2010 Leadership Workshops

LEADERSHIP FROM THE INSIDE OUT:
Know Thyself Before You Lead Others!

Date and Time: November 8, 10, and 12 from 9am-noon
Location: Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Hartley Conference Room
Instructor: Evelyn Williams
     Lecturer in Management
     Director, Leadership Laboratories
     Center for Leadership Development & Research
     Stanford Graduate School of Business

Virtually all graduate students will eventually find themselves managing and leading others whatever career they pursue. Being an effective manager/leader requires hard work and training. This leadership workshop focuses on helping participants assess some of their core leadership strengths and areas for development.

Participants take three behavioral assessments designed to identify their ability to self manage, develop others, think strategically, influence and exert power, build relationships and teams, and achieve results. As part of the assessment process, participants also receive confidential input from colleagues, peers, and advisors (of their choosing) through an online 360 degree feedback instrument. Then in three, three-hour workshops, participants learn their results and then participate in experiential exercises and discussions aimed at learning practical tools for increasing their personal leadership effectiveness. The workshop focuses on three core areas of understanding:

1. How do you behave under stress and what behaviors may be derailing your interpersonal effectiveness with others?
2. How are you perceived by others in terms of thinking strategically, influencing others, building relationships, achieving results?
3. How do you handle changing circumstances and how should you work with (or manage) others who have very different strengths and challenges?

Specific learning objectives for each workshop are provided below. This is an active experiential class where participants are expected to both give and receive feedback. Approximately 90 minutes of pre-work is expected before the series begins and an hour of reading before each workshop.

APPLICATION AND PARTICIPATION

Students may request enrollment in this series of workshops by means of an online application. The application deadline is October 3, 2010. **The application for the Leadership Workshop is now closed**

Participants must attend all three workshops - a $100 check made out to Stanford University will save your seat. If a participant comes to the entire series of workshops, then we return the check--otherwise, we cash it. Checks will only be collected from accepted applicants. Instructions for submitting the deposit will be included with the notification information.

WORKSHOP LEARNING OBLECTIVES:

1. 360 DEGREE LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP:
   
   
   • Introduce the 360 Degree Assessment tool and help students understand how to use their individual results
   • Learn about inherent biases in multi-rater assessments
   • Target individual learning objectives for each student based upon their results
   • Focus on perception rather than intention in analyzing behavior
   • Discuss parameters of behavioral experiments and possible options for students to pursue with various assessment results
2. DERAILMENT UNDER PRESSURE WORKSHOP:
   
   • Identify personality-based performance risks and "derailers" of interpersonal behavior
   • Identify how these behaviors may impede work relationships, hinder productivity, or limit overall career potential
   • Learn how these derailment behaviors affect an individual's leadership style and actions during times of stress
   • Learn how to minimize these potential derailment effects through self-management, self-coaching and soliciting feedback from others
3. SITUATIONAL SAVVY LEADERSHIP & CHANGE WORKSHOP:
   
   • Explore our personal tendencies in reacting to change
   • Learn barriers and enhancers to change
   • Discuss how to overcome personal resistance to change
   • Learn practical tools to help analyze the readiness level of your team members and identify the appropriate management style that is most productive to implement
   • Learn how successful leaders evaluate each of their team members independently in relation to the tasks they give them and how they modify their management styles accordingly