Program Description

Creative businesses face a wide array of difficult management and leadership challenges. For example, designing organizations capable of coping with highly dynamic business environments, developing strategies and structures for hypercompetitive conditions, managing the complexity of global enterprises, shaping an inspiring corporate culture, negotiating politics and conflicts between individuals and organizational units, motivating employees, implementing attractive incentive systems, leading teams effectively, etc. Staying competitive in the market depends on developing the leadership skills required to handle these challenges and more. This course will introduce you to vital analytical frameworks in leadership and help you understand how to apply them in analyzing and addressing real challenges of leadership. It provides you with a better basis for understanding and evaluating organizations and their dynamics, which will enhance your ability to accurately read and respond to the organizational context within which one operates. This course will also help make you more conscious of the consequences related to the choices you make as a leader in an organization, which will contribute to you becoming a better leader and your company becoming more competitive.

Who Should Attend

• High potentials
• Individuals who are managing other individuals or teams of individuals
• Individuals who are managing significant budgets Program Benefits

During this program participants will:

• Examine the meaning of leadership
• Learn how to think about leadership effectively
• Develop a framework for translating leadership into action
• Discover how to effectively manage small groups in organizations

Program Schedule

DAY 1

Session 1 - Introduction to the Leadership Model

• A new framework for understanding leadership
• Applying the leadership model
• Promoting a leadership framework

Session 2 - Leadership and Authority in Everyday Problems

• Leadership in small groups
• Building effective teams
• Mentoring relationships

Networking Reception & Practitioner’s Point of View

DAY 2

Session 3 - Power and Politics in the Organization

• Power, politics and persuasion
• Rising through the organization

Session 4 - Driving Leadership and Accountability Through the Organization

• Leadership in different types of organizations
• Managing change
• Corporate governance