REGISTER NOW for the first 2 programs in our 4 part EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE PROGRAM ( for mid-level managers)

Leadership EQ: How to Develop and Use Emotional Intelligence for Success
to be held Dec. 13-15, 2004 in Dubai at the Sheraton Dubai Creek.

LEADING AND EMPOWERING HIGH PERFORMING GROUPS AND TEAMS
to be held Feb. 7-9, 2005 in Dubai.

These programs form 2 parts of our 4 part Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program.

THE EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE PROGRAM (mid-level managers)

“Enhance your leadership skills through this interactive series of workshops featuring personal feedback, evaluation tools and hands-on simulations. A Certificate Program composed of stimulating workshops that are GUARANTEED to improve your skills and achievements on the job”

Managers and other professionals at the middle-levels in their organizations face the toughest job in that they are continually pressured by those above and below. It is most critical to keep the balance, and to refine the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies required to be successful in your challenging role. “The Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program” provides powerful training to help you succeed. The following diagram presents the four 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.

Core Competencies for Mid-Level Managers and Executives

• Leadership EQ -How to Develop and Use Emotional Intelligence for Success helps leaders develop their emotional intelligence through various exercises and approaches that will increase self- awareness, ability to manage emotions, and ability to engender self-motivation.
• Leadership Skills For Managers: Reaching Beyond the Boundaries shows you how to enhance your current leadership skills by moving beyond traditional leadership styles and current mind-sets to meet the special challenges of more competitive and changing times.
• Leading and Empowering High Performing Groups and Teams is a hands-on workshop where you will learn the latest principles, techniques and skills proven to be the essential ingredients for building and empowering high-performing groups and teams.
• Strategic Leadership: Planning and Change is a dynamic and challenging workshop which focuses on how to foster a culture of quality and excellence resulting in sustained productivity and motivation levels of individuals and teams.

Who should attend

• Managers who have other managers or first-level supervisors reporting to them
• Department heads
• Staff managers
• Team leaders
• Project managers
• Division administrators
• Professionals who aspire to management

At the Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program you will:

• Break out of traditional management styles that inhibit motivation, creativity, and innovation
• Develop useful and practical skills which will help you improve your performance and gain recognition as being an effective and satisfying leader
• 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
• Assess your own personal strengths and areas needing improvement through use of the powerful assessment inventories
• Develop skills in how you can develop others through empowerment, delegation
  and performance enhancement techniques
• Understand strategies for leading personal and organizational change
• Participate in project team assignments tackling real issues and organization problems and develop solution based on applying program insights
• Strengthen your coaching skills
• Formulate a plan for change related to your own and your organizations’ development

LEADERSHIP EQ: HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SUCCESS
Dec. 13-15, 2004
Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel

Dear Colleague,

This first challenging seminar in the Excellence in Leadership Certificate Program series is designed specifically for the accomplished or high potential mid-level managers or any organizational leader. The 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 manager and leader now and for your future success. Learn how the best managers confront this new “leadership crisis” in ways that helps them continue to move from excellence to greatness. You are invited to attend this stimulating immersion workshop for the accomplished mid-level manager or other leaders.

Speaker Profile

John P. Keenan, Ph.D. is President/CEO of John P. Keenan and Associates International (JPKAI). He has over 29 years of experience in presenting workshops and providing consulting services to organizations throughout the world. He is internationally recognized as an organizational psychologist and as a leader in the design and development of leadership and management educational programs. He provides consulting services to organizations such as SONY, Inc., Caterpillar, Inc., Lucent Technologies (AT&T), Honeywell Inc., American Airlines, Inc., Ersnt & Young, Asian Institute of Management (AIM); Civil Service College of Singapore, U.S. Department of Energy; Ameritech, Inc., Fairchild Semiconductors, Inc., and American Institute of Banking. John is the author of six books, “FASTSTART: An in-depth seminar for managers”, " Foundations of Leadership: New Manager Leadership Guide”, “Foundations of Leadership: A Facilitator's Guidebook", "Whistleblowing: Managing Dissent in the Workplace", “Whistleblowing Research: Methodological and Moral Issues” and "Cognitive Maps of Violence". He has published more than sixty articles in major journals and presented more than fifty research papers on such subjects as performance enhancement, team building, leadership, work stress, identity as a manager, management ethics, whistle-blowing, and terrorism. John can be reached at 2 Hillsboro Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127, (716) 390-9657 (o); 667-2516 (fax), and email: jkeenan945@aol.com, Web site: www.leadership-international.org

Who should attend

This program is relevant for current or high potential mid-level managers, leaders, or other professionals who want to position themselves for assuming increasing levels of leadership responsibilities in their organizations or who want to update their abilities with new theories and proven techniques. All functional areas of management including MIS, finance and accounting, human resources, sales and marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, and transportation professionals have found the seminar enlightening and beneficial. Those satisfactorily completing the Full Program will receive a certificate from the Institute for Leadership and Global Education (ILGE).

