Executive Leadership: Skills Experienced Leaders Need to Succeed

Leadership at the executive level involves unique demands and requires a unique skillset. To succeed, you must master empowering your teams to envision, create, and deliver products and services that distinguish your organization from the competition. And in the face of rapid changes to both the workforce and the workplace, where stagnancy is not an option, you must be open to adjusting your vision as well as your approach.

This powerful, interactive program will help you hone and sharpen your leadership style, skills, and vision. You will learn how to harness a diversity of ideas for exceptional outcomes, co-create a unifying organizational vision, build your personal leadership brand, and improve your ability to effectively influence others. This 4-part program will feature case discussions, peer learning, interactive exercises, reflection, and action planning.

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Program Benefits

• Identify your unique leadership vision that promotes positive change and accelerates innovation
• Develop a deeper understanding of leadership presence and the importance of building a personal leadership brand
• Improve your ability to communicate, motivate, and influence more effectively across your entire organization in today’s hybrid workplace
• Promote a culture of psychological safety and diversity of thought where collaboration and innovation can flourish
• Create a customized action plan to formulate, implement, and sustain your personal leadership vision and brand to ensure post-program success
• Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education

Topics Covered

• Principles of building leadership presence
• The George Authentic Leadership model and the tenets of leadership brand theory
• Building trust in your executive team
• Communication in the hybrid workplace
• Explicit and implicit persuasion, and influencing through charisma
• Inclusive culture, unconscious bias, and the barriers to collaboration
• Preparing for the future—leading change in yourself and others

Who Should Enroll

This program is specifically designed for C-Suite and executive-level leaders (vice president, general manager, director, etc.) with at least 15-20 years of experience and who are responsible for setting the business direction of the organization or a business unit, generating revenue, driving innovation, and leading cross-functional teams.