Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams

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- Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams
Philadelphia
$9,400
- Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams
Philadelphia
$9,400

Teams drive organizational progress. Yet forming and leading high-performance teams is one of the most complex challenges facing any leader. Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams combines the best insights from research and case studies, tested in the context of hands-on, experiential learning. The program places executives into team challenges in diverse settings — from rowing crew shells to the performing arts. These experiences will change the way you create and lead your own high-performing teams.

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The dynamics of teamwork are too complex to be understood in the classroom alone. This program provides a distinctive combination of classroom and case work along with daily experiential exercises. It builds upon years of programs by Professor Mike Useem and Wharton Leadership Ventures, which have immersed MBA students and executives in rigorous outdoor challenges around the globe. Senior guest speakers also will offer their experiences from business, the military, and other areas.

Creating and Leading High-Performing Teams Session Topics

  • Forming and Sustaining Successful Teams
  • Aligning Individuals Around Group Goals
  • Team Dynamics
  • Leading from the Front, Middle, and Behind
  • Experiential Learning

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The program is designed primarily for managers of small to mid-sized teams, specifically middle and senior managers from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Gain a direct understanding of what makes teams successful. Among the takeaways:

  • Understand the stages of team formation.
  • Gain hands-on experience in building, participating on, and leading teams in diverse contexts.
  • Understand how team leadership resides in action rather than position.
  • Learn to manage strong individual players within a team and draw out the best from everyone — so the team is more than a sum of its parts.
  • Learn about your own leadership style and its impact on team performance.
  • Build a network of fellow leaders for sharing challenges, insights, and perspectives.

Jeff Klein JEFF KLEIN
Learning Director
Director, Graduate Leadership Program
Director, Wharton Leadership Ventures
The Wharton School

Jeff Klein is the Director of the Wharton Leadership Program and a Lecturer at the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. As Director, Jeff is responsible for the portfolio of curricular and co-curricular leadership development programs available to Wharton MBA students and for directing the School's efforts to create the Wharton Global Leadership Institute. He teaches an interdisciplinary graduate level course at the University of Pennsylvania that focuses on cross-sector collaboration, and serves as a strategic advisor to the Global Partnerships Forum. In addition, Jeff designs and delivers leadership workshops and courses for executive clients through Wharton Executive Education. As a Learning Director, Jeff leads two weeklong executive courses, Creating and Leading High Performing Teams and The Leadership Edge. He also instructs in many open-enrollment and corporate custom programs, including Wharton's Executive Development Program.

Jeff is an honors graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Penn State University (BA, BS), and is currently a doctoral student studying educational leadership. Prior to his current career as a scholar and practitioner, Jeff held a variety of roles at AT&T and its cable unit, AT&T Broadband, including as a product CFO and Executive Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Quinn_Bauriedel QUINN BAURIEDEL
Speaker
Pig Iron Theater Company

Quinn Bauriedel is a founder and co-Artistic director of the OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. For the last 12 years, he has toured across Europe, South America and the United States, performing in the company's original and highly physical performance works. He has been teaching movement and theatre at Princeton University and Swarthmore College and recently he has taught Leadership Presence to Wharton MBA students. Quinn is the recipient of a Pew Fellowship and was a Henry Luce Scholar in Bali, Indonesia in 2000 and 2001, where he studied Asian physical performance traditions including mask and dance work. Quinn graduated from Swarthmore College and Ecole International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
todd henshaw TODD HENSHAW, PhD
Academy Professor and Director of Military Leadership
US Military Academy
West Point

Todd Henshaw was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery at the US Military Academy at West Point in May of 1985 and has since served in a variety of command and leadership positions. He earned his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, concentrating on strategy, organizational culture, and executive leadership. He went on to complete a PhD in business at the University of Kansas in 2003, which examined the impact of organizational culture on leader development and behavior. And in 2005, Todd received a degree in Columbia University's Advanced Organization Development and Human Resources Management Program.

Returning to West Point in 2003, he designed and directed the new Eisenhower Leader Development Program, a graduate program offered in conjunction with Teacher's College, Columbia University. He also directed West Point's leadership and management programs, growing enrollment five-fold the first year and initiating the program's progress toward AACSB accreditation. He currently serves as an Academy Professor and Director of Military Leadership at West Point and as director for its core course in leadership.
Rodrigo_Jordan RODRIGO JORDAN, PhD
Executive Vice President
Vertical SA

Rodrigo Jordan is widely recognized in Latin America for his work in Leadership and Innovation. He is the author of Leadership: From Theory to Practice (Spanish, Prentice-Hall 2008) and he is the host of Leadership in Person, a T.V. show for Canal 13, interviewing Chile's most important leaders. In addition, he serves as Professor of Innovation Process and Management in the MBA program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Business. Jordan regularly runs seminars on leadership and the development of high performance teams to a wide variety of clients through out Latin America and beyond, including extensive work with the Wharton Leadership Ventures program.

Jordan is considered one of Chile's most accomplished mountaineers, having led several successful expeditions to the Himalayas and Antarctica. Jordan has authored a number of books and documentaries based on these expeditions including Everest: The Challenge of A Dream, K2: The Ultimate Challenge, Planet Antarctica, and One Day in Chile.

Rodrigo Jordan holds a PhD in Organizational Administration from Oxford University.
Dan Lyons DAN LYONS
President
Team Concepts Inc.

Dan Lyons is the Founder and President of Team Concepts, Inc. (1995) and founder of the non profit Champions of Hope, Inc. (2002). As an oarsman, Dan rowed on seven US National Teams, during that period winning two world bronze medals, a world gold medal, and a Pan American gold medal. In 1988, he competed in the Seoul Olympics in the coxed pair. He has won 11 National Championships in various events. Dan has coached since 1983 at the US Naval Academy, St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia, Oxford University, Stanford University, Drexel University, Georgetown University, and is now an elite coach at Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia. His remarkable rowing career was recognized in 1997 with his induction into the US Rowing Hall of Fame in Mystic, CT. Dan is the subject of two books True Blue, and The Yanks at Oxford as well as the movie True Blue which depicts events during the famous "Mutiny" at Oxford in 1986.

Dan received his BS from the US Naval Academy in 1981, MS from Oxford University, England, in 1987, and MA in history from Villanova University in 1989, and is pursuing his PhD in Military History and Foreign Policy. He has taught history at the US Naval Academy and Rutgers University, Camden.

Dan is noted for his intelligent seminars on a wide range of topics related to teams, team building, and leadership, which reflect his unique combination of high achievement in the sport of rowing, his perspective as a coach, and his extensive knowledge of military and ancient history.

Nancy_Rothbard NANCY ROTHBARD
Associate Professor of Management
The Wharton School

Nancy Rothbard's research focuses on the interplay between emotions and engagement in multiple roles. Specifically, she explores how people’s emotional responses to one role or task affect their subsequent engagement in another role or task. She has examined these questions in the context of work and family roles and in the context of multiple tasks that people perform within the work role. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. In addition to her academic articles, Professor Rothbard has authored several Harvard Business School case studies. Her teaching cases touch on the topics of leadership, corporate culture, and organizational change. Professor Rothbard received the 2000 Likert Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. She is also the recipient of the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Teaching Excellence.

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