Training Duration: 1-3 days, tailored to meet client needs
Become the executive that everyone wants to follow.
Here's what you will learn:
Module 1: Manage Executive Pressures and Power
· Learn the biggest sources of risk for executives and diagnose your personal leadership risk
· Develop an executive “early-warning system”
· Build coalitions of powerful influencers
· Identify the sources of power you have available and leverage them with
positive results
Module 2: Create Breakthrough Change
· Learn why 70% of change efforts will fail.
· Discover how the greatest executives create a sense of urgency for change
· Get employees to understand the vision for the future
· Empower employees to become active “owners” of the change
· Handle opposition to change
· Diagnose how much support you have (and how much you really need)
Module 3: Create a Strategic Vision That Inspires
· Create a vision that pushes people to look outside themselves and see what they can become
· Develop intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of your actions
· Create a vision that creates motivating expectations
· Balance your unchanging core values and purpose with your ever-changing view of threats in the outside world
· Move beyond fuzzy and poorly defined visions
Module 4: Make Great Strategic Decisions
· Prevent the 7 Deadly Sins of Decision Making that cause executives to miss competitors and market shifts, enter markets unsuccessfully and more
· Learn how to greatly increase the accuracy of your financial and sales forecasts (and restore credibility to the process)
· Employ scenario planning to predict the future with great accuracy and stay ahead of your competitors
Module 5: Execution Without Excuses
· Learn why only 31% of employees can even clearly articulate their organization’s strategy
· Create a culture of accountability and execution
· Learn what measures drive success (including the difference between leading and lagging metrics)
· Hold people accountable (including what to do when they fail)
· Train and communicate to hardwire results
· Discover your organization’s unique formula for competitive advantage
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Module 6: Grow Leaders as If Your Business Depended on It
· Choose managers with high “Leadership IQ”
· Design a robust succession plan that deepens your talent pool
· Grow managers internally, and learn the best (and worst) ways to promote and move managers
· Design management on-ramps and off-ramps
· Learn what companies like GE and Goldman-Sachs know about developing leaders
Module 7: Clone (and Keep) Your Best Employees
· Most hiring systems are broken because they’re more likely to select people that resemble failed employees than your best employees
· Identify exactly what makes your best employees so good, and establish clear standards for hiring and performance management
· Develop a hiring process that gets the right people on the bus, while guaranteeing that low performers don’t make it past the screening interview
· 3 hiring errors that lead to hiring low performers and how to immediately fix them
· Learn the performance management process that motivates high and middle performers, while creating real improvement for low performers
Module 8: Create a Culture Where Everyone Goes “Above and Beyond”
· Get your employees to act like owners instead of renters
· Learn why the Ritz-Carlton has such dedicated employees, while its competitors suffer significantly higher turnover and apathy
· Discover how Southwest has both the most unionized workforce and the most engaged workforce
· Learn how most companies are unknowingly demotivating and disengaging their employees
· Remove employees’ emotional roadblocks, unlock their intrinsic motivation and align their interests with your interests
Module 9: Unlock the Innovations Your Employees Are Holding Back
· Inspire people to think creatively and challenge the status quo, while still keeping your day-to-day operations running
· Make innovation ordinary (not a chance event like winning the lottery)
· Create a dynamic balance between creativity and practicality
· Discover subtle innovations on internal processes that may not make the magazine covers, but give you the edge to trounce your competitors
Module 10: Tune-Up Your Executive Team
· Manage executives’ brilliance and egos while still creating a functioning team
· Learn how the greatest executive teams simultaneously foster trust while encouraging dissent
· Make better and clearer decisions with greater levels of buy-in
· Make the executive team the model for every other team in your organization
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