«Leadership in Turbulent Times» - the first join open program between GSOM and the Fuqua School of Business Duke University
30.10.2009
On October 30-31 2009 Liz Mellon, PhD, London Business School and a leadership teacher, Anastasia Chanko and Artem Menumerov, Graduate School of Management leading teachers, conducted “Leading Change” seminar, the first one in the suite “The Leadership in Turbulent Times” program.
The unique alliance of eminent Russian and foreign recognized scholars from two leading business schools - is the real opportunity to take a closer look at American and Russian approaches to effective management in the period of changes.
Top-managers and business-owners from different fields and regions of Russia attended the seminar.
The seminar program included the following aspects: development of leadership potential, contemporary management styles and new level of managing companies. During the seminar participants discussed emotional responses towards changes, the flexible leadership styles that support our change and change management process. Also, participants had a look at the range of common mistakes made during the companies’ modification processes and analyzed the ways of failures forecasting.
The most impressive part of the seminar was “Apollo 13”, the well-known business-simulation, where participants found themselves in the situation full of dynamic challenges that took place during the third American manned mission to the moon. The participants played the roles of astronauts and Mission Control engineers, who, cooperating in constantly changing environment, aimed to fulfill the upcoming tasks and even to save the life of the sick team member.
The participants’ cooperation during the simulation is the striking example of how teams can rich high performance and set up tasks in the most stressful of changing circumstances.
The participants in their feedback forms underlined four types of change and action planning as the most interesting topics of the program. Also, the participants mentioned that teachers’ cooperation during the seminar was the obvious illustration of team leadership in teaching.
Strategic Leadership is the next seminar of Leadership in Turbulent Times program planned for December 2009.
