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Becoming a Leader: Developing Your Style and Making Sound Decisions

All Start Dates

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $2,990

  • Registration Deadline

    April 9, 2024

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $2,990

  • Registration Deadline

    August 4, 2024

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    Live Online: $2,750 | On-Campus: $2,990

  • Registration Deadline

    November 11, 2024

Becoming a Leader. A woman leader addresses a conference room.

Explore the symbiotic relationship between decision making and leadership to maximize organizational performance.

What You'll Learn

How can you become a better leader?

Designed for first-line and mid-level managers positioned to take on increasing leadership roles in their organizations, this program analyzes the symbiotic relationship between leadership and decision making. Incorporating both theory and practice, you will learn different methods of effective decisionmaking, as well as ways to avoid bad decisions. Using research in emotional intelligence as a framework, you will develop a greater understanding of the dual aspects of the decision-making process: intuitive vs. rational, and the respective values of both.

You will leave this powerful program with tools and strategies that will expand your ability to become a more confident leader and decisionmaker.

Program Benefits

  • Become aware of preferences, leadership styles, and blind spots in both yourself as well as others
  • Learn the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership and decision making, especially cognitive biases and the illusion of rationality
  • Learn how emotional intelligence will contribute to your professional success, and discover your own personal EQ.
  • Understand psychological pitfalls in decision making and how you can set yourself up for success
  • Learn tools and strategies for leveraging your strengths and awareness over the course of your career
  • Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics Covered

  • Bases of power and influence throughout an organization
  • Awareness of individual preferences and leadership styles as a tool to becoming a more effective leader
  • Situational leadership over the course of your career
  • Leadership and better decision making through emotional intelligence
  • Tools to manage oneself and others during times of increased pressure

Who Should Enroll

This program benefits emerging leaders who are poised and motivated to take on significant managerial responsibility in their organizations. Those with 3-7 years of experience managing people will find this program most beneficial.

It is highly recommended for those who want to increase and strengthen their awareness of their preferences and leadership styles as a tool to become better leaders and decision makers over the course of their careers.

April Schedule

Day 1

  • Introduction to Leadership — And Each Other
  • Emotional Intelligence – Foundation for Leadership
  • Impact on Decision Making

Day 2

  • Emotional Management and Connection
  • Impact and Values
  • Strengthening Connection
  • Curious Learner

August Schedule

Day 1

  • Introduction to Leadership — And Each Other
  • Emotional Intelligence – Foundation for Leadership
  • Impact on Decision Making

Day 2

  • Emotional Management and Connection
  • Impact and Values
  • Strengthening Connection
  • Curious Learner

November Schedule

Participate live online or on campus. 

Join us this December for a unique hybrid offering of this popular program, with participants attending simultaneously on campus and live online (over Zoom). 

  • Register for live online: Enter our state-of-the-art classroom from the comfort of your home or office. You will be fully integrated into the program experience, with the ability to see, hear, contribute, and network alongside your in-person counterparts.
  • Register for on campus: Learn and collaborate in our classroom space in the heart of the historic Harvard campus. Your experience will be augmented by the opportunity to network—both in-person and virtually—with colleagues from around the country and the world.   

To register, select the modality that works best for you.

Day 1

  • Introduction to Leadership — And Each Other
  • Emotional Intelligence – Foundation for Leadership
  • Impact on Decision Making

Day 2

  • Emotional Management and Connection
  • Impact and Values
  • Strengthening Connection
  • Curious Learner

Instructor

  • Laura Wilcox

    Laura Wilcox

    Laura has been in academia for over three decades at the intersection of business, innovation, and education at MIT, MIT Sloan, and Harvard. She is the Director of Management and Finance Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education.

Instructor

  • Laura Wilcox

    Laura Wilcox

    Laura has been in academia for over three decades at the intersection of business, innovation, and education at MIT, MIT Sloan, and Harvard. She is the Director of Management and Finance Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education.

Instructor

  • Laura Wilcox

    Laura Wilcox

    Laura has been in academia for over three decades at the intersection of business, innovation, and education at MIT, MIT Sloan, and Harvard. She is the Director of Management and Finance Programs at Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education.

Certificates of Leadership Excellence

The Certificates of Leadership Excellence (CLE) are designed for leaders with the desire to enhance their business acumen, challenge current thinking, and expand their leadership skills.

This program is one of several CLE qualifying programs. Register today and get started earning your certificate.

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