Transforming Your Leadership Strategy

MIT Sloan School of Management

Negotiation & Communication

About Programme

Why attend Transforming Your Leadership Strategy?

As organizations move away from a “command and control” model to a more “cultivate and coordinate” model, executives can no longer rely on old ways of thinking about leadership strategies. Succeeding in this environment is about developing yourself as a leader who can adapt as the world around you changes exponentially.

This course is built around MIT's unique Distributed Leadership Model―an innovative and impactful approach to executive leadership that lies at the core of leadership development at MIT, and the result of an intensive, four-year research project at the MIT Leadership Center to identify more effective strategies for leading in a networked economy. Tested in diverse, real-world settings, the model allows managers to succeed as leaders by being flexible and adaptive in new and unexpected ways through the application of the 4-Cap+ Leadership Framework.

Developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT, the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework provides key insights into the skills required for you to be an effective leader and makes it possible to harness, align, and leverage the leadership capabilities that exist throughout an organization. It also explores how leaders can understand different situations, build relationships, create a compelling vision for a business, enhance credibility, and invent processes to achieve that vision and respond to change.

This course will help leaders at every level drive innovation, maximize team performance, and develop the personal leadership skills you need to succeed in today’s complex world of fast-paced, dramatic change.

To help you apply these insights to your own leadership, the program includes a personalized x360 leadership assessment and a one-on-one coaching session following the course―giving you a clear picture of your leadership strengths and development areas, and a plan for putting them into practice.

Course Topics

Programme Content

Day 1

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Registration, Breakfast and Introduction to the Program

8:45 AM – 9:30 AM

Your Leadership Signature

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Overview of the 4+ Capabilities of Leadership Framework

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Your Story of Self (w/ 45min break for lunch at 12 :00 PM)

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Sensemaking/Relating Exercise

2:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Visioning Exercise I & II

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Inventing a Team Exercise

4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

Reception

Day 2

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Welcome Back and Preview of Day 2

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Inventing: The 4-Player Model

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Microsoft Case Discussion

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Executive Certificate Ceremony

1:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Discovering Your Leadership Signature

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

Closing Exercise & Feedback Completion

Day 1

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Welcome and Introduction / Your Leadership Signature / Overview of the 4-Capabilities+ of Leadership Framework

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Your Story of Self (w/ break)

Day 2

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Welcome Back and Preview of Day 2 / Sensemaking/Relating Exercise / Inventing Visioning Exercise I and II

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Microsoft Case Discussion (w/ break)

Day 3

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Welcome Back and Preview of Day 3 / The 4-Player Model / Story Exercise

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Visioning Exercise III / Closing Exercise (w/ break)

Programme Objective

Participants will:

Learn about their own leadership signature and identify those of other leaders

Learn a new model of leadership and teams and apply the models to themselves and the case of a major transformation

Engage in group and paired exercises to practice new leadership capabilities

Plan changes to their leadership development

Participate in a x360 leadership development survey following a private 90-minute coaching session with world-class MIT Sloan executive coaches upon program completion.

Earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management upon successful completion of the course. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.

Programme Audience

This program has been designed especially for senior general and technical executives whose organizations compete in an environment of rapidly changing markets, technologies, and cultures, including:

CEOs

Presidents

COOs

Executive VPs

Heads of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing & IS

Chief Technologists

Corporate Planners and Strategists

VPs of Marketing and New Venture Development

Other senior managers with leadership responsibility

"This was a great experience, good material, very relevant for leaders. Program provided good scenarios and encouraged participants to review their leadership styles. Departed the course with a better understanding of my leadership story and strategies to better serve my team."

"This course managed to provide a lot of tools, reflection and practice into two days. Deborah Ancona was skilled in creating a safe space for everyone to participate and fully engage in learning. The logistics worked particularly well."

Programme Benefits

Leadership Frameworks

Introduces Transformational Leadership Theory, MIT's unique 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework

Drive Innovation

Teaches how to drive innovation, maximize team performance, and develop the personal leadership skills needed to succeed in today’s complex world of fast-paced, dramatic change

1:1 Coaching

Provides a private 90-minute coaching session with world-class MIT Sloan executive coaches

Certificate

Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Testimonials

"I thought that the course was great. It was a good balance of interactive and didactic presentations and demonstrated a good understanding of the material based on a career of focused research on the topic"

Kenneth K

"This training was truly transformational. The facilitator made an effective use of case studies, exercises, and course material to deliver an interesting and insightful toolkit for transforming my personal leadership signature and strategy. With the excellent delivery and the practical leadership tools encountered during this training, I am now better able to recognize and shape my personal leadership style in a more structured and meaningful way."

Abdoul Qadri C

"Very well."

Tan Da D

"This was a great experience, good material, very relevant for leaders. Program provided good scenarios and encouraged participants to review their leadership styles. Departed the course with a better understanding of my leadership story and strategies to better serve my team."

Bradley H

"The course was completely different than my profession, but it was highly informative and designed for all the professions. Loved the way Dr. Deborah has delivered the lengthy topics in just two ways. Highly appreciate her stamina."

Zain A

"This was an excellent course. Most impactful was adding to my network now peers from all over the world who are doing incredible things."

Candice C

"It is a great class and wonderful learning experience!"

Dejian C

"Plenty of opportunity for practicing with hands-on exercises which was the best part of the course. Overall great experience and great people in the room. Morning of second day was quite underwhelming, could have watched the movie sequence in advance instead and only focus on discussion or skip this part entirely as it was not very valuable. The rest was great!"

Nathalie M

"This course managed to provide a lot of tools, reflection and practice into two days. Deborah Ancona was skilled in creating a safe space for everyone to participate and fully engage in learning. The logistics worked particularly well."

Jennifer B

"I firmly believe that continuous learning is the most effective way to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Participating in this learning opportunity was an incredible experience! The course content was great and delivered in a very engaging manner, and the opportunity to work, share ideas, and network with people from all over the world who shared the same objective of self-improvement was truly amazing."

Luigi D

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Prashansa Uttam

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+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

MIT Sloan School of Management

Executive Education Office

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Cambridge, USA

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