Executive Education Series
Seminar Instructor: Morrie Shechtman
The Leadership Imperative
Managing Yourself for
Growth and Change
“Too many leaders fail to live up to their potential, because they stop working on themselves.” Harvard Business Review Jan-Feb 2011.
Instructor Information
Morrie Shechtman
• Chairman of Fifth Wave Leadership, a human capital consulting firm
• Adjunct Instructor in the MBA Program at the University of Montana
• Author of Working Without a Net: How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s High Risk Business World and Fifth Wave Leadership: The Internal Frontier
Morrie and his firm have worked with executives, owner-managers, and other key decision-makers for over 30 years. He has consulted with hundreds of top executives worldwide about managing disruptive change, creating growth-oriented, self-sustaining corporate cultures, and developing leaders who broadly and deeply impact both bottom line results and quality of life. He has been a university professor; a psychotherapist; a consultant to government, education, and law enforcement; and the chairman of a private sector consulting firm. His business clients have included Hewlett-Packard, The Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, McGraw-Hill, Time Warner, Allianz Life, United Technologies, and The Young Presidents Organization. Morrie has degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois.
Seminar Overview
Leaders are confronted by an accelerating rate of change in organizations, especially in the nature of work relationships and loyalty. While most leaders are well trained in technical task management, few excel as people developers, change agents, or drivers of growth. One of the most important factors affecting the bottom line is competitive advantage in human capital – a work force that is flexible, agile, change adaptive, and relationship oriented. This seminar will help you become a more effective leader by developing skills and abilities in the following areas:
- become a quick and regret-free decision maker
- clarify your personal vision and core values that inform and unify all your choices and decisions in your professional and personal life
- use self-information to challenge your “Internal Frontier” to grow yourself and learn how to help others to grow
- organize and articulate a process for identifying and promoting the talent in your organization
- use feedback, listening and observational skills to serve as a catalyst and facilitator of team-building and self-managed learning
- become a high intimacy, low maintenance relationship builder
- enhance relationships by using transparency, directness, and feedback