Opleiding: Leading Teams

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Learning purpose

Managing the cultural, ethnic and generational differences of employees and other organizational stakeholders has become extremely significant in today’s global business environment, where competitive advantage is delivered -or not-, through the successful direction of international teams across cultural, geographic and organizational boundaries.

More than ever before, today’s executives must lead teams and organizations with diverse backgrounds and cultures, and drive even greater levels of performance. Promoting this ability is the key differentiation between managing and leading, and consequently between run-of-the-mill organizations and great ones.

Leading Teams is an intensive three-day executive education program which addresses the challenges of delivering high performance in a highly diverse and constantly changing multi-cultural environment, and focuses on enhancing your managerial skills to create customer and organizational value.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Leading Teams will provide you with the mindset, inspirational examples, approaches, models and tools to drive even greater performance in any diverse or multi-cultural environment.  During the program, you will be able to apply the practical learnings to your own challenges within your organisation and walk away with specific actions you can implement right away within your team.

Throughout this program you will:

• Recognize that the ability to lead in a multi-cultural environment is based on your own ability to lead yourself first and adapt your approach for greater influence. 
• Understand how to create the right environment that encourages and reinforces both individual and team responsibility on results across any culture.
• Learn how to understand and drive the right team dynamics and communications to guarantee both open discussions and more effective decision making in multi-cultural and diverse teams.
• Recognise the impact of the cultural differences on the day-to-day operations and understand the key habits and behaviours needed to lead the right outcomes.
• Understand the key factors that affect change initiatives and the approaches and processes for driving effective change in a multi-cultural team environment.

Prepare yourself to become an even better global leader, with the ability to turn cultural and organisational barriers into a competitive advantage.

Target audience

This workshop has been designed for senior executives and managers who must lead teams across distances and cultures, and are required to deliver even greater performance, both driven by the pace of the marketplace or from the company’s goals and strategies.

The program is particularly targeted at:

• Managers dealing with partners, suppliers, customers and employees working in a multicultural environment.
• General Managers
• Business Development Managers
• Managing Directors
• Marketing and Sales Account Managers
• International Business Managers
• Global Brand Managers
• International Business Unit Directors
• Divisional and Functional Managers
• Human Resource Directors

Programme

The program features interactive discussions, case studies and experiential learning all intended to assist each participant in creating his or her own leadership strategy, finally translating knowledge into action.

Creating High Performance Teams

Setting the structure for effective multi-cultural teams - Aligning to common outcomes

• Assessing the context and identifying potential barriers to team effectiveness.
• Team design factors: composition, direction and structure.
• Shaping the group culture through norms.

Fostering collective creativity - Team innovation

• Setting the conditions to reap the benefits of group brainstorming.
• Expanding the scope of a group's current thinking.
• The impact of team leadership on creativity.

Individual and collective emotional intelligence - Understanding adaptability

• The value of Emotional Intelligence for teams.
• Creating awareness of collective emotional states.
• Norms that help regulate group's emotions.

Effective team processes and models - Enabling effective problem solving

• Diagnosing the quality of team members' communication, collaboration and decision making.
• Understanding the linkages among diversity, identity dynamics, and team processes.
• Intervening to improve dysfunctional processes.

Using the Power of Ownership in Leading Teams

Creating the mindset of outcomes and ownership - Leading yourself first

• Creating the focus on outcomes: The target for effective teamwork.
• Reinforcing the importance of character in adapting to others in a multi-cultural environment.
• Understanding how a leader’s own habits and behaviours can influence their team.

Enabling personal ownership in others - Encouraging adaptability

• Developing ownership by using the power of questions.
• Adapting your communications, approaches and thinking as an orchestra conductor.
• Creating and adapting the habit of follow-up to reinforce the ownership in your team.

Enabling team ownership in a multi-cultural team environment - Driving teamwork

• Developing the structure and processes for effective collaboration.
• Creating an environment for positive peer pressure and interdependence.
• Managing the diverse set of stakeholders and aligning them to your focus.

 
Driving Change through Teams

Managing people and defining your change strategy - Developing the plan for success

• The soft stuff is hard: An illustration of the importance of the human factor.
• Capabilities Inventory: The nice to have vs. the need to have - The tough decisions.
• The reasonably good is better than the best, and how to close the gaps.

Best practices in driving change through multi-cultural teams - Creating the fundamentals

• Functional and Enterprise Change: Differences and commonalities.
• Managing change: From Multinationals to SMEs
• Turning insights into action: Your plan for change - Change governance.

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Opleiding kerngegevens

Name institute

IE Business School

Course location(s)

Madrid

Duration

3 days

Diploma

None

Open enrollment

Yes

In Company/ Tailor-made possible

No entry