Program Overview

You have been identified as an effective manager in your organization. You successfully implement the objectives of your bank. But are you truly regarded as a leader within your management group? Does senior management rely on you to help shape the vision of the future, to promote core values, and to motivate your team to achieve the chosen goals? Recognizing that leaders-in-fact and leaders-in-training need a on-threatening environment to acquire or practice the skills of leadership, Massachusetts Bankers Association has designed a leadership workshop – The New England Leadership Development Workshop. This highly interactive workshop admits only a small group of senior managers, putting them in a supportive learning environment to give them an opportunity to explore the role and responsibilities of a leader.

This two- and-half-day program is highly recommended for graduates of the New England School of Financial Studies, but welcomes other middle and senior managers from financial institutions.  Class size is limited to allow for maximum education benefit and personal attention. Peer interaction, critical self-evaluations, and lively case study discussions are hallmarks of this excellent executive program.

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Program Highlights

Self-Awareness – Self Assessment – 180 Evaluation
Three assessment tools will be used, making this program uniquely personal.  Using an online self-evaluation tool, you will first create a profile of your strengths – those talents that make you shine. A tailored leadership guide will be provided as well as recommended strategies for leading a team of diverse strengths.

In the second evaluation, you will fill out a survey describing your own management style. Six of your subordinates or peers will be asked to anonymously complete the same checklist, describing how they perceive these same characteristics in you. A confidential report will be prepared for you. The report will be compared to critical leadership requirements of succession planning, recruiting, and mentoring high potential talent, improving staff engagement and operating in a global environment.

A third self-assessment will measure your emotional intelligence, recognized as a key component in moving from a good leader to a great one.

In combination with these assessment reports, you will learn to use the FeedForward techniques to engage in self-improvement in those areas of leadership most necessary for your professional success

The Shift from Management to Leadership
As a manager you focus on problem-solving, producing results, organizing, and controlling the process.  As a leader, your role and focus must shift to creating and communicating a vision, defining and executing strategy, a heightened awareness of change, and, most importantly, influencing and inspiring others to achieve the company goals. Group discussions will explore effective techniques for making this mindset switch.

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
IQ and technical knowledge are no longer enough to succeed as a leader.  Social awareness, empathy, and self-management are critical skills that are paramount for greater success.  Emotionally intelligent leaders inspire others, boost morale, and increase productivity and employee performance.

Empowerment & Engagement
You got to be a manager by being the person who got the job done – whatever it takes.  To be an effective leader you have to inspire others to get the job done with enthusiasm and creativity. That means you have to start trusting others to do the work with autonomy.  We will explore the differences of the two skills and ways to increase your own engagement in your position by letting go and using your time to lead.

Leadership Round Tables
Tapping into the combined experience of the workshop participants, you will share actual problems faced by executives in the industry on a daily basis.  The emphasis will be on practical solutions to dilemmas of communication, delegation, staff development, decision-making, ethics, motivation, and conflict resolution.  Drawing on the group’s collected experience, your fellow attendees will enrich and broaden your perspective of the presented cases.

Capstone Project
At the conclusion of this program, you will create a personal action plan, drawing on all of the insights you have explored over the course of the workshop – your own strengths and weaknesses, the recommended strategies and techniques, as well as the readings and discussions with the facilitators and fellow participants.  

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