NCCI’s June Webinar was a great success with over 50 individuals participating. Based on the participant feedback for this event, we are planning additional webinars for next year. More details will be posted as available.
Presenter:
Samuel B. Bacharach
McKelvey-Grant Professor
Cornell University
Academic organizations face unique challenges. Moving agendas, trying to create change, and seeing projects to completion require the capacity to mobilize individuals and manage for implementation. Success in an academic organization often depends on your capacity to get people on your side and keep them on your side. This requires moving beyond the traditional model of leadership associated with charisma and vision. For today's 'high potentials' to lead for execution, they need to develop a series of specific skills and processes. In this webinar, Professor Sam Bacharach will discuss these critical skills and processes and elaborate on the different modalities that can be used for training high potentials in an academic setting, including e-learning, face-to-face trainings, meetings, and on-the-job training.
Samuel B. Bacharach is the McKelvey-Grant Professor in the department of organizational behavior at the Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) School at Cornell University. He has been on the faculty for over 30 years and has chaired the department of organizational behavior. Professor Bacharach is the head of Cornell's New York City-based Institute for Workplace Studies and the Smithers Institute. He developed an off-campus master's degree program for adult professionals in New York City. He is one of the academic entrepreneurs of the e-learning initiative (eCornell) for which he has developed 10 online courses. He has published over 150 articles and over 20 books. Throughout his career, he has received several federal research grants. Among his leadership books are: Get Them on Your Side and Keep Them on Your Side. He frequently lectures on the theme of proactive leadership and how to enhance the political and managerial skills leaders need to execute their agendas. He edits and writes for Proactive Leader Magazine, which is part of bacharachblog.com. He has trained these organizations in his proactive leadership approach: Computer Sciences Corporation, PepsiAmericas, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, March of Dimes, Wal-Mart Stores, Citigroup, International Monetary Fund, Mellon Financial, Starbucks, BASF, BMC Software, Boeing, InterContinental Hotels Group, Chubb, Nintendo, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Devon Energy, TeleTech and Gap, Inc. In recent years he has focused great effort in applying his leadership model to the academic setting.
