Important Now More than Ever:  The Fundamentals of High Performance Leadership

Course: MGMT101
Section: 1S09
Date: TBD
Location: College of Business, Education Suite – Room 385
Program Fees: $695 per individual; 10% discount for 3 or more registrations from the same organization
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In turbulent environments, it is imperative that effective leaders emerge and take charge of charting a course through the turmoil. In this two-day program introduces the fundamental concepts related to high performance leadership, i.e., leadership designed to extract maximum involvement, participation and performance from work team members. Characteristics and behavior patterns of high performance leaders are learned and combined with specific communications skills that support the enactment of this leadership. Assessments, exercises, & role-plays target specific skill development.

Topics Covered in the Program Include:

• Leadership as defined by the experts
• Traits, characteristics and behaviors of high performance leaders
• Components and conditions of a high performance culture
• The fatal flaws of leaders who are derailed climbing the organizational hierarchy
• Listening techniques that enhance the development of strong relationships
• Supportive communication techniques to extract full potential from team members
• How to develop trust – a critical component of leadership
• How to give and receive performance feedback

Who Should Attend?
Individuals holding positions across all levels of organizational hierarchies, including non-management professionals whose job it is to get work accomplished with and through peers and colleagues who are part of their work teams. This leadership program would be especially appropriate for lower and mid-level managers aspiring to move up the hierarchy, director level managers who have gained experience but feel a need for more formal leadership education, supervisors who aspire to managerial positions, small business owners and non-profit managers who must motivate volunteers.

Faculty: Bob Taylor, Ph.D.
Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Management in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at The University of Memphis. He teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and International MBA programs at the U of M, and has been an invited instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, The University of Eichstadt, Germany and at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. He has written extensively in a number of management areas and published a management textbook entitled Management: Comprehension, Analysis, and Application. He won the UM Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 and has been a consultant/trainer for numerous local and national companies and organizations since 1980.