PROGRAM FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (PLD)
Overview
The course prepares management professionals to contribute beyond their area of functional expertise, boosting their leadership skills, business insight and with a global view.
Innovative companies know that long-term success requires a pipeline of visionary leaders who can help build and secure a competitive edge. The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) prepares emerging executives to become more effective influencers who can contribute to corporate success on a higher level.
This highly personalized program features two on-campus and two virtual, self-paced modules that focus on accelerating your business and your career. You will return to your organization more confident, more capable, and better equipped to take on new challenges.
Key Benefits
Who Should Attend
- Specialists and star contributors with at least 10 to 15 years of work experience who have been identified as outstanding prospects for increased leadership responsibilities
- Managers from any business function and at any level, from project leaders to vice presidents
Course Outline
Module 1: Foundational skill building
- Build shared business knowledge and terminology before arriving on campus
- Complete introductory courses in accounting, finance, and quantitative methods
- Prepare for the cases that you will discuss during Module 2
- Identify your customized case challenge on the phone with your HBS Executive Coach
- Set aside 10 to 12 hours per week to complete this work
- Evaluate your current leadership skills through the Leadership Learning Path Assessment tool
Module 2: Cross-functional business approach
- Develop an end-to-end view of the business and how all functions interrelate
- Explore strategy, marketing, operations, finance, accounting, and corporate accountability
- Learn how functional strategy, business-unit strategy, and strategy implementation relate
- Understand the role that control systems play in executing strategy
- Analyze the economic, political, and social forces shaping the global business environment
Module 3: Strategy formulation and implementation
- Complete self-directed work at your own pace while engaging in scheduled exercises and group sessions
- Round out your understanding of strategy by completing Economics for Managers via Harvard Business School Online
- Continue working on your customized case and personal action plan
Module 4: Leading change
- Identify what needs to change within your organization
- Expand your portfolio of change management processes and approaches
- Foster innovation, receptiveness to change, and an entrepreneurial mindset
- Present an overview of your customized case and action plan for feedback
Module 5: Personal leadership (Optional)
- Develop the self-awareness and emotional intelligence of an authentic leader
- Support your company’s financial needs, legal requirements, and ethical obligations
- Become a more effective negotiator and a more confident decision-maker
- Address the competing demands of all stakeholders
- Create advantage by generating more value for the business and society
- Expand your leadership vision and address a personal leadership challenge
- Attain HBS alumni status upon completing PLD Module 5
FOR MORE DETAILS AND COURSE OUTLINE PLEASE CONTACT:
PIERRE DUPLIS BRENNER
The Admission Director
AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT (AICD)
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