USC Marshall School of Business

Program

This three day interactive program, designed for senior managers, is taught by Jay Conger, recognized throughout the world as an expert on leadership. The Executive Leadership Skills program will give you the framework and tools to understand your personal leadership style and make a significant impact on those around you. You will discover how to keep your employees motivated, how best to communicate, how to build an adaptive team and organization, and how to avoid decision traps that occur when fundamental shifts are unfolding in your organization. You'll leave with a new understanding of high-quality connections and positive leadership that can help others grow, plus a renewed appreciation of your own potential. The program also includes a powerful 360 assessment and post course one-on-one coaching.

Objectives

• Learn more about your style of leading and how to leverage it to increase productivity and revenue
• Learn how to communicate, motivate and inspire others
• Discover how to leverage teamwork for optimal decisions
• Reinvent your decision making approaches to successfully address fundamental shifts in your environment

Topics

• Understand what types of communications work most effectively
• Learn how to become far more persuasive
• Learn how to inspire and motivate through your communications
• Discover how to make your messages more memorable and enduring

• Assess your leadership style and skills using assessment tools
• Identify your areas for personal development
• Learn the implications of critical transitions for your leadership style
• Leveraging the natural spotlight of attention on you as a leader to influence the behavior and decisions of your team and organization

• Develop a deeper appreciation for the benefits and challenges of organizational networks
• Learn about your personal style of networking – how it helps your influence and how it may hinder
• Assess where to expand critical networks of relationships

• Identify common decision traps that could undermine your actions
• Learn how to make decisions that are more likely to solve challenging problems

• Learn how to build high performing teams
• Discover team decision-making approaches that maximize inventive solutions

• Appreciate the complex dynamics of leading major organizational changes
• Learn the leadership dynamics and capabilities necessary to succeed in all types of environments

One-on-one Coaching

One one-on-one coaching sessions are included and will be conducted via phone in the few weeks following the Executive Leadership Skills program to ensure improvement in the participants' capabilities in leadership competencies. Additionally, the analysis and results of your 360 assessment will help guide these sessions for optimal results.

Program Schedule and Sessions

NOTE: Schedule subject to change.
The course runs from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM each day.

Day 1
Implications for Leaders
Leadership and Communications: Influence and Persuasion
Personal Leadership: A Look at Your Leadership Style

Day 2
Leveraging Your Network of Relationships for Greater Influence and Impact
Making Better Decisions to Increase Revenue
Leveraging Teams for Optimal Solutions

Day 3
Leading Organizational Change
Personal Leadership: Leveraging the Spotlight on Your Leadership

Who Should Attend

• Managers with at least five years of experience
• General managers to executives
• High potential directors

Teaching Method

Using case studies, current business articles, in-class simulation exercises, interaction and small group projects, our faculty will lead you to focus on the key knowledge and skills you need to understand and apply concepts to your organization's activities.

Faculty

Jay Conger is a world-renowned expert on leadership. He is a research scientist at the Marshall's School Center for Effective Organizations and is the Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School.

Jay was named the best business school professor to teach leadership and one of the top five management education teachers worldwide by Business Week. He has received numerous teaching awards throughout his career. As a management educator and consultant, Jay Conger has worked with more than three hundred companies advising them on leadership, organizational change, board governance and executive development. He has also worked in government and as an international marketing manager for a high technology company.

His insights have been featured in Business Week, The Economist, The Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The LA Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Training and The Wall Street Journal. He has authored fourteen books on leadership and has written over one hundred articles for leading journals, including 'The Necessary Art of Persuasion', 'How to Grow Great Leaders' and 'Make Your Organization a Talent Factory' in the Harvard Business Review.

Jay Conger studied at Dartmouth College and was awarded his MBA at the University of Virginia and his DBA at Harvard Business School. He has been on the faculties of the Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, McGill University, and the University of Southern California. His research focuses on leadership, corporate boards, persuasion and influencing, organisational change, power and decision making, leading innovation, and empowerment.

Fees

$2,950 per person includes tuition, course materials and parking. There is a 10% discount for three or more registrants from the same company.

Financial Aid?

The USC Marshall School of Business, Office of Executive Education, does not offer any financial aid for its programs. However, you may be able to find external financial aid to help you with our courses. These two private loan programs are available for executive and continuing education programs. This is not an exhaustive list; The USC Marshall School of Business, Office of Executive Education, does not specifically endorse any financial aid program.

Sallie Mae Career Training Loan

Wells Fargo Education Connection Loan

CPE Credits

The University of Southern California is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professions education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsrs may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.

Executive Leadership Skills has been approved for 25 CPE units in Personal Development.

Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group-Live
Advanced Preparation: None
Prerequisites: None

Continuing Education Units: 3

For more information regarding refund, complaint and program cancellation policies, please contact our offices at 213.740.8990.