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"A 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
[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
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about
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- M. F. Suzara Exxon Chemical, Philippines
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as a must for executives who foster and maintain the organizational
culture.
- Douglas A. Weimer, Orland Bolling Company, Wisconsin
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THE SENIOR-LEVEL EXECUTIVE
PROGRAM:LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
June 12-16, 2004
Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel
One component of an innovative three-part program that fuses proven techniques
used by industry leaders with the latest leadership theory and models
to yield improved performance and productivity.
"Enhance your executive leadership skills through this interactive
workshop featuring personal feedback, evaluation tools and hands-on simulations.
A program that is GUARANTEED to improve your executive and leadership
skills."
Dear Colleague,
The first challenging seminar in the Senior-Level Executive Leadership
Certificate Program is designed specifically for the accomplished or high
potential senior level executive. 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 senior-level
executive leader now and for your future success. Learn how the best CEOs
confront this new leadership crisis 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.
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: john@leadership-international.org,
Web site: www.leadership-international.org
Who Should Attend
This program is relevant for current or high potential senior-level executives,
managers, 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 Skills for the 21sat Century 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 leading cross-functional team dynamics. 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.
You will also participate in a powerful, interactive and competitive simulation
exercise, "The Search For the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine," which
challenge you to apply program insights to your own work environment.
The program also includes a team-based problem solving project which will
address a practical problem related to executive leadership in your own
or anothers organization. Other topics explored include: linking
empowerment and delegation to improving personal and work group performance;
how to lead personal and organizational change; and linking organizational
change to re-engineering, continuous improvement, and. strategic organizational
development initiatives.
What You Will learn:
- Break out of traditional management styles that inhibit motivation,
creativity, innovation and involvement of others
- 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 levels
- 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
- Assess an organization problem and develop an action plan for applying
program insights to a solution of this problem
- Understand strategies for leading personal and organizational change
- Formulate a plan for change related to your own and your organization's
development
Seminar Outline
DAY 1 - Leadership Perspective past, present, and future/ Executive-Level
Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making
- Leadership Perspective past, present, and future
- 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
- Executive-Level Problem Solving and Strategic Decision Making
- Leadership challenge exercise
- Project Team Assignment: Problem solving and decision-making
model, assignment and overview
DAY 2 - Executive-Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century/ Managing
and leading through transactional leadership
- Full-Range Leadership - how to influence performance, accomplish
goals
- Laissez-faire leadership benefits and problems
- Management-by Exception handling the difficult and poor performer
- Transactional leadership: - how to influence performance, accomplish
goals
- Applying situational leadership models: developing others
- Assessment and case studies
DAY 3 - Transformational Leadership: - how to energize, and intellectually
stimulate your staff and associates
- Transformational leadership: - how to energize, and intellectually
stimulate your staff and associates with the four Is
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- 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, and drive
- Personal assessment: your strengths and improvement areas
- Leadership challenge simulation
DAY 4 - Leadership Style, Personality, and Development
- 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
- Leadership style exercise
DAY 5 - Applying new skills: "The Search For the Lost Dutchmans
Gold Mine" simulation / Transferring what you've learned to your
work environment
- Ground rules, organizational setting and team preparation
- Leadership on the team: promoting synergy in a changing, dynamic environment
- Communication, strategic planning, goal setting
- Collaboration, team development, quality improvement, decision analysis
- Transferring what you've learned to your work environment
- How to eliminate personal and organizational barriers to success
- Project Team Presentations: Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
- Developing an action plan for improvement
This program is certified by the The Institute for Leadership and Global
Education (ILGE) for the highest level program content and faculty expertise.
All program attendees will receive a certificate of completion of the
program. In conformity with guidelines established by the International
Association for Continuing Education and Training, this program is authorized
for 2.3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
The Senior-Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program Overview
The Senior-Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program includes 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. Each program is
designed to help you enhance your existing skills as well as build new
ones. Each workshop can be taken as valuable stand-alone seminar dealing
with one topical area, or you can receive your full certificate by attending
all three programs. The Program is unique!
You have many choices where to invest your training dollars today. You
must select the training experiences that ensure that you and your staff
will develop genuine skills, the kind you can immediately put into practice
for positive changes. This requires a training experience in a supportive
environment that incorporates the best of proven theories with hands-on
practice.
That's what the Senior Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program
provides the best tools and techniques and a chance to learn through experience.
It's critical to make sure your learning experience is tailored to your
specific interpersonal, attentional and communication style, so that you
can confidently and continuously apply your new knowledge. Evaluation
and assessment exercises in the workshops help you determine you level
of knowledge and skills, and help you pinpoint areas for improvement.
You benchmark yourself and then re-assess your progress between the three
programs. You also develop personal action plans in each program so you
can apply program insights for improvements in your performance on the
job.
