When it comes to corporate leadership, the standard for performance has to be greatness simply because of the leverage inherent in the leadership role. If the leaders are mediocre, how can the organization ever be great?
Corporate leaders need to be great in specific ways that enable everyone else in the organization to be great. Achieving this type of greatness requires you to think and act at the systems level, the essence of being a strategic asset to the firm. Making this shift to the systems level is the key to attaining the vision and skills needed to identify, align, and link the essential parts of your organization to work interdependently as a high-performing whole instead of an under-performing heap – as a star team instead of a team of stars. By actively participating in this course, you will make this shift and unlock your greatness as a corporate leader.
This course is the result of nearly 70 years of practice, theory, and research covering sustainable value creation achieved by leading and managing at the systems level. The creator of this course has woven together 30 principles, theories, and models into a breakthrough management system proven to produce effective actions and extraordinary results. If you aspire to build and manage great places for employees to work, great places for customers to buy, and great places for shareholders to invest, this course is for you.
Who should take this course: Corporate leaders and high-potential employees identified as the next group of corporate leaders
This course utilizes real life corporate case studies drawn from the instructor’s years of experience as a C-level executive and strategic management consultant to corporate leaders, creating billions of dollars of shareholder value. Expect multiple activities, culminating in a capstone project and presentation in which you will demonstrate your newly acquired systems-level capabilities.
Learning Objectives
- Discover how to shift to the systems level of leadership and management
- Recognize the interdependent relationships between individual, position, function, partnership, internal customer, internal supplier, business unit, corporate, board of directors, stakeholder, and shareholder
- Recognize the workflow of Inner-Other-Outer-On-In-Up™
- Explore how to create sustainable organizational effectiveness
- Recognize the interdependence between resources, capabilities, critical success factors, core competencies, strategic assets, sustainable competitive advantage, and long-term shareholder value
- Discover how to develop a strategic framework for optimizing sustainable value creation
- Recognize how to utilize this strategic framework to continuously engage the board, management, and workforce in the strategic management of the firm
- Discover how to develop acumen in a seamless work flow of financials, strategy, organization, and operations
- Recognize the vision and skills needed to identify, align, and link the essential parts of your organization to work interdependently as a high-performing whole instead of an under-performing heap
- Discover how to develop the ability to have high-quality and frequent communications with institutional investors, individual shareholders, and other stakeholders
Prerequisites
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.