executive leadership development program

You are someone:

• Who is currently a high-performing mid-level or a senior management executive, a functional senior leader, principal of a small or medium firm or an entrepreneur on a path to becoming a general manager
• Who understands that merely focusing on a skills-based change does not lead to sustained professional growth
• Who appreciates and values diverse business perspectives and discussions

The Blended Experience

• A blend of live virtual and in-person delivery
• Rigorous & Interactive curriculum
• Distinctive workshop integrating design and business thinking to create an actionable plan
• Delivered over 3 months to suit the busy executive’s schedule
• Modular in design; each week aligns with a core theme
• Digital-first collaboration and group work tools
• Managed by a dedicated Virtual Delivery Support Team

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Flexible ● Accessible ● Collaborative ● Enhanced Learning ● Multiple Channel Delivery

This multi-modular program will enrich you with fresh ideas while empowering you to gain a broader perspective and increased confidence.

Curriculum

Diverse Modes of Engagement

A typical live virtual session features a blend of experiential activities to make the session more engaging and draw students into the content.

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Organization and Leadership Foundations

Equip yourself with a common language to reflect on your organization and your role as a leader.

Core Business Linkages

Emphasizes the foundational business skills needed by general managers to understand and lead the workforce. Topics include:

Accounting

You’ll learn strategies for evaluating and linking earnings and cash flow to value creation, developing a clearer understanding of corporate disclosures and non-disclosures and how companies take advantage of allowable income-increasing strategies.

Finance

You’ll explore cash flow analysis, capital budgeting allocation decisions and capital structure analysis, as well as models for evaluating investment alternatives and the ranking of investment projects.

Marketing

Through case studies and classroom exercises, you’ll explore the impact of decision-driven marketing, design thinking and digital tools on the marketing function.

Operations

You’ll take a systemic view of organizations as collections of business flows and supply chains and identify key metrics for targeting improvement. This module also emphasizes the linkage of operational and financial flows as part of daily management and examines strategic capacity investment and operational hedging.

Strategy

Whether performing a competitive analysis, focusing on growth or creating a system of metrics to drive performance, this module will encourage you to ask if your organizational structures support your strategy and provide tools to drive alignment.

Managing Into the Future

Sessions focus on preparing for a return to the workplace with skills ready to make a difference.

Motivating Your Team

You will explore your own unit’s alignment to company values, identify your organization’s motivation culture and discover how it impacts performance. And while organizational structures can drive operations, we will delve into the power of informal networks and how to leverage their role in your team’s success.

Leveraging Data for Business Decisions

Our faculty explore the underlying structures designed to exploit data and create relevant classroom exercises to help you critically analyze decisions around embedding intelligent automation throughout the enterprise.

Communications Essentials for Leaders

These sessions are designed to build your expertise in reading your audience, crafting your message and delivering it with confidence. Engage in interactive exercises to practice techniques for enhancing your executive presence and effectiveness as a leader.

Cross-Cultural Negotiations

You’ll learn practical frameworks for negotiating in a globalized marketplace and new ideas and techniques from the field of dispute resolution. Although you can use what you learn here in virtually any situation, this module emphasizes negotiation within organizations and group decision-making.