Leadership Initiative For Excellence

Executive Certificate Program in Leadership Development

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ARE YOU A LEADER?The top leaders of most successful worldwide businesses are not natural born leaders. They learned new ways to persuade, motivate, influence, inspire and assist people. Through trial and error experiences plus professional development, they learned how to create and inspire powerful teams that became much more than the sum of the individuals on those teams. Although your position as a manager or supervisor gives you the authority to accomplish certain tasks and objectives in your organization, this power does not make you a leader; it simply makes you the boss. Leadership makes those around you want to achieve higher goals, something considerably more effective than simply bossing people around.

PROGRAM FEATURES LIFE is a three-day full immersion training. It is an intensive, highly emotional course in which participants encounter and practice the skills and attributes of leadership. LIFE is based on experiencing and doing rather than watching. Many professionals and executi-ves excel in their technical abilities but are often quite uncertain in the area of interpersonal skills. This program will help you to understand the effect that you have on other people, and show how you can develop strategies to improve your people skills. It will deepen your understanding, show you how to make the best use of your unique attributes and give you new strate-gies for controlling your risk areas. This training is performance-based, meaning people get to practice the behaviors that result in sustainable change, and ultima-tely growth, in an organization. Participants feel, as opposed to being told, the essential qualities of leader-ship. Training starts at 2.30 pm on Friday and ends at 4.00 pm on Sunday.

Participants will be isolated from the outside world; they will be in a group of approximately 20 people, and will have their meals, sessions and exercises together.They will be continuously challenged from 6.00am (Saturday and Sunday) until midnight (Friday and Saturday). Participants will realize that giving 100% for themselves and for the group is the only key to pass the assigned tasks and exercises.

Biofeedback Technology, Assessments and Individual Coaching Sessions During LIFE, participants will use biofeedback tools to measure their heart rates and their level of stress. Before and after LIFE, participants will also take asses-sments to identify strengths, areas for improvements and their style in working with others. A month after the end of the LIFE training, they will do individual coaching sessions to implement the changes they want to make in their daily life, in terms of developing new mental and behavioral habits.

What is Leadership?Leadership is a process where, by taking out the best of yourself, you are able to bring out

the best in others and motivate them to achieve higher level of performance.

Leadership Initiative For Excellence

I approached LIFE not knowing what to expect, but with the determination of overcoming my barriers and breaking down the walls that were keeping me from being successful under many aspects of my life. Upon completion the CIMBA Leadership development path, I exponentially improved the quality of my personal relationships as well as my professional performance and I consistently receive positive feedback on my leadership skills.

Diane Robazza - Brand Manager

Leadership is something you need to discover inside you, whether you are a top-executive, a manager or a simple employee. Moreover, its principles do not apply just to business life, but even more to everydays life. Therefore, I strongly recommend everybody to attend a LIFE session once in lifetime.

Giulio Baraldi - Global Key Account Manager

The good news is that leaders are not only born, but you can also become a good leader. Leadership starts with a deep self-analysis and a deep self-understanding, absolutely necessary for the development of a secure and honest way of interacting with others. During the Leadership Program I was able touch sides of my personality I didn’t even know before. Great people leading the course, introduced me to excellent “instruments” (also through some very important findings of the neuroscience) to start a continuous improvement process that changed deeply my way to see the persons around me and the way how to deal with them making it possible to improve my and their performance.

Paul Rindler, MBA - Branch Manager

LIFE is not just another leadership course. It is a workshop of a special kind and design, an unknown journey at the start with a memorable climax at the end. It brought me an enormous amount of self-awareness and confidence, put together in a scientific neuroscience framework. I have put in practise the tools I have learned during the LIFE program right away, which resulted in motivated colleagues. With the positive energy and motivation gained during LIFE, I will continue the path of finding the leader in myself and breaking my barriers. A true breakthrough experience, for all aspects of my life.

Martine Joosten - Manager Business Development

It’s an exciting program that combines leadership practice and theory in a well balanced mix. It is suited for managers and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to get the best out of them and their team. Throu-gh direct leadership and teamwork experience, it provides practical tools, best practices and tips that can be easily applied in the working environment. This program has really had an impact on the way I manage and deal with people.

Andrea Dallan - Entrepreneur

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LIFE is a Program designed for managers, entrepreneurs and team members focusingon leadership development and self-management.

Moreover, it is a complementary training for those that have previously taken or are takingthe CIMBA MBA or the Executive Certificate in International Management programs.

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TESTIMONIALS

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Day 1 - from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pmThe Neuroscience of Leadership: the basic brain principles and challenges Day 1 - 2 AND 3LIFE – Leadership Initiative for ExcellenceDuring this weekend all participants must stay at the CIMBA CampusVia S.Giacomo 4, Paderno del Grappa (TV), Italy. The following Thursday from 5:00pm to 6:00pmLIFE Debrief - Teleconference

PROGRAMBENEFITS

CALENDAR

Growth and development requires the full commitment of the participant throughout the journey.

As a manager, your success is measured not simply by your individualcontribution, but by how well you get the work done with and through others.

Are you ready?

PEOPLE SKILLS DEVELOPMENTEnhance your ability to build effective relationships

Develop the ability to transmit passionand enthusiasm

Build more empathy toward people

Increase motivation for ahigh–performance workplace

Develop the ability to give and receive feedback

SELF AND PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENTIncrease your emotional intelligencefor managerial and life success

Develop your communication skills

Enhance your public speaking skills

Increase your self-confidence

Develop your listening skills

Increase your focus ability

Develop a goal setting and actionplan mindset

Develop the ability to empoweryourself and others

Develop the ability to manage stress

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OUTCOMES

Personal mission statement & action plan to realize the mission.

