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Strategic issues
Learning from Experience
Our learning philosophy is simple but powerful: the participants bring their experience and the faculty introduces cutting edge concepts. The learning takes place where these meet, in an atmosphere conducive to thoughtful reflection for changed action.
Each company group brings to the program a new intitiative or a strategic issue or challenge of central concern to its organization. These inititatives and issues become a key focus of attention in all the modules.
This makes the ALP both a learning community and a company specific program, capturing the best of both. It is public in that several companies share their issues and perspectives. And it is company specific in that each group spends considerable time focusing on an issue of key concern to its organization.
Guidelines for the ALP Challenges
The real power of the ALP is its ability to get teams so deeply in their inititiatives and issues that they see the company in new and profound ways. Whether the company is grabbling with an ongoing concern or moving forward on a major new project dealing, the elements of change are very similar. Corporate culture, in particular, plays a major role in the discussions, with class time developed in all three modules to questions such as:” How do we understand culture” and “How do we bring meaningful change to our corporate culture”
- Is the challenge a significant point of leverage for the organization?
- Is it something that, if progress is made on, will have a lasting impact on the organization?
- Are participants passionate about the new initiative?
- Is the project part of the participant’s work objectives?
- Can participants directly effect the outcome?
Examples of Company Challenges brought to the ALP:
- Organizing for innovation within our organization
- Developing a culture of customer service
- Motivating our front-line employees
- Fostering collaboration across units
- Bringing meaningful change to our culture
Faculty are available throughout the whole program as coaches to help teams overcome specific hurdles they may encounter while moving their challenges forward.
