Leading & Managing Change: A Transformational Program

The hard stuff is easy; it’s the soft stuff that is hard. Ironically, it is in the fast-paced, global, hypercompetitive new economy that leadership and organizational flexibility are most needed. Many business leaders indicate that it is these vital “soft skills” that are most crucial to leading organizations and creating lasting change.
 
This dynamic “Leading and Managing Change” Program is specifically designed to help the Gulf’s leaders develop their skills as agents of change for their organizations and the region. Roberto Fernandez is a renowned professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department, which includes the School’s leadership, strategy and entrepreneurship programs.

Over the three-day program, Professor Fernandez will impart practical tools and vital insights gleaned from best practices of the world’s leading organizations and the latest research from a wide variety of fields associated with leadership. He will cover Leadership Perspectives and Tools (Day 1), Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities of Leading Change (Day 2), and Innovation and Change (Day 3).

PROGRAM TAKEAWAYS

• Effectively lead large-scale organizational change
• Improve your organization’s innovativeness
• Understand the psychological bases of organizational resistance to change
• Use the principles of persuasion commonly employed by successful leaders
• Apply network ideas when leading change
• Successfully and productively manage conflict and tensions among your subordinates
• Manage organizational overload and firefighting
• Make better decisions based on cutting-edge research from the emerging field of brain science
• Maximize the benefits – while minimizing the costs – of managing groups and teams
• Capture opportunities and mitigate threats associated with technological change
• Glean best practices from the experiences of other participants