Leading with Impact: Culture, Teams, and Organizational Performance
Develop and apply key leadership behaviors and negotiation skills to bring out the best in yourself and your team, drive performance, and equip yourself for organizational leadership.
Accelerate your ability to understand, reflect on, and apply key leadership behaviors to help you, your team, and your organization achieve key performance goals and bring out the best in your people.
- Improve comprehensive business acumen: Develop a systematic approach to problem-solving with a deep understanding of core business concepts, tools, and frameworks.
- Strengthen your professional network: Identify and assess the strengths and gaps in your network with a personalized social capital questionnaire.
- Broaden strategic perspective beyond your functional area: Gain an enterprise-wide mindset that maximizes impact.
- Enhance communication and negotiation skills: Learn techniques for resolving conflicts and building high-value agreements with stakeholders.
- Optimize team performance: Identify key indicators of team effectiveness and develop strategies to manage team dynamics.
- Immediate application: Apply key concepts and insights immediately to real-world business challenges.
- Future General Managers and/or next-level leaders who anticipate increased management responsibilities
- Technical experts moving into a broader management role
- Entrepreneurs/business owners and/or persons without formal business education looking to expand their comprehensive business knowledge
- Motivated professionals looking to gain a comprehensive business credential
As leaders ascend corporate hierarchies, their work increasingly focuses on managing people and organizations. In this course, you will unpack the critical people skills you need to improve your leadership competence. You will gain the frameworks to diagnose, reflect on, and improve your leadership skills and work through evidence-based skills for leading others, teams, and organizations.
Every aspect of our in-person and online programs is designed to deliver you a truly world-class experience.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
For more program details, including topics and sample schedule, download the program brochure.
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Learn from the renowned U-M faculty and real-world experts bringing industry perspectives into the classroom.
Faculty/Industry Experts assignments may change to support the highest-quality learning experience.
- Receive a digital badge to showcase on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
- Earn 1 unit toward the Distinguished Leader Certificate (DLC).