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This is an advanced management program designed to spark self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration, this advanced leadership course features global case studies, personal assessments and feedback, professional one-on-one coaching, and an array of industry guest speakers. You will build the management skills and global perspective to sustain both corporate and competitive advantage.

 

Collaborating with USILD thought leaders, a wide range of diverse group of senior executives from around the world, and a professional USILD Executive Coach, you will be equipped and empowered with tools take you into deep-dive of the complex responsibilities and operational challenges of global leadership.

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Measure, analyze, and drive corporate performance

• Deepen your understanding of financial reporting, capital investment decision-making, and performance

• Evaluate financial statements and recognize important strengths and red flags

• Assess financial plans and your firm's financing needs

• Analyze the approaches used to evaluate capital investment decisions

• Explore the core principles of accrual accounting, cost accounting, and control systems

• Examine ratio analysis, activity-based costing, the Balanced Scorecard, and risk management

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Lead in the global economy

• Identify the regional trajectories of growth, development, and governmental strategies that are leading the world economy toward globalization

• Analyze a country's economic performance, evaluate the social and political context, identify its key institutional strengths and weaknesses, and assess its government's strategy

• Examine national income accounting and balance of payments accounting, inflation and real interest rates, total factor productivity, fiscal and monetary policy, income distribution, and foreign direct investment

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Develop a compelling strategy

• Align business activities to build competitive advantage and renew that advantage over time

• Set the direction of your business and craft its overarching strategy

• Evaluate the competitive forces that distinguish highly profitable industries

• Manage the relationship between the competitive strategy of a business unit and the corporate strategy of an enterprise

• Overcome challenges that arise when leading a company over time

• Take strategic actions today that will position your firm for success tomorrow

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Build competitive advantage through operations

• Derive extraordinary work from ordinary people by solving operational issues in quality, availability, and customer service

• Address current operational challenges and opportunities while anticipating future ones

• Recognize how you can pull the levers that drive operational excellence

• Compete on service excellence and new product and service introduction through a better understanding of customer needs

• Effectively communicate to investors about current operations and planned investments

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Lead your company and your career

• Advance your personal leadership skills and accelerate your role in building and leading a high-performing organization

• Align the organization's culture, structure, systems, and people to effectively implement your corporate strategy

• Integrate the skills, talents, and resources of individuals and teams to achieve organizational goals

• Overcome organizational inertia by mobilizing and driving change across your company

• Develop and communicate a vision for your organization and motivate people to fulfill it

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Plan and conduct successful negotiations

• Become a more effective negotiator by improving your analytical and tactical skills

• Design and execute agreements that create and sustain maximum value for all parties

• Resolve disputes and achieve superior outcomes, even when others are emotional or irrational

• Think strategically in a wide array of competitive contexts by anticipating the strategies of others

• Respond to differences in ethical standards during negotiations

• Work effectively with people whose backgrounds, perspectives, and values differ from yours

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Leverage the power of marketing

• Address the challenges inherent in the customer-facing functions of a firm

• Maximize marketing, sales, and service to create, communicate, and deliver customer and brand value in a global context

• Understand the importance of segmentation, targeting, and positioning in today's digital world

• Create value by engaging customers in the entire process—from product launch to product life cycle

• Develop effective marketing strategies by integrating new information and interactive technologies

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Master the essentials of corporate financial management

• Navigate the global financial system while creating, measuring, and managing value for your firm

• Gain a broader understanding of financial markets, institutions, and instruments

• Delve into the frontier issues of the global financial system

• Understand your critical role in the valuation of your company

• Analyze the opportunities for adding value to your organization

• Evaluate the risks of your decisions in an uncertain and turbulent environment

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Living/learning group work

A seven-week program creates the opportunity to build close, trusting relationships with a small, diverse group of peer executives who can understand your challenges—but are not part of your organization. Your living group will stimulate your learning each day as you:

• Absorb global insights by working with executives from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds

• Share diverse perspectives as you discuss cases and assignments

• Complete small group exercises and projects as a team

• Give and receive feedback and advice—both personal and professional—in a safe environment

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360-degree assessment

You will assess your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses through a 360-degree leadership and personality assessment.

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USILD executive coaching

Our distinctive coaching method is highly integrated into the program to accelerate both individual and team growth. During the first days of starting the program, you and your peers will meet with your coach to accelerate the living group process. Your coach will also help you assess your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses through two one-on-one sessions—one focused on your 360-degree leadership and personality assessment at the start of the program and another focused on your reentry strategy following the program. All coaching sessions are strictly confidential, giving you the freedom to share your personal goals and professional challenges.

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Elective sessions for professional and personal development

The program allows you to dig deeply into timely topics that are important to you and your company, such as corporate governance, entrepreneurship, strategic marketing, and digital strategy. In addition, a series of inspirational seminars helps to foster self-reflection and prompt you to rethink, redefine, and reinvigorate your individual leadership approach.

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Access to faculty

Members of the Advanced Management Program faculty are often available to meet with you one-on-one and provide new perspectives on your business challenges.

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Exclusive access to USILD resources

You will have exclusive access to unparalleled resources that you can use to extend your learning, investigate topics of personal and professional importance, and identify new learning objectives.

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• Usild Community of Leaders Global Network – This community keeps you connected with peers worldwide via webinars, renewal programs, conference-debates, and meetings. You also will have exclusive access to a wide array of support tools, resources, and videos of executive guest speakers.

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Exceptional lineup of industry guest speakers

You will have a unique opportunity to hear from some of the business world's most influential and innovative CEOs—often the case protagonists—who share how they overcame diverse business and leadership challenges. USILD thought leaders will be on hand to share their latest research, industry insights, and special expertise.

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