Management and Leadership
Transforming Your Leadership Strategy
Dates: Jul 10-11, 2012| Oct 23-24, 2012
Certificate Track: Management and Leadership
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuition: $2,900 (excluding accommodations)
Program Days (for certificate credit): 2
This program is built around MIT's unique Distributed Leadership Model―a powerful, innovative approach to executive leadership that lies at the core of leadership development at MIT, and the result of an intensive, four-year research project at the MIT Leadership Center to identify more effective strategies for leading in a networked economy. Tested in diverse, real-world settings, the model allows managers to succeed as leaders by being flexible and adaptive in new and unexpected ways through the application of two key concepts:
- A 4 Capabilities Leadership Framework that makes it possible to harness, align, and leverage the leadership capabilities that exist throughout an organization, and
- X-Teams, a revolutionary approach to creating flexible, outwardly-focused project teams that enables managers to both keep current with shifts in markets, technologies, and competition, and accelerate the pace of innovation and change
Join the MySloanExecEd Community Group for this program to network with past, present, and future participants.
Upon completion of this program, participants will gain an understanding of how to:
- Innovate and move quickly from generating ideas to executing and diffusing them throughout the organization
- Unlock crucial information, expertise, and new ways of working together, wherever these qualities reside within or outside the company
- Succeed in a competitive “flat world” of new organizational architectures; smart, orchestrated networks; and tiny firms that do not need huge capitalization to compete
- Make their organizations more agile, responsive, and creative
This program has been designed especially for senior general and technical executives whose organizations compete in an environment of rapidly changing markets, technologies, and cultures, including:
- CEOs
- Presidents
- COOs
- Executive VPs
- Heads of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing & IS
- Chief Technologists
- Corporate Planners and Strategists
- VPs of Marketing and New Venture Development
- Other senior managers with leadership responsibility
Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.
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Deborah Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management
Professor of Organization Studies
Faculty Director, MIT Leadership CenterDeborah Ancona's pioneering research explores how successful teams operate and the critical importance of managing both outside and inside the team's boundary. This research led directly to the concept of X-teams as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations and to the publication of her book, X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press, June 2007)... ... (more)
| DAY One SAMPLE | |
| 07:45 AM - 08:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 08:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Welcome and Introduction, Overview of the 4 Capabilities of Leadership Framework, Sensemaking / Relating Exercise |
| 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM | Luncheon |
| 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM | Team Sensemaking Exercise |
| 03:30 PM - 05:15 PM | Using the 4 Capabilities for Change, Visioning Exercise I |
| 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM | Reception |
| DAY Two SAMPLE | |
| 07:45 AM - 08:30 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Welcome Back and Preview of Day 2, Your Leadership Profile, Visioning Exercise II |
| 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM | Luncheon |
| 01:00 PM - 03:30 PM | Inventing Through X-teams and Distributed Leadership, Creating an X-Teams Work Plan |
| 03:30 PM - 03:45 PM | Adjournment |
