Strategic Thinking & Lead with Emotional Intelligence

Topics include:

Module 1: Strategic Thinking For Future Success
Featuring Prof. Dr. Leif Erik Wollenweber

When you think strategically, you lift your head above your day-to-day work and consider the larger environment in which you’re operating. You ask questions and challenge assumptions about how things work in your company and industry. Effective and efficient strategic thinking is not just a one-off activity, but an everyday approach to doing business with an eye toward generating the best possible business results tomorrow, using the opportunities presented to you today.

Learning Goals:

• Understand what strategic thinking is and its value to leaders.
• Recognize strategic thinking as a daily process.
• Demonstrate five qualities for future based thinking.
• Apply five strategic thinking skills—Systems thinking; opportunity savvy; thinking creatively; thinking in time; clear intentions.

Module 2: Leadership Influence Through Emotional Intelligence Featuring Colleen Stanley

Emotional intelligence, a set of behaviors that can be developed through training and experience is considered one of the strongest predictors of leadership performance. In fact, some would say that emotional intelligence determines leadership potential in business today.

Learning Goals:

• Define productive skills that help individuals and teams respond with reason rather than react when triggered by others.
• Relate the application of emotional intelligence to higher performance.
• Prepare leaders to mobilize people around a compelling vision through influence rather than by exercising authority.