Driving Performance and Change (Online)
Learn how to maximize your impact as a leader during times of change.
The only constant in today’s volatile, uncertain, and complex world is change. Leaders have to continually evolve, grow, and adjust to their changing environment and get their people to do the same. Driving Performance and Change (Online) shows you how to maximize your impact as a leader during times of change.
We often see ourselves and others as fixed, in terms of our personality, character, and professional skills. This program gives you a powerful new understanding of how much untapped potential there is for you and your people to change. You will gain practical techniques to help you and your people adapt and flourish in a constantly changing world. You will learn how to lead people on a change journey by getting them to successfully implement critical changes in behavior.
You will also learn how to practice resilience so you can neutralize barriers, rebound from setbacks, adapt to new conditions, and inspire change. You will learn practical ways to deliver effective feedback and coach your people in order to help them cultivate self-awareness, close performance gaps, develop new capabilities, challenge their own mindsets, and approach their full potential.
Driving Performance and Change (Online) provides you with a scientific and practical pathway to growing your people’s capabilities and performance and growing your own self as well.
Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at execedonline@gsb.columbia.edu for a personal conversation.
What You Will Learn
Leading Change
Maximize your personal impact at times of change
- Mindsets and behaviors that restrict people from changing their behavior
- 5 components of the Change Formula – for changing yourself or others
- Building a behavior change plan
- Best practices drawn from psychology and “change champions” — great leaders and successful organizations — on how to change mindsets and behavior
- Real-world case study involving the turnaround of an organization at a critical moment in a great city’s history
- Analysis of a great leader’s change speech (recorded on video)
Developing People from the Inside-Out
Help your people close performance gaps and build new skills
- Mindsets that may be limiting you from developing your people
- 5 principles for giving effective feedback
- When to offer feedback; the possibilities and perils of real-time feedback
- How to create a feedback-friendly culture
- Template for planning and executing a successful feedback dialog
- 6 coaching principles
- Techniques to maximize your coaching results
- Template to plan and execute a successful coaching dialog
Resilient Leadership
Learn, adapt, and thrive in the midst of setbacks and challenges
- 5 principles of resilient leadership and tools to put these principles into practice
- How people typically respond to adversity
- The winner’s response to adversity – and a practical toolkit for getting there
- How to anticipate and respond to risks and uncertainty
- How to translate failure into opportunity
- How to make resilience a daily habit
- Stories and insights of how great leaders have practiced resilience
Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.