Course Name

The New Leader’s Toolkit: POLC

Schedule

November 24, 2025 - December 05, 2025

Schedule via Zoom:

  • Session 1 - November 24, 2025 (Monday, 8:30am to 12:00nn),
  • Session 2 - November 26, 2025 (Wednesday, 1:00pm to 4:30pm), 
  • Session 3 - November 28, 2025 (Friday, 1:00pm to 4:30pm),
  • Session 4 - December 1, 2025 (Monday, 8:30am to 12:00nn),
  • Session 5 - December 3, 2025 (Wednesday, 8:30am to 12:00nn),
  • Session 6 - December 5, 2025 (Friday 8:30am to 12:00nn)

Regular Rate:

PhP 18,000

Early Eagle Rate:

Php 16,500

Valid Until:

November 11, 2025

The New Leader’s Toolkit: POLC

Description

Transitioning from an individual contributor to a frontline leader is a difficult leadership passage. The knowledge, skills, and attitudes that made you an effective individual contributor are not the same as those that would make you effective as a leader of others. 

This program is designed to help you navigate that difficult leadership passage, with training in the essential skills you need for becoming an effective leader of others.

Who should attend

The program is intended for front-line leaders, including:

  • First-time supervisors, first-time managers, first-time team leaders

  • Those who have been or will be promoted above the level of an individual contributor and would take on the equivalent of a supervisory or management role.

At the end of this program, you are expected to have performed the following, all applied to your current or future role as frontline leader in a supervisory or managerial position.:

  1. Articulated the changes in your leadership role, applied to your present or upcoming frontline leadership position

  2. Applied the steps in the Planning, Organizing, Controlling processes, in relation to your team’s work, fulfilling the framework for these processes

  3. Identified solutions to some of the typical management challenges you face in your work

  4. Practiced an assertive communication skills

  5. Practiced skills in conducting effective meetings

  6. Applied POLC skills in simulated management situations, based on real-life scenarios

I. Clarifying Your Leadership Role
    A. Leadership Passage No.1
    B. The Perspective of a Leader
    C. The Work of the Frontline Leader
    D. The Management Cycle

II. Planning, Controlling, Organizing
    A. Planning
          1. Definition, Rationale, and Activities
          2. Principles/Advantages of Planning
          3. Activities of Planning
          4. Action Planning/Possible Problem Process
    B. Controlling
          1. Definition, Rationale, and Need
          2. Activities of Controlling
          3. Performance Management System
          4. Phases of Performance Management System
    C. Organizing
          1. Definition and Principles
          2. Activities of Organizing

III. Leading
    A. Today’s Leadership Context
          1. Leading and Managing
          2. First Lead Yourself
    B. Communicating Assertively
    C. Conducting Effective Remote Meetings

IV. Integration: Bringing it All Together
    A. Task orientation and Relationship orientation
    B. Apply your frontline skills in several real-life situations
    C. Dealing with difficult people

Dr. Jet F. Magsaysay is the Dean of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

He is president of Strategic Directions, Inc., a strategy- and management-consulting firm that caters to top corporations in diverse industries. As a strategy and organizational development consultant, he has guided leading corporations in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in developing their visions and strategies, and in building their organizational capabilities. 

As an academic program director he has conceptualized and customized leadership and management programs for diverse clients.

As a trainer-educator, he has designed and facilitated programs in strategy, execution, leadership, and management skills.

As a corporate executive, he has managed business units in the Philippines, in China, and across Asia, in the investment banking, publishing, and consulting industries.

An internationally recognized writer and presenter, he is a lecturer in Kyoto University’s Asia Business Leader Programme. He was Editor-in-Chief of World Executive’s Digest, a Pan-Asian management magazine where he authored award-winning content. He has authored research articles that have been peer-reviewed and published in international academic journals. He has been a keynote speaker at various conferences in Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

Dr. Magsaysay has a BSc. in Industrial Management Engineering from De La Salle University, a Master in Management degree from the Asian Institute of Management, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies, major in Organizational Development, from the Ateneo De Manila University.

Ms. Czarina B. Teves is a seasoned Organization Development consultant who has been in the field since 1994. She is known for her expertise in team building, strategic planning, and organizational change, and has served as a team lead and facilitator for numerous organizations.

Throughout her career, she has been recognized as a resource person, subject matter expert, and faculty member. She has taught at various institutions, including the Ateneo Graduate School of Business – Center for Continuing Education, Asian Institute of Management – School of Executive Education and Lifelong Learning, Civil Service Institute, and Carl Jung Circle Center | Depth Institute of Asia. She has been a facilitator for a wide range of topics, including Leading Teams in a VUCA World, Coaching and Mentoring, Systems Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence.

She has been a professional coach since 2012 and is certified by the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified Jungian Coach, Master Facilitator of Team Psychological Safety, Stakeholder Centered Executive Coach, and Action Learning Coach. 

She is also the former President-Elect of the International Coaching Federation Philippines Charter Chapter and a board member of Coaches Connect Service Cooperative, a cooperative of coaches focused on helping MSMEs. She is also the co-founder of Ginto Ako Team, a social change initiative, and a founding partner of InnerWorks Coaching, which helps people navigate the pandemic through somatic, systemic, and depth coaching.

Ms. Teves has received numerous certificates for her program delivery, including Leading with Questions from World Institute of Action Learning, Building the Learning Organization from World Institute of Action Learning, and the Global Leadership Assessment from Marshall Goldsmith.

Mr. Eric Generoso D. Picart has 30 years of corporate, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in the management and development of human resources systems. He has handled performance management, and organization design. He has worked with senior leaders across different industries to conduct human resource development programs.

He is currently the Principal Consultant of HR Latitude where he manages organizational development projects, such as: organizational diagnosis, high performance work systems, recruitment & selection, training & development, and performance coaching. He also designed and facilitated training programs on strategic planning, team development, and personal effectiveness, among others.

Prior to this, he held other posts, such as: Human Resources & Organizational Development Consultant and Project Consultant of Sketchbooks Inc.; Division Head of the Recruitment & Career Management, Program Manager, and Training Officer of Solidbank Corporation; and HR Planning & Training Specialist, and HR Supervisor of Nestle Philippines, Inc.

Mr. Picart holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Masters degree in Business Administration – Regis Program from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

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