Course Overview

Digital leaders are forward-thinking leaders who can leverage their company’s digital assets to achieve business goals. They have a keen understanding of the importance of information technology in today’s world and are comfortable with challenging traditional notions about how technology should be used. Digital leaders are dedicated to a sustainable business model and to delivering results through the effective use of the organization’s digital assets.  They are responsible for connecting information and knowledge to create positive environments for people to contribute, collaborate and engage.

Why is Digital Leadership a compelling necessity for every organization today?

Digital leadership allows you to create a culture of innovation and transparency in your organization. It helps you create the right processes, policies, talent, and technology needed to effectively roll out new products or services while also ensuring that all operational systems are managed properly.  Digital leadership is the process of helping an organization meet its business objectives through the use of IT systems. To be successful, a company must invest seriously in digital leadership, as it will allow a company to create reliable business processes and incorporate new technologies faster.

How can you gain the necessary digital leadership skills?

Through Zoe’s Digital Leadership Training – Leading in the Digital Age course, you will learn digital skills and gain the ability to understand information needs from digital technology sources. You’ll learn to use digital tools and facilities to input, organize and integrate digital resources. Digital Leadership training helps you to manage, lead and inspire others in the field of digital transformation. You will learn how to use new digital technologies, prepare for change-management challenges as well as prepare for future leadership roles.

Course Objectives

The Digital Leadership Training Course has been constructed to achieve the following objectives:

• To help in the successful transition from traditional leadership to digital leadership
• To proactively shift the old mindset to the new era of a digital mindset
• To understand challenges faced by digital enterprises and ways in which they can be overcome
• To develop essential skills to thrive in digital workplaces and become an efficient digital leader
• To promote the organization’s ability to deliver value through digital the ecosystem

Training Methodology

This Digital Leadership Training will comprise the following training methods:

• Interactive sessions and lectures
• Presentations
• Management games
• Roleplaying/modeling
• 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

Digital Leadership training will benefit an organization in the following ways:

• Nearly every organization is witnessing digital transformation up to some degree thus trained digital leaders are the need of the hour for every organization
• Effective digital leadership will be more responsive to changing customer needs and thus be able to achieve customer satisfaction by enriching their experience
• Organization’s culture will be evolved to complement the digital landscape of the new era
• Organization’s digital transformation can be accelerated and driven smoothly
• Efficient use of the digital toolkit in the organization can drive employee’s productivity positively

Personal Benefits

Digital Leadership Training will benefit the participants in the following ways:

• The combination of gaining digital skills with the perspective of leading in the digital organization will provide a leading edge to the participant
• Participants will be able to enhance their ability to lead, manage and also inspire other people to do the same
• Efficient use of relevant digital tools and platforms will enhance personal performance and productivity
• Develop an innovative mindset and better assimilation to modern concepts of virtual teams, etc.
• Gain certification that will help further in career through added knowledge and expertise

Who Should Attend?

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

Course Outline

Module 1: Understanding Digital Leadership

• Defining Digital Leadership
• Defining Digital Assets
• Making Digital transformation part of organizational culture
• Feature of Digital Leadership

Module 2: Changing Leadership Landscape

• Onset of Industrial Revolution 4.0
• Internet of Things
• Overlapping of physical, biological, and digital landscapes
• Effect of automation
• More flexible and adaptable leadership
• Effect of remote working on leadership
• Collaborative style of leadership

Module 3: Principles of Digital Leadership

• Analytical data-based decision-making
• Agile mindset for change
• Authentic leadership
• Building a digital ecosystem
• Focus on innovation
• Inculcating diversity and inclusion

Module 4: Qualities of a Digital Leader

• Communication skills
• Digital literacy
• Networking is the key
• Strong vision
• Proper understanding of digital platforms and tools
• Taking calculated risks
• Openness to change
• Collaborative and cohesive

Module 5: Devising Digital Roadmap

• Importance of digital roadmap
• Defining a digital strategy
• Define timeframe to achieve strategy elements
• Identifying stakeholders
• Establishing KPIs

Module 6: Understanding Digital Workplace

• Modernization of traditional processes
• Virtual workplace setting
• Key elements of the digital workplace
• Digital communications toolkit
• Collaboration applications
• Office productivity applications
• Sharing tools and apps
• Crowdsourcing tools
• Ensuring mobility

Module 7: Cultivating Digital Leadership

• Delivering digital capabilities
• Identifying type of digital leader
• Replacing competition with collaboration
• Reframing perspective
• Define a new era mindset
• Reinforce a new mindset through routines
• Ingrain mindset by experiential learning

Module 8: Leading a Disruptive Change

• Defining disruption
• Disruptive innovation
• Identifying value drivers for change
• Delivering an agile response
• Search for new identities through disruption

Module 9: Managing Virtual Teams

• Rise of Virtual Teams
• Challenge of time zone differences
• Communicating in real-time
• Developing guidelines for connectivity
• Stress management in a virtual setting
• Honouring team members & other commitments

Module 10: Common Challenges to Digital Leadership

• Ensuring streamlined cooperation
• Building trust remotely
• Ensuring visibility remotely
• Company culture
• Pressure to innovate
• Decentralisation

Module 11: Critical Areas of Digital Leadership

• Big Data Analytics
• Cloud Computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Online and Social media marketing
• Ecommerce
• Enterprise Resource Planning