The third and final module is a three-day leadership workshop with the goal to further accelerate participants’ organizational leadership competencies via a well structured three-round computer-based business simulation named Leading for Organizational Improvement to address the following three key topics: Strategy Execution, Influential Leadership and Change Management.

Strategic Execution:
Participants are requested to define, implement the key corporate strategy to align with the direction of corporate vision and its value systems. Participants will also learn how to align their work environment, talent, management practices & business interactions with the lead strategy that defined. They will have the chance to practice their leadership styles (which were covered in the previous module) and understand how the leadership and corporate strategy are interrelated.

Influential leadership:
The designed module describes the importance of influence in today’s complex organizations, demonstrates how the participants can influence their organization, build stakeholder alliances through reciprocity, value, expertise and power, and engage in constructive dialogue to surface organizational blind spots. The module will show how the participants can promote consensus and actions, as well as lead the strategic execution and facilitate the change process.

Change Management:
The module is designed to facilitate the participants to be equipped with skills in identifying, designing, planning and implementing the changes needed to improve the organizational performance. The participants will then learn how to lead such change process and make it work.

By the end of this module participants will be able to:

• Evaluate the impact that changes in the environment will have on their business’ sustainable competitive advantage and their job.
• Define the components of an improvement system - customer satisfaction, process improvement, employee commitment, strategic leadership - and their interrelationships in terms meaningful to their organization.
• Use organizational effectiveness and systems principles to understand and improve organizational performance.
• Develop and sustain an organizational architecture to support systematic improvement.
• Develop a political strategy to support organizational change.
• Identify potential roadblocks and pitfalls in the change effort and develop strategies to overcome them.

• Computer-based business simulation
• Group discussions
• Individual exercises
• Facilitator input (lectures, debriefing, etc.)
• Life case studies and coaching by peers as well as by facilitator
• Reciprocal feedback
• Action Planning

Fundamentally, we do not see the trainer as a 'teacher' with superior knowledge, but instead as someone who facilitates and supports. Their primary expertise is in shaping learning processes.

Participants of Module II.

Participants of the third module should be motivated to examine complex contexts and organizations, and to reflect and analyze their structures. They should be prepared to ‘leave the trodden path’ and to challenge their own established views and habits.

• December (3 days, Specific dates are TBD)