Emerging Leaders Track

Course Dates: March 13 - April 2

In this course you will define and differentiate between leadership and management, develop a strategy for overcoming new leadership challenges, and evaluate motivational techniques and determine when to use them. You will also identify the skills needed to develop relationships crucial to your career development as a leader, based on the research and expertise of Professor Kate Walsh, Ph.D. of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.

Using tools provided in this course, you will explore what motivates others, assess leadership styles, and examine communication with your leadership team. With the completion of an action plan at the end of the course, you will be ready to apply what you learn to your own organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Define and differentiate between leadership and management
• Develop a strategy for overcoming new leadership challenges
• Evaluate motivational techniques and determine when to use them
• Identify the skills and relationships you need to develop that are crucial to your career development as a leader

Instructor: Kate Walsh

Course Dates: April 2 - April 23

Coaching is about building relationships—and it's essential in order for your organization to move forward together to achieve better results. Being an effective coach requires skills that can be practiced and mastered, including listening, building credibility and trust, and showing empathy. In this course, Cornell University's Dr. Samuel Bacharach, will help you distinguish between coaching and traditional supervision. You will identify the five functions of coaching and the rules for having coaching conversations. Finally, you will examine some of the classic coaching mistakes that people often make and identify how you can avoid repeating those mistakes yourself.

Learning Objectives:

• Clarify the goals of coaching
• Examine coaching as a relationship
• Identify the five functions of coaching
• Explore the critical aspects of a coaching culture

Instructors: Samuel Bacharach and Yael Bacharach

Course Dates: April 24 - May 14

Leaders are responsible for encouraging the highest possible performance from their employees. Most leaders recognize that motivation is a key driver of high performance. Few leaders are skilled at choosing the right combination of approaches and tools to motivate all of their people. Cornell University Professor Risa Mish provides a learning experience that builds on the important premise that not all individuals are motivated by the same things, and some might be demotivated by the same conditions or incentives that motivate others. This course prepares leaders to analyze performance problems and assess whether they actually can be attributed to a lack of motivation or to one of several other root causes.

When students determine that poor workplace performance is indeed caused by a lack of motivation, they will use the motivation techniques that will be most effective for all the people involved. Leveraging the work of two American social psychologists to address the factors that may be demotivating people, students will learn how to increase the factors that do motivate people and improve workplace performance. Students will also use the three primary drivers of human motivation to foster better performance on the job.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify your personal primary driver for motivation
• Conduct a root-cause analysis for an individual with performance gaps
• Evaluate factors that undermine employee motivation and engagement in your organization
• Use the three critical primary motivation drivers to tailor your approach to motivation
• Enhance the conditions for an individual that make optimal use of that person's key motivation driver

Instructor: Risa Mish

Course Dates: May 14 - June 4

In today's workforce, adaptation and responsiveness are key elements in the success for an organization. As turnaround times shorten and demands increase, organizations must leverage teams to reach strategic goals and fulfill initiatives. Based on the expertise and research of Kate Walsh, PhD, students in this course will diagnose team needs, set expectations for development, utilize conflict to augment change, and build team autonomy to support leaders in embracing a more strategic focus.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose team skill sets and develop a plan to build synergy and collaboration
• Determine team expectations and goals
• Implement healthy team behaviors and functioning
• Facilitate team development

Instructor: Kate Walsh