Program Design

Select a module for a description.

Module 1: Reflective Leadership - Framing Change

This module is reflective—focusing on personal management styles, developing leadership attributes, understanding team dynamics and organizational culture. It gives participants the opportunity to look more closely at the roots of their own behavior and the assumptions that underlie their organization’s strategy.

Following company visits, friendly consultants provide insights into each others organizational culture and issues. All of this sets up a successful, honest and focused process of change around the company challenge and individual leadership.

Topics include:

• Key Challenges Facing the Organization
• Managing Self: Personal Challenges
• Management of the Organization seen as Art, Craft, Science
• Personal Challenges in Leading Others, Coaching and Negotiating
• Reframing the Team challenge
• Understanding Corporate Culture

Module 2: Change Leadership - Designing for Change

A great deal of time is spent in company teams designing the processes and changes necessary to move forward on the issue. These proposals are tested and improved with the input from their friendly consultants. Two types of content are delivered. One is about the nature of change, designing for change, and being creative in doing that. The other matches content experts with the company issues under consideration. In a recent program the issue of developing new lines of business was addressed in a session on innovation. All teams befitted from that discussion, although the focus was on helping one particular group. Groups leave the module with a good idea of what impact they wish to bring about in their organization around their issue.

Individual and team coaching becomes more focused on change leadership and time is devoted to helping participants understand their leadership capabilities and how this influences their ability to work in their team and advance their company issue. Participants integrate concepts and link these to their personal leadership goals.

Topics Include:

• Myths about Change
• Designs for Change
• The Cultural Aspects of Change
• Using Competitive Intelligence change
• Connecting Change to Environment and Organization

Module 3: Action Leadership - Embedding Change

The final module brings the ALP together.Company teams leave this module with action plans of what they intend to do, as individual managers and as a team, to drive home their proposed changes. With the continued advice of their friendly consultants and further academic input, participants move toward action and implementation of the changes they have designed. Role playing is used where appropriate to act out the scenarios that the participants are likely to encounter back on the job. Where possible, senior management of the company attend the final presentation and engage in the class discussion.

Each executive leaves with a good understanding of their leadership competencies and how they can achiever desired impact on the job. Their individual leadership plan is more refined and outlines their strengths and development priorities. They are equipped with resources and supports for their continued development.

Topics Include:

• Overcoming Resistance to Change
• Ways to drive Little Wins into Big Changes
• Levers of Change
• The Emotional Dimension of Change
• Renewing an Organization and its Culture
• Catalytic Leadership