• Identify the key differences between management roles and executive roles, and the capability and emotional barriers to effectively making the transition.
• Recognize actions required for your own leadership evolution through information gathering and reflection.
• Interpret organizational capability needs.
• Learn and practice methods for establishing and communicating strategy, developing organizational talent and fostering ethical business practices.
• Design an individual action plan using the concepts and methods covered in class while providing insights and ideas for continued learning.

Establishing Yourself as an Executive

• Exploring similarities and differences in roles among business cultures.
• Understanding key changes from previous roles.
• Discovering individual strengths and challenges relative to executive expectations.
• Identifying capabilities for executive success.
• Fostering effective emotional behaviors.

Building Your Executive Leadership Capabilities

• Identifying appropriate communication strategies and expectations at the executive level.
• Understanding the executive’s roles strategy identification, development and execution.
• Building tools for leading change and fostering accountability at higher levels.
• Exploring strategies for organizational development in key subject areas of performance management; succession planning; coaching, mentoring and motivation; and talent acquisition.
• Adapting best practices for fostering ethical behavior from the top.

Planning Your Executive Development

• Developing an executive self-development plan.
• Aligning with your business goals to create a cohesive strategy for success.