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The program consists of three modules woven together in both conten and flow. It spans nine months and is integrated into participants' jobs. The three modules build on each other with the overarching themes of strategy, leadership, and application forming the foundation of the program.

Module I: The Strategic Context

MONDAY - AM
TUESDAY - AM
WEDNESDAY - AM
THURSDAY - AM

Competing in the New Economy

-Strategy
-Context
-Analysis


Understanding the Street

-The Gold Standard
-View from the Street
-Competing Against the Best


Executive Presence

-Getting the Message Across
-Setting the Direction


Strategic Signatures

-Understanding Financial Levers
-Workers Within the Business Model

MONDAY - PM
TUESDAY - PM
WEDNESDAY - PM
THURSDAY - PM


Leadership Challenges

-Role of the Executive
-Making Things Happen


Strategy Implementation

(Revisions and Focus of Strategy Implementation Project)


Driving Implementation


The Implementation Agenda

-Understanding the Levers of Change
-Setting the agenda for the Strategy Implentation and Leadership Effectiveness

TUESDAY - EVENING
 
Dinner and Reception
   

Objectives:

  1. Clear understanding of the competetive environment in the financial industry
  2. Appreciation of positioning in a competitive industry looking both from the outside (financial analyst) and the inside (senior executives)
  3. Begin development of executive skill set for defining and implementation strategy
  4. Understanding the business model of a corporation, i.e. how we make money, lever points, land mines and portholes
  5. Define a clear implementation challenge and assignment at both the organizational and individual level

 

Module II: Meeting the Leadership Challenge

WEDNESDAY - AM
THURSDAY - AM
FRIDAY - AM

Analysis of the Strategy Implementation Assignments

-Landmines and Potholes
-Evaluating Progress
-Capturing Lessons Learned
-Understanding the Political Process of Implemetation


Setting the Leadership Agenda

-Strategic Leadership Capability


Establishing the Network

-Integrating Across the Corporation
-Driving Continuous Improvement
-Radical Performance Enhancement

WEDNESDAY - PM
THURSDAY - PM
FRIDAY - PM


Setting the Implementation Agenda

-Strategic Choices
-Focused Action
-Fast Cycle Implementation


Driving Personal and Organizational Effectiveness

-Becoming the Leader
-Driving Organizational Results
-Managing UP


Preparing for Implementation
WEDNESDAY - EVENING

Reception and Senior Executive Conversation

 

Objectives:

  1. Understanding how to continue to drive implementation in the face of success and failure
  2. Use feedback to identify areas to leverage and leadership capabilities needed
  3. Establishing the learning agenda
  4. Begin work on customized leadership effectiveness

Module III: Leveraging Capability

MONDAY - AM
TUESDAY - AM
WEDNESDAY - AM
THURSDAY - AM

Overview of the Executive Role

-Managing Up, Across and down
-Introduction Into the Simulation and Strategic Issues


Running the Corporation

 


Capture the Learning

-Unit Level
-Individual Level


The Executive Role

-Continuous improvement
-Aligning the organization

MONDAY - PM
TUESDAY - PM
WEDNESDAY - PM
THURSDAY - PM


Preparation for the Board Presentation

-Presentation
-Strategy Assignments


Running the Corporation

Capture the Learning

-Organizational Level


Driving Strategic Change

-Producing business results
-Investigating the corporation
-Thin threads
-Weak Signals
-Reading the landscape


Application and Commitment

-Levers and Pulleys
-Managing Up

MONDAY - EVENING
WEDNESDAY - EVEN

Setting the Strategic Agenda for the Corporation



Setting the Leadership Agenda
 

Objectives:

  1. Practice leadership within the context of runing the business
  2. Receive feedback from facilitators, participants and observers on leadership capabilities
  3. Feel the challenge of top executives roles and learn how to balance competing demands
  4. Preparing for future responsibilities