The Senior-Level Executive Leadership Certificate Program provides:
- Confidential assessments before and during the programs
- Skill-building activities focused on applying proven theories to real
situations
- Continuous feedback during the program as well as post-program follow
up to support you in applying program learning back on the job
- Support in action plan development designed to improve performance
- Limited class sizes to ensure interaction with your instructors
- Opportunities to meet and network with professionals from other organizations
Evaluation/Assessment Instruments
The Senior-Level Leadership Certificate Program uses assessment tools
to give you insights into your leadership effectiveness and style, through
evaluation of your interpersonal, attentional and communication styles
and behaviors.
Some instruments ask for your own insights about your behaviors, skills,
thinking styles, and attitudes. Others ask your colleagues for insights
into your abilities. All work toward giving you an understanding of how
best to apply concepts learned given your unique pattern of leadership
traits and style.The assessment tools used include:
- "12-Factor Leadership Competencies Inventory
- "The Organizational Description Questionnaire (ODQ)
- "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" ("MBTI")
- Emotional Intelligence Inventory (EQI)
- "Hermann Brain Dominance (Thinking Style) Inventory" ("HBDI")
- The Attentional and Interpersonal Styles Inventory (TAIS)
- Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument
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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 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
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HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP FOR THE SENIOR LEVEL
EXECUTIVE (PART 2 OF THE 3 PART CERTIFICATE PROGRAM)
Sept 25-29, 2004
Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel
Description
This program focuses on how today's most effective leaders, from high-powered
executives to Olympic trainers, meet leadership challenges. You receive
specific guidance on your current leadership, attentional, and interpersonal
style strengths and areas needing improvement through use of the top inventories
and assessment tools available. You learn special techniques to focus
your attention, maintain poise under pressure, stay resilient and more
energized, more efficiently achieve your goals and maintain peak performance
levels. The program includes personal guidance, coaching and counseling
from program leaders with expertise to help keep you on the cutting edge
of leadership effectiveness. You also learn how to create this kind of
high performance culture in your own organization.
What you will learn:
- Learn the skills and qualities possessed by leaders and other professionals
who are recognized for their superior performance levels
- Learn to apply new leadership skills you'll use for personal and team
growth and success
- Discover how your attentional style affects your performance level
and relationship with others
- 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
- How maximize your leadership effectiveness by using e trust, teamwork,
communication, risk taking, vision and emotion to help you successfully
lead others
- Assess your organizations culture and profile through use of
the Organizational Description Questionnaire (ODQ) and develop
a plan to build off of strengths and compensate for weaknesses
- Maximize your leadership effectiveness by using trust, risk taking,
power, emotion and humor to meet the demands of different situations
- Design a personal action plan, to generate more leadership effectiveness
and higher performance levels back home
Seminar Outline
DAY 1:Characteristics and traits of high performing individuals
and organizations
- Transformational, high performance leadership for the 21st century
- The JPKAI 12 dimensional competencies approach
- Applying the JPKAI organizational leadership model for transformation
and change
- Performance indicators and outcomes
- Psychological factors attitudes, mind sets, feelings
- Organizational systems, structures, and processes
- Leadership challenge simulation
DAY 2: Culture and high performance leadership
- Framing and understanding culture
- Dimensions of organizational culture
- Assessing your organizations culture and profile Organizational
Description Questionnaire (ODQ)
- The executive role in changing organizational culture
- Strategies for organizational transformation and change
DAY 3: Assessing Your High Performance Leadership Style
- The Attentional and Interpersonal Style Inventory (TAIS)
- assessment and feedback
- Attentional style and performance
- Three kinds of attention and + Three overload tendencies
- Diagnosing your attentional strengths and areas for improvement
- Leadership challenge simulation
DAY 4: Strategies and Techniques for High Performance Leadership
(HPL)
- 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
- Leadership simulation challenge
Day 5: Performance Challenge Simulation
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
- Project Team Presentations: Leading Change
- Developing An Action Plan For Application At Work
Your Investment
US$2750 per person per program (inclusive of breaks, lunches, seminar
manual).
Payment Details
- Invoice will be sent by JPKAI
- Payment by check, bank transfer, or purchase order.
Registration Form
(Class seating will be limited so early registration is suggested)
Early Bird and Discounts
- Get 15% off regular program fee for paid registrations 45 days or
more before program; 10% discount for paid registrations between 30
and 45 days of program.
- Enroll and pay for both programs at same time for 15% discount.
- Group Offer: Enroll 3 persons from the same company and 4th person
gets 50% off.
Discounts may not be combined.
Registration and Inquiries
John P. Keenan and Associates International (JPKAI)
2 Hillsboro Drive, Orchard Park, NY 14127
(716) 390-9657 (o); (716) 667-2516 (fax)
email: john@leadership-international.org
Web Site: www.leadership-international.org
Terms and Conditions
All fees are to be made before the Seminar and payable to John P.
Keenan and Associates International. If no written notice of cancellation
is received 14 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 December 4-8, 2004, 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.
(Dec. 4-8, 2004)
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 (716) 667-2516 or email him at john@leadership-international.org.
Please check the JPKAI website at www.leadership-internationl.org
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