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Most change initiatives fail to meet their intended objectives. Discover how to lead successful change through diagnosis, stakeholder analysis, influence and adaptation. Participants learn how to navigate common pitfalls and foster widespread participation using case studies, group simulations, and experiential learning. Learn how to successfully lead change in your organization in all measures and adapt to the resources at hand.

Consider the differences between leadership and management. By examining personal style and disposition, participants identify their management style that are strengths and will support their transition into greater levels of responsibility and, perhaps more importantly, identify critical development areas that may hinder their future performance. In addition, understanding differing levels of leadership and transition points allow participants to balance different systems such as networks, job rotation, and action learning with traditional coaching and mentoring techniques.

High achieving teams leverage strengths and mitigate weaknesses to maximize overall performance and efficiency; whereas, low achieving teams get mired in interpersonal conflict and poor decision-making resulting in compromised performance and organizational failures. Analyze the characteristics of high performing teams and develop effective communication, conflict management, and collaboration strategies necessary for leading high performing teams.

Leaders are consistently charged with developing winning strategies and making high stakes decisions, but most are unaware of the cognitive biases and powerful emotions that often undermine strategic decision making and critical reasoning. Career success is often linked to competency in decision making. By identifying the most common biases, pitfalls and distortions in strategic decision making and critical reasoning along with the preventative and proactive measures associated with making strategic decisions, you will be equipped to successfully address high-stakes business challenges.

With massive monetary stimuli around the globe due to the pandemic, bitcoin continues to attract the attention of investors and is viewed as a reserve asset. Blockchain, the underlying technology of cryptocurrencies, continues to grow in business value as applications of the technology expand to new industries. What does this mean for the future of finance, and what are the long-term implications for business? Explore this evolving space – from the design principles of the block-chain economy to its impact on financial services and its potential to empower decentralized business models.

B2B companies spend millions of business development dollars chasing customers, product innovation, sales funnels and brand differentiation strategies. Their hope is to increase revenues, margins and EBITDA — but few are successful. The companies that do succeed know customers are the source of their cash flow. They’ve made it their mission to accomplish two things — accurately identify their customer value equation and understand how this equation drives their strategy. This two-day course provides a practical framework and toolkit to help you drive financial growth using a customer-based strategy and execution.

The essence of leadership is leveraging the capabilities of others to get work done. Every leader should aspire to develop a capable and competent staff to effectively deliver their individual and collective responsibilities. In fact, every leader should aspire to develop staff to achieve greater successes than they themselves have achieved. This subject focuses on the tools and techniques that will allow you to coach and develop your staff for enhanced effectiveness, address individual performance problems and career derailers, and prepare high potentials for roles of much greater responsibility.

Business leaders and general managers thrive when they understand the core principles in strategic management. Build a program that helps them recognize the underlying drivers of success in any business in general, and develop their skills to create strategies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and growth. By focusing on key elements of strategy at the business and corporate level, participants can evaluate, develop, and implement value-creating strategies at each level by using strategy concepts, techniques and frameworks. 

The healthcare sector is encountering significant complexities, breaking the conventional models of how care is perceived, designed, and delivered. To manage those challenges, the healthcare community needs access to the latest leadership and management paradigms and tools. Our faculty, rich in experience with tackling managerial and leadership challenges of the healthcare sector, work closely with your organization in designing and delivering an executive program that helps participants solve problems and create opportunities.