In this new book—the follow-up to the authors' best-seller, Influence Without Authority—Stanford GSB Professor David Bradford and coauthor Allan Cohen offer practical advice about how to turn your relationship with your boss into a partnership in which both parties benefit. The book provides valuable, actionable tools you can use to win the cooperation and confidence of your boss and other senior managers, and advance your business and career goals.
Professor Bradford will share these insights and his other research findings with program participants during the upcoming session.
How can you become a more authentic leader? How can you effectively raise your emotional and social IQ? And how can you experience what has been voted the most popular elective for 45 years running at Stanford Graduate School of Business? Stanford's Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives is the answer. For years this program has been transforming the lives of senior-level executives, helping them to unlock their true leadership potential. Now it's your turn—to confront, to challenge, to change.
The Dorothy J. King Lecturer in Leadership, is the Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows program and winner of the 2011-2012 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. As a consultant and executive coach, she has been helping people and organizations thrive in the business, nonprofit, and public sectors. Her courses combine a high degree of experiential-based activities with case method, theory, and research to ensure rigor, relevance, and practicality.
Eugene D. O'Kelly II Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Emeritus
Lecturer in Organizational Behavior
Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives will help you:
THE POWER OF INQUIRY AND FEEDBACK
One of the most powerful tools in developing potential in yourself and in your team, is the effective use of feedback. In this session, faculty will help you strengthen your competency in giving and receiving regular, specific, and face-to-face feedback. Explore how feedback can be given in a way that is direct and impactful without harming relationships.
THE POWER OF INFLUENCE
Influence is the key to getting things done in today's organizations. Work and today’s work environment are becoming more complex and decentralized. Yet leaders still need to capture the right information and resources, gain cooperation, and implement solutions. Increasingly this involves having to influence peers not only within departments but also across business units and around the globe. This session will provide conceptual models, tools, and experiential activities to strengthen this critical leadership skill.
INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE, VULNERABILITY, AND AUTHENTICITY
Every day, leaders make choices regarding interpersonal interactions that impact their ability to influence others. This session will explore the relationship between vulnerability, authenticity, connection, and influence. It will examine the beliefs we hold, the choices we make with regard to what parts of ourselves we share in our interpersonal interactions, and how those choices can help us gain or lose influence with others.
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
Can you lead and inspire without feelings or emotions? Conveying passion requires emotion but how can you best express it to achieve your goals? Feelings and emotions are essential to leadership and yet not enough attention is paid to their role in a leader's professional success. Thinking and feeling are like the bass and treble lines of a musical score. They are not the same, but when both are congruent, they provide dimensionality, texture, and meaning to make our communication more complete. This session explores the role feelings play in our dealings with other people.
Interpersonal Dynamics for High-Performance Executives is an intense, personal leadership program. It's specifically designed for:
Built high on a bluff, the Chaminade Executive Conference Center commands a panoramic view of the Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Chaminade's beautiful setting promotes balance in living and learning.
Woven into the academically rigorous sessions is the opportunity for participants to take advantage of the unique setting to explore, exercise, or contemplate in a secluded, tranquil environment.
Chaminade's spacious guest rooms offer the amenities business executives have come to expect, from feather beds and ultra-plush duvets to desks equipped with high-speed internet access.
The sleeping rooms feature views of the surrounding eucalyptus forest or of our resort grounds and heated swimming pool.
Each meal offers a vast buffet of locally inspired fare including vegetarian specialties. Chaminade's executive chef finds an abundant supply of fresh seafood and produce from the local Monterey Bay region. Every dish is prepared on site, and many foods are complemented with fresh herbs collected from Chaminade's own gardens.
Participants are invited to eat al fresco on the Sunset Terrace where they can continue their program discussions, enjoy the sun-warmed patio, and admire the scenic mountain view.
Set high in the mountains, under crystal blue skies, Chaminade's location encourages participants to reenergize, focus, and engage in Stanford's intense learning experience.
The program is organized into general group sessions and T-Group break out sessions allowing maximum interaction among your peers and Stanford faculty.
Chaminade offers several recreational options. They include: a state-of-the-are fitness center, a luxurious full-service spa, an outdoor heated swimming pool and Jacuzzis, lighted tennis courts and picturesque hiking trails.
Chaminade Executive Conference Center is located on a hilltop in the lower Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz, California. The closest airport is San Jose International Airport located 40 minutes from the facilities.
San Francisco International Airport is located 90 minutes from the facilities. Average temperatures in June range from a high 74ºF (23ºC) of to a low of 50ºF (10ºC). Chaminade is within a short drive of Big Basin Redwood State Park, the Pacific coastline, local wineries, Pebble Beach, and Monterey Bay.
