>> The leadership role is
getting incredibly more complex.
>> Sometimes we get so busy, we forget to
remember that we're dealing with people.
>> As you become an executive and
you go higher and higher up the ranks,
you're less and less aware of what
your behavior is triggering in others.
Good and bad.
And so, you really kind of stop growing.
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IPD is a program where executives have an
opportunity to develop their emotional and
social intelligence, and
become more interpersonally skilled
which is a hallmark of good leaders.
It's a course that my colleague,
David Bradford and I co-developed.
In response to an elective
course at the GSB,
that is perhaps the most over
subscribed course in the MBA program.
We are the only top business
school that has such a program.
Interpersonal dynamics for
high performance executives.
It's a place to learn to become
interpersonally effective.
What that means is not
learn how to make friends,
it means how to create organizations and
develop leaders in a way that they
are more able to influence others,
inspire others, motivate others.
>> Do I know myself?
Do I know my emotions?
Am I able to express them
in an appropriate way?
Am I empathic?
People can experiment with being more
themselves in finding out the outcome.
>> Participants find themselves
stretched in an unpredictable and
different way than they have
been in other academic settings.
Most of the learning in IPD takes place
in these small groups called T-Groups.
The T does not stand for
therapy, it stands for training.
The idea here is that I'm going to learn
best about what makes me interpersonally
effective by engaging in interpersonal
exchanges with other people in real-time.
>> One of the real benefits of the T-Group
is I learned the impact of my behavior.
It's risky to give feedback.
It's risky to hear feedback.
But without risk,
there can't be any real learning.
>> T-Groups at first
were very intimidating.
As the week went on, I started to see
the value of the T-Group experience.
It became a place where people did,
in fact, think of it as a laboratory.
Testing ideas, testing thoughts,
challenging each other.
And so, I had several epiphanies during
the week that I don't think would have
occurred if it weren't for
the T- Group experience.
>> What we most hear is people willing to
have conversations that they
thought they couldn't have.
>> Ultimately,
leadership is about mobilizing people and
it's hard to mobilize people who
don't feel connected to you.
Who don't trust you, who don't believe
in what you're trying to mobilize
them toward,
who are not influenced by you.
We can help executives learn
more about themselves and
more about what that means for the kind of
culture or environment they're creating.
>> I highly recommend this
program to senior leaders,
if you're able to be vulnerable.
If you feel comfortable really unlearning
old things, learning new things and
be come completely dedicated to
becoming a more effective leader.
