High Performance People Skills for Leaders - Dubai

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Programme impact

Maximise your leadership potential

Become an emotionally intelligent, influential leader and develop strong relationships across face-to-face, hybrid and virtual teams.

Good for you
Good for your organisation

Gain the confidence to build strong, influential business relationships with people, regardless of their background, seniority, or sector.
Become an inspirational leader to boost your team’s potential and create cohesive working environments.
Learn key coaching and storytelling skills to deliver and receive quality, insightful feedback that will strengthen your and your team’s abilities and root out weaknesses.

Understand your own strengths to become an authentic, modern leader.
Gain the interpersonal skills to strategically handle difficult situations and tackle poor performance.
Learn how to deliver empowering, influential insights and delegate responsibility in any room.

Right for you

This programme is ideal for senior managers who interact with many different people as part of their role.

9+ years of management experience

required

Attendees include:

Highly-skilled technical managers who need a boost to their interpersonal skills.
CEOs, managing directors, general managers, sales and business development professionals, HR managers and lawyers.

Programme content

A clear path to effective leadership

Undergo a transformational mindset shift, enhanced by coaching and enabled through practice.

What you learn
How you learn
Your learning experience
FAQs

Self-knowledge: Gain insights into your personality and strengths to become a more confident and effective leader. A personality profile and a 360-degree assessment will help you to better understand yourself and how your colleagues view your leadership style. Decide what you want to achieve on the course and use that knowledge to identify areas you want to improve.
Insight into others: Through improved communication skills, learn how to become a more effective networker and transform your professional relationships. Use research-based insights to understand what drives human behaviour and become more emotionally intelligent. Learn how to analyse your people to empower and inspire them to reach their full potential.
Interpersonal problem-solving: Practice influencing and motivating people in a safe environment using key strategies and tools. Transform your behaviour with group and one-to-one coaching and practical role play situations. Achieve success through others by empowering them to solve complex issues.

Our faculty

Experts in the field

Absorb the experience and passion of our faculty, who combine academic research and real-world business expertise.

Lucy Ford

Teaching Fellow of Organisational Behaviour

Experience

Dr. Lucy Ford is Professor Emerita at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, where she served on the faculty for fifteen years, retiring in 2023. She is a guest lecturer at London Business School teaching on topics such as leadership, power and negotiations. She is also a management consultant, working across sectors.

The combination of her rigorous academic background with her extensive corporate and consulting experience has allowed her to become a trusted advisor to many executives and organisational leaders seeking to enhance their strategic thinking and leadership capabilities. She has designed and delivered leadership development programmes for numerous organisations, with demonstrated positive impact on organisational outcomes. Her approach combines cutting-edge research, practical insights, and interactive learning methodologies, empowering organisational members to unlock their potential and drive organisational success. She is a skilled executive and group coach, formalising that skill through the completion of an ICF accredited coaching programme in 2018. In her academic role, Dr. Ford has authored or co-authored over sixty presentations, articles, and book chapters. Her research has been published in Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Performance, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Journal of Business and Psychology, amongst others. She has also recently co-edited The SAGE Handbook of Survey Development and Application (2023).

Dr. Ford served on the board of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Southern Management Association. In 2012 she and her co-author, Dr. Ben Hardy, received the Sage Publishing / Research Methods Division Best Paper Award for their work on item miscomprehension in surveys, and also in 2012 she and her coauthors received the Emerald Citation Award for their 2008 scale development paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. She has also served on the editorial board of Group and Organization Management.

Certificate in Management

This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Management. Enhance your leadership and business skills with a comprehensive learning journey tailored to you and create a personalised curriculum to shift your career to the next level.

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How to apply

Submit your application through our online application form.

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Fees

The fee for the programme is $12,900.*

The programme fee covers all required study materials, programme activities, as well as refreshments and most meals. It does not include accommodation.

We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who have completed four eligible Certificate in Management or Certificate in Finance programmes.

For more information on what the programme fee covers please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.

All fees quoted exclude the mandatory 5% tax (VAT) that is applicable in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the consumption or use of goods and services within the UAE. Fees are subject to change.

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Raul Ganau

Client Relationship Manager

Raul Ganau

+44 20 7000 7859