Leadership Program - Gulf Region
Change the way you think about leadership
3-Day Program
Organizational benefits
- Create strong leaders and mentors with a clear understanding of their personal strengths and weaknesses
- Achieve strategic goals with stronger, more committed teams
- Equip leaders and managers to create energy and enthusiasm and an atmosphere of trust and mutual support within your organization
- Develop coaching skills and leadership techniques that will create a high-performance culture
- Empower your management team to approach performance issues and difficult conversations confidently and effectively
Personal benefits
- Gain insights into your personal strengths, weaknesses, leadership style, and how you are perceived by others
- Enhance your ability to communicate authentically, create enthusiasm and inspire others
- Equip yourself with new coaching and people management skills
- Build better, more productive relationships within and outside your organization
- Develop a personal action plan for improving your leadership skills and creating positive change
Program content
The Program covers the following curriculum:
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Transformational Leadership
Through a series of classroom discussions, you will learn to:
- Communicate a vision clearly and authentically
- Inspire, create enthusiasm, and bring out the best in others
- Coach and mentor people for peak performance
- Address behaviour and performance issues effectively and with confidence
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Enhance your leadership skills
During a series of situational exercises that mirror the workplace, you will learn to:
- Practice giving and receiving feedback
- Enhance your decision-making and problem solving skills
- Develop your coaching skills by working with fellow participants in the Program
- Develop an ability to handle leadership dilemmas with integrity
- Learn how to bring out the best in others
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Action Learning
During a series of situational exercises that mirror the workplace, you will learn to:
- Diagnose and address problems that undermine individual and team effectiveness
- Enhance your communication skills
- Build insight and self-understanding through structured feedback in team meetings and problem sets
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Analyze and reflect on your leadership style
- Reflect on your leadership strengths and areas for development
- Identify aspects of your leadership style that could create barriers to your success
- Develop approaches for using your influence more positively and effectively
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Action Plan
Develop and commit to an action plan for making positive change in your leadership behaviour
- Set objectives and timelines for your progress
- Build high-performance expectations into your everyday management practices
- Develop a plan to coach and mentor the people around you
- Translate your personal vision into tangible actions on the job
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.
Dr. Bill Blake - Organizational Behaviour, Queen's School of Business
Bill Blake is the former Associate Dean of MBA Programs at Queen’s School of Business. His research and teaching interests are leadership and the relationship between cultural adaptability and international effectiveness. He is extensively involved in executive education, and has served on the boards of directors of Fishery Products International, Homestead Land Holdings and the national network of International Business Schools. From 1992 to 2002, he was Dean of Business at Memorial University, and is Past Chair of the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans.
