special techniques to focus your attention, achieve your goals and maintain peak performance levels. You will also assess your own organization’s culture through the “Organization Description Questionnaire (ODQ) and learn ways to create a culture of excellence.

Core senior-level executive competencies focused on include: performance dynamics and techniques. building high performing teams, coaching for high performance, attentional and interpersonal style, and building a culture of excellence.

You learn how to:

• Define the characteristics and traits of high performing individuals and organizations
• Cultivate transformational, high performance leadership competencies
• Discover how your attentional style affects your performance level and relationship with others
• Break through self-imposed limitations that may be holding you back from superior levels of performance
• Learn to focus on your goals without letting stressful conditions or others interrupt your concentration
• Understand how elements of your character, such as self-esteem, your need for control, how you achieve power, decision-making skills and image, can affect your leadership style
• Examine new leadership paradigms as they relate to organizational change.
• Understand how to apply the latest theories and techniques proven to be successful in getting people with diverse backgrounds and interests to help initiate and sustain change in organizations
• Learn techniques for maintaining your poise under pressure and effectively manage the increasing levels of stress and the impacts of continuous change with more resiliency and energy.

Schedule

Day 1
Principles and dynamics guiding high performing individuals and organizations

• Cultivating transformational, high performance leadership
• Assess your own organization’s culture through the “Organization Description Questionnaire (ODQ).
• How your attentional style affects your performance level and relationships
• Break through self-imposed limitations that may be holding your back from superior levels of performance
• Learn to focus on your goals without letting stressful conditions or others interrupt your
  concentration
• Understand how elements of your character, such as self-esteem, your need for control, power, decision-making skills and image, can affect your performance

Day 2
High performance leadership: strategies and techniques/ Attentional style and performance

• Three kinds of attention
• Three overload tendencies
• The Attentional and Interpersonal Style Inventory (TAIS) - assessment feedback
• Diagnosing your attentional strengths and areas for improvement
• Attention control training for enhancing leadership performance
• Understanding your interpersonal style and its impact on performance
• Information and control needs
• Communication of ideas and feelings
• Coaching others for enhanced performance
• Practice exercises

Day 3
HPL Simulation and Challenge/ Applications in your organization

• Simulation: Challenge Event
• Leadership on the team: promoting synergy in a changing, dynamic environment
• Communication and strategic planning related
• Functions of goal setting, collaboration and team development
• The role of quality improvement and decision analysis
• Fostering participation and cross-functional team effectiveness
• Developing An Action Plan For Application At Work
• Peer feedback and reinforcement
• “Breakthrough” challenge exercise

Rave Reviews

“Your leadership program was one of the best I have ever attended and I rank it above programs at Harvard and University of Michigan. It was well planned, organized, and run. It provided many beneficial and practical insights. I will recommend it to others”.
-James A. Satchel, Litigation Attorney, Michigan Department of Transportation, Southfield, Michigan

“ I want to take a moment to express how much I enjoyed (your leadership program). The learning experience was unique in an of itself. I have already found practical applications in both my professional and personal life!....Thanks again and I hope to see you at future seminars.”
Maria W. Anderson, CPCU, Vice President, Munich American Reinsurance Company, New York

Your Investment

US$2950 per person per program (inclusive of breaks, lunches, seminar manual).

Payment Details

• Invoice will be sent by the Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE)
• Payment by check, bank transfer, or purchase order.

Registration Form
(Class seating will be limited so early registration is suggested)

Discounts

• Enroll and pay for both programs at same time for 10% discount.
• Group Offer: Enroll 3 persons from the same company and get 10% off.
• 50% discount for those from government, education, and non-profit organizations
• Scholarships available.
  Discounts may not be combined.

Registration and Inquiries
The Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE) at
Knowledge Village, POB 50221, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971-4-367-1370; mobile: +971-050-853-8235;
+971-050-849-1296; Fax: +971- 4-366-4588;
E-mail: john@leadership-international.org;
web: www.leadership-international.org

Terms and Conditions
All fees are to be made before the Seminar and payable to the Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE). If no written notice of cancellation is received 21 days prior to the seminar, the fees will not be refundable. A substitute is welcome, otherwise a full fee is charged. If no written notice is received or if the participant fails to report for the Seminar, the full fee is chargeable.

Other Program in the Series: (Offered April 4-6. 2005, Dubai)
Transformational Leadership and Change For the Senior-Level Executive helps you develop the necessary transformational leadership skills through assessment, practice, and feedback. Master the new models and strategies for creating long-term and sustained personal and organizational change.

On-Site Programs Available:
These seminars can be customized and designed for on-site delivery in your organization. For further information, please contact Dr. Keenan at E-mail: john@leadership-international.org;
web: www.leadership-international.org