The Invitation:
An exciting professional development opportunity from Sysco Foodservices who would like to invite 3 or 4 UBC MBA students to join 15 senior HR managers from various Vancouver businesses in a two day leadership development program. Sysco will cover the $3,500 program fee. You only need to pay $50 for lunch and dinner. The theme for the two days is (1) Creating High Performance Teams, and (2) Leading Change. It is a highly experiential, high energy two days. Guaranteed you will enjoy it and go home with many valuable learnings.
The Competencies:
- Building Effective Teams
- Builds and sustains high performance in permanent ongoing teams
- Quickly gets new project teams to a high level of productivity
- Creates effective teamwork between different groups and departments
- Leading Change: Dealing with Ambiguity
- Effective in unfamiliar, challenging and changing situations
- Quickly grasps underlying essence, structure, patterns and themes
- Decides and acts without having complete information
- Effectively manages organizational polarities and tensions
Your Workshop Leader, Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller has 25 years of experience in leadership development. His incredible depth and breadth of expertise makes him an extraordinary facilitator and coach. For the last ten years, as Senior Director of Talent Management, Andrew has led the design of Sysco’s award winning leadership development programs. He has undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology, is a Ph.D. candidate, and a Harvard Business School alumni. He is an experienced executive coach, graduating from both the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Fielding Graduate University’s coaching programs He has worked with faculty from the best executive education programs including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, Duke, Warden, and Darden. He has taught leadership to students from seven of the top MBA programs in Canada.
Andrew’s work has been recognized for quality and innovation with awards from The International Coach Federation, HRPA, and the Chief Learning Officer magazine. Andrew has been featured in numerous publications on executive development including articles in the Globe & Mail “Report on Business” and Canadian Business Magazine.
Date: March 13 – 14, 2014
Location: Sutton Place, Vancouver
Interested? You must email Shannon Sterling (shannon.sterling@sauder.ubc.ca) by 9:00 am PST Friday, Feb 28. Confirmation of enrolment will be sent by end of day Friday.