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Course Overview

A highly interactive master class utilising seminar modules, focused workshops, clever comparative case studies, video clips, and role play to drive this programme, held over four days and to provide maximum impact and create positive input and enhancement. This is for existing and future business leaders who want to enhance their market and business awareness, their personal focus and gain recognition as potential high performance leaders in their chosen business areas.

Benefits Of Attending

• Play an extended and strategic role in leading your management team by enhancing your business intelligence and organisational skills
• Be the positive force in developing yourself, your people, your company and its future towards success
• Consistently innovate and reinvent to increase organisational effectiveness by developing your decision making skills to face challenges effectively

Learning Outcomes

The programme will provide all the participants with the skills and insights to develop their business acumen, to expand and develop their leadership, strategy and organisational capabilities and extend their own broader view on issues.

Participants will be able to understand themselves and others better and then to expand and capitalise on the learned skills to operate more effectively with their management teams.

Who Should Attend

• Directors and managers with high competence and commitment , and those who have high potential in the organisation and wish to strengthen and focus their business acumen
• Fast-tracked leaders with growing responsibility who wish to strengthen their business acumen, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills
• Managers of a functional area who are preparing for advancement into positions where a business wide perspective is required

Certification Criteria

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If, for any reason, you miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities

Course Methodology

Presented in several modules over four days, the programme maintains the balance between personal skills, leadership and business planning and organisational success throughout. It is informative and includes several highly interactive comparative case studies and workshops for all the participants.

In addition there is the opportunity to learn, discuss, and present in that case study format how other companies have been successful and identify through a series of video interviews how business leaders present their leadership styles.

Delivered by John

John brings extensive expertise as a strategy consultant, leadership coach, and facilitator with decades of international experience in markets across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. His work emphasises strategic business planning and implementation, enhancing organisational performance through dynamic strategy and market development programs tailored to various industries and cultural contexts.

Certified by CPD UK

The CPD Certification Service is an independent accreditation centre working across all sectors, disciplines and further learning applications and supports policies of institutional and professional organisations globally.

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