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CoachingOurselves: Leadership Development

Leadership Skills

Training Provided by Coaching Ourselves Customized leadership development program for the enterprise. 1. Individual managers: enhance your understanding of the concepts and the competencies of managing, easily and quickly, while working with a small group of colleagues; this is valuable for new managers and experienced managers alike. 2. Teams: managers get to know and appreciate their colleagues as they coach and learn from each other, strengthening their bonds. 3. Organizations: develop champions for effective change; each session is designed to draw out and address key issues of concern to the group and the organization, promoting development of new ideas and actions.
This is primarily self-directed training
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Course Level:basic through advanced
Duration:flexible
Training Presented in:English
CoachingOurselves: Leadership Development Listed below are the topics available. We work with you to select and sequence the appropriate topics for your group and organization.

The Reflective Mindset:
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1. Management Styles: Art, Craft, Science by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Sasha Sadilova

Management is a practice where art, craft, and science meet. Consider how to modify your style to enhance your effectiveness.

2. Managing to Lead by Professor Jonathan Gosling

Determine which factors contribute to effective leadership and understand how to better balance your leadership style.

3. Dealing With the Pressures of Managing by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Appreciate the pressures of managing-the interruptions, the pace, etc.-and how you can rise above this to manage more effectively.

4. Reflection by Professor Jonathan Gosling

Appreciate the importance of collective and individual reflection in managerial work and how to combine this with managerial action.

5. Management Competency Raising by Professor Henry Mintzberg and Sasha Sadilova

Deepen your understanding of what management competencies are and reflect on how you use them.

The Analytic Mindset
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6. The Play of Analysis by Professor Ann Langley

Understand how and why analysis is best used to avoid "extinction by instinct" and "paralysis by analysis".

7. Chains, Hubs, Webs, and Sets by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Be introduced to four ways of thinking about organizing and understand how varied managing can be in these different forms.

8. Analyzing Employee Performance by Terrence Traut

Learn how you can turn an otherwise unproductive and unmotivated team around by analyzing your employees' current performance.

9. Strategic Thinking As Seeing by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Understand better what strategic thinking is and enhance your capacity to "see" strategic issues.

The Worldly Mindset
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10. How Global Should Our Firm Be? by Professor Karl Moore

Come to some group conclusions about your industry's potential for globalization, using a model developed by George Yip.

11. Introducing Culture In Organizations by Professor Sharon Turnbull

Learn how you can be more effective by understanding how
your organizational culture works.

12. Global or Worldly? by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Appreciate that many companies have to be more "worldly" and not just more global. Worldly means experienced in life, sophisticated, practical.

The Collaborative Mindset
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13. Coaching Others by Beverly Patwell

Understand how coaching can impact all levels of your
organization and what qualities you need to coach effectively.

14. Managing On the Edges by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Consider how to manage on the edges, that is out of your unit to other parts of the organization and to the outside world.

15. Time to Dialogue by Tana Paddock and Warren Nilsson

Practice dialogue, a creative, collaborative mode of communication, to push yourself beyond your current modes of thought and action.

16. Silos and Slabs in Organizations by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Consider how to break out of the silos that separate specialized parts of the organization and break through the slabs that separate different levels in the hierarchy.

17. Talent Management by David Creelman

Reflect on your talent midset and how you can best support the talent in your organization/unit.

The Action Mindset
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18. In Praise of Middle Managers by Professor Quy Nguyen Huy

Explore the key roles of middle managers, especially during periods of organizational change.

19. Decision Making: It's Not What You Think by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Contrast "thinking first" with "seeing first" and "doing first" to approach key decisions.

20. Introducing Strategy Through Robin Hood by Professor Joseph Lampel

Consider the strategies of Robin Hood as a way of moving into the strategies your own organization.

21. Ps and Processes for Strategy by Professor Henry Mintzberg

Discuss strategy, defined as plan, pattern, position, and perspective, to appreciate four distinct processes of strategy formation: planning, visioning, venturing, and learning.
About The Training Provider: Coaching Ourselves
Coaching Ourselves - CoachingOurselves offers management development material, for use by working managers within the organization. Topics are authored by top professors and thinkers, such as Professor Henry Mintzberg, a partner in this initiative. Groups of 4-6, typically from the same level, gather for 75-minute "self directed learning" sessions. They download topics that allow them to enrich their understanding...
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