Seminar Description

Leadership and management literature suggest that the most important factor distinguishing effective from ineffective leaders is their understanding and use of emotional intelligence. A leader’s emotional intelligence includes their degree of self- awareness, ability to manage emotions, and ability to engender self-motivation. Emotional intelligence also focuses on an individual’s ability to relate well to others, be a mentor for other’s emotional development, foster a motivating environment, and manage conflict effectively. This skill building program provides tools, techniques, and an understanding of the guiding leadership EQ principles that address each of these critical areas. Through interactive exercises, assessments, and stimulating discussions, participants will learn how to develop their own EQ from a leadership framework, and understand how to facilitate the development of these skills in other individuals, teams, and in their organizational culture. The program also includes simulations as well as opportunities to practice skills, and development of a personal action plan to apply program insights back on the job.

What you will learn:

• Know how to apply leadership EQ principles and techniques to build and enhancing better and more productive work relationships with your boss, peers and staff.
• Assess in detail your leadership EQ Profile including learning actions you can take, right now, to build on your strengths and improve on areas you need to work on with respect to personal emotion management, self awareness, and skill in leading others.
• Become a more satisfying and respected leader by building your self-esteem and confidence to better manage people problems.
• Receive personal coaching and learn how you can develop higher levels of EQ in yourself and others.
• Learn new techniques to improve your effectiveness in handling adversity, develop emotional presence, and increase motivation levels.
• Know the underlying sources of lower levels of EQ and ineffectiveness in others and how to help them improve.
• Develop skills in how to create a more trusting, motivating work environment, and boost personal and team performance levels.
• Know the best way to handle the difficult employee and manage conflict situations more effectively.
• Know how to maximize individual and team personality strengths and contributions.
• Go away with an effective personal development plan for change that will push your career into hyper-space.

Rave Reviews:

“Enhance your managerial leadership skills through this interactive workshop featuring personal feedback, evaluation tools and hands-on simulations. A program that is GUARANTEED to improve your skills and achievements on the job."

“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, Michigan Department of Transportation

“(Your leadership program) was hard hitting, fast paced, with lots of energy. Makes you want to let go of traditional methods for positive change.”
-Richard L. Baker, Pennsylvania Power and Light

“Wonderful program! This is the best seminar I’ve attended. I’ve been to Michigan State, MIT, etc. This was a wonderful soul searching opportunity. I’m fortunate.”
-Daniel S. Philippi, 3M Company, St. Paul, MN

LEADING AND EMPOWERING HIGH PERFORMING GROUPS AND TEAMS
(PART 2 OF THE 4 PART CERTIFICATE PROGRAM)
Feb. 7-9, 2005 in Dubai
Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel

Description
At this hands-on workshop you learn how the best leaders move beyond basic team-building concepts and experiences, and how they avoid the common pitfalls that prevent teams from reaching their highest levels of performance. The program is grounded in the latest theories, research, and real-world case studies of high performing groups and teams. You will learn principles, techniques and skills proven to be the essential ingredients for building and empowering high-performance teams. You will understand how to develop and sustain a self-directed team that achieves performance goals, even in conditions of high stress and change. You also will learn how to facilitate team spirit and fully utilize team members' diversity through techniques for forming, leading, organizing, planning, and empowering action-oriented teams.

What you will learn:

• Develop skills in building and leading high-performance work groups and teams which operate at high productivity and work satisfaction levels
• Apply proven techniques to improve personal and team internal flexibility, so you can adapt more quickly and easily to changes, problems, and opportunities in your work environment
• Learn about the common pitfalls that prevent team success and how to avoid them
• Learn how to build a team and organizational focus to achieve increased group cohesiveness without a loss of individual effort
• Understand techniques for helping teams work well under high levels of stress and change
• Improve internal communications among team members to increase awareness of the abilities of others, build trust and feel better about the organization
• Improve your own effectiveness in working with others by identifying your strengths and areas to target for improvement
• Practice what you learn through participation in simulations and exercises
• Transfer your learning into a dynamic action plan to implement with your own teams on the job.

Rave Reviews:

“John knows exactly what he’s talking about…very enthusiastic.”
- M. F. Suzara – Exxon Chemical, Philippines

“I liked the mix of theory, hands-on exercises and games to inspire learning. Also, John was sensitive to our culture which is essential.”
- Fan Chee Keong, DHL International Pte, Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

“(Your leadership program) was hard hitting, fast paced, with lots of energy. Makes you want to let go of traditional methods for positive change.”
-Richard L. Baker, Pennsylvania Power and Light

Your Investment
Each program costs US$1950 per person (inclusive of breaks, lunches, and seminar manual)

Payment Details

• Invoice will be sent by ILGE
• Payment by Bank Transfer, PO, certified check

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:

• Leadership Skills For Managers: Reaching Beyond the Boundaries shows you how to enhance your current leadership skills by moving beyond traditional leadership styles and current mind-sets to meet the special challenges of more competitive and changing times. (March 28-30, 2005)
• Strategic Leadership: Planning and Change helps you become a more strategic leader who develops skills essential for helping others become more creative, empowered, and collaborative change agents. (May 23-25-2005, Dubai)

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: E-mail: john@leadership-international.org;
web: www.leadership-international.org

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