If you like entrepreneurship and you don’t know General Assembly, you should. They teach great courses and have built a great community around teaching relevant skills.
On Saturday, August 23, 10am-5pm, I’ll lead a seminar with General Assembly on leadership in New York City. Register here, you’ll be glad you did.
Here is the announcement (they use short descriptions, for a fuller description, see this announcement from an earlier event):
Lead the Way: Effective Leadership Techniques
Joshua Spodek
Adjunct Professor at NYU-Poly
About This Workshop
You’ve ascended to a position of leadership, but how can you ensure that the people you are in charge of will be responsive to your leadership style? In this class, you’ll learn effective ways to motivate people in the context of business leadership. You’ll find out how to tap into your emotional awareness to show empathy, compassion, and understanding to engage people. Plus, you’ll discover how to motivate people in a way they find both rewarding and meaningful.
Takeaways
- Gain the ability to motivate people to work with dedication, passion, and loyalty.
- Create relationships and environments where you can motivate people.
- Be able to motivate yourself more effectively.
- Learn how to show and use empathy and compassion to engage the people you lead.
- Create meaning, value, importance, and purpose in your work and for the people you lead.
Prereqs & Preparation
Please bring materials to take notes with.
About the Instructor
Joshua Spodek Adjunct Professor at NYU-Poly
Joshua Spodek has co-founded several companies, coaches leadership for Columbia Business School’s Program on Social Intelligence, and is a professor at NYU. He has led seminars in leadership, creativity, sales, strategy, and motivation at Columbia Business School, Harvard, NYU-Stern School of Business, INSEAD Singapore, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. Joshua holds five Ivy League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA. He also helped build an x-ray observational satellite for the European Space Agency and NASA.
His clients include graduates of Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, Duke, Dartmouth, Penn, University of Chicago, Indian Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Northwestern, Tufts, Vassar, Amherst, NYU, U.S. Naval Academy, and others.
He has been quoted and profiled by ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Fox, UPN, NY1, CNN, CNN-International, WNYC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Observer, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsweek, Forbes, Worth, Esquire, The Guardian, Nikkei Shimbun, South China Morning Post, Taipei Times, Village Voice, Salon.com, and more.
Saturday, 23 August
10 am – 5 pm
41 Union Square West, FL 3 (enter at 22 East 17th Street, next to Chop’t Salad)
New York, NY 10003
Register here. I look forward to seeing you there.