London Business School

Next-Level Leadership

London Business School

Leadership

About Programme

Navigate the critical transition from operational manager to strategic leader.

Programme Content

What you Learn:

Find out what strategic leadership means and how it differs from operational management. Clarify your own strengths and weaknesses and understand how they can impede or improve your ability to be a successful strategic leader. Discover the most common pitfalls for managers when faced with a strategic leadership role.

Learn how to forge effective connections with others. High-quality relationships are fundamental to succeeding as a leader particularly at a time of great physical and digital disruption. Learn how to form strong relationships with team members clients and external stakeholders to help you gain influence at work.

Understand how to lead change. Deep dive into the fundamentals of behavioural change find out why it’s challenging and how to make it work for you.

Explore your unique path to becoming a great leader by leveraging your authentic self. Through integrated feedback provided by colleagues friends family and yourself you’ll gain invaluable insight into the leadership style that is most effective for you.

How you Learn:

Discover an active and experiential programme that uses real-life situations to build skills.

Become immersed in group discussions revolving around real-world experiences of leading digital or hybrid teams.

Join highly interactive sessions that build improvisation skills including techniques to manage difficult situations and conversations.

Experience a powerful personal development tool and discover how to showcase your best self in every situation.

Learn from internationally renowned faculty as they showcase the power of personal identity for leaders.

Benefit from individual and group coaching sessions to help you adapt what you’ve learnt to your personal leadership needs.

Explore informative feedback on your leadership style through guided reflection.

Create a customised action plan to put what you’ve learnt into action.

Continue your learning journey with follow-up coaching to help you stay on track.

Programme Audience

Typical attendees have on average 10 years of work experience, including at least five years in a management role. Participants are directors or head of departments/functions who are responsible for:

Managing cross-functional and/or international teams

The direction of their business and leading their business unit

Multiple reporting lines

Direct influence and accountability for P&L.

Programme Benefits

Good for you:
Understand and practise how to lead through coaching rather than dictating.
Clarify your own strengths and weaknesses and how they affect your ability to be a good strategic leader.
Improve your ability to empower others and get the best out of them.
Inject a sense of purpose into your work and understand its critical role in inspiring your team.
Master the fundamentals of behavioural change understand why it’s so challenging and discover practical strategies to make it work for you.
Benefit from high-impact group coaching sessions and feedback. A 180 review and a personal development tool will help guide your leadership approach.
Develop an individual action plan in a one-to-one session with an executive coach.
Gain new perspectives informed by a world-class peer group.
Good for your Organisation:
Turn your managers into exceptional leaders.
Invigorate your people with a clear purpose.
Make change work for you and use it to improve performance.
Create a culture that rewards bravery and initiative.
Energise your executives and managers with innovative strategic thinking.
Boost performance and effectiveness in an era of continuous change and virtual or hybrid teams.

Testimonials

"The programme content and professors were truly worldclass"

Inna Malaia

Founder and Virtual CEO at Bevel World

"This programme equipped me with both soft skills and people management skills"

Matteo Martini

General Manager at Dedar UK,

"I’m now leading projects on longerterm strategy and the programme has helped me in leading a team to work on strategic direction"

Huw Bannister

Global Diagnostics Director, DNA Damage Response, AstraZeneca

"It’s crucial to keep things simple to do what great leaders do and focus on being the best you can be"

Justin Clements

Head of Business (UK – South), Motonovo Finance

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