Learning Objectives
The leadership role has never been an easy one and today it seems more difficult than ever, especially for new
managers and team leaders who must deliver a high performance with limited authority. The leader's job is
to get work done through their team and peers, among others; who, in a real sense, affect their
performance. It becomes critical, in terms of each leader's career, to ascertain that the
team members, peers and other stakeholders are working together at peak effectiveness. The focus of this workshop
is how to motivate and deliver such peak performance while preserving the dignity and self-esteem of all involved.
This workshop is for new managers, team leaders and other professionals aspiring to management and who wish to gain practical skills and cutting-edge knowledge in leadership, team-building and managerial decision-making. As a participant, you will learn to mobilize, inspire and nurture talent; build allies and high-performing teams and set a gold standard for exemplary conduct through a resilient culture of quality excellence, innovation, on-going improvement, accountability, integrity, compassion, selfless courage and genuine self-leadership.
Workshop Benefits
At the end of this workshop, you will acquire the proven skills to attract, empower, reward and retain talent;
get high commitment to a shared vision; delegate; bring out the best in others; and lead your team to success. You will
learn to recognize true priorities; assume responsibility and accountability; manage risks; diagnose and improve
your ability to address problems and conflicts; value diversity; build a culture based on trust and mutual respect;
inspire; mentor and act as a role model for others. You will take home new ideas, proven Harvard®
tools and sound timesaving skills, most of which are unavailable elsewhere.
Detailed Outline (2.5 days - 2 CEU)
1. Neglected Issues in Managing and Leading Teams
2. Profession Team Builder: Key Success Factors
3. Prepare Your Team to Succeed Beyond Measure
4. How to Motivate, Delegate and Empower Teams
5. Management of Change for Top Performance
6. Conflict Prevention, Diagnosis and Resolution
7. Managing Difficult Situations and Hostile People
8. Managing Time and Organizing Your Team
9. How to Conduct 360° Performance Reviews
10. Inspiring Models of Exemplary Team Leaders
Faculty Leader & Chair, Innovation & Foresight Panels: Alain Paul MARTIN
Alain currently teaches courses and workshops in exemplary leadership and innovation ecosystems (contextual, strategic and deep/extended), idea generation and cross-pollination, structured creativity, leadership and management of change for scientists, engineers, policy makers, team leaders and graduate students, in English, French and via simultaneous translation in other languages. In this program, Alain will demonstrate game-changing cases, including the invention of a multinationally patented and Harvard-University's branded product, and several innovations where he was a lead strategist, in transforming lagging businesses (banking & finance, large-scale manufacturing) and government agencies into long-lasting leaders in their respective sectors and the best performers by SDG/ESG impact (thousands of lives saved, over 25 millions metric-ton reduction in carbon dioxde footprint per annum) and financial metrics (in $billions). The case studies include a highly-profitable groundbreaking innovation with a lasting worldwide carbon-footprint reduction impact — the first award-winning business innovation earning the prestigious United Nations' Environment Programme (UNEP). Alain taught graduate courses in management of change; and delivered leadership workshops (Bertelsmann, Cap-Gemini, EON, Framingham State University, France Loisirs, GE (Canada, France, U.S.), Harvard and the Ivy-League's Leadership Summit, Japan's METI and Engineering Advancement Association (ENNA), MD Robotics, Morocco's OCP Group and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ontario's OPG Nuclear Power, operations-research societies, the Project Management Institute (PMI), Teck Resources, Textron's Bell Helicopter, United Nations' University (Tokyo) and governments (Brazil, Canada, China, EU, Japan, Mexico, U.S.). Concurrently, Alain is the CEO of PDI ( www.eharvard.org/pdi), a catalyst in principled leadership and innovation, and Chief Architect, Harvard University Global System™ (for which PDI is Harvard University's licensee), comprising cutting-edge innovation and performance-improvement instruments. He led the discovery, design and scaling of this system, first used by Skanska (Sweden; U.K., Germany, Finland and Saudi Arabia) to manage $1M to multi-billion dollar projects. Alain is a 2012 Harvard Fellow, Advanced Leadership, a Harvard Business School's entrepreneurship alumnus (OPM 1997-99) and a 6-year president (10-year director) of two Harvard clubs. He is recognized by Harvard University's president for his "Leadership, Vision and Service" and PMI for "outstanding contribution to the state-of-the-art of project management". He is a patent recipient (U.S., Canada and Japan) for the Harvard University Planner and is also an aerospace-award's recipient for a manufacturing innovation at Bombardier (Canadair), now Airbus. Alain graduated in Commerce (Quantitative Methods) from Concordia University (Montréal) and studied advanced technology in Lille (France) with internships at Peugeot, ARD National TV Network (Berlin), the University of Ottawa (Particle Physics) and Carleton University (Hydrodynamics Lab). He acquired skills in system thinking and change management (MIT Sloan School, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland), and mediation and advanced negotiation for lawyers, at Harvard Law School from which he is certified to teach negotiation in corporations. Lifetime learning is part of his mission (see C.V. page 4 on Education and Continuous Learning)
Democratizing leadership, by empowering high-school educated users with cutting-edge innovation and decision-making tools, is a worldwide priority. Alain's contribution is to make Harvard® innovation and project-management tools (incl. Harvard® Innovation Funnel, ecosystems and roadmaps), accessible to this constituency. Moreover, inspired by the groundbreaking inventions of Louis Braille (Braille Code), Joseph D. Becker (Unicode) and music notations, he developped a simplified coding structure for international project teams to share project plans and progress reports, across language boundaries. The approach was applied successfully in multi-billion dollar projects. Alain's upcoming book "Deep Dive into Value Incubation and the Stakeholders' Interests and Ecosystems" is the second in five-volume eBook series titled "The Art & Science of Innovation". It builds on the intelligence and novelty lessons learned from opportunity and failure seeds, frequently unseen or overlooked, during the issue-incubation cycle, including the underlying stakeholders' dynamics and broader implications in business, government and geopolitics. The book features practical instruments and a framework to probe each party's interests (expectations, unsatisfied needs and fears); detect early signs of opportunities and threats before appearing on the scientists' and executives' radars; build the critical mass for change, in order to harness the full strategic value of an innovation. When these tasks are aptly accomplished, the value of idea generation, structured creativity and design do improve by a quantum leap. No important project or policy can be planned without a deep dive into stakeholders' dynamics and value incubation. For more on Alain's innovative work in finance & banking, energy & mining, education, the public service and civil society, please refer to : 4-page C.V. in PDF format and detailed C.V.
