Getting the most out of your team

What if managers could get advice and expert guidance from the finest minds in leadership? 

Join us in Brussels with top experts from no less than 3 of Europe’s leading business schools. Participants are not obliged to follow all the sessions and can select particular days. Ninety four percent of past participants (managers from the private sector and high level civil servants from EU institutions) recommend this programme! 

Leadership & people management programme (i.e. the Grand Tour) :

London Business School, Prof. Randall Peterson: Leading a High Performance Team / The Critical Role of Conflict Resolution in Teams

Saïd at Oxford University,  Prof. Tim Cullen: Advanced Negotiation Techniques

Insead,   Prof. Andreas Bernhardt: The Leader as Coach / Leading under pressure

Deadline for application is October 29 (limited number of participants). For rates go to the register page

A certificate signed by each Professor you attended is awarded. 

We have selected a unique panel of world authorities who have an impressive track record in advising companies and accompanying managers around the world. Their expert guidance is based on actionable data gleaned from extensive research and assessments. This guarantees your programme incorporates real-world management challenges which delivers skills and insights that you can put immediately into practice. Henceforth, all the sessions are very practical and interactive (including group discussions, case studies, role playing,…). 

The Grand Tour

Day 1, May 21, 9.30-5.15 pm:

Prof. Cullen, Saïd at Oxford University

Advanced Negotiation techniques

Good negotiators have a heightened sense of self-awareness. They recognize the biases that we all possess and that too often trap us into making bad decisions as the negotiation progresses. Greater self-awareness can make us better persuaders and more sensitive to manipulative efforts to influence us employed by those with whom we are negotiating.Tim Cullen will explore two building blocks to successful negotiation: 

decision-making and persuasion, and go on to lay out a range of strategies to enable both parties to achieve positive results. Often standard bargaining approaches fail and innovative thinking is required. Once made, agreements must be implemented and enforced to succeed. These five skills: – information-gathering, rational decision-making, persuasion, innovation, and implementation – constitute the negotiator’s tool kit. The programme has been designed to equip experienced professionals with tools that allow you to reach agreements that work. After participating on this programme you will gain better results for y

our organisation, gain confidence in handling difficult situations and enhance your communication and influencing skills.Complex negotiation scenarios which provide a range of competitive and cooperative negotiation strategies are analysed. Whether you’re an experienced executive or and up-and-coming manager – working in the private or public sector – this session will help you shape important deals, negotiate in uncertain environments, improve working relationships, claim (and create) more value, and resolve seemingly intractable disputes.Tim Cullen will also touch on issues of trust and ethics which we believe to be critically important to building trust among negotiators. The session will be brought to life by cases and simulations.

Day 2, May 22, 9.30-5.15 PM

 

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Prof. Randall Peterson, London Business School

Leading a High Performance Team, morning session.

Business teams are increasingly operating in complex environments with multiple external actors outside of historical team and organisational boundaries; therefore the need for effective high performance teams has never been greater. Traditionally the focus of team leadership development activities has been on managing the internal dynamics of a team. That remains critical for leading an effective team, but is no longer enough. Today’s companies expect managers to work across many differences (e.g., age, gender, function, personality, culture, etc.) and to manage in a change-oriented environment. In this session,

Randall will explore what it takes to create and sustain high performing teams in this environment. He will also share his insights on how to prepare managers for such challenging assignments:

- How to assess whether a team is high performing

- Team leader selection and support

- Managing conflict in teams

- Understanding how personality effects team dynamics

- Effective decision making in teams

- Creating ROI – Return on Inclusion in diverse teams 

The session provides frameworks for understanding high performance teams, as well as a number of specific and practical tips for how to encourage high performance in your own team.

The Critical Role of Conflict Resolution in Teams, afternoon session.

Conflict is inevitable in any team or organisation. But what do we really know about how and why conflict works? Randall has been looking at a variety of types of teams and there are processes that consistently work and some that don’t. What are the positive effects of conflict resolution? How will you cope with and manage individual differences & personalities within a team?

There is a better way of thinking about how teams develop and that is about conflict and a set of conflicts some of which are embedded in the circumstance of the teams and others which emerge from the individuals within the team. What drives groups forward is a conflict resolution oriented strategy. Most successful teams are actually those that develop by trying to figure out their ability to manage conflict best. Conflict is the fundamental thing that drives change in a team. A Workshop and case studies will illustrate this lively session.

Day 3, May 23, 9.30-5.15 pm:

Prof. Andreas Bernhardt, Insead

Leading under pressure, morning session.

How being in a powerful position influences stress and behaviors in the workplace? While power reduces stress, a perceived threat to this power can have the opposite effect. This, in turn, can affect risk preferences, power sharing and how you inspire and motivate your team. Participants learn a few simple tools to identify stress triggers and manage their stress and energy levels to continue to lead effectively, even in challenging times.

How to protect yourself, your team and individuals against the negative effects of stress?

Power and stress might be negatively affecting your behavior at work and, thus, your leadership. Power can be endowed by others (through networks, reputation, allies, etc.) or it can come from your expertise, your ability to punish and reward, your charisma.

The Leader as Coach, afternoon session.

Developing the ability of holding effective coaching conversations gives leaders the skills to empower others to develop themselves as leaders, inspire and engage their team, encouraging independent problem-solving, recognising opportunities and ultimately improving performance. Leaders that develop coaching skills also see increasingly higher levels of employee engagement, motivation and efficiency.

Utilising coaching within a leadership role allows top managers to be more effective in inspiring their teams and connecting with them, both as a whole and as individuals, on a deeper level. It helps you to develop trust among team members and create an emotionally balanced work environment.

To be an effective leader/coach, not only do you need to learn how to communicate well and help others to get results, you need to guide, encourage and inspire others to reach their full potential. A great coach is likely to have the following talents or qualities: listening skills; ability to provide constructive feedback; curiosity; empathy; asking powerful, open questions; integrity; collaborative. Some of these characteristics are inherent, others can be learned.