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Leading High Performance Teams

August 26-27, 2024 | 8:30am - 4:30pm | UT Campus | $3,350

Leadership & Justice: Managing Rewards at the Top

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  • BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

    You are faced with ever-increasing demands and being asked to perform functions once in the realm of human resources and other departments. Be an effective leader. Generate group cohesiveness, mutual respect and support, and company loyalty. Construct a comprehensive toolkit of the major functions effective leaders perform. Examine and discuss the critical path to motivating and leading others.

What You'll Learn

In today’s business world, you must become a creative leader who can inspire productivity and motivate employees to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Leadership Skills and Tools

  • Develop new insights on what it takes to lead others successfully
  • Handle tough leadership issues, such as giving criticism, making meetings efficient, using teams, and delegating in ways that enhance productivity
  • Construct a comprehensive toolkit of the major functions effective leaders perform: hiring, communicating, motivating, negotiating, teaming, evaluating, rewarding and creating a high performance culture

 

Impact of High Performance Work Principles

  • Advantages and disadvantages to teams
  • Team processes
  • Building cohesion
  • Overcoming groupthink
  • Influencing when you’re the minority

 

Employee Performance

  • Enhance the ability to set effective performance goals
  • Apply the performance appraisal process effectively
  • Motivate the workforce of today and tomorrow

 

Recruitment and Retention

  • Recruit the right people for the right job
  • Retain the best people

 

Attending this Course

  • Individuals

    This course is appropriate for executives and managers in leadership roles.
  • Teams

    Organizations often send pairs or small teams, to support the launch of new initiatives.
  • Requirements & Credit

    There are no prerequisites for this course. Participants earn 1.4 CEUs and/or 14 CPEs for this course, as well as a certificate of completion from Texas Executive Education. Our classes are available for university credit. Please contact us for more information.
New Ideas to Grow and Build
This was the third class I had the opportunity to participate in and the best yet. I walked away with great tools and new ideas to grow and build my team, that I was able to put in practice the minute I got back in the office and made a big impact.
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Instructors

  • Kristie Loescher
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    Kristie Loescher

    Senior Lecturer, Management

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  • John Daly
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    John Daly

    Liddell Carter Professor in the College of Communication

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  • Reimbursement Options

    Learn more about course credits and options for course reimbursement. Get tips on the best way to approach your manager and download a customizable template to facilitate making the ask.
  • Course Location

    In person courses take place at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and adjoining Rowling Hall on the UT campus in Austin. These world-class facilities provide a comfortable and convenient learning environment, with direct access to the 40 acres of campus and within walking distance of downtown Austin. Live online and on-demand course options are available for many courses.
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