This general management program for experienced managers is an excellent update and further preparation for general management responsibilities in a globalized world. It equips you with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values you need for handling a complex, ever- changing business reality. Two sessions deliver a thorough understanding of all the major business disciplines and leadership skills required for successful implementation. The first session focuses on strategic management topics, emphasizing growth, business development, profitability and international best practices. The second session focuses on leadership, and encourages you to reflect on your personal concepts and behaviors.

• Executives who seek to improve their leadership abilities while obtaining a broader perspective of general management
• New or prospective executives who want to understand the implications of the rapidly changing business world
• Entrepreneurs with management responsibilities who want to explore
  best practices in other companies
• Experienced professionals who wish to rise to senior management positions

• Understand the effects of the international socio- political and economic environment on your business
• Recognize the inter-dependencies between your team, your key stakeholders, your functional business areas and the marketplace
• Achieve a sustainable competitive advantage for your company
• Experience how business ventures are born and how you can successfully roll out powerful business concepts in target markets
• Identify opportunities for improving your company's operating performance and financial results
• Understand how leadership theory and the dimensions of sustainable leadership apply to you
• Explore your strategic leadership potential and your leadership abilities through interactive learning and practical skill-building
• Broaden your perspective and expand your peer network

Systems-oriented, evolutionary management

In today’s complex world, leaders are strategists, organization builders and doers. Since everything is relevant, leadership is an all-encompassing, demanding job. In short, to succeed a leader must have a broad, integrated perspective of general management.

• State-of-the-art management theory and knowledge
• Dealing with complexity
• New perspectives on corporate evolution

International trends and their Implications

Managers need to be able to recognize a disruptive trend early in order to make the necessary corrections (or stick with the proven and tested, when it’s better than the new).

• Recognizing trend disruptions early
• New trends in globalization and trade
• Calling for action and introducing course corrections

Strategic management to define direction

Strategically successful leadership requires setting the course and implementing change to ensure that a company’s development is not the result of coincidence but of well laid-out priorities.

• Strategic boundaries and their implications
• Simulating managed corporate development

Driving corporate value creation

• Identifying value drivers
• Creating and capturing value
• The relationship of strategy to value
• Tools for managing value drivers

Innovating for growth

• Principles of successful innovation management
• Avoiding pitfalls in business development
• New business models

Financial management concepts and Practices

• The importance of cash flow
• Financial strategies that increase a company’s value

Tailoring organizational structures

• Making clear demands on the organizational structure
• Recognizing what the current organizational structures can and cannot achieve
• The pros and cons of different organizational structures
• Finding the optimum balance between centralization and decentralization

Strategic leadership

• Leading yourself
• Leading teams
• Leading departments and larger organizational units

Leadership models

• Theories of leadership
• Leadership models as a useful guide
• Developing your own leadership model

Core attributes and skills of leadership

• What makes effective leaders stand out
• How leadership develops in real life
• Successful communication

Dealing with conflicts and guiding difficult employees

• Solution-focused dialogue
• Public speaking, appearance and body language
• Skillful negotiation

Achieving corporate dynamics

• Which programs are useful for energizing managers and employees and gaining their approval for implementation and change?
• How should such programs be launched?
• Real-life experiences of such programs

Effective roadmaps for change

• Inspiring employees toward common goals
• Developing implementation skills in high complexity
  environments

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