Executive Leadership Development Program

Senior executives are expected to demonstrate mastery of their roles, drawing from years of experience and a deep understanding of the organization. Despite this, a staggering 80% of executives feel their organizations lack the necessary skills and capabilities to meet their digital aspirations, critical for navigating the present and future landscape. Hence, an Executive Leadership Development Program offering genuine value becomes essential. Such a program should leverage your strengths while addressing challenges to unlock breakthrough performance, making it invaluable for aspiring leaders of the next era.

Program Objectives

• Build capabilities for leading cross-border teams across functions and countries.
• Build high-performing teams and become a more authentic leader.
• Strengthen business acumen in core areas such as finance, marketing, operations, management, and strategy.
• Obtain formal training and leadership development activities, resulting in a group of well-trained employees for leadership roles.
• Gain the right blend of soft skills and a strategic mindset to achieve specific performance outcomes at your organisation.
• Develop executive talent and leadership for individuals who demonstrate the ability and interest to advance to the next role in their leadership journey.

MODULES

MODULE 1: Organisation and Leadership Foundations

• Reflect on your organisation.
• Define your role as a leader.
• Leadership strategies
• Fundamentals in leadership
• Regional topics in the world economy

MODULE 2: Core Business Linkages

• Fundamental business skills
• Understand and lead the workforce.

MODULE 3: Accounting

• Demystifying financial statements
• Reporting
• Ask the right questions and talk numbers with confidence.
• Workings of financial statements
• Corporate financial reports
• Strategies for evaluating and linking earnings and cash flow to value creation.
• Corporate disclosures and nondisclosures
• Take advantage of allowable income-increasing strategies

MODULE 4: Finance

• Frame of reference used by financial officers.
• Challenges they encounter.
• Cash flow analysis
• Capital budgeting allocation.
• Capital structure analysis.
• Models for evaluating investment alternatives.
• Ranking of investment projects

MODULE 5: Marketing

• Moving beyond the fundamentals
• Adapting to new marketing strategies
• Case studies
• The impact of decision-driven marketing
• Design thinking
• Digital tools on the marketing function
• Impact on operating results

MODULE 6: Operations

• The strategic role of operations in financial success
• Systemic view of organisations as collections of business flows and supply chains
• Key metrics for targeting improvement.
• Operational and financial flows
• Strategic capacity investment
• Operational hedging

MODULE 7: Motivating Your Team

• Diagnostic approach to motivating your team.
• Explore your team alignment to company values.
• Your organization's motivation culture
• Discover impacts on performance.
• Techniques for assessing your team.
• Developing customized approaches to professional development
• The power of informal networks
• How to ensure your team’s success

MODULE 8: Leveraging Data for Business Decisions

• Data-based decision-making
• The future of your workforce
• Understanding the limits and upside of data analytics
• Machine intelligence
• The underlying structures designed to exploit data.
• Classroom exercises – critically analyze decisions around embedding intelligent automation.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded Cynet East Africa Consultancy certificate.

N/B

Online training available at USD 710.

Training will be facilitated by Cynet East Africa Consultancy seasoned trainers.