Advanced Business Leadership鈥擮nline

Gain the frameworks to tackle advanced challenges and achieve more as a leader鈥攁cross teams, through resistance, and in complex systems.

By harnessing the power of social capital, negotiation tools, and proven leadership frameworks, you鈥檒l drive strategic growth while sharpening your leadership skills. You鈥檒l learn how to enhance your emotional intelligence, explore tools to motivate teams to adapt to change, and ethically leverage networking and influence to achieve results.

This program features Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)鈥攃oaching, interactive simulations, live-online sessions, and self-paced online modules鈥� to provide a flexible, engaging learning experience that transforms senior leaders.

By attending this program, you will...

• Discover how to authentically articulate your core values and create alignment between your values and actions in both personal and professional settings.
• Explore motivational tools to create cohesive, high-impact teams.
• Discover how to ethically employ power and influence to drive results.
• Explore social capital as a means for navigating complex networks and organizations.
• Identify strategies to manage across organizational boundaries.
• Practice a systematic and insightful approach to negotiations and decision-making.
• Learn how to adapt your negotiation approach to multi-party negotiations, diverse cultures, and various scenarios.

A High-Impact Learning Format
This interactive, collaborative program is designed to benefit experienced executives. Participants learn through a blend of self-paced and live-online learning 鈥� you鈥檒l experience live-online classroom sessions with faculty, group discussions, a case study, assessments, and simulations with real-time practice. 

Each module builds on the last, ensuring an impactful learning experience that makes you confident in your new skills and ready to drive change.

Live-Online Sessions
This program incorporates six live-online sessions; three 90-minute sessions with faculty, two group coaching sessions with an executive coach, and an introductory and networking session.

Guidance from an Executive Coach
Throughout the program, participants are guided by a seasoned executive coach to further accelerate leadership development.

Additional Program Features

• Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence 鈥� Apply the program's frameworks to navigate complex organizational challenges in this immersive simulation. Participants will act as change agents at a sunglasses company, tasked with implementing a sustainability initiative that maximizes adoption while minimizing resources. You'll navigate scenarios involving power dynamics and urgency and test strategies to persuade stakeholders.
• High-impact negotiation case study, featuring the renowned Bradford Development Negotiation, which requires active participation.

Program duration
Nine weeks, 5鈥�6 hours per week

This program benefits mid- to senior-level executives seeking to elevate their leadership style, relational agility, and strategic networking and negotiation skills.

This program is suited for professionals across a range of industries and geographies, providing a globally relevant leadership experience.

Develop Your Authentic Leadership Style

• Explore what authentic leadership means
• Define your leadership style
• Align your actions with core values using the Interactional Framework

Emotional Intelligence and Effective Communication for Smart Leadership

• Enhance emotional intelligence
• Improve communication skills
• Build strong professional relationships
• Leverage power and influence strategically

Unlocking Team Potential: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams

• Differentiate "groups" from "teams"
• Build and lead high-performance teams
• Identify and address team dysfunctions
• Foster a results-driven mindset through effective direction, delegation, and motivation

Harnessing Social Capital for Strategic Business Growth

• Learn about social capital and its significance in business
• Discover the tools for Social Network Analysis
• Distinguish various types of social capital

Maximizing Workplace Success: Real-World Applications of Social Capital

• Explore practical applications of social capital in the workplace
• Complete practical exercises in decision-making, onboarding, retention, identifying high-potential leaders, succession planning, strategic partnerships, trust, reputation, and mergers & acquisitions

Influence Through Negotiation: Introducing Key Approaches and Styles

• Introduce essential negotiation concepts
• Understand the key terms and the importance of negotiation environments, and cognitive aspects of negotiation to improve outcomes

Advanced Negotiation Techniques: Navigating Complex Challenges

• Delve into advanced negotiation topics
• Engage with case studies on commitments, cultural differences, and fairness
• Take the TKI Assessment to enhance strategic positioning and influence

Change Leadership: Building Resilient Organizations

• Understand the role of leadership in organizational change
• Analyze organizational structure, culture, and climate
• Navigate and lead through organizational change
• Develop leadership skills for organizational stress and crisis management

Interactive Leadership Challenge: Simulation and Strategic Action Planning

• Apply the leadership and change management strategies you've learned in a realistic, immersive experience
• Practice identifying and overcoming resistance to change using social networks and strategic planning
• Debrief with faculty and peers to solidify program learnings