Leadership Immersion Track
Learn the high-performance HR leadership skills you need to execute your initiatives: managing for momentum, negotiating for results, and coaching for excellence.
Description
Charisma, good ideas, and planning help, but leadership in HR is ultimately about execution: getting things done. However, leading and managing for execution requires that HR professionals master a variety of specific skills. The leadership immersion track, Managing for Execution, is a unique program developed by Samuel Bacharach, McKelvey-Grant Professor at Cornell University, based on three decades of research and writing, and predicated on the understanding that successful execution demands a proactive capacity, and that proactive capacity has three components: managing for momentum, negotiating for results, and coaching for excellence.
The managing for momentum component of this track teaches you how to sustain the momentum of an initiative once you gain initial support for your ideas. Sustaining momentum demands that you be able to balance both directive and facilitative leadership styles. All too often leaders are capable of mobilizing people around their ideas but fail to manage for momentum. HR professionals who are able to sustain momentum understand the appropriate structures, priorities, cultures, and monitoring systems that will ensure the agility and flexibility required for successful execution of their ideas. These modules will help you develop the managerial competencies needed to establish and sustain an agenda’s momentum in order to ensure that it is implemented appropriately.
The negotiation portion of this track addresses a fundamental, critical leadership skill that is essential to successful execution of HR goals. Because a disproportionate amount of time in the workplace is spent in negotiations, an HR manager and leader must be a proactive negotiator, one who understands that negotiation is essential to moving agendas along. Before you can become an effective and proactive negotiator, however, you must confront negotiation myths, put them to rest, and learn the skills that are critical to anticipating, analyzing, and preparing for negotiations. These modules will help you learn to evaluate people, anticipate their negotiation styles, and appreciate the cultural context of the negotiation. They make extensive use of real-world examples and situations, advice and insight from negotiation experts, and opportunities to apply and practice the skills in authentic situations.
The final component of the leadership immersion track addresses coaching: how to get the best out of others to achieve excellence. To execute successfully as an HR professional, you must be able to motivate others to achieve to their maximum ability. Execution depends on your capacity to ensure that others take on the challenge of being proactive. Successful execution cannot rely simply on traditional hierarchical supervision, but demands that HR leaders take on the role of coach. Coaching principles that are integrated into the organizational culture will assure the agility, creativity, and flexibility necessary for successful execution. The coaching modules will help you adopt and apply the coaching process in order to enhance the capacity of others to ensure successful execution.
