Course description
Waterloo Leadership Program
This rich and engaging battlefield metaphor provides an ideal setting for this leadership program with Battlefield Leadership within which to discuss many leadership themes, including the importance of establishing a climate of commitment and readiness, building and effectively sustaining teams of leaders, balancing a sense of strategic opportunity with the calculation of immediate tactical risks, leveraging the power of technological change, maintaining a sense of order in the chaos of a rapidly changing situation, and creating an environment that fosters initiative and ownership.
Selected leadership competencies for the Waterloo Leadership Program are:
- Creating the conditions for success
- Structuring a cohesive operating entity
- Balancing strategic opportunity with tactical risk
- Clarifying roles, responsibilities and decision-making rights
- Fostering initiative and ownership
Training content
The so-called War of the Seventh Coalition, which included the Battle of Waterloo, pitted Napoleon Bonaparte and the armies of France against the combined armies of Europe, most notably from Britain, Prussia, and the Netherlands. This famous and well-documented period of European and military history aptly demonstrates the challenges of leadership and team building faced not only by Napoleon and his marshals, but also by the international coalition arrayed against him. Also known as the Hundred Days (les Cent Jours), the war marked the period between Napoleon’s return from exile and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII. As Napoleon’s last gasp, this time period witnessed his brilliance and limitations as a leader and, equally, the strengths and weaknesses of the coalition command that opposed him.
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About Battlefield Leadership
Battlefield Leadership
Battlefield Leadership is a leadership consulting and training company specializing in customized experiential leadership training based in history. Our programs, which are derived from historic events and transformative figures who helped shape the course of history in their own time,...
