Executive Education: Executive Courses & Action Learning Workshops

Executive Leadership Course
Building and managing strategic leadership

Course Methods:  Executive Action Learning (Experiential Workshop)
Course Venue:     Client's site or at IIM Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Course Duration:  3 days
Course Time:        9AM-4PM
Course Fees:        Based on number of executives and level of customization

Course Audience 

• CEO's Leadership Team: General Managers, Business Unit Managers, Finance Managers, Accounting Managers, Operations Managers, Human Resources Managers, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, Strategic Project Managers, Initiatives Team Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Management Consultants.

Course Objectives 

• Provides an understanding of the framework of CEO & Executive Leadership
• Offers experiential analysis to understand the challenges of CEOs and their executive teams in leading and transforming their organizations
• Focuses on leadership development and relationship management
• Provides leadership best practices, tools and models for building high-performance teams
• Offers leadership insights from the world's most successful CEOs and leaders

Course Focus

• Develop organizational leadership skills and competencies with emphasis on organizational culture, change management, relationship management, workplace politics, and performance management. The development and evaluation of these skills are based on IIM's proprietary KASAC executive education model.

Key Concepts

• Leadership Science: Leadership Psychology. Leadership Styles & Behaviors. Personality Profiling. Critical Thinking. Decision Making. Organizational Psychology & Behavior. Motivation Theories. Social Animal. Hygiene Factors Theory. Contingency Approach. Path -Goal Theory. Expectancy Theory. Equity Theory. Tournament Theory. Hierarchy of Needs. Management by Objectives. Learning Organizations. Theory X, Theory Y & Theory Z. Organization Culture.

• Leadership Skills: Transformational Leadership. Charismatic Leadership. Change Management. Managing Workplace Politics. Organizational Alignment. Action Learning Teams. 4-Phase Action Learning Change Process. Self-Awareness. Emotional Intelligence. Relationship Management. Conflict Management & Negotiation. Managerial Ethics. Professional Networking. Communication. Crisis Management. Stress Management. Success Management. Finding Fulfillment in Life and at Work.

Key Tools:

• Personality profiling, leadership assessment, leadership case studies, executive search interviews, CEO leadership success factors, brainstorming and leadership discussions.

Customization Subjects

Management Leadership course focuses on managerial "soft" skills. These skills are divided into 2 categories; self management skills and relationship management skills.

Self Management Skills

• Self awareness: Personality profiles (strengths and pitfalls)
• Leadership characteristics
• Leadership SWOT self-analysis
• Success Management: Learn how successful leaders succeed and why many talented leaders fail

Relationship Management Skills

• Effective Management: Learn how to plan, organize, control and motivate your team
• Organizational Behavior: Learn how to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various personalities (including yours) and how to work with them
• Change Management: Learn how to plan growth and overcome resistance to change
• Transformational Leadership: Learn how to build a culture of success and overcome barriers to effective leadership
• Action Learning Team Building: Learn how to build and manage high-performance teams
• Managing Workplace Politics: Learn how to manage good and bad politics at work
• Managerial Ethics: Learn how to win the trust and support of your stakeholders through social responsibility

Courseware Content

IIM Executive Leadership Courseware includes:

1. Participant's coursework and assessment project guide
2. Executive summary of the subject matter (in power-point lecture notes format):
   • Summary of essential concepts and leadership best practices
   • Examples and case studies
3. Leadership's Toolkit (management frameworks, decision models, checklists, etc.)
4. Leadership career assessment project
5. Experiential work-based assessment project
6. Online resources for the completion of the experiential assessment project

Executive Team Performance Evaluation (Optional)

• Performance will be evaluated on the basis of individual or team project deliverables
• Candidates can complete customized experiential / work-based projects such as developing a relevant analysis document, management strategy, action plan or a senior management presentation
• IIM course advisor will review the deliverables and provide improvement feedback
• There are no traditional quizzes or theoretical exams.

Course Prerequisites 

• For accelerated team workshops, participants must have similar levels of experience. This is not required for public courses or individual self-paced distance-learning courses

Course Registration

• Custom executive education courses are available only to companies and government organizations upon request. Contact Us
• Individual registration is available for public courses, please visit Management Training Courses