Leading and Managing People: Strategies for a Changing Workforce

The Wharton School

Leadership and Management

About Programme

The future of work is no longer just on the horizon — it’s here. Managing your most valuable asset, your people, now requires a more thoughtful and flexible approach. Shifting employee expectations and constant change have made building and leading effective teams both more challenging and more essential for leaders in every function. Attracting, motivating, and retaining talent is no longer solely an HR responsibility, but a key focus for all leaders. Staying ahead means embracing new skills and understanding best practices, trends, and technologies that shape today’s workforce.

Leading and Managing People: Strategies for a Changing Workforce will equip participants with the proven skills required for successful people management — but through the much-needed lens of the ever-shifting future of work. The program utilizes a three-pronged approach to look at modern-day leadership — developing a style and vision that inspires; mastering the operational skills begetting a positive, productive workplace; and utilizing the latest data-driven approaches for making sound decisions. Participants will throw out their assumptions and trial-and-error approaches to leverage groundbreaking research from Wharton People Analytics on what really works to attract, retain, reward, and develop talent.

Programme Content

This unique program is grounded in cutting-edge research from Wharton faculty who lead the school’s Center for Human Resources and People Analytics Initiative . Through a combination of interactive lectures, small-group discussions, and exercises, you will learn the latest insights and best practices for managing today’s workforce.

Each day will begin with a faculty-led integration session that will help you apply classroom learnings to your specific leadership challenges.

Session topics include:

Effective Hiring

Managing the Remote Workplace

Building a Talent Pipeline

Coaching and Development

Engagement and Retention

Designing High-Performing Pay and Incentives

Understanding True Performance

Leading through your Networks

Navigating Difficult Conversations

Programme Audience

Leading and Managing People: Strategies for a Changing Workforce is designed for leaders and managers seeking to improve talent acquisition, development, engagement and culture, and retention. Its results-oriented, hands-on learning experience will prepare you to meet current and future challenges in people management in any industry. Specific roles and functions may include:

Successful functional, country, or unit managers preparing to take on broader responsibilities outside their areas of expertise and experience

People leaders across all disciplines, including marketing and analytics, research and development, accounting and finance, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing and engineering, human resources, and information technology

Executives who build and lead multi-functional teams

CEOs and other senior leaders of small and mid-sized companies

Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.

This program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Meals and accommodations are included in the program fees. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus .

To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.