How do the best executives inspire "above and beyond" performance, affect large-scale change, and surpass growth and profit targets?
In this 2-day workshop, our experts share what great executives do differently at companies like GE, Google, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, Disney, Dell and more.
Great executives are bold, visionary, strategic, innovative and surrounded by talented high performers. This program will show you how optimize your organization’s performance and your executive career.
Who Should Attend
C-level executives, VPs, and any senior leader responsible for the organization's strategy, culture, talent and overall results.
Why Do These Strategies Work?
They work because they're based on real-life research. We've studied 125,387 leaders from 1500+ companies like Amgen, Charles Schwab, Citigroup, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard and more. And you'll learn the demonstrated best practices from the most successful leaders.
What You Will Learn
You'll stay on the cutting-edge with actual tools and strategies for executive success from GE, Google, Home Depot, HP, Southwest, Ritz-Carlton and more. This 2-day executive seminar is hands-on, interactive, and loaded with specific tools for replicating the successes of the greatest executives (and avoiding career-limiting mistakes).
MODULE #1: Manage Executive Pressures and Power
- Learn the biggest sources of risk for executives and diagnose your personal leadership risk
- Develop an executive “early-warning system”
- Build coalitions of powerful influencers
- Identify the sources of power you have available and leverage them with positive results
MODULE #2: Create Breakthrough Change
- Learn why 70% of change efforts will fail.
- Discover how the greatest executives create a sense of urgency for change
- Get employees to understand the vision for the future
- Empower employees to become active “owners” of the change
- Handle opposition to change
- Diagnose how much support you have (and how much you really need)
MODULE #3: Create a Strategic Vision That Inspires
- Create a vision that pushes people to look outside themselves and see what they can become.
- Develop intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of your actions
- Create a vision that creates motivating expectations
- Balance your unchanging core values and purpose with your ever-changing view of threats in the outside world
- Move beyond fuzzy and poorly defined visions
MODULE #4: Make Great Strategic Decisions
- Prevent the 7 Deadly Sins of Decision Making that cause executives to miss competitors and market shifts, enter markets unsuccessfully and more
- Learn how to greatly increase the accuracy of your financial and sales forecasts (and restore credibility to the process)
- Employ scenario planning to predict the future with great accuracy and stay ahead of your competitors
MODULE #5: Execution Without Excuses
- Learn why only 31% of employees can even clearly articulate their organization’s strategy.
- Create a culture of accountability and execution.
- Learn what measures drive success (including the difference between leading and lagging metrics)
- Hold people accountable (including what to do when they fail)
- Train and communicate to hardwire results
- Discover your organization’s unique formula for competitive advantage
MODULE #6: Grow Leaders as If Your Business Depended on It
- Choose managers with high “Leadership IQ”
- Design a robust succession plan that deepens your talent pool
- Grow managers internally, and learn the best (and worst) ways to promote and move managers
- Design management on-ramps and off-ramps
- Learn what companies like GE and Goldman-Sachs know about developing leaders
MODULE #7: Clone (and Keep) Your Best Employees
- Most hiring systems are broken because they’re more likely to select people that resemble failed employees than your best employees
- Identify exactly what makes your best employees so good, and establish clear standards for hiring and performance management
- Develop a hiring process that gets the right people on the bus, while guaranteeing that low performers don’t make it past the screening interview
- 3 hiring errors that lead to hiring low performers and how to immediately fix them
- Learn the performance management process that motivates high and middle performers, while creating real improvement for low performers
MODULE #8: Create a Culture Where Everyone Goes “Above and Beyond”
- Get your employees to act like owners instead of renters
- Learn why the Ritz-Carlton has such dedicated employees, while its competitors suffer significantly higher turnover and apathy
- Discover how Southwest has both the most unionized workforce and the most engaged workforce
- Learn how most companies are unknowingly demotivating and disengaging their employees
- Remove employees’ emotional roadblocks, unlock their intrinsic motivation and align their interests with your interests
MODULE #9: Unlock the Innovations Your Employees Are Holding Back
- Inspire people to think creatively and challenge the status quo, while still keeping your day-to-day operations running
- Make innovation ordinary (not a chance event like winning the lottery)
- Use frequent change-ups to unfreeze employees’ thinking and stimulate new ideas
- Create a dynamic balance between creativity and practicality
- Discover subtle innovations on internal processes that may not make the magazine covers, but give you the edge to trounce your competitors
MODULE #10: Tune-Up Your Executive Team
- Manage executives’ brilliance and egos while still creating a functioning team
- Learn how the greatest executive teams simultaneously foster trust while encouraging dissent
- Invest your team’s time more profitably and efficiently
- Make better and clearer decisions with greater levels of buy-in
- Make the executive team the model for every other team in your organization
Learn from bestselling authors and Fortune 500 executives.
Your Presenter:
Mark Murphy, Founder & CEO
Mark is a former turnaround CEO, and now leads one of the largest leadership research programs ever. He is one of the most sought-after authorities on leadership and his work has appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times and the Harvard Management Update.
He is the only leadership guru to appear on ABC's 20/20 and CBS News Sunday Morning. He is also author of the bestselling books The Deadly Sins of Employee Retention and Leading on the Edge of Chaos.
Mark's work has won numerous awards, including the Financial Management Association’s Best Research Award. His work to improve leadership in healthcare was also rewarded with 3 years of nominations for Modern Healthcare's "Most Powerful People in Healthcare" annual award, joining 300 luminaries like President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton.
Prior to founding Leadership IQ, he was President of a joint venture with Mercer Human Resources Consulting; and served as a senior executive with VHA, Inc, a 6-time winner of Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work Award.
Over 10,000 managers have attended our workshops, including executives from companies such as:
Accor North America
American Heart Association
Blockbuster Video
Bose Corporation
Caterpiller Inc.
Cedars-Sinai Health System
Charles Schwab
Citigroup
City of Charlotte
Comcast Cable
Cornell University
Department of Defense
DuPont
Eastman Chemical
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Earnest & Young
FedEx
Flextronics
Gannett Company Inc
GE
General Mills
Hewlett-Packard
Intel
Internal Revenue Service
JPMorgan Chase
Kaiser Permanente
Land's End
MCI
Morgan Stanley
Nordstrom Direct
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Pfizer
Philip Morris USA
Progressive Insurance
Raytheon Company
Ricoh Electronics, Inc.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Sun Microsystems
Time Warner Cable
Toyota
US Surgeon General
Yale New Haven Hospital
Verizon Wireless
Wachovia
Wal-Mart
Wells Fargo
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