Tuition Fees and How to Register
Fees include books, hand-outs, road maps and other course materials of exceptional value (see above), and a daily continental breakfast plus hot and soft drinks during the morning and afternoon pauses, but exclude hotel accommodation (if required).
Workshop Locations and Hotel Accomodation
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"Exemplarity in team leadership and self-leadership is the heart and soul
of innovation, progress, excellence and good governance. It takes a critical mass of exemplary leaders to
mobilize, build and deploy exemplary teams. Together, they can build allies and move forward their organization,
a country and, in
some cases, the world."
The building blocks of "exemplarity" are competence, commitment, selfless courage, caring and solidarity, creativity, prudence, contextual thinking, acting with a conscience and treating everyone with dignity (utmost respect, not necessarily esteem) for a mission worth pursuing. Considering its significance, exemplarity should be taught and practiced in early education, like literacy and mathematics.
"Excellent workshop leader who concisely addressed concerns
illustrating with real-world examples! Although I have been a manager
for 18 years, I still found the seminar and course material useful."
"World-class seminar covering a broad range of topics in a coherent,
organized presentation of value to anyone working in/or considering a
career in management. Bravo!"
"This is one of the best training courses I ever took. The practical
cases, examples and skills of this program will help me improve the
performance of my team and mine."
"Great course. Each day went more quickly than I expected.
Dry? No Way!"
"Excellent speaker and workshop. I will recommend the program."
"An excellent course. Alain Martin was very dynamic and kept our
attention every day."
"Exceptional course - well worth the time and money. I will
recommend it to my peers and training coordinator."
"In just three days of training, I am leaving with a full spectrum
of new ideas, a complete toolset and course materials that will serve
me for years!"
"I would highly recommend this course to any new manager or leader!
The acquired skills will help immensely in improving your effectiveness."
"PDI Seminars and Mr. Martin's expertise combine to provide aspiring
and accomplished executives with valuable information, strategies and
instruments for managerial excellence. The Professional Development Institute
is a priceless catalyst for personal and career advancement."
"Alain Martin has a vast experience and a great capacity to transfer
learning to participants. Bravo!"
"A very competent instructor; delivered an outstanding workshop... I
plan to take further seminars with Mr. Alain Martin."
"Alain's Workshop on Leadership Development clearly demonstrated his deep understanding across a wide spectrum of
disciplines relevant to the challenges today's leaders face globally. He has developed leadership and management tools
which he openly shared with his workshop participants. These concepts and techniques relevant for all levels leadership
can be implemented immediately and continuously. His course material was thought provoking, delivered in an energetic, warm
and caring manner. Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended."
"Excellent workshop. I recommend it to every manager."
"The workshop leader kept my undivided attention throughout the
three days."
"This course takes complex scenarios and provides concrete strategies
for achieving success."
"This course was extremely helpful filled with useful and practical
information which I will use on a daily basis with each member of my team
and my own manager."
"I have been on many seminars over the last 13 years. I have never met
anyone (until Alain) that was able to relate his training to real-life examples.
Great job!"
"This seminar was very insightful. I'm looking forward to applying
the practical knowledge learned. Great "real life" business examples!"
"Great class involvement! The skills and tools acquired during this
seminar should help us use our limited resources more effectively and
effficiently."
"With a very experienced and captivating workshop leader, this course
should be mandatory for all DND project managers and directors. It is
grounded in the real practical world. It teaches you to keep the
blinders off; and promotes thinking out of our sometimes self-centered
box."
"This workshop provided me with the fundamental tools to improve my
skills ranging from leadership to time management."
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Alain Paul Martin's meta-innovation mission is twofold: advancing innovation quality
to maximize user value and SDG/ESG impact; and democratizing the worldwide access, for all, to
the best innovation education, practical instruments (framewors, roadmaps, algorithms)
and strategic ecosystems. Alain leads the creation and scaling of groundbreaking products and organizations
(banking, advanced technology, energy, mining, education, government);
and chairs innovation and foresight panels.
His current research centers on contributing to innovation science (concepts, principles,
frameworks and tools) to maximize both user value and SDG/ESG impact. He focuses on harnessing
the opportunities of the strategic, contextual and deep ecosystems and improving
value-incubation, idea-generation and cross-pollination practices, upstream in
the innovation funnel to imagine, design and deliver economically viable, ecologically
sustainable and socially beneficial user-centered innovations (products, services, policies and
organizations). Alain builds on the current knowledge of cognitive neuroscience
to raise innovation foresight and capability; reduce cognitive-fixation
bias; practice mindfulness and understand stakeholders' dynamics. These developments are
making inroads into creativity practices (idea generation, cross-pollination and structured design)
and sustainable value delivery. They are seamless but ubiquitous, across the entire tech and
non-tech spectra of groundbreaking economic and social innovations, from life sciences,
robotics and infrastructure to safety, education, social justice and policy development.
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