The Executive Experience
The
Executive Experience is a five-day, open enrollment
development session that focuses on business leadership that
achieves business results. Participants, working in groups, assume
senior management roles for a company. They analyze, make decisions,
plan, and experience the consequences of their decisions. In this
program participants do general management work and are given
considerable resources from which to reflect and learn from their
experience.
This is an intensive program that is often called
"life-changing."
Participants in The Executive
Experience are those identified as key people who
currently have accountability for (or have the potential for)
operating a company, a division, or a significant project.
Participants do the initial planning for a strategic project that is
assigned before the program. The project allows for immediate
application of the skills and concepts learned in the program. Most
important, the participant is given the resources and a systematic
model for understanding and developing general management functions.
As an additional option, clients receive an assessment of the
participant’s general management capability; this assessment is
based on observation of his or her actual performance during the
session, and interactions after the session ends.
Upon completion of The Executive Experience, participants
will be able to:
● Build cooperation among people.
● Diagnose and correct dysfunctional group dynamics.
● Bring people together to seize opportunity.
● Integrate opportunity into corporate strengths.
● Conduct business activities consistent with corporate strategy.
● Contribute to the formulation and implementation of corporate
strategy.
● Formulate policies which allow others to take major
responsibility.
● Articulate opportunity.
● Prepare a strategic plan.
● Formulate tactics.
● Operationalize plans.
● Focus personal development in specific areas.
In the business simulation, participants work
in small groups and assume responsibility for setting and executing
corporate strategy. Their function-specific and collective decisions
directly impact their businesses' performance and competitive
situation.
The participants are responsible for the general management of their
businesses and encounter many opportunities to reflect and learn
throughout their experience.
What Past Participants Are Saying
"This experience provides a different perspective of
the role of a manager and very different from what I have been
taught before. The logic is there and it explains why this process
works so successfully. This has been a wonderful experience."
"When I think back on the week and all the other conferences I have
attended — I am absolutely amazed at the level of emotional
involvement I experienced. Thank you for your guidance. This is by
far the most valuable experience of my career."
"This has been a tremendous experience. I really feel that I will be
much more effective than I was before. The tasks that I need to
accomplish are now crystal clear."
"The combination of the simulation with the clear concise
discussions of the issues being experienced and understanding the
true role of management and leadership made this session a
once-in-a-lifetime experience."
"WONDERFUL — thank you so much for investing your time and energy
into my professional growth."
"This is one of the few classes that has maintained such an intense
level of learning every day — the time flew — and each day was
amazing."
"Obviously my management skills were lacking when I started this
course. I hope I can find a position in which I have the opportunity
to put into practice what I have learned."
"It was very rewarding to learn more about management than I had in
the past — especially defining the key role of management. This has
also made me think critically about the management issues and
methods that occur within institutions."
Daily Schedule
The Executive Experience
places participants in senior management roles of a company. They
analyze, make decisions, plan, and experience the consequences of
the decisions they make.
Day 1
Introduction
The Mindset of Exceptional Leaders
Film: "Twelve O’clock High"
Leadership and Intervention
Business Case
Robin Hood, Inc.
Group Activity - Participants are divided into teams, assigned
individual roles and begin operating their simulated companies.
Day 2
Participants continue to operate their simulated
companies.
Seminars
Structure & Organization
Managerial
Policy
Day 3
Participants continue to operate their simulated
companies.
Chairman of the Board Reports
Business Case
The MacGregor Business System
Seminars
The
Corporate Perspective
The
Managerial Function
Cooperation
Day 4
Participants continue to operate their simulated
companies. Simulation ends in afternoon. Participants begin work on
Strategic Projects assigned by their companies.
Seminars
The Entrepreneurial Function
Incentives
The Executive Function
Leadership and Vision
Day 5
Group Activity - Participants work on
Strategic Project Planning, present plans and receive feedback.
Strategic Project Presentations
Seminars
Real World Issues
Surviving the Experience
Summary and Conclusion
What We Develop
THE EXCEPTIONAL MANAGER
MINDSET
Required Knowledge
Specifically, effective leaders know how to:
Identify opportunity
Determine what needs to be done to seize it
Bring people together to accomplish what needs to be done
Identify barriers to cooperation
Remove those barriers
Create and use a vision
Required Values
In addition, effective leaders consistently seek:
Achievement of the common end instead of personal success
Performance rather than popularity
Integrity rather than being right
Trust instead of control
Required Beliefs
Finally, effective leaders believe in:
Cooperation
Accountability
Responsibility
Free will choice
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE
CONTACT:
Kirk Hardcastle, President
816-868-6236
kirk.hardcastle@leaderscope.biz
"I have really seen the truth in the compensation and incentives content from The Executive Experience session. At the time, I disagreed with the concept and left the session skeptical. Since then, after using the concepts I learned, I see how incentives are misused and can easily get in the way of performance." |
Jim Weir CEO CompAlliance |