Open Seminar

Building and Leading a 21st Century Team

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Programme snapshot

  • Date: October 7 - 9, 2025
  • Fee: N750,000
  • Location: LBS Campus and Live Online
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Overview

As business and social environments continue to evolve, and as organisations grapple with economic uncertainty, competition and ever-increasing customer expectations, the workplace dynamics have considerably changed from what they used to be. With new approaches to relationships and a deliberate collapse of organisational hierarchies, the task of getting people (of different backgrounds) to work together productively becomes even more challenging. This programme thus seeks to address the challenges of the new environment of business.

Learning Objectives and Benefits

At the end of this programme, you will be able to:

  • Understand what leadership is and is not
  • Lead with emotional intelligence
  • Understand self-leadership and self-monitor
  • Understand team leadership that works
  • Make a transition from traditional to contemporary teamwork
  • Understand strategies for transforming a group to a Team.
  • Have a grasp of effective decision-making in teams
  • Recognise and managing team politics and conflict
  • Manage Millennials and Gen Z in the workplace
  • Understand effective intrapersonal and interpersonal relationship
  • Manage Virtual Teams

Who should attend

The programme is designed to benefit:

  • Team leaders, and middle to senior-level functional managers in both private and public sector organisations whose roles require an understanding of people, groups and group dynamics.
  • Experts and specialists who are making a transition from managing equipment and processes to leading people.

Structure and Curriculum

  • Stages of team development
  • Individual Differences
  • Team Leadership
  • Building Commitment
  • Globalisation, Technology and Virtuality
  • Challenges of technology infrastructure
  • Diversity, Cultural and Time Differences
  • Decision-making in teams
  • Realities of the 21st Century Team: Leading with emotional intelligence
  • Managing Millennials and Gen Z in the workplace
  • Engaging to achieve peak performance
  • Team Communication
  • Team Conflict Management
  • Leader-Member Exchange: Power and Influence

Admission process

1. Click on the Apply Now tab
2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme
3. Fill in your details to complete your application
4. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway
5. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.

Faculty

Henry Onukwuba

Henry is a Senior Fellow and full-time faculty at Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University. He is currently the Academic Director of the Lagos Business School HR Academy and was Academic Director of the Global Chief Executive Programme from 2019 – 2024.

Henry leads classes in Leadership, Human Resource Management, Organisational Behaviour, Management Communication and Negotiation on the HR Academy, the Global CEO, the executive and modular MBA classes, Owner Manager Programmes, Senior Management Programmes, custom programmes, and other executive programmes at Lagos Business School.

Before joining Lagos Business School in 2008, Henry was Managing Director of Hebon Consult, a human resource consulting firm. Henry has considerable banking experience. He was the CEO of Consolidated Business Support Services Limited, CBSSL, the human resource management subsidiary of one of the top banks in Nigeria. He was also Group Head, Corporate Resources and Communication at Finacorp Building Society Limited, and National Publicity Secretary of the Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria.

 

Dr Yetunde Anibaba

Yetunde Anibaba (Ph.D.) is a management educator and organisational development professional. She teaches Analysis of Business Problems (ABP) and decision-making on full-time and Executive MBA, as well as other senior executive education programmes at Lagos Business School.

She has designed and taught on several highly-rated, short-focused seminars and custom executive programmes in the School, including the yearly Problem Solving and Decision Making for Executives and Driving Digital Revolution.

Before joining LBS, she occupied several positions in the Information Technology sector, with experience in the areas of ICT and Human Resource Management.

Yetunde holds a BSc & MSc Degrees in Sociology, MILD as well as a Ph.D. in Management (Organisational Behaviour). She is an alumna of the University of Lagos, LBS, IESE Business School, and the Wharton School, and provides advisory services to a number of organisations. She is also a member of the Humanistic Management Network (HuMaNet) and is an ad-hoc reviewer for conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Academy.

 

Uche Attoh

Before his faculty appointment, Uche Attoh served on the Industrial Arbitration Panel, where following a Federal appointment, he had for eight years presided/participated in Tribunals constituted to adjudicate over Trade Disputes and Labour-Management Conflict by the Trade Disputes Act and other Labour and Employment Laws.

Prior to this appointment, Uche worked for over a decade at GlaxoSmithKline Nigeria Plc, where, as Human Resources Director and Company Secretary for West and Central Africa, he played pivotal roles in the company’s successful change and turnaround programmes. In particular, he led the Legal and HR integration of Smithkline Beecham with Sterling Health, and Smithkline Beecham with GlaxoWellcome, consequent upon the respective mergers.

Before joining GlaxoSmithKline, Uche was Director of Industrial Relations of the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), and in over a decade, he gained international HR experience through ILO secondments/fellowship to organisations in the USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, Brazil, Norway, Kenya and Ghana; the experience enabled him to promote international best practices in the organised private sector through his membership of statutory tripartite institutions as National Labour Advisory Council, National Salaries and wages commission and the committee for the restructuring of Trade Unions.

Uche is a lawyer, holds a Master’s degree in Administration, and is an alumnus of the International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva.​

 

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