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Managing Yourself and Leading Others

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  • Time

    11:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET

  • Length

    Every Wednesday for 4 weeks

  • Cost

    $2,600

  • Registration Deadline

    May 30, 2023

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $2,895

  • Registration Deadline

    July 2, 2023

  • Time

    11:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET

  • Length

    Every Tuesday for 4 weeks

  • Cost

    $2,600

  • Registration Deadline

    July 24, 2023

  • Time

    11:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET

  • Length

    Every Thursday for 4 weeks

  • Cost

    $2,600

  • Registration Deadline

    August 30, 2023

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    Live Online: $2,600 | On-Campus: $2,895

  • Registration Deadline

    September 24, 2023

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $2,895

  • Registration Deadline

    October 24, 2023

  • Time

    8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST

  • Length

    2 consecutive days

  • Cost

    $2,895

  • Registration Deadline

    November 26, 2023

Leading others: two work colleagues walking on Harvard College campus

Evolve your leadership style to lead better and motivate others to accomplish your company's goals.

What You'll Learn

Think of the leaders you most admire. They seem to easily juggle competing demands, confidently motivate their teams to achieve optimum results, effectively navigate across the organization, and never lose their composure. These executives make the job of leading others look simple—but it’s not.

Designed to help managers become more effective leaders, this powerful program delves into the fundamentals of managing yourself, leading teams, and motivating others to accomplish your company’s goals.

Through relevant readings, case discussions, and introspective exercises, you will gain a broader and deeper understanding of organizational culture and dynamics, management best practices, the role of the manager, and the nature of influence. As you explore your own personality, strengths, and weaknesses, you will begin to evolve a leadership style that is uniquely yours. You will return to work with newfound confidence and an action plan for continuing your growth as a leader.

Program Benefits

  • Improve your performance by strengthening your management skills
  • Manage your team, your boss, and your colleagues more effectively
  • Develop a management style that suits your unique personality
  • Handle difficult management situations with greater certainty in your decisions
  • Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics Covered

  • Distinguishing management myth from reality
  • Understanding the motivations of colleagues and competitors
  • Recognizing strengths and blind spots in yourself and others
  • Building emotional intelligence to communicate effectively
  • Influencing others from a position of authority—or without authority
  • Managing within organizational hierarchies
  • Earning trust and building relationships
  • Leading for long-term results

Who Should Enroll

This management training program is ideal for new or experienced managers in any function who want to become better leaders. Because management requires analyzing complex challenges, participants should expect to grapple with ambiguous situations that do not have simple solutions.

June Schedule

Week 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others

Week 2
• Managing the Organizational Context

Week 3
• Teams & Teamwork

Week 4
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

July Schedule

Day 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others
• Managing the Organizational Context

Day 2
• Teams & Teamwork
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

August Schedule

Week 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others

Week 2
• Managing the Organizational Context

Week 3
• Teams & Teamwork

Week 4
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

September Schedule

Week 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others

Week 2
• Managing the Organizational Context

Week 3
• Teams & Teamwork

Week 4
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

October Schedule

Participate live online or on campus. 

Join us this October 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.

October Schedule

Day 1 On-Campus Live Online
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast Technical Check
8:30 – 4:15 pm
  • Motivating Yourself & Others
  • Individual Differences
  • Teams & Teamwork
  • Motivating Yourself & Others
  • Individual Differences
  • Teams & Teamwork
4:15 – 5:00 pm Reception Facilitated Online Networking Session

 

Day 2 On-Campus Live Online
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast Technical Check
8:30 – 4:15 pm
  • Developing Others
  • Organizing for Excellence
  • Culture & Change
  • Developing Others
  • Organizing for Excellence
  • Culture & Change
4:15 – 4:30 pm Evaluation and Certificates Evaluation and Digital Certificates

November Schedule

Day 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others
• Managing the Organizational Context

Day 2
• Teams & Teamwork
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

December Schedule

Day 1
• Understanding Ourselves & Others
• Managing the Organizational Context

Day 2
• Teams & Teamwork
• Managing Up & Sideways

*Schedule is subject to change

Instructor

  • Paul Green, Jr.

    Paul Green, Jr.

    Paul is an instructor at Harvard Extension School where he teaches a course in organizational behavior. He studies ways in which connections at work can enable or constrain important individual and organizational outcomes like engagement, fulfillment, motivation and performance, and individual development.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret is a highly rated instructor at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, creating and teaching courses and professional programs in leadership, team effectiveness, strategy, and creativity. She is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, business, and consulting.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret is a highly rated instructor at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, creating and teaching courses and professional programs in leadership, team effectiveness, strategy, and creativity. She is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, business, and consulting.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret is a highly rated instructor at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, creating and teaching courses and professional programs in leadership, team effectiveness, strategy, and creativity. She is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, business, and consulting.

Instructor

  • Paul Green, Jr.

    Paul Green, Jr.

    Paul is an instructor at Harvard Extension School where he teaches a course in organizational behavior. He studies ways in which connections at work can enable or constrain important individual and organizational outcomes like engagement, fulfillment, motivation and performance, and individual development.

Instructor

  • Margaret Andrews

    Margaret Andrews

    Margaret is a highly rated instructor at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education, creating and teaching courses and professional programs in leadership, team effectiveness, strategy, and creativity. She is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in higher education, business, and consulting.

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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