Finding and Developing Talent: Executive Session
Frank Flynn, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 - 7:30am - 9:00am, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Session description
Session I - 7:30am - 9:00am Breakfast Briefing
Session II & III - 9:30am - 12:30pm Extended Session - (Limited Class Size)
Registration for this "Executive Session" event includes access to Sessions I, II & III.
Professor Frank Flynn delivers an extended morning session in which he highlights strategies that will sharpen your management skills and make you a more dynamic and effective leader within your organization.
This practical working session covers topics such as identifying and developing talent in your organization, leading powerful team decision-making, and motivating employees to perform at their best.
Session I - (Breakfast Briefing) Finding and Developing Talent
A company’s competitive advantage hinges on its ability to build a talented workforce. As a leader in your organization, can you consistently identify the best people to hire or promote from within? In times of rapid disruptive change when talent re-alignment is critical, can you be certain that your most talented, strongest contributors are recognized for their good work and supported in their development?
Effective leaders are able to make accurate performance appraisals in addition to determining who would be a good hire and who may lack the right attributes for the job. Professor Flynn will highlight innovative practices that successful leaders are using to ensure the most talented people rise to the executive ranks. He will also look at the most popular hiring and selection practices and explain why some of them work and others don’t.
Session II - Critical Team Decision-Making
In keeping with the theme of Session I, this practical working session will sharpen your ability in the area of team leadership through completing a group decision-making task - a hiring decision - and then examining the results in our workshop discussion. We’ll discuss the pitfalls in which teams can distort thinking and become dysfunctional as well as how teams can achieve things that individual members cannot. Our focus here is twofold—we highlight strategies for being an effective team member as well as an effective team leader.
Session III - Getting the Best Out of Your Employees
To get the best out of your most talented employees requires a keen understanding of motivation. Leaders can’t interact with everyone all the time. Rather, they must learn how to get others to work hard, even when they’re not around to inspire or persuade them to do so. In this session, you will learn about several “psychological levers” that can help you build employee motivation. Specifically, we will concentrate on strategies aimed at motivating employees to consistently perform at their best.
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Frank Flynn , Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research, and Co-director of the High Potentials Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business
Frank Flynn - Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior; Co-director of the High-Potentials Executive Program; Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Professor Flynn’s research investigates issues of employee cooperation, diversity in work groups, and leadership in organizations. His recent work considers how employees can develop healthy patterns of cooperation and whether the influence of gender stereotypes on workplace dynamics can be mitigated. His scholarly articles appear in more than a dozen publications that span the fields of management and social psychology. He currently sits on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Academy of Management Journal. A winner of multiple teaching awards, Professor Flynn’s courses focus on leadership issues, particularly how young managers can learn to navigate complex political environments and build interpersonal influence. In addition to MBA courses, Professor Flynn teaches in Executive Education’s Stanford Executive Program, Human Resources for Strategic Advantage, Managing Teams for Innovation and Success, Executive Program in Strategy and Organization, Executive Program for Women Leaders, and the Stanford-National University of Singapore Executive Program in International Management.
Professor Flynn has worked for the Department of Commerce in the International Trade Administration, the Institute for Business and Economic Development, and the Institute for Urban and Regional Development. He has provided executive education for various companies, including Cisco, Johnson & Johnson, Standard & Poor’s, Ixis Financial, and M&T Bank, providing training that focuses on improving employee decision making and interpersonal leadership skills.
Professor Flynn received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2000–06, he served as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor at Columbia Business School, recently joining the GSB in September 2006. Frank is also a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Christina, and his three children.
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