How can I become a stronger leader? Transform my organization? Build teamwork and trust? Improve overall productivity?
True leaders drive organizational change and improve the performance of those around them. If you aspire to these goals, this is your course!
DATES:
October 26-28, 2009
February 22-24, 2010
COST:
$2,700
Includes tuition, text, instructional materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
REGISTRATION:
Register online >
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- How to lead the change process more effectively
- How to connect with and motivate people using key leverage points based on character and ability
- How to build teamwork, shared vision, trust, and productivity
- How to create a personal action plan for leading organizational change
- Strategies to bring more sensitivity and creativity to leadership
- Fuller understanding of how personal leadership style affects all facets of the organization
FORMAT:
Three-day program
Classes run from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Owen Graduate School of Management, unless otherwise noted.
INSTRUCTOR:
Richard L. Daft
Brownlee O. Currey, Jr. Professor of Management
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Professor Daft is among the most published and most frequently cited scholars in the fields of change management, leadership and organizational performance. Along with developing and managing the Center for Change Leadership, he has published 12 books (and is currently working on two new additions to that list) and dozens of articles, served as editor of two leading journals, and presented papers at more than 45 universities around the world. Daft also has been involved in management development and consulting for organizations ranging from Bridgestone Firestone, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford Motor Company, Pratt & Whitney, Nortel, State Farm Insurance, Allstate Insurance, the U.S. Air Force and Bell Canada.
