High Impact Leadership Programme

Joint Programme Directors

• Alistair Tosh

Head of Open Enrolment Programmes and IMI Senior Specialist

Tel: 01 207 8495 e-mail: alistair.tosh@imi.ie

• Dr Simon Boucher

Head of Graduate Studies and IMI Senior Specialist

Tel: 01 207 8422 e-mail: simon.boucher@imi.ie

Other Contributors include:

• Dr Jonathan Westrup IMI Senior Specialist
• Derek Fox IMI Specialist
• Fabio Grassi IMI Specialist

Organisations need to recognise, harness, direct and develop their talent to use it to their best advantage. This unique programme will take developing leaders and put them through their paces. They will learn about themselves, how they interact with and manage others and get a broader perspective on the organisation. The intensive outdoor element will put each individual in a 'pressure cooker' environment for the entire module. This demanding experience will enable them to identify and build on their strengths, and help them recognise and learn to overcome leadership challenges.

This programme will:

• Provide developing leaders with a framework in which to develop their full potential
• Fast track emerging talent within the organisation
• Allow participants to broaden their business perspectives through intensive interaction with managers from other organisations

“A hugely rewarding experience, both professionally and personally. It has given me the tools to improve my leadership skills in a way I would not have seen before the course. The attention to detail and professionalism of the course contributors was exemplary. The one-to-one attention and feedback was outstanding. Killary was a fantastic experience from a personal point of view and it gave me a fantastic insight into human behavior. Even the Finance module was interesting to me as an accountant. The facilities at the IMI are second to none and the ability to stay on campus made attendance very easy. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of the course contributors for a hugely rewarding (and fun) experience. I really enjoyed it and made some lovely friends during the process.” Bryan Ahern – Head of Finance, Cascade Designs Ltd.

“The programme gave me an insight into my own leadership abilities and my ability to work as part of a team in stressful situations. The great benefit of the course was the mixture of people who came from different backgrounds and worked in different disciplines. For me this was a big advantage over say a course for accountants, where interaction and knowledge sharing can be limited to people from a similar background. While the course was strong from start to finish, the undoubted highlight for me was the 3 days in Killary, where we worked together in teams and achieved tasks despite ourselves. Great fun. On my return I wrote a mail to a number of people in work recommending the course.” Mark Kenny, Financial Director, Ergo Services Limited .

“For anybody looking to get into management or for those in middle management who want to get to the next level, you can't miss this course. Great participants and high energy lectures. The module on communication is the best I have ever done." Adam O’Sullivan, Senior Sales Manager – Kuehne & Nagle Ireland.

Course 1

• November 17, 18, 19
• January 26, 27, 28 2011
• February 23, 24, 25 (Killary)

Course 2

• April 13, 14, 15;
• May 11, 12, 13;
• June 8, 9, 10

As managers need to be flexible in their work and use many different skills at once, the content of this programme is highly integrated. This ensures participants can put their learning into practice immediately upon their return to work after each module.

Personal development

• Develop personal presence and impact
• Work at peak performance
• Develop leadership flexibility
• Discover and maximise individual style
• Solve problems creatively

Managing Others

• Master the science of human motivation
• Influence and persuade others
• Express ideas concisely and clearly
• Build and lead a high-performance team
• Give and receive feedback effectively
• Manage and use conflict in a productive way
• Understand the differences between individuals

Understanding the business

• Develop effective and innovative business strategies
• Get work plans from the drawing board to reality
• Orchestrate effective organisational change

Unique feature– learning in the outdoors

A core element of this programme is the outdoor module. The IMI has extensive experience in this field, working in partnership with Killary Adventure Centre to provide an exciting, demanding and safe environment in which to learn. The unfamiliar environment and context allows tasks to be varied in terms of degree of structure, ambiguity, risk and competitiveness, calling for different decision-making styles. Participation in this outdoor module allows participants to illustrate their leadership abilities as well as practising followership and team skills. In this context, outdoor training is more effective than classroom training and is frequently the channel for discovering latent or hidden talent while boosting overall confidence and competence.