| Dates | Location | Tuition |
|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2010 - May 28, 2010 | Philadelphia | $10,250 |
| Sep 26, 2010 - Oct 1, 2010 | Philadelphia | $10,250 |
Economies around the world will continue to shift in the months ahead, triggering an ongoing barrage of new challenges. What made you successful as a leader in the past may not ensure your success in the future. Reinvigorate your leadership with new knowledge — knowledge that you can leverage to lead your organization successfully in aggressive global markets.
The Leadership Journey revitalizes your leadership skills with practical wisdom drawn from the issues great leaders faced during critical moments in history, team exercises, case discussions, computer simulations, physical challenges, Shakespearian drama, and a battlefield visit. You will learn the imperatives of effective leadership and decision-making — knowledge that is pivotal to your future and that of your organization.
This program will also show you how to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of your team, and how to cultivate their decision-making capabilities by creating the strategic context they need to make good decisions.
"Mastering the art of leadership is a lifelong endeavor, and The Leadership Journey provides an intense experience for refining the leadership skills you have already acquired, and for developing those essential for the greater responsibilities ahead." Michael Useem, co-director of The Leadership Journey, Wharton professor, director of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management, and author of leadership books such as The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide; Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All.
Tuition for Philadelphia programs includes lodging and meals. Prices are subject to change. Program Consultants are available to provide more information on course specifics and discuss how this program might meet your needs for good leadership skills. Please contact them by telephone at +1 215.898.1776, or by e-mail.
This program immerses you in an experiential process of redefining yourself as a leader. By challenging your current assumptions about leadership, you will discover what to keep, what to change, and what to develop in yourself as a leader. Through decision-making simulations, exchanging perspectives with your peers, and walking in the actual footsteps of great leaders in history, you will emerge with a fresh approach to leadership and the decision-making capabilities that characterize all great leaders.
The Leadership Journey Session Topics
- Seizing Leadership Opportunities
- Thinking, Depicting, and Enacting Leadership
- Leadership in Practice
- A Leadership Dialogue
- Leadership and History
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In his book The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, Michael Useem presents a series of poignant real-life examples of people facing their "moments of truth" — making the tough leadership decisions that change destinies — to show readers how best to perform under the pressures they face in the business world.
Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits brings together a remarkable team of nine writers equally at home among the high peaks and in the corridors of corporate power. Whether it's up the career ladder or toward a creative peak, Upward Bound addresses the fundamental question of why we climb, while capturing the power of mountains to instruct as well as inspire.
Through vivid, compelling stories, Michael Useem reveals how upward leadership can transform incipient disaster into hard-won triumph. Leading Up: How To Lead Your Boss So You Both Win is a call to action. It asks us to get results by helping our superiors lead and by building on the best in everybody's nature, and it offers a pragmatic blueprint for doing so.
This program is designed for experienced executives who want to evolve their leadership and hone their decision-making skills. Senior managers from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors are welcome.
We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to leverage the application and value of the program. Additional group benefits are available when four or more participants attend a program.
Understand the leadership function — and its demands — in sessions such as Leadership in Practice and Seizing Leadership Opportunities. You will:
- Question the shelf-life of your leadership style and ensure your relevance, competencies, and the timeliness of your strategic vision in a close examination of your leadership.
- Deconstruct great leadership moments in history to build a solid foundation for your future as a leader.
- Build a global network of peers to gain multiple perspectives, explore ideas, and discuss challenges.
GREGORY
SHEA, PhD
Faculty Associate, Center for Leadership and Change Management
The Wharton School
MIKE
USEEM, PhD
Professor of Management
The Wharton School
I honestly cannot express in words what a wonderful experience The Leadership Journey was for me. I knew that I could expect a world-class learning experience at Wharton, but the week in The Leadership Journey was without a doubt the best week I have spent learning.
I have two classes remaining to complete my Certificate of Professional Development from Wharton but my intent is not to stop there. After I complete my certificate, my goal is to continue with executive education at Wharton. My sincerest thanks to a wonderful institution, and to the faculty, professors Mike Useem and Greg Shea, for the difference they made in me, and in our entire class.
— Michael Dottaviano, Defense Industry