9 - 20 Jun 2025
London (UK)
Hotel : Landmark Office Space - Oxford Street
Cost : 8400 € Euro
Organizational Leadership explores the roles leaders must embrace to run a division, department, or organization: as a beacon who sets direction; an architect who aligns talent, systems, structure, and culture; and a catalyst who drives innovation and change. Through self-assessments, peer feedback, and projects applied to your own work, you'll gain a clearer understanding of your leadership style and how to prepare for the next phase of your leadership journey.
Identify any misalignments between the dynamics of your organization and external market conditions
Communicate purpose and vision, and inspire your organization to execute that vision
Extend the reach of your influence by leading through other managers
Elevate your leadership style to meet the distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams
Shape your organizational culture and architecture to maximize talent, leverage diversity, and drive performance
Develop strategies for planning and engineering organizational change and innovation initiatives
Experienced Team Leaders
Prepare for the next phase of your leadership journey, whether you’re expanding your overall scope of responsibilities or taking over a larger department or organization.
Entrepreneurs
Learn to lead at scale and mobilize your employees as you transition your business from a startup into a growth-stage company.
Organizational Leadership consists of approximately 40 hours of material delivered over 2 weeks (10 days).
At the beginning of the course, you’ll be asked to complete a self-assessment and solicit feedback from colleagues, such as direct reports, clients, or managers, for the Learning Path Tool (LPT) assessment.
Throughout the course, participants will be asked to complete a self-assessment to check their leadership skills. The training program will include videos and exercises in which you’ll practice communication techniques taught in the course and provided by the instructor.
Module 1
Leading at Scale and Scope
The "double helix" of leadership.
The intertwined work of delivering on organizational responsibilities and developing yourself personally—to lead divisions, units, or organizations effectively.
Key imperatives of transitioning to a new organizational leadership role.
Identify common dangers to avoid.
Module 2
Leader as Beacon: Understanding the Context and Setting Direction
Assess the external context in which your organization operates and its impact
Develop a direction for your division, unit, or organization
Informed by your analysis of the external context
Identify key contextual factors shaping your organization today and, in the future.
Module 3
Leader as Beacon: Communicating Direction
Use vision, purpose, strategy, and identity to craft a statement of direction
Apply techniques to communicate direction to every level of the organization
Evaluate your effectiveness
Module 4
Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value
Assess your organization’s capacity to deliver on key tasks that create value
Diagnose and solve challenges with organizational motivation, competence, and coordination to drive value creation
Experiment with making the critical design choices to align the people, systems, structure, and culture in your division, unit, or organization to deliver value
Generate a three-year value creation plan for your division, unit, or organization
Align your organizational architecture to your three-year value creation plan
Module 5
Project Week
Identify a performance or opportunity gap within your division, unit, or organization, drawing on lessons from Leader as Beacon and Leader as Architect
Develop an action plan to address the root causes of a performance or opportunity gap
Identify personal leadership development opportunities
Perform a root cause analysis in partnership with others in your organization and generate an action plan to address your findings
Module 6
Leader as Catalyst of Change
Diagnose the need for organizational change in response to external shifts or internal challenges
Utilize the CHANGE model to implement organizational change successfully
Appreciate how to overcome resistance to change
Module 7
Leader as Catalyst of Innovation
Describe the steps for driving innovation within established organizations
Explain how to shape organizational culture into a culture of innovation
Module 8
Leading Self at Scale and Scope
Examine the personal and organizational challenges of leading through inflection points and adversity
Assess your capacity to rise to new leadership responsibilities while attending to self-care and personal development