EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR SCM PROFESSIONALS
COURSE DESCRIPTION
"The perfect leader is not yet born" as the saying goes. Leadership skills are an integral part of success in any endeavor and can be improved. This is especially true for supply chain management professionals who must simultaneously exercise and master both superb organizational execution while meeting the needs of subordinates, superiors and stakeholders. This seminar covers the key behaviors, techniques and approaches for effective leadership in rapidly changing competitive environments.
Who Should Attend: SCM professionals, executives, engineers, project managers, purchasing agents, contract administrators, and business professionals who are managing supply chain, sourcing and procurement operations.
What You Will Learn: How to develop trust and credibility within your organization, dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty, comfort around upper management, critical self assessment skills, think and act with strategic vision, prepare a professional improvement plan, deal with difficult stakeholders, superiors and subordinates, superior coaching skills, deal with changing organizational and management needs, decisive decision making, and develop greater self confidence through improved leadership behaviors.
Why You Should Attend: Leadership is the one commodity that no organization has too much of. Leadership is also the ultimate factor by which individual performance is judged and valued. Good leaders understand the importance of and how to apply creativity, deal with ambiguity, manage change and develop and support the organization's strategic vision. This will directly affect the bottom line and no organization can succeed without it's core group of key leaders who promote positive change.
Instructor: X. Paul Humbert, Esq., is the President of The Humbert Group, LLC (THG) and has over twenty years of business and legal experience in negotiating, structuring and managing complex commercial transactions, including construction contracts, from "cradle-to-grave".
THG provides consulting services to commercial enterprises with particular emphasis on contracts, contract management, commercial operations and procurement activities, specializing in assisting firms in all phases of contract negotiation and management.
Mr. Humbert has served as an adjunct professor of law at both Seton Hall Law School and Monmouth College. He is a lecturer at Rutgers University where he teaches Contract Law and Contract Management to MBA candidates. He has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. |
