Course Overview

Present day business realm is fast-paced and riddled with disruptions as well as uncertainties. The dynamic business environment places significant demand on the senior officials and managerial workforce of the company to keep up with the changing environment.

What is advanced management and leadership?

Understanding the need of the hour, businesses exert special efforts to develop competencies that will enable them to quickly adapt, advance and revamp to stay ahead in the competition. It is a pressing priority for businesses to produce extraordinary business leaders and managers who will be able to take the organisation to the next level. Leader who strives for excellence needs to infuse their advanced management skills into the daily operations of corporate life.

What are the methods to navigate through uncertain business conditions? How do establish cross-functional collaboration and unity of direction? How do ensure the performance of functional units is in tandem with overall organisational growth and strategy? How can you create a conducive business culture that will embrace innovation?

Corporate minds go through complex strategic issues such as these often which require advanced managerial skills, essentially strategic thinking, decision-making acumen, problem-solving approach, etc. Senior officials can accelerate their learning curve through advanced management training that will prepare them to take on high-order responsibilities.

What is one of the best advanced management programs in the world?

Zoe’s Advanced Management Program is for experts by the experts. The participants can acquire skills needed to survive in the continuously evolving industry and also widen their impact on their respective organisations. The program highlights the global implications of management in different business scenarios. Designed to address the latest issues in the managerial world, the program focuses on hands-on learning, discussing the latest tools, techniques and approaches used by senior leaders around the globe. Professionals who are looking to build their executive skills and become industry ready to take on challenges will find their requirements being met with this program.

Course Objectives

Advanced Management Program revolves around delivering the following objectives:

• Boost present knowledge set regarding strategy formulation, general management, leadership intellect, decision-making acumen and many more
• Discuss and develop a broad mindset open to challenges and discover ways to handle complex, sudden business threats
• Acquire global insights and understand how global leaders overcame corporate challenges
• Enhance business growth through the effective decision making
• Develop ways to manage teams and their performance and adjacently ensure that such performance aligns with the overall organisation’s vision and goals

Training Methodology

This collaborative Advanced Management Program will comprise the following training methods:

• Interactive sessions and lectures
• Presentations
• Management games
• Roleplaying/modelling
• Case studies
• Group discussions
• Problem-solving sessions

Like all our acclaimed courses, this Zoe program also follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model.

Organisational Benefits

The Advanced Management Program will benefit an organisation in the following ways:

• Strive for a balance between strategy formulation, organisational performance, organisational growth and governance through effective management
• Successful application of contemporary and leading-edge methodologies within business operations
• Sustain in the competitive environment by devising innovative and modernized solutions
• Efficient management focuses on motivating people from within to work towards the attainment of goals instead of using the carrot and stick approach which will drive half-hearted efforts from the organisational members
• Develop an enhanced team with people from diverse spheres of life, which collaborates
• Enhanced knowledge and skills of the participant will add value to the business operations as the learnings can be applied to develop better plans and processes
• Sustain an organisational culture that promotes innovation and problem solving

Personal Benefits

The Advanced Management Program will benefit an individual at a personal level in the following ways:

• Learn to put theoretical knowledge into actionable plans
• Develop greater confidence and better morale in all aspects of management
• Gain vital surviving skills required for efficient decision making, relationship building and effective communication
• Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Learn to culminate hard skills and soft skills together to improve the work culture and productivity
• Gain an advantage over peers with an enhanced skill set
• Help the participant deal with change in a better manner

Who Should Attend?

• General managers
• Departmental heads, project heads
• Strategic managers
• Senior officers, Executives
• Professional mentors and coaches
• Policymakers
• Start-up founders, entrepreneurs

Course Outline

Module 1: Foundation to General Management and Business Environment

• Environmental analysis
• Management in the economic context
• Cross-functional coordination

Module 2: Strategic Management

• Efficacy of strategic management
• Managerial process of crafting strategy
• Evaluating the competitive position
• Balanced scorecard

Module 3: Managing People and Organisation

• Human resources practices
• Understanding group dimensions
• Identifying group properties
• Understanding work teams
• Interpersonal communication
• Organisational communication
• Crafting and sustaining organisational culture
• Managing organisational changes

Module 4: Strategic Innovation

• Framework for strategic innovation
• Divergent and convergent thinking
• Strategic alignment
• Understanding emerging trends: looking beyond the obvious
• Sustainable innovation

Module 5: Business Transformation

• Digital transformation
• Operational and strategic transformation
• Business process transformation
• Implementing business transformation

Module 6: Performing Strategic Financial Analysis

• Comparing forecasts
• Identifying deviations
• Reviewing financial statements
• Types of financial analysis

Module 7: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Decision-making under uncertainty
• Using data for diagnosing business problems
• Lateral and creative thinking
• Problem-solving skills

Module 8: Developing Business Model

• Business model as per digital economy
• Open business model
• Evaluating business model
• How do business models create value?
• Business model innovation
• Digital business model

Module 9: Advance Leadership

• Authentic leadership
• Challenges to leadership construct
• Bases of power
• Leading organisational change

Module 10: Corporate Responsibility, Ethics and Governance

• Creating social value
• Components of corporate responsibility
• Business ethics
• Categories of management morality
• Linking corporate strategy with core values
• Governance and management

Module 11: Surviving in Global Economy

• Identifying opportunities in global economy
• Creative destruction
• Elements of global trade
• Positioning for global advantage