Georgia Tech-Savannah is pleased to announce the return of courses for today’s workplace leaders titled “Leading Well.” These courses will develop outstanding leadership skills, foster visionaries, and tool area executives with actionable goals that will directly improve their performance as employees and their greater vision for their employers. This workshop series will run through April.
 
“Our Leading Well workshop series gets to the heart of what makes an effective leader,” said Diane Lee, director of Georgia Tech-Savannah. “These workshops, designed with input from the Savannah business community, reveal ways to exceed goals, identify team members’ unique strengths, and learn how to align projects with business strategies.”
 
This series, “Leading Well,” consists of two-day workshops that address the following topics: focused performance management, building and leading high-performance teams, maximizing innovation and improvement. These sessions will provide a collective overview of the foundational skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective leader.
 
The courses include the following:
 
●      Building and Leading High-Performance Teams, March 23-24, 2016
Explores various aspects of teams, including: team dynamics, the team life cycle, employee-motivation models, conflict-resolution models, and the power of celebrating team and individual successes. During the workshop, students gain hands-on experience through practice sessions and a team-based simulation. Upon completion of the workshop, students understand why some teams are successful and others aren’t, and know how to identify and leverage each team member’s interests, strengths and experience to support overall performance. Cost: $895.
 
●      Maximizing Innovation and Improvement, April 20-21, 2016
Positions leaders to be effective change agents through continuous improvement. It teaches them how to align continuous-improvement projects and innovation efforts with their companies’ business strategies. The session also explains the rationale for continuous improvement, the tools and techniques that support such efforts, and how to assess improvement projects’ return on investment. Additionally, it describes the difference between incremental improvement and innovation, and the need for both. Cost: $895.
 
The workshop series will be led by strategy and leadership development expert Ned Ellington. Ellington, a former research faculty at Georgia Tech, has a long history in executive education, having developed and delivered seminars and workshops on the topics of leadership fundamentals, transformation management, innovation management, lean enterprise thinking, leading change and total quality management.