• Middle-, upper- and senior-level executives
• Human resources professionals
• High-potential employees who have (or will soon have) significant responsibility for managing and leading others
• Federal Government managers who have responsibility for motivating employees and fostering their individual growth

• Identify strategies to motivate and energize individuals to produce superior bottom-line results
• Assess your leadership capabilities, communications style and approach to relationships at work to identify areas of strength and opportunity
• Increase your personal effectiveness as a manager of people through experiential learning focused on practical application

The Energizing Leader

• Learn the personal and situational facets of leadership that build trust and engagement in the workforce
• Improve your ability to diagnose performance, communicate expectations and motivate people for results
• Build awareness of your approach to leading others and of your people’s approach to work, and develop strategies to bridge the gap

Strategies for Energizing Individuals and Teams 

• Identify the multifaceted forces that contribute to the success or failure of individual employees and effective tools to manage these forces
• Acquire core coaching skills for grooming others for leadership and practice them with peers in class
• Develop strategies for communicating with employees to optimize relationships and elevate performance
• Learn about job-crafting as a strategy to help employees shape their own work environments and make them more engaging

Shana Carroll - Academic Director; Clinical Associate Professor of Management Communications; Associate Chair of the Management & Organizations Department; Co-Director of the Leadership Development and Communications Program (LDEV)

Suzanne Muchin - Clinical Associate Professor of Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI)

Andrew W. Sykes - Adjunct Lecturer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Adam Waytz - Professor of Management & Organizations

“I learned in an immersive four days...to appreciate that everyone has an individual style of interacting in the workplace and how to better communicate, learn from, and utilize these styles to motivate people.”
Head of School, Catherine Cook School

“Excellent overview of a number of leadership and people management topics. This program provided a great source of techniques, topics and templates that will help improve our communication and coaching success.”
Partner, PwC

“This program gave me such a broad set of tools for navigating my role within my organization at a higher level of expertise. I am leaving with skills I can apply to impact my team right away.”
National Sales Director, Merz