The Strategic Leader Program: How to Excel as Your Responsibility Increases

In every rising leader’s career, there comes a time when getting to the next level in the organization requires a multi-disciplinary approach to leadership.

The key to successfully transitioning to such executive roles is the ability to understand external environments, read early-warning signals of disruption, and rapidly and strategically align the resources of the organization to capture competitive advantage.

This strategic leadership development program is designed to prepare executives for this transition. Through six key sessions, you’ll broaden your knowledge, perspective, and understanding of strategic leadership.

You will learn why success occurs outside the boundaries of your organization, how you can make sense of complexity to lead your organization into the future, and how you can successfully shape corporate culture and drive organizational change.

Through insightful lectures and interactive workshops, our leadership training program offers concepts and tools that enable executives to enhance their personal, strategic, and interpersonal effectiveness to become integrated leaders. In doing so, you will become better equipped to deal with the demands of the more complex and disruptive environment of tomorrow.

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.

“As managers reach senior levels of executive leadership — whether in a functional, regional, or corporate role — they are confronted with greater complexity and the need to create unity of action across an organization’s functional disciplines, often without formal authority. This program helps them excel as their responsibility increases.”

Transitioning to Advanced Leadership Roles

As managers reach senior executive leadership levels, whether in a functional, regional, or corporate role, they are confronted with greater complexity and the need to create unity of action across an organization’s functional disciplines, often without formal authority. The digital revolution has profoundly impacted all businesses and created the need to introduce innovative new business models to compete more effectively in a disruptive environment. This session explores key success factors for senior leaders to meet these challenges.

Harnessing the Strategic Learning Method to Create an Adaptive Organization

In a dynamic, fast-changing environment, the old static methods of creating a strategy no longer work. The only sustainable competitive advantage available to an enterprise is its capacity to be adaptive. In this session, you’ll learn about the Strategic Learning Process — a practical method for translating this idea into action. It involves four steps that move in a cycle: learn, focus, align, and execute. You’ll walk away with a proven method that enables organizations to learn continually, create winning strategies, and renew these strategies as the environment shifts.

Building an Organization to Perform Strategically

One of the key ways in which top leaders affect organizational processes is by aligning elements of the organization with the strategy. In this session, you’ll learn how this process begins with a key distillation of the strategy into key priorities that the organization must achieve. Then, the other parts of the organization — the people, the visible organization (processes, incentives, and structures), the invisible structure (culture and networks) — must be shaped to conform to the key priorities. You’ll learn about hands-on ways to apply the principles of organizational design to your teams and organizations, showcasing emerging organizational types that fit the demands of today’s fast-changing, complex, and competitive business environment.

Establishing a Culture of Commitment, Collaboration, and Contribution

Leaders play an irreplaceable role in shaping cultures. This begins with leading by example and showcasing the values that the organization needs for success. In this session, you will lay the foundation for effective cultural stewardship, with a practical exercise that allows you to identify, access, communicate, and implement your own values. You’ll learn how to leverage this concrete approach to values in order to build teams and organizations with cultures that simultaneously motivate while promoting collaboration and innovation.

Leading Your Team to Effective Decisions

The strategic leader doesn’t need to supply all the answers but must establish the context and processes that allow teams to fully utilize the insights and data that their members possess. This is increasingly challenging, yet more important, in today’s environment of ever-increasing data. In this session, you’ll consider the challenges to data-driven decision making, including the critical importance of asking the right questions of data, and realizing that data will never eliminate the need for judgment in important decisions. You’ll also identify and try out best practices for leading decision processes that allow all critical perspectives to be heard, resulting in better decisions and more commitment to the decisions that are made.

Leading Change and Creating Your Leadership Credo

This session examines the sources of resistance to change and offers a powerful equation for overcoming these barriers and leading a successful change effort. You will be coached to develop your leadership credo by answering what you stand for as a leader, what your organization’s vision and winning proposition is, and what you stand for as an organization. The credo enables you to distill and integrate the three domains of leadership: personal, interpersonal, and strategic.

This strategic leadership development program is designed for executives who are transitioning, have just transitioned, or are planning to transition to broader management roles, including general managers, cross-functional leaders, and senior functional managers.