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Management Forum Series Spring 2010

 

 

Michael Hackman
Leadership and Organizational Trust

February 3, 2010

Recent examples ranging from Enron to Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG, support the notion that without trust organizations cannot thrive. High-trust organizations have increased value, accelerated growth, enhanced innovation, improved collaboration, stronger partnering, better execution, and heightened loyalty. Dr. Michael Hackman's interest in organizational trust began more than a decade ago. He became convinced that trust played a significant role in impacting overall organizational effectiveness. His consulting experiences and observations of the widespread "trust crash" that occurred over the past few years, as well as research for his book, Building the High Trust Organization: Strategies for Supporting Five Key Dimensions of Trust, have only served to convince him that trust is not just critically important - it is the main thing - the essential element of organizational success.

Dr. Hackman will discuss the five key drivers of organizational trust: competence, openness and honesty, concern for employees/stakeholders, reliability, and identification. He will take us through detailed strategies for building each driver of trust, helping you to develop your own comprehensive plan to enhance organizational trust. 

 

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Hendrie Weisinger
Instinctual Leadership
March 3, 2010

Why are outstanding leadership, managing change, and success so elusive? The answers and the solutions to these everyday plights are revealed in stunning new lessons about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives from merely surviving to actually thriving in every area of life. Instinctual leadership, a concept introduced in Dr. Weisinger's new book The Genius of Instinct, presents a dramatic new way of understanding the most important attribute for any organization - leadership. Dr. Hendrie Weisinger builds on his earlier work, Emotional Intelligence at Work, using dramatic new scientific findings, he identifies the six most indispensable instinctual behaviors, and illuminates the necessity of following their instinctual command for thriving.

Today, unfortunately, most of us are disconnected from our basic instincts and all too often cautiously rely on our rational mind to cope with life's challenges. Dr. Weisinger explains exactly how people can reconnect with these hard-wired behaviors and wisely re-establish the links between our everyday actions and these powerful natural forces. In a step by step fashion, he'll show us how to strategically use the genius of our instinctual tools, and in doing so, thrive personally and professionally. Using your instinctual tools to solve adaptive problems is the essence of instinctual leadership, and according to natural selection, those individuals who can apply their instinctual tools most broadly are the most effective leaders and thereby increase their organization's ecological niche - the role it plays in its environment.

 

 

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Dave Logan
Three Laws of Performance: Rewrite the Future

April 6, 2010


We are all facing unprecedented challenges in today's world - in business, in our personal lives, as a society. Co-author of the book The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life, Dave Logan will relate how he has seen companies and individuals revive passion for accomplishment, and create pathways to unprecedented organizational and personal success. In Three Laws of Performance, Dave will focus on the promise of the title: three immutable laws that determine performance in any human endeavor. He will show how leadership built on the foundation of the laws can transform situations, delivering greater results, increased satisfaction, and enhanced effectiveness.

Dave's book has been endorsed by people as varied as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, famed Harvard economist Michael Jensen and leadership guru Warren Bennis, who stated "I believe this book may be one of the most important written in many years. The ideas are much larger than we normally see in business books. They aren't tips, tools, or steps, but are in fact laws that govern individual, group and organizational behavior . . . Leaders would be well served to think about these laws and find ways to apply their insights."

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Robert Ginnett
Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience
May 5, 2010

Ideally, everyone has had the experience of having a great coach / leader / mentor at some time in their life. These leaders / mentors usually have two invaluable things to share with you: 1) lots of great experiences, and 2) their reflections and learnings tying their experience to a leadership lesson. Robert Ginnett will focus on helping us learn how to make these connections.

To be an effective leader, you need to have a valid map of the leadership world (which we get from understanding leadership research). You will also need to have a leadership or followership experience which either works well for you or is problematic. Having both a valid map and an impactful experience, you will then need to connect the two to inform your understanding of leadership and potentially allow you to improve your leadership behaviors.

Robert Ginnett will demonstrate how to use this approach to improve your leadership potential at both the individual and team levels. First, we will take a well-known personality characteristic and turn it into actionable leadership behaviors useful in dealing with stress and in decision-making. Most everyone has experienced a team that is struggling; Robert will then show how to diagnose a problem at the team level which is the first step toward improving team leadership skills.

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