High-Performance Cohesive Leadership in the Modern Era (HPCL) - Center for Executive Education
High-Performance Cohesive Leadership in the Modern Era
The Course
This intensive three-day workshop is tailored for managers who want to successfully navigate cultural dynamics and workplace challenges to create high-performing teams. The course is designed to help managers gain deeper self-awareness and develop skills to better understand and lead their teams. It also addresses the often-unspoken challenges managers face in guiding teams with wide-ranging perspectives and experiences. By the end of the course, participants will have a strong understanding of communication and social dynamics in team leadership, as well as a comprehensive toolkit for resolving workplace challenges and supercharging cohesion, performance, and mission readiness. The course emphasizes identifying and addressing cultural assumptions, communication styles, implicit cognitive processes, and conflict drivers using data-driven approaches to enhance team effectiveness.
What you’ll learn during this course
- Foundations: The relationship between organizational performance and team dynamics, exploring how differing perspectives can either drive success or create potential workplace challenges.
- Culture: The role of cultural and subcultural awareness, along with strategies for effective cross-cultural communication.
- Bias: How implicit thought patterns influence workplace dynamics and impact team climate.
- Organizational patterns of behavior: Understanding how cultural factors and cognitive biases manifest in organizational patterns, shaping team interactions and workplace norms.
- Conflict: Analyzing the roots of workplace conflict, assessing conflict styles, and developing strategies to address and resolve issues proactively to enhance team performance.
- Metrics and strategy: Leveraging data and analytics to identify barriers, evaluate team dynamics, and implement best practices for organizational effectiveness and sustained success.
Program Manager
Dr. Taylor Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto and his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral research was on regional variation in African American English, but he also has published work on Mandarin, Persian, and Zulu. He is an expert on the intersection of race, language, and bias, and has published research on cross-dialect comprehension and conflict, and on how speakers and listeners think strategically about speech acts. Read full bio...
Who should enroll?
This pilot course is designed for people managers at the GS12-14, O4-O5, E7-E9 levels.
Tuition:
Eligible Navy personnel can enroll in this pilot course at no cost. Travel expenses are not covered. Participants must be on orders, and are responsible for their own travel costs (flight, meals, lodging, incidentals).
Contact:
CEE Registrar, cee@nps.edu for registration.