Advanced Strategy & Leadership Program
Gain the critical leadership skills needed to compete in rapidly changing business environments
What you'll learn
Personal leadership ability: inspiring a team, avoiding team pitfalls, and achieving consensus
Promoting Collective intelligence on teams: increasing team performance with psychological safety, coordination, motivation, and organization
Strategic Leadership skills including: growing and sustaining corporate innovation, strategic experimentation, data gathering, and hypothesis testing
Organizational leadership skills including: goal setting, goal communication, and delegation
About Advanced Strategy & Leadership Program
Leaders are challenged every day to make fast-paced decisions while navigating a complex business landscape.
To succeed, they must:
- Continuously upskill their business acumen
- Acquire and hone new leadership skills
- Cultivate agile mindsets
- Synthesize ever-expanding data and information about their business to make critical business decisions
- Deliver innovation and sustainable profitability
Wharton Interactive's Advanced Strategy & Leadership Program supports leaders on this journey.
The Program aims to teach critical skills needed to compete in changing business environments, where team, organization, and data-driven leadership capabilities are the keys to success. Through personal and team journeys and ongoing coaching and application sessions, participants will explore and gain experience in building and leading teams, conducting strategic business experiments, and practice strategies for countering common team pitfalls and increasing their team's collective intelligence.
Designed for mastery, this learner-centric Program gives participants the opportunity to hone their skills in a series of experiential courses; participants will practice key skills, reflect on their practice, and build durable, transferable strategy and leadership skills, providing a pathway to continued success. Moving through a series of modules, participants will work individually and in teams as they play various roles, make decisions, and grapple with challenges that push them out of their comfort zone.
Program participants will attain leadership expertise, empowering them to solve problems, improvise, make decisions, and explore new perspectives.
This course meets virtually Saturdays 6 pm - 7:30 pm IST beginning November 4th, 2023.
Expect approximately 1 hour of homework per week.
Download the syllabus for details regarding course dates and time commitments.
Program alumni will join a canvas course where they can stay connected, share ideas, and collaborate with community members.
What you'll learn
Learning Objectives
- Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
- Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
- Competitive strategy including alliance and competitive positioning
- Market entry strategy including customer selection
- Frameworks for strategic competition and cooperation
- Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
- Understand the sources of strategic advantages and weaknesses
- Convert data into insights through understanding the questions to ask, the limits of the data, and the stories the data tells
- Understand how to deploy quantitative solutions to make real-time decisions that drive measurable improvement
- Building quantitative models and Machine Learning solutions to predict the future and make critical business decisions
Practice Objectives
- Leading and building a series of successful teams
- Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
- Persuading stakeholders through analysis and strategy
- Hands-on experience in maximizing your firm’s competitive advantage
- Addressing strategic uncertainty through experimentation
- Practicing gathering and evaluating data
- Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
- Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
- Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss
- Making decisions based on quantitative analysis using Machine Learning models
Thinking Objectives
- Analytical thinking: the ability to analyze and frame problems
- Learning orientation; develop a proactive learning mindset and a habit of questioning assumptions through rigorous testing
- Innovative thinking; develop the ability to improvise and address business problems and translate data into practice
- Perspective-taking: the ability to analyze a problem through a variety of different lenses
- Self-monitoring and metacognition
- Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish leadership challenges
- Financing an internal venture: cash flow, sources of capital
- Negotiations: establishing positions, analyzing bargaining power, conducting high-stakes negotiations
- Competitive strategy including alliance and competitive positioning
- Market entry strategy including customer selection
- Frameworks for strategic competition and cooperation
- Pitching and persuasion: pitching new ideas and persuading stakeholders of the value of your business concept
- Understand the sources of strategic advantages and weaknesses
- Convert data into insights through understanding the questions to ask, the limits of the data, and the stories the data tells
- Understand how to deploy quantitative solutions to make real-time decisions that drive measurable improvement
- Building quantitative models and Machine Learning solutions to predict the future and make critical business decisions
- Leading and building a series of successful teams
- Leading during a time of uncertainty and change
- Persuading stakeholders through analysis and strategy
- Hands-on experience in maximizing your firm’s competitive advantage
- Addressing strategic uncertainty through experimentation
- Practicing gathering and evaluating data
- Experiencing the types of data that are generated by business experiments: surveys, market tests, and interviews
- Engaging with critical stakeholders in high-stakes settings: managers, customers, and employees
- Navigating through common points of failure for internal ventures: team conflict, scaling, and process loss
- Making decisions based on quantitative analysis using Machine Learning models
- Analytical thinking: the ability to analyze and frame problems
- Learning orientation; develop a proactive learning mindset and a habit of questioning assumptions through rigorous testing
- Innovative thinking; develop the ability to improvise and address business problems and translate data into practice
- Perspective-taking: the ability to analyze a problem through a variety of different lenses
- Self-monitoring and metacognition
- Self-efficacy and the confidence to accomplish leadership challenges
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