High Performance People Skills for Leaders – Saudi Arabia
Elevate your ability to inspire, influence and effectively communicate with your people.
Programme impact
Get the best out of yourself and your people
Develop strong relationships, enhance your emotional intelligence and learn to influence others as a leader across face-to-face, hybrid and virtual teams.
- Good for you
- Good for your organisation
Learn how to develop strong, influential relationships with people from a variety of backgrounds, nationalities and professional functions.
Empower and inspire your people to unlock their potential and build successful teams across different settings.
Acquire critical coaching skills to share and receive feedback, helping your people to build on their strengths and improve their weaknesses.
Become a truly authentic leader by focusing on what makes you unique.
Gain skills and tactics to confidently confront poor performance and difficult people.
Learn how to empower, delegate and influence others, even in situations where you have little authority
9years of management experience
on average
Attendees include:
Highly skilled technical managers who need a boost to their interpersonal skills.
CEOs, managing directors, general managers, sales and business development professionals, HR managers and lawyers.
course content
A clear path to effective leadership
Undergo a transformational mindset shift, enhanced by coaching and enabled through practice.
- What you learn
- How you learn
- Your learning experience
Self-knowledge:
Gain insights into your personality and strengths to become a more confident and effective leader. A personality profile and a 360-degree assessment will help you to better understand yourself and how your colleagues view your leadership style. Decide what you want to achieve on the course and use that knowledge to identify areas you want to improve.
Insight into others:
Through improved communication skills, learn how to become a more effective networker and transform your professional relationships. Use research-based insights to understand what drives human behaviour and become more emotionally intelligent. Learn how to analyse your people to empower and inspire them to reach their full potential.
Interpersonal problem-solving:
Practice influencing and motivating people in a safe environment using key strategies and tools. Transform your behaviour with group and one-to-one coaching and practical role play situations. Achieve success through others by empowering them to solve complex issues.
Lucy Ford
Teaching Fellow of Organisational Behaviour
Experience
Dr. Lucy Ford is Professor Emerita at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, where she served on the faculty for fifteen years, retiring in 2023. She is a guest lecturer at London Business School teaching on topics such as leadership, power and negotiations. She is also a management consultant, working across sectors.
The combination of her rigorous academic background with her extensive corporate and consulting experience has allowed her to become a trusted advisor to many executives and organisational leaders seeking to enhance their strategic thinking and leadership capabilities. She has designed and delivered leadership development programmes for numerous organisations, with demonstrated positive impact on organisational outcomes. Her approach combines cutting-edge research, practical insights, and interactive learning methodologies, empowering organisational members to unlock their potential and drive organisational success. She is a skilled executive and group coach, formalising that skill through the completion of an ICF accredited coaching programme in 2018. In her academic role, Dr. Ford has authored or co-authored over sixty presentations, articles, and book chapters. Her research has been published in Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Performance, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology, amongst others. She has also recently co-edited The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application (2023).
Dr. Ford served on the board of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Southern Management Association. In 2012 she and her co-author, Dr. Ben Hardy, received the Sage Publishing / Research Methods Division Best Paper Award for their work on item miscomprehension in surveys, and also in 2012 she and her coauthors received the Emerald Citation Award for their 2008 scale development paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. She has also served on the editorial board of Group and Organization Management.
Certificate in Management
This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership and business skills with a comprehensive learning journey tailored to you and create a personalised curriculum to shift your career to the next level.
Fees
The fee for this programme is US$13,100*
The programme fee covers all required study materials, programme activities, as well as refreshments and most meals. It does not include accommodation.
We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who have completed four eligible Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance programmes.
*All fees quoted exclude the mandatory 15% tax (VAT) that is applicable in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the consumption or use of goods and services within the KSA. Fees are subject to change.
*Fees are subject to change.
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