Michael Useem

Reaching the Go-Point

Thursday, Dec 6, 2007
8:00 am-9:30 am
7:30 breakfast provided

Moments of decision are those times when an individual, team or organization faces the choice of going one way or another. These decisions eventually come down to a Go Point which is that moment when the information has been gathered, the pros and cons have been weighed and the time has come to get off of the fence. Such decisions are the heart of leadership and a main driver of organizational performance.

Participants in this program will learn:

• how to master the art and science of being decisive when the consequences are big
• the capabilities required for making good and
  timely decisions
• the importance of building a network of trusted counsellors and considering the future when making important decisions
• through a diverse group of stories what was in the heads of a diverse group of leaders at their moment of truth and revealing how they made decisions when the stakes were high
• the lessons leaders can apply to their own
  situations when analyzing the outcomes of
  their own decisions

Michael Useem is the Director of the Center of Leadership and Change and a professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of
several books on leadership and decision making including his latest best seller, The Go-Point: When It's Time to Decide. His other books include The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win, and Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits. Professor Useem has consulted with a wide range of companies and government agencies on four continents include Bell Atlantic, Hewlett-Packard, Merrill Lynch, and the United Nations. Each year he organizes a leadership trek to
Mount Everest for graduates of Wharton's MBA program designed to bring participants into a setting where they can learn from the experiences of others whose leadership was on the line.

Kimball and
Mareen Fisher

Leading High-
Performance
Virtual Teams

Thursday, Dec 13, 2007
8:00 am-9:30 am
7:30 Breakfast provided

Today's global companies conduct business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from 6 different continents. Today's teams do not share an office, floor or even a zip code but cross space, time and cultural boundaries. What are the challenges faced by leaders of these virtual teams? More importantly what are the solutions available to maximize a leader's effectiveness in allowing these teams to function seamlessly around the clock and around the world. In this program Kimball and Mareen Fisher will share the expertise collected from consulting with some of the world's finest global companies.

Participants in this program will learn:

• what are the six types of virtual teams
• how do you determine which type of team you have
• how to best select team members and management methods for each team
• how to build trust and manage performance
  virtually

Kimball and Mareen Fisher are the co-founders of The Fisher Group. Kimball is an internationally acknowledged authority on leadership and teams and has consulted with some of the finest corporations across the globe. Kimball's career began as a manager for Procter and Gamble. He was the first recipient of BYU's prestigious William G. Dyer Outstanding Alumni Award for significant contributions to the field of Organizational Behavior. Mareen has been selected as an honoured member of the International Who's Who of Entrepreneurs. She is also a member of the Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable. They are the author or co-author of
numerous critically acclaimed books including The Distance Manager, The Distributed Mind and Leading Self Directed Work Teams.

 

John Kotter

Leading Change

Thursday, Dec 13, 2007
9:40 am-11:10 am

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, successful companies will need leaders from all
levels to react to and steer the organization through the bevy of challenges it will face. Companies will be affected by such factors as technological changes, globalization, mergers &
acquisitions, and the need to transform a corporate culture. Professor Kotter will share his insights from 20 years or research and real world experience on leading change. In his latest release, Our Iceberg is Melting, John Kotter combines this research with the power of a fable to produce a work that can be a valuable tool for those at all levels

Participants in this program will learn:

• the eight step change process to successfully effect organizational transformations
• the most common barriers faced by those driving change in an organization
• what individuals and companies should be doing to succeed in a constantly changing world
• why 7 of 10 change events fail and the reasons behind the ones that do succeed

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is the author of 15 books and is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter's bestseller Leading Change has outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations and has become the change bible for managers around the world. Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of over 500 different companies. His newest work released September 2006, Our Iceberg Is Melting, puts the 8-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations.

Jim Roscoe,
Facilitation Leader

Following the 90-minute presentations, Jim will facilitate a live, 60-minute session to deepen your under-standing and help apply the material to your work environment.