B152: Leadership & Learning Series: High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Join Don Schmincke as he dives into his book and new approach to leadership development, based on ground-breaking scientific research, field-tested under the most brutal conditions on the most difficult summits, and successfully applied in the training of executives, management teams and entrepreneurs throughout the world.  We will review core lessons and approaches from three points of view. First, key leadership principle learned from expeditions in the Himalayas and Andes. Then we will bring these lessons to the world of business, with examples from experiences in coaching entrepreneurs and business management teams. Finally, we will take a look at the science behind these winning strategies, exploring these principles at their fundamental level.

We will also go over key points as a summarized, plan-of-attack blueprint that will help the you master the courage and skill to approach leadership from a practical perspective, overcome persistent barriers to performance, understand the source of dysfunctional behaviors that plague organizations and learn how to overcome and redirect them into productive results, understand why chronic management problems exist, where and why they originate and what to do about them, enrich profits, markets and organizational culture.

More information on Don can be found here.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Learn key leadership principle learned from expeditions in the Himalayas and Andes.
• Learn how to bring these lessons to the world of business, with examples from their experiences in coaching entrepreneurs and business management teams.
• Learn at the science behind these winning strategies, exploring these principles at their fundamental level.

INSTRUCTOR: Don Schmincke, Author and Speaker, Saga Leadership