IIM Management Courses - Online Distance Learning
 

Course Title:	Management Leadership
	Building and managing leadership success

Course Methods:  Online distance-learning (self-study) with assessment and feedback via email
Course Venue:     Online (email and courseware downloads)
Course Duration:  2-3 weeks
Course Dates:       Open registration (no set dates)
Course Fees:        $995 (USD) | Option 2: Las Vegas Workshop $2,999 (USD)

Course Audience: 

• CEO's Team: General Managers, Business Unit Managers, Finance Managers, Accounting Managers, Operations Managers, Human Resources Managers, Marketing Managers, Sales Managers, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Change Agents, 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 management training 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, and Organization Culture.

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

Key Tools

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

Course Outline / 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

Online Courseware Content

IIM Management Leadership Online Courseware includes:

1. Participant's coursework and assessment project guide
2. Executive summary of subject matter (in powerpoint 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 workbased assessment project
6. Online resources for the completion of the experiential assessment project

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 

• From our experience, success in distance learning requires a well-organized person who has good English language skills, is comfortable with online technologies and used to self-study and research methods.

Course Registration

Management Leadership Course Online Distance-learning (self-study option) Includes assessment project evaluation and feedback from IIM course advisor via email Requires registration and application review

Online Course  Registration