KEY TOPICS
Take the next step to achieve your leadership potential. In this three-day seminar, you will learn how effective leaders meet complex challenges to create high performing organizations, and how you can leverage your strengths to drive transformational change.

The Essence of Effective Leadership - The leader’s critical roles and functions in every organization. The leader’s goals: improve performance and quality, increase output, promote pride of accomplishment. A model of effective leadership. Integrating the roles of leadership and management. How effective leaders link personal and organizational goals.

Building High-Performing Teams - Developing the talents and potential of others. Empowering team members to generate motivation and commitment. Organizing team-building activities.

Organizational Culture - How organizational culture affects the bottom line. Characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of different organizational cultures. Assessing your organization’s culture. Leading culture change in your organization.

High Performing Organizations - The impact of team leadership on business performance. Kaizen — the spirit of continuous improvement. How effective management of the workforce leads to enhanced productivity and increased profitability.

Effective Decision-Making - Determining how and when to involve others in decisions. Assessing your decision-making style. Improving employee participation. Practical tools for effective decision-making.

Coaching for Performance - Becoming a developmental manager. Obstacles to effective coaching. Coaching for performance improvement.

The Leader of the Future - How the nature of leadership is changing. Creating your own personal development action plan. Becoming the leader you would follow.

CUSTOMIZE THIS SEMINAR FOR YOUR COMPANY
We can tailor this seminar to meet your key strategic business needs. That way, your employees stay focused on your mission and goals as they learn from University of Washington faculty. We can create in-house versions of any of our three seminars in Finance and Accounting, Negotiating and Leadership. Or work with Executive Education staff to develop a new program specifically for your company. For more information, call UW Executive Education at 206.543.8560.