June 25-26, 2008
San José, Costa Rica
The premise of Leadership for Experienced Managers is that effective leaders need multiple skills to allow for flexibility in managing and leading in diverse situations. Such managerial leaders are able to balance control and innovation, focus on results and winning with teamwork and collaboration, as well as focus on both the long term and short term, incremental improvement and transformational change. Successful managerial leaders are able to diagnose the organization and the balance between these competing values to achieve high performance. Being able to be both flexible and predictable characterizes successful managerial leaders.
The objective for the Leadership for Experienced Managers program is to provide a useful framework for examining leadership and over all organizational effectiveness. The program will focus on the participants and their organization and the issues will be those currently identified as problems with in these organization’s cultures today.
The simple definition of organization culture is “the way we do things around here”. In the process of diagnosing the organization culture, the effective leadership is to ask whether “the way we do things around here” is leading to high performance. If we continue to do things the way we have done things, the best we can hope for is to continue to get what we have; the status quo. Most leaders are looking to move forward from the status quo. Therefore, if we want to support different behaviors, effective leaders know they need to change the organization culture. Diagnosing the existing organization culture and determining a more effective organization culture is a primary role and responsibility of effective leaders. Since leaders are a part of the organization’s culture, they will need to recognize behaviors in themselves which need to change.
Participants will walk away from the program having learned a tool for understanding personal and organization operations. This tool will have been utilized by the participants during the session and the outcome analysis will point the participants into specific actions for implementation.
Participants should be experienced managers that have some strategic level role and responsibility within their organization; upper mid-level managers through senior management. Participants from all types of organizations are welcome as there is no industry specific orientation. Participants should be interested in understanding effective leadership and its role in organization culture.
*This program will be conducted in Spanish.