Self-Awareness through the use of the latest technology in biofeedback

(as used by the NFL Scouting Combine and Military Special Ops).

Speaking to a large audience with conviction, enthusiasm and passion.

Understand the science behind the brain functioning, why we make decisions

and how we do make them.

What we do, based on neuroscience, to recognize and avoid wrong decisions,

and how our brain helps or hurts.

What to do, based on neuroscience, to make good decisions and how our brain helps us.

How to look for potential in others, identify soft skills and use them to lead

and get the maximum out of people.

Acknowledge the difference between managers and leaders.

Learn how to give and receive feedback.

Step out of our comfort zone.

Work in teams and experience how individual performance will affect team performance.

Lead and manage changes in personal life and in the organization.

Leadership is not about dictating,it’s about empowering employees so thatthey recognize their ability to take action.

At CIMBA, becoming an effective manager and leader involves more than just acquiring the tools to generate ideas. The CIMBA Advantage is about developing the skills to turn those ideas into practical innovations. To wake up the leader in you, so you can be confident in your abilities to meet the most demanding challenges. We understand the importance of the tools and the ideas they generate, but the effective practice of management compels us to ask and address the following questions: • What does a manager actually do with an idea those tools have generated? • How does a manager persuade, motivate, inspire and assist others to accept the decision and implement a plan?• How does a manager make such an idea actionable or operationally effective?

Neuroscience of LeadershipThe neuroscience of leadership is at the frontier of investigation into the brain and the mind, providing significant insights into how best to teach leaders and managers to assist today's knowledge worker to impro-ve thinking, fundamental for the effective practice mana-gement in today's economy. At CIMBA, closing the gap between what is taught as leadership in the traditional business school and how it must be developed for the effective practice of manage-ment provides strong motivation for innovation in the learning environment. In this ongoing effort, CIMBA begin looking into neuroscience, specifically neuro-science research as it relates to leadership development, several years ago. The neuroscience of leadership investigates how human experience and human biology influence each other. It’s about putting “science” into those “soft” skills necessary for the effective practice of management.

Process and the Neuroscienceof Leadership Problem Solving and Decision Making ToolsResearch in the neuroscience of leadership encouraged CIMBA to adopt express rational thinking processes as an integral part of its learning environment. Specifically, CIMBA uses rational thinking processes developed by Drs. Ben Tregoe and Charles Kepner (KT), systematically observed and recorded the questions the most effective managers were asking subordinates and team members when making decisions and solving problems. In learning and using KT processes, students (or mana-gers, subordinates and team members) create a hardwi-red, “shared mind map” in the form of KT’s common language, common guidelines approach to rational managerial thinking. By significantly improving process communication, ambiguity and uncertainty are reduced and the manager benefits both from the subordinates’ or team members’ thinking and from the subordinate’s "buy in" later -- fundamental to the effective practice of management.

Leadership development coachesAt CIMBA, you will develop effective leadership behavior skills with the assistance of leadership development coaches. Research from the neuroscience of leadership hassignificantly enhanced the CIMBA learning environmentby affecting instructional strategies, improving studentmanagerial communication abilities and providing ourleadership development coaches with more effectivetools and techniques for assisting the person in develo-ping leadership skills. The use of leadership develop-ment coaches trained in the neuroscience of leadershipas the primary drivers for leadership skills developmentis unique to CIMBA.

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The CIMBA AdvantageKnowledge, Rational Process and Leadership Behavior for the Effective Practice of Management.

All based on scientific discovery.

THE CIMBA ADVANTAGE INLEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

One-on-One Coaching Sessions3 individual coaching sessions - by appointmentCoaching is used as a tool to implement changes in your daily life by developing new mental and behavioral habits and developing self-awareness. The first coaching session will take place about 20 days after the end of the LIFE Program.

Tests and AssessmentsOn line self and peer assessment Leadership and personality self assessments are undertaken to identify the depth and breadth of a participant’s current leadership behavior key capabilities. Managers will receive feedback on their leadership competencies and their personal leadership styles. They will also use www.discoveringmybest.com, a cutting edge web platform for personal develop-ment.

S.C.A.RF. and the Neuroscience of Leadership1 day Workshop - 9:00am - 5:00pmLearning how to help people think better in getting things done rather then telling them what to do: an innovative approach that explains scientifically how people learn, why they resist change and what it takes to get them to do their best job. In this workshop participants will also learn more about SCARF, a concept already seen in the LIFE training.

Self-Coaching and Mindfulness1 day Workshop - 9:00am - 5:00pmLearn how to coach yourself in terms of developing a systematic goal setting and action plan attitude. You will also learn some powerful techniques that will help you to remain cool under pressure and so managing your energy and stress level in more effective ways.

How to Facilitate and Develop Teams1 day Workshop - 9:00am - 5:00pmOne-day workshop that will give you powerful tools to facilitate and develop organizational goals, people, and team activities whether the team members are new or have been working together for a long time.

Coaching Skills for Managers and Entrepreneurs1 day Workshop - 9:00am - 5:00pmOne day workshop to learn some basic coaching techniques that will make a difference in the way you lead people and communicate in general.

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NEXT STEPS:HOW TO BOLSTER YOURGROWTH AFTER LIFE

Additional Workshops and Activities

Participants that attend LIFE, coaching sessions and three of the above indicated workshopswill earn the CIMBA Executive Certificate in Leadership Development.

Contact Information

CIMBA - Consortium Institute of Management and Business AnalysisVia San Giacomo 4 - 31017 Paderno del Grappa TV, Italy.

Phone + 39 (0) 423 932120 www.cimba.it e-mail: executive@cimba.it