Executive Leadership Development Course

This Executive Leadership Development Course training will empower you with actionable insights into what makes a leader exceptional while exploring complex areas such as self-awareness, and able to learn skills to attract the right talent, and lead others to greatness.

Content:

Organization and Leadership Foundations

• Reflect on your organization.
• Define your role as a leader.
• Leadership strategies
• Fundamentals in leadership
• Regional topics in the world economy

Operations

• The strategic role of operations in financial success
• Systemic view of organizations as collections of business flows and supply chains
• Key metrics for targeting improvement.
• Operational and financial flows
• Strategic capacity investment
• Operational hedging

Strategy

• Forces that influence competitive advantage
• Innovative approaches to creating value and profit.
• Competitive analysis
• Focusing on growth
• Creating a system of metrics to drive performance.
• Ask if your organizational structures support your strategy.
• Drive alignment using relevant tools.

Motivating your Team

• Diagnostic approach to motivating your team.
• Explore your team alignment to company values.
• Your organization’s motivation culture
• Discover impacts on performance.
• Techniques for assessing your team.
• Developing customized approaches to professional development
• The power of informal networks
• How to ensure your team’s success

Leveraging Data for Business Decisions

• Data-based decision-making
• The future of your workforce
• Understanding the limits and upside of data analytics
• Machine intelligence
• The underlying structures designed to exploit data.
• Classroom exercises – critically analyse decisions around embedding intelligent automation.

Communications Essentials for Leaders

• Self-assessments
• Role-plays
• Workshops
• Refine your communications strengths.
• Recognize areas of improvement
• Reading your audience
• Crafting your message and delivering it with confidence
• Strategies for overcoming negativity.
• Enhance your executive presence and effectiveness as a leader.

Cross-Cultural Negotiations

• Business negotiation skills
• Practical frameworks for negotiating in a globalized market.
• New ideas and techniques from the field of dispute resolution
• Negotiation within organizations and group decision-making

Training Methodology

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.