2027 Jacob Leadership Institute
Leadership Development Program Curriculum
Six interactive sessions designed to help participants better
understand how they lead, communicate, motivate others, make
decisions and influence the people around them.
The 2027 curriculum moves from self-awareness and leadership style
to communication, motivation, employee performance and stakeholder
influence, giving participants practical tools they can apply in
their firms and professional lives.
Sessions
6
In Person
4 Sessions
Virtual
2 Sessions
In this opening session, students will engage in a
self-assessment where they define what leadership means to
them, receive feedback from those who know them and create a
vision for themselves as leaders while refining their
leadership style to best fit the needs of their followers.
Learning Objectives
- Develop a personal definition of leadership.
- Explain why there is no standard definition of leadership.
- Create methods to self-assess leadership abilities.
- Perform a mini 360 assessment.
- Create SMART leadership goals to refine their leadership style.
Using contemporary examples, students explore the differences
between the traditional carrot-and-stick style of leadership
and the more modern and effective transformational leadership
approach.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the Full Range Leadership Model.
- Define the Laissez-Faire leadership style.
- Define the autocratic leadership style.
- Define the management-by-exception leadership style.
- Define the contingent reward/transactional leadership style.
- Define transformational leadership.
- Discuss the four components of transformational leadership.
- Compare and contrast transactional and transformational leadership.
Through open discussions, participants will learn how the brain
operates, how people send unconscious signals to others, how
power can silently reduce empathy and the dangers of the
“us versus them” dilemma.
Learning Objectives
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Compare and contrast System 1 and System 2 thinking,
as defined by Daniel Kahneman in
Thinking, Fast and Slow.
- Discuss how biases are formed.
- Argue why experience can lead to more implicit biases.
- Assess how perspective can affect leadership.
- Define emotional intelligence.
- Develop methods for more effective communication.
- Evaluate methods for self-assessment and self-regulation.
Students engage in an interactive game where they debate
different ways to motivate people. Using scientific studies,
participants examine how traditional management approaches can
diminish motivation and explore techniques for increasing both
intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Learning Objectives
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Explain why reward and punishment are not effective
tools for motivating people.
- Evaluate methods to increase employee engagement.
- Discuss the role of money in motivation.
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Design ways to increase the intrinsic motivation
of followers.
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Leverage extrinsic motivational factors to increase
employee engagement.
How should a leader motivate high-, mid- and low-performing
employees? Participants discuss different ways to work with the
diverse skill sets and motivations of their own employees.
Learning Objectives
- Evaluate employees' work performance.
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Discuss issues related to leaders who do not address
problems created by deficient employees.
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Identify how experiences cause leaders to perceive
situations differently than others would.
Participants learn scientifically proven ways to influence
behavior. Whether influencing up or down a command chain, this
interactive session examines practical approaches to influence,
persuasion and power.
Learning Objectives
- List five influencing styles.
- Compare and contrast three influencing tactics.
- Define the rule of reciprocity.
- Explain consistency theory.
- Define social proof theory.
- Define pluralistic ignorance.
- Compare and contrast influence and power.
- Compare and contrast influence and manipulation.
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