• Learn how to leverage your personal leadership style to become a more positive, effective leader
• Get feedback and insight on your own unique capabilities and create a plan to capitalize on them
• Apply the practice of reciprocity, to improve collaboration
• Gain a personalized strategy for addressing your own leadership challenges and opportunities

Organizations that are "positively deviant" are able to leave their industry norm to create extraordinary results by unleashing greater human potential from their employees. During this intensive five-day course, you will learn principles and concepts that are fundamental to developing positive leadership capabilities in yourself and others. As you build your understanding of these new frameworks, you will gain more clarity about what you believe and your ability to withstand the pressures to conform that can inhibit your progress as an effective, positive manager.

• High-potential managers in any function seeking new tools and perspectives for developing a personalized positive leadership skill set
• Managers who wish to create a "team of leaders" by developing team members' individual positive leadership capabilities
• Past participants of Michigan Executive Education programs Positive Leadership: Creating Spectacular Organizational Success or Management of Managers

During this intensive five-day course, you will gain more clarity about what you believe and your ability to withstand the pressures to conform that can inhibit your progress as an effective, positive manager. Each participant comes to the program with a personal leadership case challenge that they are currently facing. Peer groups help brainstorm ideas to address the challenge and the participants will create an action plan, with feedback from their colleagues, for implementation after leaving the program.

An Invitation to Positive Organizing

• The vision
• The research
• The practices of exemplary companies
• Tools for getting started

Moving Employees to Higher Levels of Engagement

• Explore different strategies for creating employee engagement
• Unleash the passion in the day-to-day work
• Clarify personal levels of engagement and exemplify employee engagement in your organization

High Quality Connections

• Learn about the power of positive emotions
• Understand the ratio of positive to negative emotions required for high performance
• Enhance positive emotions in yourself and others
• Understand how high quality connections have impact on organizational performance

Becoming Your Best Self

• Identify and leverage your strengths
• Review Best Self
• Enable yourself and your organization to capitalize on your strengths

Becoming a Positive Leader

• A new framework for thinking about and approaching leadership
• Applying the framework to everyday work
• Working on real situations that you are facing at work

The program fee includes tuition, instructional materials, hotel accommodations, continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks each day, and selected dinners. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy