7th MIT Sloan Leadership Conference
25 February, 2006, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Conference Events » Leadership Workshops
These workshops provide practical leadership skills that our participants can readily apply in their career and personal life. Our experts come from the most well recognized organizations in the area of leadership development.
MIT Leadership Center Workshop
Jonathan Lehrich (bio)
Associate Director, Leadership Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Managing Up"
Time and again, brilliant and talented employees crash and burn because they dont work effectively with their managers. Even those who accept the need to manage their boss are stymied by mismatched styles, misperceived needs, and misconstrued relationships. Rather than fall victim to the same traps, take this dynamic, research- and tools-based workshop. We'll explore dangers, discuss recommendations, and use interactive exercises to help you rebalance with your current boss or start afresh with a new one.
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura Workshop
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura (bio)
Founder and Chairman, Vision In Action
"Authentic Leadership for the Age of Global Competition"
The advent of the age of globalization shifts the value and the stakes of what it means to be an authentic leader from being the “number one” to being the “only one.” To be a leader does not necessarily mean to be better than your competitors but to be so uniquely alone in your expertise that you essentially have no competitors. This requires that you understand and express your vision at a much deeper level. For, authentic vision is not that which you have but that which you are. Authentic Vision defines who you are in the world and for the world.
Authentic leadership requires that you know who you are as a creative vision and how to effectively manifest your vision in and for the world. You need to know how to authentically and creatively think so that you can consistently generate innovative ideas, and then render your own innovative ideas obsolete by the time others start imitating your ideas.
In this thought-provoking presentation, Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, a noted expert in authentic thinking and leadership, will share his latest thoughts in a lecture geared toward an advanced audience ready to take the steps necessary to attain authentic leadership in the age of global competition.
Toastmasters Communication Workshop
Dave Sanfacon (bio)
2003 Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking Finalist
"Public Speaking - Unleashing Your Inner Frog!"
What public speaking clues can leaders of the 21st Century learn from a dancing amphibian, a neurotic dead guy facing judgment day, and a silver medalist at the 2003 World Championship of public Speaking? There is one way to find out! Join Dave Sanfacon and a unique cast of characters as they share 4 clues (including the Necessity of Nervousness) designed to unlock the mysteries of powerful public speaking.
DISCLAIMER To those individuals who are 100% certain that they will never ever be called upon to stand up in front of an audience and deliver a speech, a workshop, a pitch, a pep-talk, a toast, a roast, a presentation, an invocation, an oration, a dissertation, a recitation, a salutation, or a declamation --- this workshop may not be for you.
Dale Carnegie Workshop
Clark Merrill (bio)
Vice President of Instruction, Performance Training Associates, Dale Carnegie Training
"Creating VISIONs"
In this workshop we will explore a process for creating VISIONs for ourselves, teams and organizations. This workshop looks at the VISION creation process and breaks it down to manageable steps that will get our organizations in alignment and moving towards a common outcome. The ability to generate a powerful and meaningful VISION statement is not genetic. It is however the application of a repeatable process based on selected team "drivers". Although this is not "THE" way to create VISIONS, it is one very
effective process for creating VISIONS.