Executive Education - Courses and Subject Focus at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Positive Leadership: Creating Spectacular Organizational Success

Executive Summary

This program is one of three Ross School of Business executive education courses based on the Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) discipline, developed by University of Michigan faculty Bob Quinn and Kim Cameron, and named one of the "Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas for 2004" by Harvard Business Review. Providing a theoretically-based, practically useful, and empirically verified approach to organizational leadership, this business management training course teaches you how to assess your organization's positive practices, culture and performance, how to develop a strategic plan and leadership skills for using POS concepts to guide organizational development, and provides new leadership tools and management processes to lead your organization to extraordinary performance.

Dates & Locations03 Nov - 07 Nov 2008Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
 15 Jun - 19 Jun 2009Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
 02 Nov - 06 Nov 2009Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
FacultyWayne E. Baker, Schon Beechler, Kim S. Cameron, Jeff DeGraff, Jane E. Dutton, Laura Morgan Roberts, Lynn Perry Wooten
Highlights

By exploring how positive practices can impact an organization's functioning and performance, you will gain an understanding of the positive practices currently in place in your organization, and acquire tools and strategies to become an effective agent for positive change. The insights you gain will help you identify and overcome barriers to change, and leverage team and organizational dynamics to create a more positive business environment for spectacular organizational success.

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Learning Experience

This intensive five-day program explores positive organizational practices, examines those practices in action in a number of benchmark companies, and shows how to apply positive practices in your own organization. During the program, you will have the opportunity to work on a current, specific challenge you are facing, and, using insights from the faculty and your peers, generate recommendations and action steps for implementation. Upon your return home, you will put your plans into action, supported by the faculty and peer participant network. In a follow-up course webinar six months after the program, you will have the opportunity to report on your progress and ask for additional feedback and guidance from the faculty and your program peers.

Unique Features

Positive Leadership: Creating Spectacular Organizational Success is one of three executive education courses based on the Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) discipline, developed by Michigan faculty and named one of the "Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas for 2004" by Harvard Business Review.

Program Focus

Introduction to Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS)

  • Making the business case for POS
  • Real business examples of positive organizational leadership
  • Organizational dynamics thru the POS lens
  • How POS operates on an organizational level
  • Where your organization stands on the POS spectrum

The Competing Values Framework

  • Using the framework to achieve extraordinary success
  • Mapping positive practices onto the framework
  • Understanding your organization¿s profile and its implications
  • Using the map to identify the strengths and weaknesses of positive organizational leadership in your organization
  • Diagnosing leadership capability

Addressing the Challenges Teams and Organizations Face

Helping ogranizations become more successful economically, financially and competitively by addressing issues such as:

  • Quality
  • Innovation
  • Globalization
  • Efficiency
  • Customers

Establishing A Culture of Collaboration

  • The power of reciprocity
  • Using the reciprocity ring for face-to-face collaboration
  • Participating in the online reciprocity ring for continuing the experience and benefits after the program

Implementing Positive Change

  • Creating innovation and change
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • Creating a positive climate
  • Articulating a vision of abundance
  • Generating commitment
  • Institutionalizing positive practices

Positive Practices

  • Encouraging active engagement
  • Building high-quality relationships
  • Creating Everest goals
  • Building and harnessing energy networks
  • Using communication tools
  • Creating and nurturing customer loyalty
  • Building reciprocity
Fee Policy

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

Dates & Locations03 Nov - 07 Nov 2008Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
 15 Jun - 19 Jun 2009Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
 02 Nov - 06 Nov 2009Ann Arbor, MI - $8,650 USDRegister
FacultyWayne E. Baker, Schon Beechler, Kim S. Cameron, Jeff DeGraff, Jane E. Dutton, Laura Morgan Roberts, Lynn Perry Wooten
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