Training Content

PERIOD 1 – 9 DAYS

Business Environment and Strategy

Learn to navigate uncertainty, open your mind and take a step back to assess your own performance. Become aware of the challenges of today’s complex world and learn how to strengthen your organisation to make it more competitive in the future. Develop a perspective on the future potentials of your function by devising business experiments to explore them.

WEEK 1

Day 1

Leadership and Energy: Navigating yourself and your teams through complexity is hard work that demands large amounts of energy. You will master the secrets to optimising your own energy and energising others.

Individual diagnostic, class and discussion

Day 2

Team building and leadership: Carry out a construction project in a charitable association. The exercise serves as an icebreaker and is the basis for reflection on team dynamics and leadership.

Group work

Day 3

Managing Complexity: Decipher how operational environments are becoming more and more complex and see why the answer to complexity is not more complexity.

Class and group work

Insight Fair 1:  Each participant presents his or her “strategic challenge” and learns from the questions asked.

Group work – Strategic Challenges

Geopolitics: Understand the impact of different contexts on decisions and how to manage projects. These sessions serve to show the different facets of the global economy.

Conference and discussion

Day 4

A Digital Future: Business leaders need a sharper appreciation of advancing technologies to guide their teams towards creating viable solutions. You will reflect not only on how digital technologies can deliver business outcomes but also on their societal impact.

Class, discussion in small groups.

Day 5

Future Fictions: Drawing conclusions about the future is fraught with risk. You will consider alternative future scenarios of how the world may unfold and widen your view of the possibilities ahead.

Class and group work

Strategic Challenge Workshop : Reevaluate your strategic challenge in light of what you have learned in order to modify your approach to it.

Group work – Strategic Challenges

WEEK 2

Day 1

Understanding Customers and Markets: Tackling a customer question in this exercise, you will need to seek the right data, develop insights, agree on initiatives and then implement your plans in the marketplace. The objective is to balance the customer’s human needs with modern tools.

Class and group work

Fair Process: Explore the relationship between leaders and their team members. Understand what a fair process is and implement it. Consider the importance of leadership and the role of the environment in stimulating leadership.

Class and discussion

Day 2

Ecosystems Strategy: Fulfilling customer needs requires organisations to step out of traditional boundaries and take part in different business ecosystems. You will apply a practical framework to develop an ecosystem strategy and reflect how your organisation can broaden its value proposition.

Individual diagnostic, class and discussion

Day 3

Strategic Challenges: Continue reflecting on your strategic challenge. Disrupt conventional or outdated industry practices. Based on your strategic challenge, you will design business experiments to be conducted in your workplace.

Action plan and group work – Strategic Challenges

Day 4

Blue Ocean Strategy: Learn new strategies in order to increase your organisations’ potential on the business market. Creat new spaces in order to attract new clients.

Class and Group Work

Synthesis: Conclusion of the first period and explanation of the content for the second period.

INTERSESSION

CAPSULE 1 – Sustainability: Masterclasses and deep dives may explore sub-topics such as Developing a Sustainability Mindset, The Performance-Progress Tension, De-carbonisation and Circular Economy.

CAPSULE 2 – Organisations: Masterclasses and deep dives may explore subtopics such as Strategies of Actors, Cognitive Diversity, Challenges of Intergenerational Workforces and Emerging Organisational Forms.

PERIOD 2 – 8 DAYS

Organisation and People

Focus on the organization of your enterprise and the development of its people. Explore personal development, behaviour and cross-cultural communication and collaboration. Find innovative ways to create and share value, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the organisation and its contribution to society at large. Master the emotional intelligence skills to promote group work.

WEEK 1

Day 1

Adaptive and complex leadership: Learn how to adapt your leadership to complexity. Topics include “decision bias”: understanding the different perceptions of stakeholders to break down bias and navigate the organisation more effectively.

Class and discussion

Insight Fair 2: The second insight fair will help you take stock of your business experiments. Beyond the successes and failures, the Insight Fair urges you to share the leadership processes behind integrating the experiments into your organisation. What went well? What didn’t?

Group work – Strategic Challenges

Day 2

Self-Awareness: Using the Global Executive Leadership Mirror (GELM ©) 360-degree questionnaire, you and your teams will evaluate your performance across fifteen dimensions. You will then work with a coach to analyse your assessment reports and devise a development plan.

Action plan and coaching

Day 3

Emotional Intelligence (EI): EI skills are critical for team building and conflict resolution. You will use the Emotional Quotient Inventory to assess your own EI. Individual briefs will provide insights into your emotional make-up whereas facilitated group coaching will help you formulate a personal EI plan.

EQi diagnostic and coaching

Practice 360° coaching: Understand what the individual and group coaching process is. Identify your strengths and weaknesses, understand the perception of your entourage. Establish an action plan.

360° Feedback, action plan and coaching

Day 4

Inspired leadership: To put into context your strategic project: how to inspire and motivate teams, and how to spiritually equip yourself to face challenges with tools such as awareness and meditation.

Group work – Strategic Challenges

Intercultural Communication: Understand how to work with diverse and distant teams, different cultures and age groups in relation to “political correctness”. Adapt workplace diversity to the context of your own business.

Class and group work

Day 5

Strategic Agility: Consider its long-term strategic role by taking into account the three dimensions of strategic agility (strategic sensitivity, unity of leadership, fluidity of resources).

Class and group work

WEEK 2

Day 1

The Storytelling Leader: You will exercise your voice of leadership through stories, which serve as a bridge between yourself and your organisation. You will narrate your own stories, whether it be to instil inspiration, to clarify complex messages, to build culture or to align your teams to act.

Group work, theatre techniques

Strategic Challenges:  Integrate the new learning from this session into your strategic challenge and establish the action plan for its implementation when you return to your company.

Group work – Strategic Challenges

Day 2

Personal Agency Agenda: You will process feedback from across your learning journey to define a “Personal Agency Agenda.” This agenda operates across four dimensions: Focus of Agency (Where do I start?), Preparation (What insights, knowledge or skills should I acquire?), Network (Who should I bring in?) and Experiments (What should I try out?).

Action plan and discussion

Conferences: Stimulate new ways of thinking, with a speaker on a topic with a different perspective than what is presented in mainstream media. There will be a dialogue between the praticipants and a subject specialist, which will change depending on the city that Period 2 of the GMP takes place.

Conference and discussion

Flying from the Nest: Finalize the action plan for its strategic challenge by incorporating the lessons learned during the program and applying them to its specific context.

Action plan and discussion