| Leadership and Self Discovery | You’ll develop convictions and skills that will guide your transformation to becoming a more effective leader. Utilizing self-assessments, role-plays, instruction in management theories, and feedback from bosses, direct reports, and peers, you’ll increase your knowledge and understanding of your impact as a leader. You will explore the discrepancy between your intentions and actions and formulate action plans to bring these into alignment. In addition, you will receive an interpersonal toolkit that provides templates to help you in selecting and terminating associates, providing feedback, coaching and counseling. |
| Leading Organization Change | In this module you will explore what the best minds in the field have to say about the role of executives in leading change. Through tightly focused reading, organization assessments, simulations and case studies, you’ll discover the leadership practices that contribute to both successful and unsuccessful change efforts. Whether you need to turn the business around, increase the level of teamwork, move to a new organization structure or implement lean/six sigma, you will learn how to focus on the people side of the equation and to apply real-time solutions to your own business change challenges. |
| Strategy and Execution | In this module, you will be exposed to the latest thinking on strategy through class discussions of extensive prereading. You will be exposed to a variety of industries from manufacturing to hi-tech and be invited to make key strategic decisions regarding expansion, diversification and investment. In addition to developing strategic reasoning skills, you will also be exposed to a series of group leadership processes that have been shown to be critical to building the organizational capability to execute those strategies. You will learn how to use group process to forge reasoned consensus and motivate entire organization systems to achieve the strategy that you set. |
| Leadership and Culture | In this, the final module, you will consolidate your previous learnings and apply these to your role as a leader of organizational culture. Using survey feedback, you will explore your leadership acumen. Your readings in preparation for this week will allow you to experience how companies such as GE, Google and Ritz Carlton have built strong, adaptive cultures and how others have built cultures that lead to ultimate failure. |
