| Dates | Location | Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2010 - May 7, 2010 | Philadelphia | $8,750 |
| Nov 1, 2010 - Nov 5, 2010 | Philadelphia | $8,750 |
To survive in these volatile economic times, organizations, teams, and individuals must keep performing at the top of their game. They must successfully navigate stress, recover quickly and efficiently from challenges or setbacks, and continually redirect energy and resources into actions that achieve results. In a word, they must be resilient.
Leading a Resilient Organization: Achieving Results During Challenging Times immerses you in a five-day intensive workshop that builds resilience at three levels – the organization, team, and the individual. Guided by some of today's most respected leadership experts, including Ram Charan, author of Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty; Jim Loehr, author of The Power of Full Engagement, and Karlin Sloan, author of Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership, you will:
- Work on your current business challenges in a "working laboratory setting." First you will diagnose your key issues, and then you'll apply an integrated approach to crisis management, meeting performance and financial targets, and building organizational capabilities, to create your solutions.
- Learn proven energy management models for "managing with intensity" and building resilience and adaptability in yourself and your team.
- Develop micro-leadership and coaching skills that blend "realism tempered with optimism" as you learn how to coach others and build teams in today's volatile environment.
Leadership and Resiliency Sessions Include:
- Resilience Best Practices – What Works and How Companies Do It
- Smarter, Faster, Better – Getting More Done in Less Time with Fewer Resources
- Compelling Communication Strategies – Honest, Authentic Messages that Engage and Energize Others
- Resilience Know How – Building Agile Organizations that Profit from Uncertainty
- 100-Day Resilience Leadership Plan
POST-PROGRAM SESSIONS AND Group COACHING
Expand your learning after the program with free post-program teleconferences or Web casts. These optional 60-minute sessions provide the latest best practices and strategies from faculty and guest experts, as well as opportunities to trouble-shoot your key challenges with a coach. The four sessions occur approximately once every six weeks.
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This highly experiential workshop is focused on taking actions that achieve results. We are introducing a three-pillar approach that eliminates the trial-and-error experimentation that slows organizations down — or sets them back — during times when performance matters most:
- Pillar 1: Issue Driven — The program addresses the specific issues that are having the most impact on organizations now: macro-economic upheaval, volatile stock prices and supplier relationships, downsizing and reorganization, and personal fears about employment stability.
- Pillar 2: Proven Approaches — All the program's resilience resources are based upon comprehensive research and best current practices from organizations that successfully maintain performance during turmoil or crisis.
- Pillar 3: Results Oriented — The workshop approach is rigorously application focused. You learn and immediately apply each of the proven approaches to your own specific challenges — and you leave the program with a customized 100-Day Leadership Action Plan to build greater resilience and increase productivity in yourself, your team, and your organization.
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This program is designed for senior-level to mid-level executives who need to improve or maintain the engagement and productivity of their organizations. It is effective for:
- Leaders in industries facing major downturns or decreased revenues due to the macroeconomic climate or rising competition
- Leaders who need to hold on to key players during downsizing and to energize the people who survive the cuts
- Leaders in rapidly changing companies
- Companies facing a change of CEO or other key executives
- Companies in industries that require consistently long work hours or that have high burn-out rates
We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to leverage the application and value of the resilience tools. Additional group benefits are available when four or more participants attend a program.
- Maintain productivity and engagement during internal or external turmoil
- Retain top performers during volatile times
- Improve energy, vitality and resourcefulness throughout periods of prolonged stress
- Re-energize individuals, teams and the organization after setbacks
- Establish proven practices that build a company’s “resilience DNA”
- Enact your leadership vision in a more powerful, positive way
JOSEPH
RYAN, PhD
Academic Director
Founder and President, True North Advisory Group
Adjunct Professor of Management,
The Wharton School
Adjunct Professor of Management,
The Wharton School
Professor Ryan has been affiliated with Wharton since 1991 and teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and executive education programs, including programs jointly offered with Wharton's alliance partner, INSEAD. He works with executives as an advisor on strategy and change management assignments. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. His teaching, consulting, and research interests include strategy implementation, strategic alliances, leading and building high-performance organizations, strength-based leadership, service management, and best practices in change management and executive education.
