PrintAdvanced Management Program
Participants that fully attend the program, and successfully complete all elements, receive a McMaster University Certificate of Completion.
Day 1: Learning to Lead
- Starting Your Journey: receive an introduction to the program, the instructors, and each other
- The Authentic Leader: understand the importance of balancing the ‘Doing’ and ‘Being’ dimensions of leadership
- Managerial Styles: reflect on the results of the Management Style Workbook questionnaire and their application in the workplace
- The After Action Review: learn how to use a simple but powerful tool to facilitate learning and improvement with your team
- The Learning Transfer Plan: learn how to use a standard learning transfer tool to capture and apply important insights
Day 2: Maximizing Productivity
- Clarity & Alignment– Making Results Matter to Everyone: understand the importance of clarity and alignment and the leader’s role in sustaining results-driven performance
- Planning Models – Different Strokes for Different Situations: review a wide range of planning models and tools, and where each can strengthen current planning approaches
- Execution – Making it Happen: discover the core principles of effective execution, including personal productivity
- Handling Performance Problems: learn how to identify and address performance problems with confidence
*Group Case Study Session
Apply program learning to a group problem-solving task, and reflect on the experience. The case study experience includes a peer review of proposed solutions. Facilitators will provide feedback on Day Four.
Day 3: Leading Change
- Making Change: review the principles of Social Change Theory through participation in a computer-managed team simulation
- Creating Healthy Change: understand how significant, sustainable change is achieved through addressing both organizational change and individual transitions
- Theory U – Seeing Differently, Being Different, Acting Differently: examine the process of transformational change from a human system perspective
Day 4: Developing People
- Engagement – What’s it Really All About: understand the key drivers of employee engagement and the manager’s role in sustaining it
- Development: investigate strength-based people development and how to bring out the best in others
- Teams: explore team dynamics and how to capitalize on them
- Program Wrap-up and Review
Participants are asked to develop and maintain an individual leadership learning profile. The leadership learning profile is a reflective tool that enables participants to capture key learning, identify immediate action that can be applied back on the job, assess and reflect upon action taken, and establish future learning and development goals.
Prior to each classroom session, participants review and complete pre-session assignments, including self-assessments, questionnaires and selected articles. Participants should allocate approximately one hour of preparation time for each classroom session.
Between days two and three, participants participate in a group case study.