Queen's Leadership Program

Realizing Your Leadership Potential

Who Should Attend

Managers and executives in any functional area of their organization who want to strengthen their leadership skills.

Upcoming Sessions

Dec 6 to Dec 11, 2009
$8,900*
Feb 28 to Mar 5, 2010
$8,900*
Jun 20 to Jun 25, 2010
$8,900*
Sep 12 to Sep 17, 2010
$8,900*
Dec 5 to Dec 10, 2010
$8,900*

*Fees do not include GST

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This highly acclaimed 5-day program will provide you with a new perspective on leadership, and help you become a more effective leader. The Program will take you through an intensive five days that starts with personal assessments and self-discovery. You will then have the opportunity to reflect on your leadership challenges and responsibilities. Experienced coaches will provide one-on-one feedback to help you create a personal development agenda.

Queen's Leadership Program focuses on specific leadership responsibilities including:

  • Communicating more authentically
  • Coaching for high performance
  • Involving others in decisions that affect them

In addition, the Program will focus on topics such as leading performance improvements, managing change and creating a flexible, adaptive, self-renewing organization.

Practical and relevant content delivered by exceptional speakers, and a commitment to unrivaled customer service, have made Queen's Leadership Program one of North America's most popular leadership programs.

Program Content

Queen's Leadership Program will give you with a new perspective on leadership and provide one-on-one coaching to help you become a more effective leader.

Queen's leadership Program leverages the educational power of multiple teaching tools, including class discussions, one-on-one coaching, leadership exercises, and the development of a self-directed action plan for improving personal effectiveness.

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The Program is built around a four-step process:

1. Understanding Your Leadership Capabilities

The Program starts with personal assessments and self-discovery. One-on-one feedback will be provided by experienced coaches.

  • Assess your leadership style and strengths before you enter the Program
  • Work with a Queen's coach to understand how others perceive your leadership style and identify barriers to your becoming a more effective leader
  • Define your core values and beliefs and understand how they influence your effectiveness as a leader

2. Analyzing and Reflecting on Your Leadership Style

Gain valuable insights into your personal effectiveness as a leader.

  • Reflect on your leadership strengths and areas for development
  • Diagnose and address problems that undermine individual and team effectiveness
  • Build insight and self-understanding through structured feedback in team meetings and in problem sets

3. Developing A Personal Action Plan

Work with our professional coaches to create an action plan for changing what you do as a leader, and committing to a plan of professional renewal.

  • Plan your ongoing development with a long-term leadership plan
  • Set objectives and timelines for your progress
  • Build high-performance expectations into your everyday management practices
  • Prepare to use your leadership strengths more effectively

4. Enhancing Your Leadership Skills

Practice coaching skills, communicating, problem-solving, and team-building.

  • Practice giving and receiving feedback
  • Practice decision-making and problem-solving skills
  • Develop coaching skills and work on a plan to help others grow as leaders

Queen's Leadership Program can help you become a more effective leader.

  • Learn the personal and organizational skills you need to be an effective leader
  • Gain a better understanding of your leadership capabilities
  • Learn how to apply the principles of transformational leadership
  • Expand your coaching, team leadership, and project management skills
  • Build better relationships within and outside your organization
  • Exchange ideas and experiences with Queen's faculty and fellow participants
  • Return to work with proven tools to achieve lasting change in the way teams work together
  • Learn how to lead a healthy and balanced life through the Program's optional Lifestyle Component

Enhancing your leadership skills will have a significant impact across your organization.

  • Achieve your strategic goals with stronger, more committed teams
  • Help the people you work with perform at their peak
  • Create an atmosphere of trust, mutual support, and open communication
  • Develop a high-performance culture in your organization
  • Benchmark against the best leadership practices of the world's most successful companies
  • Build high-performance expectations into everyday management practices

Outstanding Session Leaders

Session leaders include senior professors from Queen’s School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today’s business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.

Julian Barling

Dr. Julian Barling, Professor of Human Resources

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Julian Barling, Associate Dean, is responsible for the PhD,MSc, and research programs. An authority on transformational leadership, he received the National Leaders in Management Education award (National Post, 2001), and Maclean's has recognized him as one of Queen's most popular professors. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and named a Queen's Research Chair (2002). In 2008, he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and received Queen's University's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. He is the author of over 160 articles and numerous books, the most recent of which are Handbook of Work Stress, Handbook of Workplace Violence, and the Handbook of Organizational Behavior.

Peggy Baumgartner

Ms. Peggy Baumgartner, Consultant

Performance Coaching Inc., Rockwood, Ontario

In her role as consultant with Performance Coaching Inc., Peggy Baumgartner combines her speaking and training talents with 13 years of experience at IBM, and with experience in performance consulting, course design and development, curriculum management, business processes, and sales. She utilizes practical solutions, experience, and humour to help others optimize their performance along with the performance of those that they manage. Ms. Baumgartner has instructed and worked with businesses, universities and government agencies in China, Belgium, the Caribbean, and North America. Her ability to assess needs, to design and to deliver measurable results have won her numerous awards for innovation, excellence, and leadership.

Peter Jensen

Dr. Peter Jensen, Associate Professor of Strategy and Management Information Systems

Performance Coaching Inc., Rockwood, Ontario

Peter Jensen is an internationally recognized authority on high performance. Since achieving his PhD in sports psychology, he has attended six Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has worked with over 40 medal-winning athletes and coaches. He is currently the mental training consultant for Canada's Olympic women's hockey team. He is author of The Inside Edge, a book that describes how to improve both your personal and organizational performance under pressure, as well as his recently released Igniting the Third Factor, a book on how to inspire greatness in others. Dr. Jensen is the founding partner of Performance Coaching Inc., a corporate training firm. He has been featured on ABC, CBS, CBC and CTV.

Clients: BP, Nexen, TD, Syncrude, Labatt, Hydro One, CCMD, RCMP, GE Capital, Maclean's and Royal Bank.

Shawna O'Grady

Dr. Shawna O'Grady, Associate Professor of Human Resources

Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario

Shawna O'Grady is an authority on team building, human resource management, and the cross-cultural aspects of international business. She is an experienced team facilitator who is in high demand for her original approach to team building. She is also the author of Border Crossings – Doing Business in the U.S., an award-winning book on international business.

Clients: Microsoft, MDS, Mattel, Shoppers Drug Mart, Enbridge Consumers Gas, Industry Canada, BMW, Novo Nordisk, Oracle, Xerox, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Ministry of Finance, Canada Post Corporation, and TD Canada Trust.

Session Leaders are subject to change.