Leading People and Teams
Learn how to maximize your effectiveness as a leader and overcome the key challenges of leadership:
- How can you identify your team’s strengths and empower them to achieve success?
- How can bolster you leadership by creating an effective professional network?
- How can you build influence with other decision makers to support your initiatives?
- How can you spot, diagnose and remedy toxic organizational dynamics?
The Leading People and Teams program functions as a leadership laboratory, where you can experiment in a challenging but safe environment to uncover your blind spots as a leader and unlock effective leadership, while developing strategies that will help you get the most out of your team.
This program requires active participation in the classroom for all four days.
Key facts
Your profile
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You are a manager with at least five years of experience leading a team
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You want to improve your effectiveness at reaching organizational goals through people.
Program highlights
- Learn from state-of-the-art research that explores the four complementary facts of successful leadership.
- Develop your personal leadership vision and get feedback from peers.
- Individual profiling before the program begins will help you understand your own decision making style and the strengths of your leadership network, providing a roadmap to develop it in the right directions.
- Benefit from open and intense class interactions, that leverage the varied experiences of you and your peers.
- Morning reflections each day help you utilize newly acquired skills and knowledge.
- Self-assessment tools ,interactive mini-lectures, case discussions, business simulations, executive coaching, and in-depth interactions with peers and faculty.
- Achieve lasting impact through a post-program self-development plan.
Topics
- Creating a compelling leadership vision
- Empowering individuals and teams
- Developing effective informal networks
- Coalition-building and influence tactics
- Combating decision biases
- Thinking strategically
Why ESMT?
- Ranked #1 business school in Germany by the Financial Times Executive Education Rankings
- Laboratory-style format: test your leadership style and apply new skills in a supportive environment
- Have your personal leadership network assessed as part of the program
- Diverse classes, interactive exercises, renowned faculty, peer-to-peer coaching
- Receive 360° feedback
- Executive group coaching
- This program can be taken as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management
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Leading People and Teams
Application form
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Got questions about the program?
We are happy to help you assess whether Leading People and Teams fits your goals and current leadership challenges.
How you will learn
Participate in a Leadership Laboratory, where you can experiment in a challenging yet safe environment to uncover blind spots and unlock your leadership potential. Develop strategies to build a strong, aligned team through self-assessments, interactive mini-lectures, executive coaching, and business cases. Engage in business simulations and benefit from in-depth interactions with peers and faculty to enhance your learning experience.
Gianluca Carnabuci
Francis de Véricourt
What participants are saying about the Leading People and Teams program?
ESMT Berlin is a great place to continue lifelong learning and reflect on your leadership experience.
I can recommend their science-based, no-bla-bla executive programs, which can really push you to become a better leader.
This was a very intense learning experience, along with a very heterogenous group of fellow leaders from around the globe.
Earn Your Postgraduate Diploma
This program can be taken as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Management curriculum.
Need more information?
Contact our program advisors:
- Fill out our Request Information form
- Phone: +49 30 21231 1490
- Email: bd@esmt.org
