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Global Leadership Congress 2010: Curriculum
Welcome Reception Sunday February 28, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM / The Living Room, The Inn At Penn
Day 1: Uncertainty As An Asset
Monday, March 1, 2010
7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Continental Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM / The Reading Room, Houston Hall
Welcome and Introduction – Doug Lynch, Alexandra Michel, Alan Todd, Stanton Wortham
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM - Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
General Session 1
Dr. Alexandra Michel, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
8:45 AM - 9:45 / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
During this session Dr. Michel will introduce a new and highly effective way that learning professionals can assist their organizations in managing the uncertainty generated by globalization, rapidly changing markets, technological change and political instability. This method represents best practices from over 20 Wall Street professional service firms and other organizations in diverse industries that deal with complex and dynamic business environments.
Breakout Session 1
9:45 AM - 11:30 AM (Break Included)
CorpU Global Learning Advisors (GLAs) will facilitate small group discussions in which participants discuss issues from the initial presentations, generate feedback, and explore implications for their own organizations. Facilitators will help participants' select relevant individual company challenges as a source for discussion in later breakout sessions. At the end of this session participants will be thinking about alternative forms of learning for their own organizations, (ones spurred by Dr. Michel's remarks on uncertainty).
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM / Reading Room, Houston Hall
General Session 2
Dr. Stanton Wortham, Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor, University of Pennsylvania GSE, Academic Director, Wharton/GSE Doctoral Program in Workplace Learning Leadership
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
In order for an organization to benefit from uncertainty, learning professionals must help develop the organization's people in somewhat unusual ways. In this presentation Dr. Wortham will describe the skills, orientations and behaviors that are most effective in helping an organization manage uncertainty in the ways introduced by Dr. Michel. He will then describe learning practices that can help an organization's people develop these skills, orientations and behaviors.
Breakout Session 2
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (Break Included)
GLAs will lead the same small group from the morning breakout in discussions using selected company stories from the morning session to work through the two central themes of the day: (1) how uncertainty can be an asset, something to be cultivated and (2) how learning leaders can help develop an organization's people such that they can benefit from uncertainty.
Teach Backs
Dr. Alexandra Michel, Dr. Stanton Wortham
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Facilitators will select a few rich case examples that were introduced and discussed by participants in their small groups for congress-wide discussion, and faculty will lead a discussion of these examples.
General Session 3
Holly Huntley, Global CLO, CSC
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Discover how CSC is using collective intelligence and new leadership principles to develop its corporate culture. The session will include examples of how enterprise-wide "idea management" is used to solve business challenges and build organizational skills. This session will discuss how CSC's leadership principles and the corporate culture are helping to address the uncertainty of the today's business environment.
Day 1 Wrap Up
Dr. Alexandra Michel, Dr. Stanton Wortham
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
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Day 1 Evening Activities
11th Annual Excellence and Innovation Awards Gala
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Day 2: Organizational Strategy Under Uncertainity
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Continental Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM / The Reading Room, Houston Hall
General Session 4
Doug Lynch, Vice Dean, Univ. of Pennsylvania, GSE
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
The world of the CLO isn't easy. While the world gets more complicated and more certain it seems - if one relies on evidence, that many of the truths or certainties upon which CLOs reference in order to do their work may be myths. Doug will present some information on some of the most popular myths among CLOs and engage in a conversation about what it means for the industry, particularly in the context of an uncertain world.
General Session 5
Dr. Joseph Ryan, Adjunct Professor, The Wharton School, The Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Founder and President of TrueNorth Advisory Group
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Given uncertainty, organizational strategy should not be one top-down plan that is applied to all situations. Instead, it should be a set of tools and options that can be tailored to particular situations and unforeseen circumstances. In this presentation Dr. Ryan describes how to imagine organizational strategy in this way and provides tools to implement these ideas in practitioners' organizations.
Breakout Session 3
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Break Included)
GLAs will lead new small groups through discussions that engage with the question of strategy under uncertainty. Participants will share a few cases and challenges from yesterday's discussions and use these to reflect on the new issues introduced by Dr. Ryan.
Lunch
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM / Reading Room, Houston Hall
General Session 6
Dr. Mike Barger, CLO JetBlue University
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Dr. Barger's presentation will illustrate how learning leaders can draw on various tools, tailoring them to specific situations and taking into account changing and uncertain conditions. He will show how this is better than implementing the same strategy across settings. He will focus on the Learning Balanced Score Card tool that he has used successfully at JetBlue.
Breakout Session 4
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (Break Included)
GLAs will focus on challenges and opportunities taken from participants' situations, applying ideas from today's presentations to actual cases. Discussions will also return to yesterday's subjects and discussions, building toward an integrated account of how learning professionals can respond to uncertain environments more successfully.
Teach Backs
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Facilitators will again select a few rich case examples that were introduced and discussed by participants in their small groups for congress-wide discussion, and faculty will lead a discussion of these.
General Session 7
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management, Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
All senior executives know that having the right people in the right jobs is key to business success. And yet, in the face of increasing uncertainty, most companies invest little or poorly in talent management. In this presentation, Peter Cappelli proposes four new principles, inspired by operations logic, to align talent with business needs.
Day 2 Wrap Up
Dr. Stanton Wortham
4:30 PM - 4:45 / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
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Day 2 Evening Activities
CorpU Leaders As Teachers Institute Launch Party
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM / The Reading Room, Houston Hall
CorpU will host a cocktail reception with Dr. Ed Betof to launch the new CorpU Leaders As Teachers Institute.
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Day 3: Uncertainty and Leadership
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
7:45 AM - Noon
Continental Breakfast
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM / The Reading Room, Houston Hall
General Session 8
Dr. James Bailey, Tucker Professor of Leadership and Chair of Management Department, School of Business, George Washington University
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Developing leadership potential through the course of long and often tumultuous careers is both hard work and serious business. Research shows that leaders who intentionally foster their own growth are more likely to succeed than leaders who don't. Yet only a fraction of executives make this a priority. Although busy schedules and constantly changing conditions are a part of the reason, there are deeper reasons-rooted in the human tendency to avoid change and downplay the inevitability of change caused by environmental uncertainty. This presentation explores the dynamics underlying resistance to change-even change that is welcome-and proposes means by which leaders can "lead themselves" through transition.
Break
9:30 - 9:45
General Session 9
Dr. Ed Betof, Senior Fellow and Academic Director,
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton/GSE Doctoral Program in Workplace Learning Leadership
9:45 AM - 11:30 AM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Teaching by leaders is a time-tested way to deal with an uncertain future. Dr. Ed Betof, a leading expert on the "Leaders As Teachers" concept, will provide a two-part look at the concept. Part I provides an overview of the Leaders as Teachers approach, focusing on specific ways that the approach helps organizations deal with their own uncertain futures. Part II will engage the participants as peer leader-teachers in an active learning experience that serves to synthesize and integrate important points about the theme of this Congress - using uncertainty as an asset.
GLC Wrap-up and Open Discussion
Doug Lynch, Alan Todd, Stanton Wortham
11:30 AM - Noon / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
Reflection on congress, lessons learned, improvements for next year.
Lunch
Noon - 1:00 PM (Box Lunch Provided)
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Optional Session (All GLC Attendees are invited to attend)
CorpU Social Learning Executive Council (SLEC) Meeting
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM / Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
At this SLEC meeting, we will be reviewing Social Learning products from suppliers that range from integrated suites (Jive) to point solutions (GroupSystems) to LMS' (Saba Social). We will also be presenting an enterprise learning architecture that integrates and situates Social Learning within broader Learning Management and Integrated Talent Management - all within an Enterprise IT Architecture.