Advanced Business Leadership

By harnessing the power of social capital, negotiation tools, and proven leadership frameworks, you’ll drive strategic growth while sharpening your advanced leadership skills. You’ll 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.

Additional Program Features

• Change Management Simulation: Power and Influence: Through immersive, interactive simulations, you’ll apply the program's frameworks to navigate complex organizational challenges. In this simulation, participants act as change agents at a sunglass company, tasked with implementing a sustainability initiative. They navigate scenarios involving power dynamics and urgency, using strategies to persuade stakeholders. The goal is to maximize adoption while minimizing resources.
• This program offers a high-impact negotiation case study, featuring the renowned Bradford Development Negotiation, which requires active participation.
• This program combines Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)—Mentorship, Interactive Simulations, and Self-Paced Online Modules to provide a flexible, engaging learning experience that integrates digital and real-time elements.

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 program incorporates three live online sessions with program faculty. In this interactive, collaborative program, you'll learn through a blend of self-paced and live-online learning. You’ll experience a blend of classroom sessions, 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.

Language
This program is offered in English and Spanish. All live-online sessions and simulation experiences are delivered in English.

Live-Online Sessions
This program incorporates three live online sessions with program faculty.

Program duration
Nine weeks, 5–6 hours per week

This program is ideal for executives with 10+ years of professional experience, including significant leadership or management roles. This ensures participants have a strong foundation to build upon as they refine their leadership style, emotional intelligence, and strategic skills in networking and negotiation.

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

Section One: Build a Strong Foundation

Module 1: Develop Your Authentic Leadership Style

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

Module 2: Emotional Intelligence and Effective Communication for Smart Leadership

• Enhance emotional intelligence
• Improve communication skills
• Build strong professional relationships
• Learn to leverage power and influence strategically

Module 3: Unlocking Team Potential: Building and Leading High-Performance Teams

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

Section Two: Expand Your Reach

Module 4: Harnessing Social Capital for Strategic Business Growth

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

Module 5: Maximizing Workplace Success: Real-World Applications of Social Capital

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

Section Three: Shape Outcomes

Module 6: 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

Module 7: Advanced Negotiation Techniques: Navigating Complex Challenges

• Delve into advanced negotiation topics
• Case studies on commitments, cultural differences, and fairness
• TKI Assessment to enhance strategic positioning and influence

Section Four: Transform and Execute

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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
• Interactive debrief with faculty and peers to solidify program learnings