Human Centered Lab · Executive Education
Executive Education
The human-centered leadership, design and organizational topics Jules Morris, PhD and Lane Morris, PhD teach in the Aerospace and Defense MBA, the Strategic Leadership MBA and leadership development with organizations and their teams. Each one has a slide deck you can open and review, a hands-on tool and further reading, so leaders can come back to the ideas and put them to work with their own teams. Running through all of them is Creative Leadership Self-Efficacy (CLSE), our term for the confidence to lead people toward creative solutions, one of the biggest gaps we see in business.
Workshop topics
Fifteen sessions in four groups. Each has a slide deck you can open and review, a hands-on tool and further reading. Use them to prepare for a session, or to keep the learning going afterward.
Leading People
Build trust, set goals, give feedback and lead teams where people speak up. See the leading people hub →
Human-Centered Leadership: The Decisive Advantage
Why human-centered leadership wins, and how the Creative Alliances System puts it to work.
Slides · Technical or Adaptive? game
Operationalizing Human-Centered Leadership
Creative alliances in practice: the bonds, tasks and tools, and goals that make people want to follow.
Slides · Bonds Check and Co-Creation Planner
Human-Centered Performance Communication
Results-based performance management: SMARTEST goals, coaching all year and feedback that lands.
Slides · SMARTEST Goal Builder
High Performance Teams
What makes teams work: team stages, Project Aristotle, team models and team dynamics.
Slides · Team Dynamics Check
Psychological Safety
Why teams only learn as fast as people are willing to speak up, and how leaders build safety in four stages.
Slides · Team Safety Check
Leadership Fork in the Road
The defining moments that test leaders: negative and positive forks, antifragility and the failure resume.
Slides · Slide deck and discussion
Growing People
Motivation, learning, work/life harmony and personal branding. See the growing people hub →
Employee Motivation and Engagement
What moves people: Herzberg, Maslow and Pink, Gallup engagement data and the 12 C’s.
Slides · 12 C’s Engagement Check
Fostering Learning
Learning as a strategy: closing skill gaps, developing people and making training stick.
Slides · Training Transfer Check
Work/Life Harmony
Why balance is a myth, how stress and coping work, and thirteen tips for harmony.
Slides · Work/Life Harmony Check-in
Personal Branding
Get known for the value you bring: the four elements of a personal brand and a 30-day plan.
Slides · Personal Brand Builder
Design and Innovation
Human-centered design and building a creative culture. See the design and innovation hub →
Human-Centered Design Bootcamp
The discovery phase of human-centered design: empathy, curiosity and casual learning conversations.
Slides · Four Fabulous Questions
Creativity and Innovation
What creativity really is, how it differs from innovation, and how leaders build a creative culture.
Slides · Creativity Conversation Guide
Organizations and Strategy
Strategic HR, M&A and healthy, sustainable workplaces. See the organizations and strategy hub →
Human-Centered Strategic HR
Valuing human capital: the HC Accounting Model, HR metrics, the EVP and a Human Capital Scorecard.
Slides · Human Capital Scorecard
Human-Centered M&A
The people side of mergers and acquisitions: culture, the “what about me?” questions and keeping key talent.
Slides · Merger People Check
Healthy, Sustainable Workplaces
Well-being, stress and burnout, and what leaders can do to build a healthy, sustainable climate.
Slides · Healthy Workplace Check
Where we teach these
We teach these sessions in the Haslam College of Business’s Aerospace and Defense MBA and Strategic Leadership MBA, and with organizations building their teams and developing their leaders. Questions about a topic? Get in touch.
Part of the Human Centered Lab, alongside the Smith GLS honors courses.