Leadership System

Course Description

Senior leaders are incredibly important in setting the direction for their organization, reinforcing that with the workforce, and ensuring the execution of key actions. This course will explore the key elements of a leadership system, including what is a leadership system (not just an org. chart), the personal role model behaviors needed from senior leaders, senior leaders’ role in reward and recognition, succession planning, and the review of performance measures. It will also cover the evaluation an improvement of senior leaders and the leadership system.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, the participants will have:

Developed a leadership system model
Assessed existing reward and recognition approaches in place
Created an action plan for assessment of the leadership system and senior leaders
Conducted a self-assessment by senior leaders for evaluating role model behaviors
Created an action plan for succession planning
Created a set of expected behaviors from the senior leadership team

This course uses a combination of cases, examples and lecture to convey the ideas. The participants then discuss and select the methods they believe are best suited to their organization.

Course Content

The Leadership System course focuses on the importance of senior leaders in promoting a culture of high performance.

The course outline includes:

Key elements of a leadership system, including what is a leadership system
The personal role model behaviors needed from senior leaders
Senior leaders’ role in
- reward and recognition
- succession planning
Evaluation and improvement of senior leaders and the leadership system.

The course tools include:

Examples of leadership systems from Baldrige Award recipients
Examples of leadership system and senior leader assessment instruments
Assessment tool for evaluating existing reward and recognition approaches in place
Self-assessment tool for evaluating role model behaviors