Leadership Programme
Leading Teams for Hi Performance
Overview
The many disruptive changes have accelerated change and complexity in an unprecedented manner. There is need to accommodate these in the workplace, and build new capabilities to remain in the race. Leadership, change management, technology, collaboration, teams have all undergone a paradigm shift. New knowledge, new understanding, new ways of doing things, new ways of being are now the order of the day. Digitalization, virtual working and teams, volatility and ambiguity are here to stay.
High-performing teams do not form on their own. They are led by leaders who bring out the best in their people, utilizing their skills and abilities to the fullest. They validate and acknowledge growth and improvement with specific feedback to ensure that their people know they are valued and appreciated.
Programme details
Important Dates & Time
*Dates and Schedules are subject to change
| Duration | Mode |
|---|---|
| 2 days | Rs. 50,000 plus GST per participant |
Rajeshwar Upadhyaya
Rajeshwar Upadhyaya is a visiting faculty in Executive Education at Mahindra University. He is currently the Dean of Academy of Applied Emotional Intelligence (AAEI) an organization that drives transformational learning and is based out of Mumbai (India). He has also been a visiting faculty in Executive Education at ISB, KAIST, LBSNAA, SVPNPA, NAIR, IIPA, NISA. Rajeshwar has over 28 years of industry and consulting experience.
He has consulted for business houses in India, South East Asia, and the USA. He has taught over 48,000 executives across Government, Public Sector, Private Sector. Participants in his programmes included executives from ESADE Business School, EADA, Spain, ESTM, Germany and RSM, Erasmus University. He also taught at School of Finance and Management, Oxford Brooks University, UK, Thunderbird, USA and SKOLKOVO Moscow Institute of Management, Russia
He has taught executives from an array of industries including Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Nonbanking Financial Services, Bank, Automobiles, Market Research, Pharmaceuticals, PR, Oil & Gas, Steel, Telecom, Shipping, Media & Entertainment, FMCG, Academia, etc. having engaged with more than 140 organizations. Rajeshwar teaches the Global Leadership Immersion Program at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, South Korea to senior corporate executives with a focus on ‘Leadership Skills for Doing Successful Business with India’.
He is a Leadership Speaker at various national and international forums and conferences including The London Speaker Bureau, India Literary Festivals and IQPC, Singapore. Rajeshwar is an author of two books and numerous articles. A third book “Insights from the Tragedies of Shakespeare – Exploring the Psychology of Leadership Failure” is underway.
Rajeshwar has an MBA with a specialization in International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, AZ, USA. He is also certified in various globally recognized psychometric and coaching tools like MHS EQI; Pearman; Pearman Flex, Big Five Personality Factors (Comprehensive Suite) , Hardiness Resilience Tool, Risk Type Compass Profile, Hogan Challenges/ Motivations Preferences/ Potential; FIRO-B and FIRO-Business ; MBTI Step I and Step II; DISC; ESQ, Leadership Tracker (Derailment Propensity Inventory), etc. He is also a Zig Ziglar Certified Trainer.
Key
Learning
- Know Yourself-Collaborate-Foster High Performance Environment.
- Context of Digitalization, Team Relationships & Performance.
- Use of Psychometric Instrument to enable deep-diving into team dynamic.
- Core Skills of Engagement: Crucial Conversations Skills.
- Hi Performance Dysfunction – Enabling Hi power Performance.
- Managing Conflicts – and Stakeholders in an Inclusive and Collaborative way.
- Team Norms and Hi Performance – The Real Measures of Excellence.
- Delegation and Empowerment; Developing Subordinates.
- Task orientation Vs Achievement Orientation.
- Additional and differentiated competencies: Building Organizational relations / fostering open dialogue / mature confidence / seasoned judgement / leader versatility.
- Hi-Performance Team Leader’s Tool-kit: The 15 Commitments Checklist.
Enrolment Programs
Topics Covered
This Programs is ideal for executives and consultants operating on the demand side of the business in functions such as, Marketing, Sales, Advertising and Social Media, Strategy, Customer Service, and Innovation. Functional areas with an indirect connection with customers/consumers, such as Finance and R&D, can also benefit. They could be:
Session 1: Competitive Negotiations
In this session, participants will learn the difference between competitive and collaborative negotiations, and the underlying drivers for each. This session will lay a strong foundation in the form of principles of negotiation.
Session 2: Collaborative negotiations
In this session, we will focus on why collaborative negotiations need to be approached very differently from competitive negotiations. What impact do these negotiations have on professional careers? How can we develop into great collaborative negotiators?
Session 3: Softer aspects of negotiations
How do you deal with anger in negotiations? Is it acceptable to show emotion in negotiations? How to deal with difficult negotiators?
Learning Methodology
Negotiation role-plays, In-class discussion, review & debrief.

Psychometric Tool
Typology-Lencioni instrument (identifies team dysfunctions & issues that prevent teams from being high performance).
Who Should Attend ?
This course is suitable for middle to senior level executives, who habitually need to work with multiple stakeholder groups, internal and external, to achieve their organizations’ objectives.

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