Our Executive Development Programme positions itself as a training path to General Management in which participants can hone their ability to analyse complex problems and make business decisions. Here possible action patterns are researched, cognizance of and interaction with all corporate functions are encouraged and people are confronted with different realities. Participants will learn to understand change and evaluate its impact, they will share its logics with other players in the organization and ultimately tackle issues involving resources and skills from other company functions, thus securing tools and methodologies for designing innovative business solutions.

Executives and managers aiming for roles of increasing responsibility at the head of companies.

Objectives

• Learn to read an organization as a network: focus on the links rather than the components
• Understand how to lead and manage change through one’s own leadership
• Understand logics and handle issues calling for the competencies of different company functions
• Acquire methods and tools to develop innovative business solutions.

Teaching methods:

• Peer Coaching
• Study tours
• Personal Stories
• Business Games
• Learning Room
• Business Cases

Contents

• Module 1: Defining business: competitiveness and sustainability
• Module 2: Managing business: value delivery, economic and financial considerations
• Module 3: Changing business: change management projects and processes
• Module 4 (elective): in-depth seminars, executive coaching

Course structure

Three 4-day modules and 2 individual sessions of executive coaching.