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Leadership & Team Building

(SAP Business event type: 50096628)

Introduction
Objectives

The primary aim of this course


is to furnish delegates with the
knowledge , understanding and
skills to generate creative
ideas for products, processes
and services, manage these ideas
innovatively, and then put these
ideas to work in order to create
new values in their
organisations. The course
promotes the intelligent
response to any problem.

Programme Profile

Understanding your own strengths


and those of your organisation
Identifying the key trends in
your environment
Challenges of leadership
Managing vs. Leading
Leadership and stages of
business growth
Leadership styles
Increasing self - awareness
Emotional Intelligence
Personality types
Organisation and control
Setting objectives and
performance criteria
Entrepreneurial behaviour
The "Learning Organisation"
Decision making
Motivation and control
Practical team building
Building successful teams
Team learning reviews
Methods for idea generation and
creative stimulation
How to present new ideas and
initiatives and negotiate their
successful implementation
Mental aerobics and creative
thinking
Knowledge management
Identifying and transferring
internal best practice
Business application of NLP
Influencing and empowering
Dealing with resistance
Who should attend

This stimulating course is aimed


at Managers, Directors,
Executives and those who want to
take more initiative, generate
drive, innovate and succeed.
This programme is a vital energy
and imagination booster for
individuals in their own right
and for the impact it can have
on the activities for which they
are responsible.

COURSE OVERVIEW GM001


Leadership and Teambuilding in the
New Millennium

Course Title
Leadership and Teambuilding in the
New Millennium

Course Date/ Venue


November 20-24, 2004 / Boardroom
350, JW Marriot Hotel, Dubai, UAE.

Course Reference
GM001

Course Duration
Five days

Course Description
The course presents an overview of
leadership competence criteria as
applied in life-like team work
situations. The drawn analogies
illustrate the applications,
limitations and values of leadership
and teambuilding as an integrated
process in handling diverse
managerial challenges. The course
topics stress the individuality of
approaches, uniqueness of skills and
behavioural tendencies in the
present date, with practical
parallel reference to the
development of the leadership
profile over time in relation to the
team creation and its operational
methodologies.

Course Objectives
Upon course completion, the
participants will have an overview
of leadership styles, techniques,
skills, methodologies and paradigms
which will provide them with an
opportunity to experience the
challenges encountered in
situational leadership
circumstances. The participants will
examine the qualities and
characteristics of famous
international figures such as
charisma, focus and vision, and
analyze their personal leadership
profiles. The course will further
address teambuilding in the context
of emotional intelligence, and
juxtapose its aspects with team
spirit approaches such as
commitment, loyalty, and enthusiasm.
The participants will appreciate the
value of leadership and teambuilding
on associate management skills
relating to empowerment, motivation
and the art of facilitation. The
course will conclude by a review of
the effect of leadership on quantum
management in terms of competence
standards, corporate transformation,
change management, re-engineering,
sustainable performance and
simulation of creativity. The
attendee will have the opportunity
to draw a personal implementation
plan to reflect the totality of the
diverse learning points.

Course Fee
US$ 2,750 per delegate. This rate
includes course material, buffet
lunch, coffee/tea on arrival,
morning and afternoon of each day.

Accommodation
Accommodation is not included in
course fees. However, any
accommodation required can be
arranged by Harvard Technology at
the time of booking.

Course Certificate
Harvard Technology certificate will
be issued to all attendees
completing minimum of 75% of the
total tuition hours of the course.

Course Instructors
(1) Dr. Barry Reynolds holds a
Ph.D. degree in management corporate
communications from University of
Sherbrooke in Canada, and is a
member of many associations and
national training advisory boards in
the U.S.A. and Canada. He has more
than twenty years’ experience in
management training, particularly in
the fields of management theory as
applied to ‘”People Skills”. These
fields range from petrochemicals to
pharmaceutical, health care, and the
aerospace industries. Dr. Reynolds’
training courses have been generally
praised and presented at companies
and industrial sites around the
world.
In early 2002, he led a team of
Canadian top business managers,
including several CEOs from Canada’s
pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and
telecommunications industry in a
seminar to review and upgrade the
leaders’ skills
When not on consulting or training
assignments overseas, Dr. Reynolds
lectures in Communications,
Technical Writing, and Journalism at
McGill University in Canada. In
1998 and 1999, he was appointed
“Visiting Foreign Professor of
Economics” at Kobe-Gakuin University
in Japan. Dr. Reynolds is the
Director of International Programs
at John Abbott College in Montreal,
Canada, where he additionally gives
Management Training seminars. His
industrial training include topics
such as Communications and
Interpersonal Skills; Negotiating
and Influencing Techniques; Staff
Assessment and Performance Review
Tools; Organizing and delivering
Effective Presentations; Leadership
and Teambuilding; Change Management;
Advanced Principles of Business
Management; Quality Improvement;
Creative Thinking and Innovation;
Stress Management; Managing Change
in the Workplace; Human Resources,
Competency, Paradigm Shift, Process
Mapping, crisis-management
Organizational Bahviour, Train-the
trainer; etc.
Outside North America, Dr. Reynolds
has conducted on-site seminars and
workshops in Switzerland, Germany,
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United
Arab Emirates, Singapore, Korea, and
in Japan. Among the organizations
he has organized training workshops
for are: UNESCO; WHO; Science-Tech;
P.A. Management International; Sony
Corp; Asian Development Bank;
Aramco; and M.D. Associates (USA).
Since 1990, Dr. Reynolds has worked
as a part-time media consultant and
speech writer providing media
training to prominent business
figures in Canada and the U.S.A

(2) Dr. Gus Barakat holds a PH.D.


