Program: Emerging Leader

An Innovative Leadership Development Program Designed by World-Renowned Experts for Emerging Leaders and High-Potential Professionals.

Program Highlights

Help leaders discover how to propel business growth

  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Time Commitment: 30 minutes of formal learning per day
  • Certification: CorpU Certificate of Completion
  • Target Audience: Emerging leaders, Aspiring Leaders, Supervisors, Technical Leaders, Project Managers

Run this program privately within your company.

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Invest in your leaders

Outcomes

  • Develop and strengthen leadership pipeline at scale
  • Provide front-line leaders tools to grow as individuals and leaders
  • Create a common approach and language around leadership expectations within an organization

Participants will…

  • Learn about behaviors that drive higher performance
  • Practice skills to communicate with confidence
  • Understand how to build a professional network

About the experts

Shawn Achor

Author, The Happiness Advantage

John Austin

Professor, Leadership Studies, Fielding Graduate University

Kim Cameron

William Russell Kelly Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Alia Crum

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Mario Moussa

Author, President of Moussa Consulting

Hal Movius

Founder & President, Movius Consulting

Lawrence Susskind

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program Overview

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  • Assess the stress mindset
  • Identify an area that is causing stress to observe your thoughts, feelings and beliefs, the actions or inaction taken in response, and the resulting physical sensations
  • Identify personal values connected to a stress response
  • Practice techniques to welcome stress
  • Identify the anchors used to trigger a 3-step response to stress
  • Reassess the stress mindset
  • Understand why the first person the leader must lead is themselves
  • Explore 5 simple truths of leadership
  • Identify personal core values that will shape one’s ability to be an authentic leader
  • Recognize why leaders in the 21st century must lead with both heart and mind
  • Learn what it means to be a selfless leader
  • Explore the attribute of humility and its importance in leadership
  • Discover the value in learning from mistakes
  • Develop a personal leadership philosophy and identify ways to communicate it
  • Review the business case for positive leadership
  • Understand the heliotropic effect
  • Recognize the power in expressions of gratitude to foster positive work climate
  • Assess one’s own positive leadership practices
  • Assess organization-level positive leadership practices
  • Discover the attributes of positively energizing leaders and why they get results
  • Learn to develop positive energy networks
  • Collaborate on best practices for demonstrating positive leadership
  • Assess one’s style of networking
  • Understand the “stepping stone” strategy
  • Think strategically about conversations
  • Conduct a planned conversation
  • Explain the “why” of ideas
  • Learn methods to enhance credibility and build trust
  • Use mirroring and authenticity to do credible networking
  • Secure individual and organizational commitment
  • Review persuasion styles
  • Conduct a polished conversation
  • Make a decision given the facts of a business school case study
  • Use a decision-making toolkit to help a team create the right frame for considering a problem
  • Use questions in the decision-making toolkit to recognize and overcome four common biases that lead teams to the wrong conclusion
  • Use the decision-making toolkit to match a decision-making approach to a problem
  • Use the decision-making toolkit to guide a team through a process of learning from experience

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