Course Methodology

This is a course rich with new ideas, concepts, and practical skills. It uses a combination of effective techniques that participants will enjoy and appreciate. The adopted techniques will include the following:

• Short lecturettes
• Case studies
• Team exercises
• Real life stories
• Discussions
• Video films

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Assess the attributes of greatness within organizations
• Adopt the leadership behaviors of humility and dedication
• Balance strategic choices with people choices
• Face any unpleasant organizational fact with faith of success
• Promote a culture of discipline and technological agility suitable across different employee generations

Target Audience

• Senior managers
• Middle managers
• Section heads

Target Competencies

• Leadership
• Strategic thinking
• Talent management
• Adaptability
• Organizational culture

Introduction

• The indicators of a great company
• The greatness principles
• The enemies of greatness
• The choice of greatness
• The transformation from good to great - a bamboo syndrome
• Case studies of some great companies (and why they aren't great anymore)

Leadership in great companies

• Level 5 leadership pyramid
• Humility - the X factor of great leadership
• The will beyond your will
• Difference between Level 4 and Level 5 Leaders
• Finding your leadership WHY
• The window and the mirror analogy
• The multiplicative impact of great leaders
• Some of the best CEOs of the world
• Assessing your organization's leadership

Strategic choices and people choices

• Hiring only the right people
• The cost of bad hires
• The clean-up: how to deal with not-so-great employees
• The character and abilities of the 'right' people
• Hiring for a cultural fit
• What comes first: the people or the path
• The Google model - recruitment vs. training

Truthful leadership

• The courage to face bad news
• A culture of integrity and transparency
• To whom you should listen and where you should seek information
• The faith vs. facts paradox
• Data-driven leadership
• Demotivating the right people
• The three dimensions of great organizations and great people
• Passion
• Talent
• Money
• The greatness council
• Who are the greatness council members
• The role of the greatness council

Discipline and technological agility

• The definition of organizational discipline
• Balancing discipline with intrapreneurship spirit
• The good-to-great matrix of organizational discipline
• The disciplined freedom - developing a 'stop doing' list
• Careful selection of the right technology
• Avoiding the technology trap