5-Star Organizational Leader

Consider the challenges facing organizational leaders today:

Massive changes in the global business environment demand new ways in treating and training people
Unrelenting pressure to produce continuing, excellent results while developing people.
The all-situation controlling leadership style is deemed ineffective and unwise.
An acute and prevalent need for teamwork, empowerment, and leadership based on influence.
New leadership challenges posed by the emergence of millennial workers with their peculiarities.

Where can YOU as an organizational leader turn for help?

Catalyst360 brings you a unique transformational leadership program that addresses these issues in a holistic way within an emerging market context, developed and facilitated by Alex T. Castillo, former President of Del Monte Philippines, and deemed one of the most respected organizational leadership and management gurus in the country today.

Your team’s leadership issues cannot be addressed by ‘generic inspiration’ alone. They require intuitive strategies based on timeless people leadership principles, and proven successful through real-world experience.

Join “Becoming a 5-Star Organizational Leader – Transform Your Leadership and Watch Your People – and Your Business – Grow!” on September 12-13, 2013, (Day 1) 8:30am-5:30pm and (Day 2) 8:30am-12:00pm, EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City, a one and a half day leadership seminar developed and facilitated by Alex Castillo, former President of Del Monte Philippines and one of the country’s most respected organizational leadership and general management gurus.

Learn how to think and behave like a transformational leader and watch your people and business grow in ways you never thought possible.
Learn what structures and processes are essential for effective organizational leadership.
Learn how to cultivate leadership based on influence, not authority.
Learn why you should develop a menu of leadership styles, and how you can do so.
Learn how to be an empowering mentor and coach, and how this builds a competitive advantage for your organization that is difficult to match.
Learn the crucial attitudes that are indispensable to create a winsome organizational culture.

About the Program

1. Ensure 5 Structures and Processes Are in Place

Purpose
Direction
Expectations
Standards
Career Direction

2. Cultivate Influence, Not Authority

Cultivate influence by building strong relationship
Strengthen relationships by being a genuinely caring person
Persons of influence cultivate integrity

3. Develop a Menu of Leadership Styles

Principles of Effective Leadership Styles
Directive Behavior vs. Developmental Behavior
What is your dominant leadership style?
How to be a Readiness-Based Leader

4. Mentor, Coach then Empower Your People

The Case for Mentoring and Coaching
Mentor/Coach: The New Meaning of Leader
Where Mentoring and Coaching are Similar / Where they Differ
The Mentoring/Coaching Cycle

5. Nurture the Attitudes That Build a Winsome Culture

What is your attitude towards yourself?
What is your attitude towards others?
The Impact of Values
Elements of a Strong Team Culture

Approach and Methodology

Facilitator presents principles, frameworks and shares his experiences in applying these principles and frameworks
Group Case Studies
Group and individual work to present findings in the case studies
Interactive sessions discussing principles, frameworks and case studies

Who Should Attend

Any manager or supervisor who wants to get a boost in his or her leadership development
Anyone about to assume any senior-level position
CEOs, Presidents, COOs and General Managers
Directors and managers in Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations, IT, HR, Admin, and other functions
Entrepreneurs and business owners

About the Speaker

Alex Castillo began his career as a Brand Assistant in Procter & Gamble Philippines in 1970. At Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company, from 1974 to 1980, he was Brand Manager, then Plant General Manager and Market Development Manager. In 1980 he joined Warner-Lambert Philippines to become Vice President, Consumer Products Division. He joined Del Monte, Philippines, Inc. in October of 1982, beginning as Market Director, Philippines. He was appointed President on June 1, 2000. His brainchild, Del Monte Kitchenomics, still exists today.

In 1988, he copped the Agora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Marketing Management. Under his leadership, Del Monte also copped the Award for Excellence in Marketing Management at the 1991 Management Awards held annually by the World Executive’s Digest, Asian Institute of Management and Japan Air Lines.

In 2003, under his leadership, Del Monte Philippines won the Employer of the Year Award from the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP), the only company in the country to have won this award three times.

Alex has served as a member of the Content Regulation Committee of the Philippine Board of Advertising, and as director of the Philippine Association of National Advertisers.

He holds an AB-Economics degree from the Ateneo de Manila University, graduating with honors in 1970. He has attended many top management programs, notably the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and INSEAD’s Avira Program in Pebble Beach, California.

He is also a strategic planning consultant, an executive coach and a leadership and management seminar content developer for Catalyst 360, a Training and Consultancy Company.

Alex and his wife Lelo have been married for 39 years and have four grown children.

“Alex is a powerful, engaging and impressive speaker. He makes you think about how you can be the best leader and offers valuable insights based on his experience.” — Cherry Gutierrez, Managing Director, Campaigns & Grey

“The climb is not easy, but Alex proves an able guide as he generously and methodically shares from his own journey as a seasoned executive. And there, at the top of the mountain, Alex reminds you that you and your organization are meant to fly. I’m ready to soar!” — Aleks Tan, Chief Operations Officer, OMF Literature, Inc.

“Alex is a great example of how facilitators and trainings should be — not theories but actual experiences. It made the biggest impact!” — Roger M. Hernandez, General Manager, Corporate Executive Search, Inc.