executive Program
  Best Practices for Senior Executives

Program Audience

• The executive program is designed for senior managers and executives to help them lead large companies, complex projects, and diverse teams.

• Note: This training program is designed for government and business professionals. We do not accept students seeking initial employment, postsecondary education, or initial licensing programs

Program Objectives 

• Offer experiential analysis of the challenges of managers and their teams in leading and transforming their organizations in the market place

• Understand the advanced framework of managing organizations

• Share management and leadership insights from the world's most successful CEOs

• Explore management best practices, tools, and decision-models for building high-performance teams and organizations

• Create work-based projects to help candidates develop business initiatives based on their unique set of issues, resources and business environment

Program Modules

• The program consists of the following modules:

  1. Executive Leadership

  2. Strategic Project Management

  3. Business Strategy Management

  4. Corporate Governance

Module 1: Executive Leadership Best Practices

• Leadership Experience:
  Top management leadership questions and challenges.

• Executive Leadership Science and Skills:
  Leadership Psychology for managers. Leadership Styles and Behaviors for Managers. Personality Profiling. Critical Thinking and Decision Making. Organizational Psychology and Behavior. Motivation Theories. Social Animal. Hygiene Factors Theory. Contingency Approach. Path-Goal Theory. Expectancy Theory. Equity Theory. Tournament Theory. Hierarchy of Needs. Management by Objectives. Learning Organizations. Theory X, Theory Y, and Theory Z. Organization Culture and Companies. Transformational Leadership for Managers. Change Management. Managing Executive Politics in Companies. Relationship Management. Managerial Ethics. Executive Networking.

Module 2: Strategic Project Management

• Project & Portfolio Management Best Practices:

• Top PMO (Project Management Officer) and project portfolio manager (PPM) questions and challenges. Strategic project stakeholders' management. Enterprise-wide project planning decisions. Projectized organizational structure. Overview of strategic project management framework: Project definition and scope management. Time management. Budget management. Quality management. HR management. Project risk management. Procurement management. Project portfolio management. Building a project management office (PMO). PMO dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs). Real-life case studies and lessons of mega projects success and failure.

Module 3: Business Strategy Management

• Strategic Management Best Practices:
  Business Opportunities and Challenges. Top Business Strategy Questions of Global CEOs. Strategy Best Practices and Pitfalls. Business Strategy Toolkit. Strategy Formulation. Introduction Strategies. Growth Strategies. Maturity Strategies. Decline Strategies. Exit Strategies. Industry Rivalry. Entry Threats. Supplier Power. Buyer Power. Threat of Substitutes. Competitive Intelligence. Strategic Group Matrix. Competitive Positions. Decision Trees. Growth Vector Analysis (GVA). Profit Impact of Market Strategy (PIMS). Experience Curve Strategy. McKinsey G.E. Business Screen. Governance. Strategic Alignment. Hierarchy of Objectives. Performance Control System (PCS). Stakeholder Analysis. Power and Politics. Stakeholder Management. Top Marketing Questions. Value Chain Analysis (VCA). Risk Management. Trends Probability and Impact. Environment Scanning. Political, Economic, Social, Technology, Environmental and Legal (PESTEL) Analysis. Industry Attractiveness. Industry Structure. Marketing Mix 4P's. Stakeholder Management.

Module 4: Corporate Governance Best Practices

• Provide a 360-degree view of the governance and oversight function of the board of directors and CEOs. Review corporate governance frameworks, best practices, decision-making models, and analysis tools to balance between freedom (performance of management) and control (risk management). Share governance lessons and insights from the world's most successful boards. Learn from examples of board failures and how to avoid strategic pitfalls. Design an effective corporate governance organization chart and defining agency lines, role and duties of the board of directors
• Enterprise risk management. Why companies and leadership fail? (governance pitfalls). Enron fraud and failures leading to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Core governance policy components. Strategy and policy mapping. The politics of policy-making. Why corporate policies fail? ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) initiatives.

Training Model

• Experiential action-learning

• 25-50% seminar and 50-75% experiential project work

• The development of executive skills is based on KASAC executive education and management training model

Courseware Content

The advanced executive program courseware includes the following:

1. Participant training guide

2. Subject-matter handbook and lecture notes

3. Summary of the subject matter:

   • Summary of essential concepts and leadership best practices

   • Examples and case studies

4. CEO's toolkit (management frameworks, decision-models, and checklists)

5. Experiential work-based assessment project

 Top Courses By Industry - Optional Customization (For Group Training):

Upon request, the executive programs, seminars and case studies can be customized to each industry, including: government and public sector management, banking, insurance and financial services, investment and asset management, energy, utilities, petroleum (oil and gas), trade and retail, education management, pharmaceutical, healthcare, hospital management, construction management, real estate, agriculture and fishery management, telecommunication and information technology, transportation, freight and logistics management, aerospace, automotive, airlines, hospitality management, tourism, travel and leisure management, food and restaurant management, media, and manufacturing.

Performance Evaluation

• This program is highly experiential, performance evaluation can be on the basis of individual or team project deliverables with the help of the instructor.

• There are no written examinations, quizzes, or tests. Candidates can choose to complete customized experiential work-based projects such as developing a relevant analysis document, management strategy, action plan or a senior management presentation

• The program advisor will review the deliverables and provide improvement feedback. The evaluation is a form of management consulting and experiential coaching for performance improvement

USA, Canada, and Europe Seasonal Programs and Venues:

This executive education program is offered during the following months:

• Winter & Spring Seminars & Programs: December, January, February, March, April, and May in the U.S.
• Spring & Summer Seminars & Programs: May, June, July, August, September, and October in the USA, Canada, and Europe
• Autumn & Winter Seminars & Programs: September, October, November, and December in the U.S.
• Group training seminars are available all months in the USA, Canada, and Europe