Leading High-Impact Teams

Kellogg School of Management

Leadership

About Programme

This long running, always inspiring program focuses specifically on how you can optimize your personal performance as a team player and your effectiveness as a team leader. This immersive experience is comprised of thought leadership from the forefront of contemporary management practice.

In a highly collaborative, interactive atmosphere, you’ll explore the intricacies of internal and external team dynamics and how to manage them. Our top-tier faculty will guide you through how to structure teams to maximize effectiveness, resolve conflict, persuade others and unleash your team’s full potential. Through personal assessment, you’ll create a tailored plan to improve your leadership skills and leave better equipped to create a positive and supportive team culture within your organization.

Programme Content

The Team Performance Equation

Evaluate leadership and communication styles

Conduct a team performance analysis

Explore four types of high-performing teams and the primary threats to team effectiveness

Optimize the performance of virtual teams and teams that work across distances

Power and Influence in Teams

Understand open-loop versus closed-loop networks

Build and mobilize organizational capital

Creativity and Innovation

Lead effective brainstorming

Sharpen convergent and divergent thinking skills

Successfully sell creative ideas in your organization

Leading Teams

Create an environment conducive for “good” conflict

Understand challenges in getting team members to learn from one another

Move beyond agendas and opinions to reveal the facts

Discover the real value of diversity in teams

Managing Multicultural Teams

Understand key cultural style differences

Leverage cultural differences into high-quality team decisions

Emotional Intelligence and Team Coaching

Assess your EQ versus your IQ

Develop a personal plan to increase your EQ

Create a community of active communication

Programme Audience

Leaders and members of formally structured organizational teams including Federal Government agencies

Members of an ad hoc workforce or a team with a new mission

Individuals seeking to improve the effectiveness of teams in their organizations

Programme Benefits

Structure team roles to maximize potential

Set clear and engaging goals

Resolve conflict effectively

Communicate passionately

Advocate for change persuasively

Unlock your team's creative potential

Create a positive and supportive team culture

Testimonials

"Once again Professor Thompson provided interesting and pertinent information no doubt she is an expert in her field. Always a pleasure to hear from and learn from Professor Thompson."

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"This was a fun collaborative experience that inspired me to purchase Professor Thompsons book."

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"Attending this program was an inspiring experience. Being amongst such highly accomplished professionals as classmates in a stimulating environment, fueled by the knowledge and enthusiasm of the session leaders, was an experience I would recommend to anyone."

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"The attendees came from different types of companies and the class was conducted in a practical way so we could use each others' experiences to learn. All the information shared in the class could be incorporated immediately in our current jobs."

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"This program provided a very realistic approach to the challenges we all meet everyday. I was impressed with the effort to ensure that the information reviewed could be applied to everyday life."

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Pedagogy (case method, experiential learning, coaching, simulations)
Programme Objective

Prashansa Uttam

Programme Advisor

+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

Kellogg School of Management

Executive Education Office

847.467.6018

mailto:execedkellogg.northwestern.edu

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu

Evanston, USA

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