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Leading Without Authority: How Star Performers Drive Organizational Initiatives
Dates
May 8, 2012
October 16, 2012
Fees
$695, 6 CPEs
15% discount for Pitt Alumni Association members and 10% for associates and two or more participants from the same company
Leading without Authority is for anyone expected to provide leadership in situations where you have no formal authority or position power - and for their leaders. The program is based on the research of Dr. Robert E. Kelley, management consultant, professor and author of the best-seller "HOW TO BE A STAR AT WORK: Nine Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed."
In this one-day program, we share the most significant research findings and focus on three of the nine work strategies that differentiate star performers from the rest of the pack - Leadership, Followership and Initiative. Discussion focuses on how to strengthen these three skills in yourself, and in those you lead.
The notion of "Small L" leadership will be introduced. Rather than approaching leadership as an exercise in ego gratification, power, control or status, "Small L" leaders are unpretentious. We will examine how they gain credibility and trust by building one-to-one relationships with their followers.
The concept of Followership will also be discussed at length. You will learn how to have an enormous impact on the success of the business by developing productive relationships with leaders in the organization. By completing a pre-session assessment, you'll gain insight into your own followership style and how you partner with the leadership team. Classroom exercises will help you see ways to strengthen your own and others' followership.
Finally, this program examines how top performers make substantial contributions to the organization by taking Initiative. Cases and discussion will focus on what it really means to go "above and beyond expectations," and what you can do as a leader to "raise the bar" with your team.
What those who have attended the class have to say:
- "Truly, I feel energized and the chance to critically think outside of my organization was wonderful."
- "Practical information that can help me be a better leader and follower"
- "I am leaving with more than a few ideas of how to evaluate and help my team succeed"
Who Should Attend:
The program is targeted to:
- Project managers and people leaders responsible for developing organizational talent and making solid contributions themselves
- Individual contributors who want to improve their own personal productivity
- High-potential employees or those placed into "emerging talent" pools.
Learning Objectives:
In this program you will:
- Be introduced to a model you can use to assess performance and differentiate between star vs. average performance
- Identify a range of development suggestions for strengthening your own or others' Leadership, Followership and Initiative skills
- Gain insight into what leaders can do to encourage individual Leadership, exemplary Followership and greater Initiative-taking
- Find out how people build trust and gain credibility when leading by developing potency in one of three leadership quotients
- Understand the two dimensions that comprise followership - independent, critical thinking and active engagement
- Learn how to recognize the five different followership styles and the extraordinary value exemplary followers bring to an organization
- Learn how star performers define initiative, and how their approach to initiative differs significantly from others
Business Needs Addressed
- Develop leadership skills
- Influence without authority
- Raise credibility and influence to drive change
- Promote employee engagement
- Drive for results
- Execute business strategies
- Get focused on value, priorities and results
- Develop a high-performing team
- Accelerate productivity
- Retain talent or develop bench strength
- Support diversity and inclusion efforts
- Assimilate new workers and increase time-to-contribution
Program Faculty
David Binder is a Principal Consultant for Avid Learner Inc., based in Pittsburgh PA, and an Adjunct Professor at the University Of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business.
David has worked with organizations in industries including manufacturing, high technology, banking, service, health care and government. He has extensive experience in delivering training on productivity, leadership, organizational change, team-building, problem-solving, performance management and selection skills to employees and all management levels.
He has worked with Hewlett Packard, Eaton Corporation, PPG Industries, Metavante Corporation, Nova Chemicals, and other clients on projects aimed at improving the productivity of knowledge workers through the use of the nine strategies described in How to be a Star at Work, written by David's colleague, Dr. Robert Kelley. He has also designed and delivered executive leadership development programs for organizations like DaimlerChrysler AG, The Edgewood Chemical and Biological Defense Center, and Sandvik Steel Company.
As an adjunct professor, David has taught classes on Followership, Leadership and Star Performance in the Executive MBA Program, and in Organizational Behavior in the full-time MBA program in the Katz School of business.
Listen to the Productivity Improvement and Value Contribution webinar by David Binder.
David Huffner is the co-founder, President and a Principal Consultant for Avid Learner, Inc., a privately held global consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. In addition, David is an Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Center for Executive Education (CEE). At the CEE, he has led courses on Leading without Authority, Leadership, Followership and Star Performance, Cross-Organizational Influence and Making Influential Presentations.
He has also been a Guest Lecturer at events such as Southwest Airlines People University, AstraZeneca's Professional Development Forum, Carnegie Mellon University's Program for Executives and their School of Public Policy and Management (Medical Management), Hewlett-Packard's Young Employees Network and Leadership Pittsburgh, Inc.
David's consulting and research engagements place him in frequent and close contact with emerging leaders, star performers, and those who aspire to star performance in the workplace. He draws extensively on these experiences when presenting.
David has worked with organizations in industries including manufacturing, high technology, banking, service, health care and government. He has extensive experience in developing and delivering training on leadership, organizational change, team-building, problem-solving, individual and team productivity, facilitation skills, performance management and selection skills to employees and all management levels. He is also a certified job analyst.
He has successfully led and supported projects to enhance hiring processes, develop selection skills, and improve workforce productivity at clients such as Hewlett Packard, FedEx, American Eagle, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Kodak, Lucent Technologies, Sharp Laboratories of America, Shell Exploration, Buick, PPG Industries, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, American Eagle, Bayer, Sanofi-Synthelabo, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, ViroPharma, Life Technologies, HCA Healthcare, Eaton Corp., Land O'Lakes, Michael Baker Corp., The American Association of Retired Persons, AirTouch Communications, Lexis-Nexis, American Electric Power, Agway, Kimberly-Clark, NOVA Chemicals, the American Refugee Committee and Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.
His engagements include working with all levels of management, and have taken him beyond the United States and Canada, to Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa.
