WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: LEADERSHIP AGILITY
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: LEADERSHIP AGILITY Overview Leadership agility – the ability to think and understand quickly – requires skills such as clarity, unity, resilience, and adaptability. These skills need to be combined with human-first leadership skills, like curiosity, creativity, empathy, passion, and collaboration, to adequately address the emerging changes. Learn how to develop and apply these skills to prepare yourself to compete in a much more VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) business world. This two-day course will examine the factors that have made business more complex. We will discuss the shift that is required to move from complicated, predictable challenges to quickly adapting to complex, unpredictable changes. The importance of teamwork and the ways teams will need to evolve to become more effective will also be explored. Finally, we will study and practice the leadership skills that will help the leaders of the future become more agile and successful in this rapidly changing work environment.
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Approaches to manage volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in business The importance of teamwork and how teams are changing Factors that are moving us from the knowledge economy to the human economy Human-first leadership skills like curiosity, creativity, empathy, passion, and collaboration The importance of reacting quickly to business challenges and techniques
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Gain an understanding of current consumer and technological trends that could affect your company Reinforce the importance of teamwork and benefits of building purpose and trust in the culture of each team Develop forward-thinking leaders that can more quickly and effectively respond to the business challenges your company is facing
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Learn and practice the leadership traits that will prepare you to confidently read and act on the signals of change Increase your willingness to turn and adapt quickly while keeping strategic goals in mind Build resiliency to more positively approach the changes and obstacles that come your way
Who Should Attend • Women in any mid- to high-level management positions • Women who want to build perspective and skills to help them navigate the future • Women who want to build their network with other female leaders
SHRM Recertification Provider Eccles Executive Education is recognized by SHRM to offer SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). This class is valid for 13 PDCs. For more information, please visit SHRMCertification.org.
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The VUCA Business World
Human-First Leadership Skills
• Broader business trends and organizational implications of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity • The importance of teamwork, building trust, and inspiring purpose in your team culture to identify and solve problems with more agility
• Individual leadership traits that will develop skill in areas that are becoming increasingly important • How to effectively bring leadership agility to your businesses
Presenting Faculty | Andrea Thomas Andrea B. Thomas is a Professor (Lecturer) of Marketing, Director of the Marketing Lab, and Director of Business Scholars at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. She recently joined the university after a 23-year career in brand management, retail marketing, innovation, and sustainability. Previous positions include Senior Vice President of Marketing at Walmart and Vice President of Global Chocolate for the Hershey Company, as well as 13 years in brand management at PepsiCo.
THE ECCLES DIFFERENCE The David Eccles School of Business enrolls about 6,000 students in its eight undergraduate majors, four MBAs, seven other specialized graduate programs, one Ph.D. program, and executive education curricula. It is also home to seven institutes and centers that support an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation, including the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, Ken C. Gardner Policy Institute, Sorenson Impact Center, and more.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP Telephone: (801) 587-7273 Email: ExecEd@Utah.edu Website: ExecEd.Utah.edu Registration: Eccles.Secure.Force.com/ExecEdApplication 1731 E. Campus Center Drive Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, GARFF 4340 Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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