Strategic Planning & Soft Leadership Skills: April 21, 2021
Title: Leadership Mind Games: Red Teaming. How to Successfully Play the Role of a Competitor and Gain Feedback from that Perspective
Presented By: Daylian Cain, Ph.D., Yale University; Award-Winning Faculty Member.
Description: Yale’s Dr. Daylian Cain will discuss how to implement a time-tested U.S. Department of Defense strategy about how to think “like the enemy.” Dr. Cain will reveal how to get your team members to sincerely consider that they might be wrong without wasting time or creating disarray.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to demonstrate how to foster healthy disagreement in their teams;
- Participants will be able to create a culture of constructive criticism;
- Participants will be able to analyze how to run a team meeting with more efficiency.
Biography: Daylian M. Cain, Ph.D., is an award-winning Yale faculty member who studies why smart people do dumb things. He is a Senior Lecturer of Negotiations, Leadership, & Ethics at the Yale School of Management. Hailing from Nova Scotia, Canada, Cain has a Ph.D. in Management from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to joining Yale, Cain was the Russell Sage Fellow of Behavioral Economics at Harvard University.
Cain is often one of the highest-rated professors in Yale’s executive education. For multiple years, he had the highest yearly-average rating and lowest variance in ratings. Cain is lead faculty on a new sales and leadership training program for Volvo America, lead instructor for the “Yale Negotiation Strategies” online program, and co-instructs Yale’s “Leading Effective Decision-Making” program, which earned the highest-ever rating of an inaugural program on Yale’s platform.
Fun Fact: Dr. Cain has appeared as a special guest on National Geographic’s TV show Brain Games (Season 2, “You Decide”).
