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International executive programs
Innovative Leadership
Winning Skills for You and Your Team
Program Overview
Fast-evolving markets and heightened competition are the norms in today’s global
economy, were very few companies, and their results, stand out. This competitive
advantage often results not from the most ingenious product design, the best
marketing strategy, or state-of-the-art production technology, but rather from
the effective leadership of a company. Whilst many organizations recognize the
importance of managing their work force effectively, it is alarming how often firms
and managers fail to do so.
What is more, many organizations are now replacing traditional pyramidal and
hierarchical organizational structures with flatter managerial models. Under these
circumstances, teams are becoming the principal axis around which most processes
pivot. Therefore, the success of an executive lies in his or her capacity to develop and
lead herself and her team effectively.
Innovative Leadership is a challenging three-day hands-on practical international
executive program that focuses on how to identify the roles that a successful global
leader plays and how to maximize them.
Program Objectives
Innovative Leadership examines the most relevant and up-to-date leadership practices
and provides participants with the tools and techniques needed to improve
their leadership skills and those of their organization.
Throughout this program participants will develop a sound understanding of how to:
• Acquire a global outlook and the ability to lead across culturally complex
organizations.
• Motivate and generate enthusiasm in your teams.
• Develop the political competencies needed to become increasingly
successful leaders.
• Learn the effects of social networks on individuals and firms.
• Understand power and influence in organizations and how it affects leadership
styles.
• Practice and develop the principle coaching methods and skills needed to
fulfill development and performance objectives.
• Awaken the creative potential and winning spirit of an organization.
• Increase self-awareness of key aspects of their personality and leadership
preferences through the use of personal testing and assessment.
• Create an action plan for self-improvement, and set goals to enhance
strategic personal and organizational leadership.
Program Structure
The program features several stimulating modules that analyze leadership from diverse
points of view. Topics to be discussed include:
Global Trends and Future Leadership Challenges
• Getting out of the karaoke club by mastering the art of making change happen.
• The megatrends following a deregulated life.
• Envisioning tomorrow’s business opportunities today.
• The new employee-employer contract.
• Competing on fitness: building a sustainable business model.
• Competing on sex appeal: mastering the art of e(motional)-business.
Leadership, power and influence in organizations
• Analyzing and diagnosing power dynamics in organizations.
• Understanding power and influence in an organization.
• Generating and implementing power successfully and ethically.
• Developing an effective network: critical aspects.
Jasna Cupic-Popovic
JUBMES Bank, Belgrade
“I would like to thank you for the wonderful organization, warm hospitality, exceptional
professors and topics.”
General Information
Price: €4,300
Location: Madrid, 11, 12 and 13 of November, 2009 and April 2010
For further information, please contact:
Melissa Rodríguez Stam
International Executive Program Manager
María de Molina, 27
28006 Madrid, Spain
Tel.: +34 91 568 97 64 / 96 69
Melissa.Rodríguez@ie.edu
www.execed.ie.edu/internationalprograms
The leader as a coach
• Coaching methods and skills: observation, listening and feedback.
• Developing coaching skills.
• The cost and benefits of formal feedback.
• How to use feedback to reach development and performance objectives.
Managing the superior-subordinate relationship successfully
• How to build trust in the superior-subordinate relationship.
• Causes of distrust and its effect on the superior-subordinate relationship.
• Learning to recognize signs of trouble.
• Turning hints into information.
Personal leadership & change
• The strategic advantage of authentic leadership in global business.
• Identifying your own leadership resources.
• Leadership and personal change.
• Developing a personalized leadership action plan.
Leading your private and professional life
• The importance of balancing private and professional life.
• How to manage time effectively.
Who the Program is Designed for
Innovative Leadership has been designed for executives who want to review and improve
their leadership ability with new innovative skills. The program is designed to
strengthen those skills that needed the most in the current global business environment.
The program will be of interest to business executives from all industries and is
particularly targeted at:
• Senior managers who are making the transition from a defined and
structured environment to one where there is greater emphasis on
interrelations.
• Executives experiencing leadership transitions into new positions.
• Divisional and functional managers who want to improve their
performance and become better leaders in a global environment.
• Managers dealing with partners, suppliers, customers and employees.
• Empowered business leaders looking to improve their capabilities of
making better critical decisions.
• Executives who are willing to gain essential practical skills; learn about
leadership and motivation; manage their network efficiently and open their
minds to new leadership styles.
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