Degree in Human Resource Management
from the USA, and has more than 25
years’ practical work experience in
Human Resources in USA, Europe and
the Middle East ; he is thus an
international professional and a
practitioner. Dr. Barakat has been
a speaker at international
conferences and has presented more
than 20 papers at international
events on human resource management
topics in general and specialist
research in particular. Dr. Barakat
has successfully carried out
consultancy assignments for major
international and regional
companies, banks, and industries on
traditional as well as modern
management themes e.g. mind mapping,
competency assessment, leadership
profiles, performance management,
organizational behaviour, change
management; quality and
productivity, thinking paradigms,
job re-design, job evaluation and
classification, creativity & lateral
thinking, customer service
excellence, human asset accounting,
training, process mapping & re-
engineering, manpower succession
planning, policy development, salary
scales, job grading systems,
compensation benefits &
remuneration, career development, HR
audit, organization hierarchy,
manpower establishment & strength,
computerized HR management systems,
human capital management, workforce
nationalization, mission & vision
statements, the use and abuse of
contract staff, potential
assessment, and benchmarking ( the
“good” as enemy of the “best”).
Dr. Barakat has held senior
positions within the HR function for
international employers such as
Shell and other major industrial
companies worldwide. He has
delivered more than 200 seminars and
courses on Human Resource topics in
USA, Canada, UK, Asia, and the
Middle East.
He is also an educationalist who has
contributed to the development of
syllabi for the MBA programmes at
educational institutes, and has
masterminded the development of a
psychometric system to measure
potential, job tendencies, mind
mapping and creativity.
Dr. Barakat’s expertise in the
field covers a wide range of
cultural diversity; hence he is
quite equipped to address the HR
issues from the local as well as the
international perspective.

Who Should Attend


The course is specifically designed
to enhance the leadership skills of
both technical and non-technical
personnel such as managers,
superintendents, engineers, heads of
departments, team leaders and unit
supervisors who have to demonstrate,
and /or coach others in, leadership
skills. The course will be
additionally of value to staff in
support or advisory functions such
as strategy formation, policy
development, organizational
development, audit, welfare, and
projects.

Course Program

Day 1: Saturday 20th of


November 2004
0730 - 0800 Registration & Coffee
0800 - 0810 Welcome
0810 - 1000 Management Versus
Leadership
Leadership Styles- An Overview
The Techniques And Skills That
Contribute To a Leadership Style
The Leadership Paradigm
1000 - 1015 Break
1015 - 1230 Situational Leadership:
• Qualities & Characteristics
• Components & Contributors
• The Leader’s Mind Map
• Case Study- A Leader’s Profile
? Inherited
? Adopted
1230 - 1330 Prayer & Lunch
1330 - 1500 Teambuilding:
• Team Composition
• Team Spirit
• Team Role
• Team Work
Case Study- The Team Leader’s Mirage

Day 2: Sunday 21st of


November 2004
0730 - 0945 Leadership Approaches:
• Empowerment
• Behavioural Tendencies –
Resilience, Commitment & Loyalty
• Motivation
• Self- Development
• Value & Values- The Add- Value
Concept
The Transformation Process-
Accountability
0945 - 1000 Break
1000 - 1230 The Leadership Zone
Vision & Mission Statements
Competency & competence standards
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1500 A Leadership Model –
Exercise

Day 3: Monday 22nd of


November 2004
0730- 09:30 Personality Styles &
Self Command
Conflict Resolution
? Inward
? Outward
Emotional Intelligence
09:30 – 09:45 Break
09:45 - 1230 Career Laddering
Performance Management
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1500 Dynamics of Balance

Day 4: Tuesday 23rd of


November 2004
0730 - 1000 Leadership & Change:
• Re-engineering
• Job shift
Productivity & Process Alignment
1000 - 1015 Break
1015 - 1230 Creativity
• Thinking Styles
• Thinking Skills
Quantum Management
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1500 Communication & Rapport

Day 5: Wednesday 24th of


November 2004
0730 - 1000 A total review of course
themes
Summary of learning points
1000 - 1015 Break
1015 - 1230 The Personal
Implementation Plan
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1500 Distribution of
Certificates ,Course Evaluation, and
Closure

Course Coordinator
Ms. Eman Salem, Tel: +971-2-6277881,
Fax: +971-2-6277883, Email:
eman@harvard.tc

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