The Boston Advanced Leadership Programme

Introduction

Boston, in the US state of Massachusetts, is synonymous with the highest levels of academic excellence. With more than 52 institutions of higher education, Boston is home to some of the most prestigious centres of learning in the USA including Harvard, Tufts, Brandeis and Northeastern universities and the legendary Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), etc. Its pioneering research into leadership, management, organisational strategy, marketing and psychology make it the world’s leading centre of excellence for senior management development.

This stimulating GLOMACS training course entitled, The Boston Advanced Leadership Programme encapsulates the work of such Boston academic giants as John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Michael Porter, Howard Gardner, Alfred Chandler, Clayton M. Christensen and renowned experts such as Saleem Ali, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Rakesh Khurana, Amy Cuddy, etc., and applies their principles and techniques in a straightforward and highly practical way.

Consequently, this GLOMACS training programme will look in some depth at: displaying outstanding leadership, mastering the psychology of the workplace, developing a winning corporate strategy, introducing sustaining and disruptive innovations to your products and services and manifesting a compelling executive presence and gravitas at all times.

This GLOMACS Boston Advanced Leadership Programme will highlight for you:

• The five leadership approaches that are required in today’s organisations
• The psychology of influence, good communication and motivation
• The essence of effective strategic thinking, planning, implementation and monitoring
• The principles of disruptive change compared with competitive positioning
• How to manage the first impressions you make, choose your subsequent behaviours and curate your reputation to clearly signal your leadership legitimacy

Objectives

This GLOMACS training course is designed to help you:

• Select the most appropriate leadership style in any situation
• Understand the psychological functioning of individuals, groups and organisations
• Master the key elements of corporate strategic management
• Apply sustaining and disruptive innovation best practice to your services
• Clearly signal your suitability, over time, to be appointed to the most senior positions in your organisation

Training Methodology

This GLOMACS training course will use a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, role plays and syndicate discussions. Graphical materials and stimulating explanations will be used to introduce underlying models. A key part of the learning process is sharing the different experiences and insights you and the other participants bring, as well as experimenting with novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques.

Organisational Impact

The organisation will benefit from leaders who are:

• Skilled in using the most appropriate leadership style in any situation
• Able to use an understanding of workplace psychology to optimise the performance of their staff
• Trained to create, plan and implement robust organisational strategies
• Comfortable with introducing both ‘incremental’ or sustaining innovations and ‘stealthy’ or disruptive innovations
• Role models of the culture, values and goals of the organisation and who display a corporate reputation-enhancing executive presence
• Able to elicit higher levels of sustainable commitment and productivity from their staff

Personal Impact

You will be exposed to a range of different approaches to understand yourself and master a range of techniques to maximize your contribution at the most senior levels of your organisation. You will also acquire methods to enter into powerful and confident states at will and also ways to display effective political skills and executive presence. These competencies and insights can be used in many different areas of your professional and personal life and will make you considerably more successful and valuable in today’s highly competitive job market.