• Learn to mobilize resources and people to implement effective, winning strategies
• Gain insight into your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Acquire tools for creating compelling visions and strategies

Who Should Attend Leadership in Action-Hong Kong

Participants in the Leadership in Action program should be those with leadership ambitions and high potential for senior leadership positions. Executives from all functional areas and especially middle managers with increasingly broad responsibilities are best suited for this program. Individuals who have reached the country manager level and need to broaden into general managers or general managers who need to hone their leadership skills may also wish to consider the Senior Executive Leadership Program in Asia.

Benefits of Attending

Participants leave this program with:

• An enhanced understanding of the effective integration of multiple aspects of an organization
• Tools for creating compelling visions and strategies that can help guide organizational units
• Frameworks for enabling and mobilizing resources and people to implement effective, winning strategies
• Insights into personal leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Personal action plans to transform learning into results

Designed for high-potential managers headed for senior executive positions, the Leadership in Action program provides an overall picture of effective leadership at both the organizational and interpersonal level. Participants will take away the concepts and tools they need to step up to the next level of organizational leadership.

The Leadership in Action program has an intense, power-packed schedule. Participants will need to complete reading and assignments prior to the start of the program and should be prepared to devote full-time efforts during the program.

The following is a general description of the program:

Day 1: Creating Visions that Work and Inspire

The Dynamics of Leadership and Competition

• Globalization, growth, customer, and technology challenges
• Scanning the horizon for threats and opportunities

Visions--Creating New Mental Maps

• The power of visions and stretch
• Creating new mental maps
• Effectively communicating visions
• Case exercise on effective vision

Day 2: Setting Direction and Strategy

Setting Strategic Direction

• Meeting the challenge of globalization
• Targeting directions and avenues for growth
• Creating a customer-oriented culture

Ensuring Effective Implementation

• Leveraging alliances and joint ventures for growth
• Aligning the organization with the strategy
• Case study in structuring for global reach and local touch

Day 3: Mobilizing and Energizing the Organization

Managing Change

• Analyzing resistance to change
• Leveraging emotions for movement
• Aligning forces
• Case study in leading organizational change

Sustaining Movement

• Keys to effective motivation
• Case study in motivation
• Effectively leading teams

Day 4: Being Effective Interpersonally

The Derailment of Fast Trackers

• Blind spots and blind alleys
• Giving and receiving feedback effectively

Building Personal Capabilities

• Delegating for greater impact and results
• Keys to successful power and influence
• Effective Communication

Day 5: Developing a Personal Plan of Action

Charting the Course

• Assessment of personal leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Targeting organizational initiatives
• Integrating your leadership with the organization
• Peer consulting and feedback
• Mapping your future

The program fee includes tuition, books, instructional materials, and coffee breaks. Fee is payable in advance in US dollars and is subject to change. See our Cancellation, Transfer and Substitution Policy

Asia Pacific Regional Office
Unit 803, 8/F, Tower A, Manulife Financial Centre
223 Wai Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
Tel: 852.2509.9088
Fax: 852.2509.9228
Email: Executive Education, Hong Kong