Dr. Ryan has held management positions in strategic planning, business development, and organization development with GE, GTE, and ARAMARK. He has also worked as a consultant in the Kepner Tregoe Strategy Group and at the Wharton Center for Applied Research.
He holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the GE Crotonville executive education program.
Dr. Ryan has held management positions in strategic planning, business development, and organization development with GE, GTE, and ARAMARK. He has also worked as a consultant in the Kepner Tregoe Strategy Group and at the Wharton Center for Applied Research.
He holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the GE Crotonville executive education program.
RAM
CHARAN
Wharton Senior Fellow, Renowned Speaker, and Acclaimed Author
Charan is a leading expert on business strategy, profitable growth and leadership excellence, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. He is a consultant to companies such as GE, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Home Depot, and Verizon, and has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. Among the many popular business books Charan has authored are Leaders at All Levels, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Every Business Is a Growth Business (with Noel Tichy), and the best-seller Execution (with Larry Bossidy and Charles Burck).
JIM
LOEHR, Ed.D.
Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder
Human Performance Institute
Human Performance Institute
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist, CEO of the Human Performance Institute, and author of 15 books including his most recent, The Power of Story. He also coauthored the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.
Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
At the core of his training system is the premise that managing energy, not time, is the key to sustained high performance — and that the stories we tell ourselves represent the single most powerful tool we have for managing energy, staying engaged and achieving any important mission in life.
Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, Dell, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney.
Dr. Loehr has a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on a range of prestigious scientific Boards, is an active member in numerous professional associations and spearheads the Human Performance Institute’s ground-breaking Corporate Athlete® training solutions programs.
Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading publications including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
At the core of his training system is the premise that managing energy, not time, is the key to sustained high performance — and that the stories we tell ourselves represent the single most powerful tool we have for managing energy, staying engaged and achieving any important mission in life.
Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, Dell, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney.
Dr. Loehr has a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on a range of prestigious scientific Boards, is an active member in numerous professional associations and spearheads the Human Performance Institute’s ground-breaking Corporate Athlete® training solutions programs.
KARLIN
SLOAN
Founder and CEO, Karlin Sloan & Company
As the founder and CEO of Karlin Sloan & Company, Karlin provides organization development consulting, training, and executive coaching to clients in the United States, South America, and Asia. She has helped organizations develop clearer, more effective communication, enhanced teamwork, and powerful leadership in times of growth and change. She is the author of Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership.
Experienced as a keynote speaker, she is a frequent presenter on the topic of executive leadership development. She has been featured on ABC News Network's MoneyScope, Fox Channel Five's Good Day New York, and Boston Cable Network's The Art of Coaching. Her client list includes Allstate, Leo Burnett, MTV Networks, Interbank, Starcom MediaVest Group, NYU Stern School of Business, Jose Cuervo International, and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.
As an active member of the executive coaching community, Karlin is a member of the Executive Coaching Summit and the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. She has published articles in OD Practitioner magazine, ASTD’s Leadership and Organization Development Newsletter, and The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, as well as writing the “Executive Coach” column for Executive Travel Magazine.
Karlin holds a BA from Mills College, an MA in clinical psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco, and executive coach certification through the William James Institute Center for Executive Coaching. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications as an expert in workplace behavior. Fortune Small Business Magazine recognized Karlin for her consulting work with organizations following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. She is a 2007 U.S. delegate to the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme.
Experienced as a keynote speaker, she is a frequent presenter on the topic of executive leadership development. She has been featured on ABC News Network's MoneyScope, Fox Channel Five's Good Day New York, and Boston Cable Network's The Art of Coaching. Her client list includes Allstate, Leo Burnett, MTV Networks, Interbank, Starcom MediaVest Group, NYU Stern School of Business, Jose Cuervo International, and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas.
As an active member of the executive coaching community, Karlin is a member of the Executive Coaching Summit and the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations. She has published articles in OD Practitioner magazine, ASTD’s Leadership and Organization Development Newsletter, and The International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, as well as writing the “Executive Coach” column for Executive Travel Magazine.
Karlin holds a BA from Mills College, an MA in clinical psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco, and executive coach certification through the William James Institute Center for Executive Coaching. She has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other publications as an expert in workplace behavior. Fortune Small Business Magazine recognized Karlin for her consulting work with organizations following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. She is a 2007 U.S. delegate to the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Programme.