The Duke Leadership Program is ideal for anyone with current or anticipated leadership responsibilities, ranging from high-level executives and managers; managers expecting to take on leadership roles; and those who are not in management positions but are expected to lead and influence others in the course of their work.

Past attendees have hailed from a variety of organizations including:

• CEMEX
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Siemens
• The Linc Group
• The National Assembly of Nigeria
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• Union Gas Limited

Learning how to lead (or follow) when you can’t see how your team is progressing toward an objective.

Personalized Coaching & Action Plan: Each day during the program, you’ll meet with an assigned coach with experience in executive planning and the 360-degree leadership assessment. Based on your results and goals, you’ll create a unique, personalized action plan with short- and long-term objectives. This will allow you to create tactical plans for specific work situations, such as a new assignment or change initiative, as well as a behavioral plan for long term leadership performance.

You'll also learn to:

• Create and project your vision, values, and expertise
• Become more intentional and strategic in leadership, as opposed to relying on intuition alone
• Build coherence by clarifying roles, rules, and processes
• Serve as a source of optimism and enthusiasm while eliciting excellence and innovation
• Provide the resources and support to encourage savvy risk taking 
• Infuse responsibility, ethical actions, and balance in an organizational setting
• Recognize ways to lead effectively under a variety of conditions/circumstances 
• Lead during times of change including crises and mergers 
• Create an effective leadership team

Program sessions offer a comprehensive approach to leadership, drawing on research from many fields, including organizational behavior, sociology, psychology, and political science. Sessions include study of:

Personal Leadership
Personal Leadership involves conveying a sense of authenticity. It also involves demonstrating that you have the capability to lead — the skills, expertise, values, creativity, and engagement to drive the group to success. Effective personal leadership enhances the leader's credibility, and invites others to accept the leader's ideas and direction.

Relational Leadership
Relational Leadership focuses on the followers, specifically how a leader connects interpersonally with followers, and what behaviors a leader needs to exhibit to foster that connection. It also involves communicating a sense of respect for and fairness toward those being led.

Contextual Leadership 
Learn how to provide meaning and a sense of uniqueness to the team. Contextual Leadership involves bringing coherence to the team and simplifying and clarifying complex tasks and procedures. Strong Contextual Leadership will coalesce the team into a coherent, coordinated whole with followers who strongly identity with the team.

Supportive Leadership
Supportive Leadership serves both a protective and developmental function, making followers aware of where they are strong and where they need development. Supportive Leadership involves protecting the team from distractions due to inadequate resources, political interference, or insecurity.

Inspirational Leadership
Good leaders inspire others to extraordinary efforts. The key to Inspirational Leadership is linking today's reality with tomorrow's possibilities. By focusing attention on difficult but important goals, a leader can elicit aspirations, effort, and attainment that surpasses expectations. 

Responsible Leadership
Accepting responsibility is a key ingredient of successful leadership. Effective leaders exhibit, and encourage those they lead, to develop a deep sense of responsibility toward their organization and toward related individuals and institutions within and outside their organization.

Configurational Leadership
Learn how to adapt your leadership style based on various situations, including variables in environment, resources, and team members.

Leadership During Crisis
Leading effectively during a crisis requires inspirational, supportive, and relational leadership. This session expands upon the qualities of leadership that are appropriate in critical circumstances faced by teams. Successful behaviors in a crisis include confidence, focus, and trust.

Leadership Across Divides
How do you deal with trust and conflict issues across digital communication? Using a concept called “place and space,” we explore tactics that build trust among dispersed team members that are divided geographically, culturally, or by gender.

Co-leadership
This session discusses dynamics among two or more leaders who share authority and decision making. Leaders can complement or conflict with each other based on their strengths assessed in the Six Domains Leadership Survey.

Participants explore the nuances of leadership through a hands-on group activity.

The Duke Leadership Program (DLP) provides a framework for understanding and improving your individual leadership style and developing competency in six domains of leadership. Central to the course is a 360-degree assessment that explores your individual leadership style and identifies specific challenges and opportunities. You will work one-on-one with experienced executive coaches to develop a personalized plan for successful leadership that can be implemented immediately.

Sample program schedule: