Leadership

Designing, leading and building world class management team
Bucharest, April 23-24, 2012, Intercontinental Hotel, “Rapsodia” Room

Desired Outcomes of this Session

  1. Build on the foundation provided by the Global Sales, Entrepreneurial Product Marketing and Operational Excellence Workshops, to add the secret ingredient of leadership to create a high performance, sustainable and rewarding company
  2. Understand the key elements of great leadership
  3. Exmine these key elements, provide insight and examples of how to improve your venture’s operations, based on experiences of many other leaders in high tech ventures.

Session Agenda

  1. Management vs. leadership: a fundamental difference
    • The definitions of management, organizational design, leadership, and team building
    • The role of each and how to integrate
  2. Leadership, Corporate culture and Growth
    • How to create a high performance team
    • Building an Effective Team
    • Considerations for high commitment, high performance companies
    • How is Culture Embedded in a Company
  3. Building a world-class entrepreneurial team
    • Defining needs
    • Recruiting, motivating, retaining
    • Topgrading
  4. Lessons on leadership from “Twelve angry men”
    • Lessons on decision making and leadership
    • Creating an environment where the best idea stands out, not the strongest personality
    • Methods to break down destructive resistance
  5. Building your venture: understanding the diversity of teams
    • Five CEO Tendencies that Prevent Scaling
    • Discussion of the ‘Mark Ain’ case
    • Introduction to the results of the survey ‘As I see myself’