McCombs School of Business
Texas Executive Education

Building Engagement: What Leaders Do To Manage Talent & Build Allegiance

Title: Building Engagement: What Leaders Do To Manage Talent & Build Allegiance Enroll
Dates: April 17-18, 2008 or October 15-16, 2008
Registration Deadline: 3 weeks prior to program start date
Late Registration (within 3 weeks): Contact Registrar' Office to check space availability.
Duration: 2 day program: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Faculty:

John A. Daly, Ph.D., Donde Plowman, Ph.D.

Cost: $2300 (Spring ’08);  $2400 (Fall ’08). Fee includes all program materials, breakfast, breaks, and lunch for each day. Team rates and alumni discounts available. Registration is not complete until payment is received.

Description

Both formal and informal leadership is essential to creating engagement in today’s competitive work environment. In this program, we examine what it takes to “make it” as a leader. The session offers a wide variety of very practical moves successful people do to create loyalty and build commitment. Different than many sessions of this sort, we look at very specific steps participants can accomplish that will enhance their interpersonal effectiveness as well as generate high levels of engagement among those that work with them. In this program we discuss findings of research done where leaders, world-wide, were asked to describe what they did, on a daily basis, that made them successful leaders.

Topics

  • The behavioral approach to creating engagement—why we focus on behaviors
  • What is engagement and why is it so important
  • Strategies for creating engagement
  • What interpersonally savvy people do to succeed in their positions
  • Techniques for communicating effectively
  • Business skills of effective leaders
  • Personal skills of successful leaders
  • How to manage people for engagement
  • How leaders create positive impressions with others

Key Benefits

  • Learn how to create loyalty and engagement—how to encourage “organizational citizenship” in the workplace
  • Understand what it means to be interpersonally “savvy” when working with others
  • Discover ways to communicate more effectively and efficiently
  • Learn very practical skills that will enhance your everyday effectiveness at work
  • Discover what it is that successful leaders know about how to do business—day-by-day
  • Grasp methods for enhancing your personal credibility in the workplace

Continuing Education Units

Participants earn 1.4 continuing education units (CEUs) and a Texas Executive Education program certificate.