Performance-Driven Leadership
Empower People for Lasting Impact
Cultivate resilient teams to meet the demands of an ever-changing market.
START DATE
December 3, 2024
FORMAT
Online
DURATION
6 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
INVESTMENT
$2,800 USD
Elevate your leadership capabilities and achieve long-term growth
Over six weeks, you’ll explore how effective talent leadership is essential for overcoming business challenges. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of key talent management essentials, including people literacy, team structure and dynamics, growth planning, and your role as a leader. You’ll systematically identify your organization’s unique strengths and weaknesses within each area and develop targeted action plans.
You’ll emerge with mastery of leadership and talent management principles, empowering you to align business goals with your team’s strengths—ultimately giving your organization a competitive edge and cultivating a thriving workforce.
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Distinctive Online Learning Features
FLEXIBLE METHOD
Our online learning method adapts to your schedule, commitments, and needs. In addition to self-paced content, our programs incorporate knowledge checks, interactive discussion boards, simulations and live sessions to bring content to life.
USER-FRIENDLY PLATFORM
TAILORED GUIDANCE
Your Chicago Booth Professor
John Philbin
Adjunct Associate Professor, Executive Education Programs
As the founder and managing partner of Spectacular at Work, John Philbin helps companies compete, win, and build thriving workplace cultures.
John advises CEOs and develops future business leaders around the world. He and his team coach leaders and up-and-comers, help companies determine who to hire to make their company stronger, and architect leading people processes to make sure companies have a steady flow of future leaders that fit their culture.
John works with some of the most respected companies in the world (Blue Cross Blue Shield, PwC, Aon, Reebok, McDonalds) and with those aspiring to be great—really any company that wants to be better at the people stuff, no matter the size or industry. He is regularly invited to speak on People Literacy®, building better leaders and corporate culture (What’s Really Going On at Work?™), creating a competitive advantage through people and culture (“The Four Stages of Talent Management”), and strategic talent management + succession planning.
John Philbin earned his PhD in Psychology at Loyola University and is an adjunct faculty member of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Where Your Expertise and Booth Insights Converge for Optimal Team Performance
A High-Impact Learning Format
The program features two live-online sessions with faculty in conjunction with self-paced learning, offering a blend of interactive classroom sessions, group discussions, case studies, and assessments.
Participants will gain access to Spectacular Team Assessment, a proprietary survey designed by John Philbin, which serves as an integral part of the program. This tool offers leaders anonymized, aggregated insights into team dynamics across the cohort.
You’ll also unlock customized insights and action plans through:
- A proprietary People Literacy® framework that offers crucial insight into common business challenges.
- Talent assessment that offers a clear snapshot of your company’s current standing, along with a detailed roadmap for future actions.
- Talent risk assessment that will evaluate the state of your succession planning and identify potential risks to your company’s performance due to talent gaps.
- Personality assessment to understand your core behavioral tendencies and build better teams.
- Additional tools to help you learn rapidly from your own experiences.
Live-Online Sessions
This program incorporates two faculty-led live-online sessions.
Program Duration
Six weeks, 5–6 hours per week.
By completing this program, you’ll...
- Become more effective at aligning your workforce and business objectives.
- Grow your ‘people literacy’ skills to foster spectacular performance.
- Acquire the skills to manage a high-impact, agile team.
- Learn how to develop and nurture a pipeline of top employee talent.
- Discover self-assessment techniques that result in rapid continuous improvement as a leader.
- Utilize tools and techniques to enhance team dynamics and performance .
- Align the organization’s human resources with the business strategy to adapt to constant environmental changes.
Upon program completion, you'll also...
Be awarded a certificate of completion and a digital credential of your accomplishment.
Become a member of the global Chicago Booth Executive Education network.
Program Modules
Module 1: Strategic Leadership and People Literacy
- Learn to align business strategy with people strategy.
- Discover innovative HR practices to foster high-performing teams.
- Enhance your ability to read and understand others to inspire performance.
- Ensure that talent management is a key performance metric for all leaders.
Module 2: Fundamentals of Talent Management
- Define key deliverables of talent management.
- Learn to utilize the 9-box grid and alternative talent review methods.
- Conduct effective talent risk assessments within your teams.
Module 3: Advanced Talent Management and Integration
- Explore and implement principles of People Literacy.
- Assess the motivations, values, and fears of employees based on the DiSC personality assessment.
- Craft and implement development plans . Integrate talent strategies with broader business objectives.
- Conduct team talent action planning.
- Integrate talent strategies with broader business objectives.
Module 4: Team Dynamics and Psychological Safety
- Analyze the ways in which leadership style and temperament affect team dynamics.
- Examine the importance of psychological safety.
- Explore how to build trust and avoid derailers in your organization.
Module 5: Team Alignment and Cross-Cultural Considerations
- Learn to align your teams for more cohesive and agile performance.
- Effectively navigate cross-cultural challenges.
- Leverage diversity to enhance team dynamics and performance.
- Examine the role of conflict in organizations and learn how to manage it.
Module 6: Leadership and Personal Talent Management
- Learn to apply continuous improvement strategies to enhance your personal development.
- Understand how to demonstrate empathy in your leadership practices.
- Create and implement a personal action plan for ongoing leadership growth.
Faculty-Led Live-Online Sessions
This program features two live-online sessions—a unique opportunity to put theory into practice immediately to amplify your learning and see results. These required sessions not only offer an opportunity to reflect and receive real-time feedback with faculty and peers, but also integrate interactive that can only be taught in a live environment. Participants are expected to attend at least two of the three live sessions to maximize their growth. If a participant is unable to attend a session, an extra asynchronous assignment must be submitted to complete the program.
This program is an excellent fit for:
- Mid- to senior-level leaders who are responsible for improving organizational performance and growth.
- Professionals from all sectors who make strategic decisions and manage talent.
- Skilled individuals seeking to boost their leadership skills and create a high-performance culture.
- Managers seeking proven analysis and management systems to guide their decision-making.
