Course Overview

Senior executives are usually required to be at the top of their game with the accumulated years of experience and the knowledge of the organisation inside and out. However, 84% of executives still believe their organisations lack the skills and capabilities to deliver on their digital ambition that the future is now based on.

Therefore, an executive leadership development program that offers true value will build on your strengths and help you overcome challenges to deliver breakthrough performance would be of utmost benefit to anyone who aspires to be a leader of the next generation.

What is the aim of the “Executive Leadership Development Program”? In this course, you will develop measures and standards of service quality, devise practices that improve employee learning and outcomes, and evaluate different approaches to process improvement.

Using the tools provided in this course, you will be able to relate strategic decisions to their impact on organisational performance. And with the completion of an action plan, you will be ready to apply what you learn to yourself, and to your organisation.

This Zoe training course will empower you with actionable insights into what makes a leader exceptional, while exploring complex areas such as self-awareness, and learn skills to attract the right talent, and lead others to greatness.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this Executive Leadership Development Program successfully, participants will be able to:

• Develop executive talent and leadership for individuals who demonstrate the ability and interest to advance to the next role in their leadership journey
• Strengthen business acumen in core areas such as finance, marketing, operations, management, and strategy
• Obtain formal training and leadership development activities, resulting in a group of well-trained employees for leadership roles
• Build high-performing teams and become a more authentic leader
• Put your understanding to the test in a realistic business strategy situation that entails leadership and teamwork skills
• Gain the right blend of soft skills and a strategic mindset to achieve specific performance outcomes at your organisation
• Build capabilities for leading cross-border teams across functions and countries

Training Methodology

This collaborative Executive Leadership Development Program will comprise of the following training methods:

• Lectures
• Seminars & Presentations
• Group Discussions
• Assignments
• Case Studies & Functional Exercises

Like all our training programs, this course also follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model.

Organisational Benefits

Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Executive Leadership Development Program can benefit in the following ways:

• Implement the development and adoption of leadership capability efficiently through the width and depth of your organisation
• Improve the ROI on leadership development through more focused training and follow-through
• Deepen your employees’ insights into effective leadership and change management in your organisation
• Encourage a culture of learning and continuous development for your leaders

Personal Benefits

Individuals who participate in this Executive Leadership Development Program can gain from it in the following ways:

• Broaden your understanding of the roles, responsibilities, and interactions of key functional business areas to give you greater confidence in managing them
• Provide a leading-edge employee experience to drive higher levels of engagement
• Provide a starting point for each participant to work on their skill-gaps outside of the training program
• Learn how to communicate your message up, down and across the organisation by enhancing your skills in communication, persuasion, and presentation
• Update your thinking with new ideas and approaches for competing more untiringly in the global market

Who Should Attend?

This Executive Leadership Development Program course would be suitable for:

• High-performing mid-level and senior management executives on a path to becoming general managers
• Functional senior leaders who collaborate with cross-functional areas of their firms
• Principals of small and medium firms and entrepreneurs
• Owners of small companies with growth potential

Course Outline

MODULE 1: ORGANISATION AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS

• Reflect on your organisation
• Define your role as a leader
• Leadership strategies
• Fundamentals in leadership
• Regional topics in the world economy

MODULE 2: CORE BUSINESS LINKAGES

• Fundamental business skills
• Understand and lead the workforce

MODULE 3: ACCOUNTING

• Demystifying financial statements
• Reporting
• Ask the right questions and talk numbers with confidence
• Workings of financial statements
• Corporate financial reports
• Strategies for evaluating and linking earnings and cash flow to value creation
• Corporate disclosures and nondisclosures
• Take advantage of allowable income-increasing strategies

MODULE 4: FINANCE

• Frame of reference used by financial officers
• Challenges they encounter
• Cash flow analysis
• Capital budgeting allocation
• Capital structure analysis
• Models for evaluating investment alternatives
• Ranking of investment projects

MODULE 5: MARKETING

• Moving beyond the fundamentals
• Adapting to new marketing strategies
• Case studies
• The impact of decision-driven marketing
• Design thinking
• Digital tools on the marketing function
• Impact on operating results

MODULE 6: OPERATIONS

• The strategic role of operations in financial success
• Systemic view of organisations as collections of business flows and supply chains
• Key metrics for targeting improvement
• Operational and financial flows
• Strategic capacity investment
• Operational hedging

MODULE 7: STRATEGY

• Forces that influence competitive advantage
• Innovative approaches to creating value and profit
• Competitive analysis
• Focusing on growth
• Creating a system of metrics to drive performance
• Ask if your organisational structures support your strategy
• Drive alignment using relevant tools

MODULE 8: MOTIVATING YOUR TEAM

• Diagnostic approach to motivating your team
• Explore your team alignment to company values
• Your organisation’s motivation culture
• Discover impacts on performance
• Techniques for assessing your team
• Developing customised approaches to professional development
• The power of informal networks
• How to ensure your team’s success

MODULE 9: LEVERAGING DATA FOR BUSINESS DECISIONS

• Data-based decision-making
• The future of your workforce
• Understanding the limits and upside of data analytics
• Machine intelligence
• The underlying structures designed to exploit data
• Classroom exercises – critically analyse decisions around embedding intelligent automation

MODULE 10: COMMUNICATIONS ESSENTIALS FOR LEADERS

• Self-assessments
• Role-plays
• Workshops
• Refine your communications strengths
• Recognise areas of improvement
• Reading your audience
• Crafting your message and delivering it with confidence
• Strategies for overcoming negativity
• Enhance your executive presence and effectiveness as a leader

MODULE 11: CROSS-CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS

• Business negotiation skills
• Practical frameworks for negotiating in a globalised market
• New ideas and techniques from the field of dispute resolution
• Negotiation within organisations and group decision-making