Foundation Module Leadership Presence
Toronto, Ontario
This course is structured to help participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to lead high-performing global teams. At the outset of the course, students will conduct an assessment of their leadership style by completing a series of self inventories examining personality type and emotional intelligence. Students will then have an opportunity to have a one-on-one debrief of their leadership assessment results with a course instructor. Team skills will be developed by examining the qualities and characteristics of high performing teams and through cross-cultural communication exercises. The essential team leadership skills of influencing and persuading, and giving and receiving feedback, will be developed by reviewing evidence based-models and through practical simulations. Students will be introduced to a logic-based model of
developing and delivering high quality presentations that drive effective decision making.
Team Building
Working in teams with people of diverse nationalities and backgrounds is a necessary condition of doing business internationally and an essential component of the Omnium program. Team Building prepares students for the group work they will be required to undertake during in-company consulting projects and team-based assignments. Drawing on the insights learned from self-assessments such as the Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Inventory (EQ-i) and the cross-cultural communication seminar, participants are introduced to a structured approach to developing and leading effective teams.
Cross-Cultural Communications
Cross-cultural communications helps participants understand cultural differences and equips them to work more effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds. It approaches cultural difference as a source of potential benefit to the organization.
Emotional Intelligence & Leadership Development
Exceptional leadership involves more than pure rationality. It also requires emotional intelligence (EI)—the innate capacity to think through your feelings and through your sensitivity to the feelings of others. After conducting an emotional intelligence inventory (the BarOn EQ-i), students generate a personal EQ-i Leadership Report identifying specific leadership strengths and weaknesses. A leadership action plan is then drawn up mapping the road to acquiring and honing key leadership skills.
Effective Presentation Techniques
Communicating effectively is an essential management skill. A manager must, at different times, communicate a vision, motivate a sales force or convince a board. Logic Works provides participants with the necessary tools for making cases that are clear, memorable and compelling.
Decision Making
If anything, leadership means accepting the responsibility of making decisions. But how do you decide wisely under real-life business pressures and distractions? For individuals as well as for teams, Decision Making offers a systematic and trenchant analysis of the dos and don’ts of sound business decision making.
Relationship Management
You don’t have to agree with Jean-Paul Sartre that "hell is other people" to accept that relationships can cause difficulty in business as much as in personal life. Relationship Management examines the role of communication in resolving conflict. It provides a step-by-step approach to managing "difficult conversations" effectively.
