Global Executive Leadership Competency & Training
Achieving leadership excellence is a journey. Knowing your destination provides the goal and having the tools to get there is critical. The IBEM framework provides that destination – a goal and an ideal set of skills, abilities, characteristics and behaviours that leaders need to operate most effectively in our global context today.
IBEM’s Executive Support service is a cost-effective solution to short or medium-term gaps in company’ Executive management teams. It is aimed at sharing within reach a level of practical Executive experience, knowledge and skill relevant to the requirements of enterprises.
IBEM will activate your ability to lead strategically. The transition to strategic leadership requires a new set of skills. You will learn these key competencies and how to apply them when you return to work.
- Understand and practise how to lead through coaching, rather than dictating.
- Clarify your own strengths and weaknesses and how they affect your ability to be a good strategic leader.
- Improve your ability to empower others and get the best out of them.
- Inject a sense of purpose into your work and understand its critical role in inspiring your team.
- Master the fundamentals of behavioral change – why it’s so difficult and how to make it work for you.
- Benefit from high-impact group coaching sessions and feedback. A 360 review and a personal development tool will help guide your leadership approach.
- Develop an individual action plan in a one-to-one session with an executive coach.
- Gain new perspectives, informed by a world-class peer group.
Why is this good for your organisation:
- Turn your managers into exceptional leaders.
- Invigorate your people with a clear purpose.
- Make change work for you and use it to improve performance.
- Create a culture that rewards bravery and initiative.
- Energise your executives and managers with innovative strategic thinking.
- Boost performance and effectiveness in an era of continuous change and virtual or hybrid teams
Learning with IBEM
What you will learn
- Find out what strategic leadership means and how it differs from operational management. Clarify your own strengths and weaknesses and understand how they can impede or improve your ability to be a successful, strategic leader. Discover the most common pitfalls for managers when faced with a strategic leadership role.
- Learn how to forge effective connections with others. High-quality relationships are fundamental to succeeding as a leader, particularly at a time of great physical and digital disruption. Learn how to form strong relationships with team members, clients and external stakeholders, to help you gain influence at work.
- Understand how to lead change. Deep dive into into the fundamentals of behavioural change, find out why it’s hard, and how to make it work for you.
- Explore your unique path to becoming a great leader by leveraging your authentic self. Through integrated feedback provided by colleagues, friends, family and yourself, you’ll gain invaluable insight into the leadership style that is most effective for you.
How you will learn
- Discover an active and experiential programme that uses real-life situations to build skills.
- Become immersed in group discussions revolving around real-world experiences of leading digital or hybrid teams.
- Join highly interactive sessions that build improvisation skills, including techniques to manage difficult situations and conversations.
- Experience a powerful personal development tool and discover how to showcase your best self in every situation.
- Learn from internationally renowned faculty as they showcase the power of personal identity for leaders.
- Benefit from individual and group coaching sessions to help you adapt what you’ve learnt to your personal leadership needs.
- Explore informative feedback from colleagues on your leadership style.
- Create a customised action plan to put what you’ve learnt into action.
- Gain a toolkit of performance-support materials to use following completion of the programme.
- Continue your learning journey with follow-up coaching to help you stay on track.
The IBEM learning experience
- Learn from some of the world’s brightest leadership thinkers on hierarchy, relationships and decision-making, will show you the benefits of good workplace relationships and how to create them. Leading change, leadership development and employee engagement, will help you inject purpose into your work and guide you through effective techniques to manage change.
- Advance your leadership skills by mastering three key pillars: start with yourself, create connections and lead change.
- Define your personal and organisational priorities with the help of an executive coach and 360 feedback.
- Acquire a coaching mentality to build high-performing, more self-directing teams.
- Put an end to business-as-usual approaches using new, global perspectives informed by a diverse and uniquely talented peer group.
Adaptation and Innovation
Enjoy & manage ongoing challenges ~ Show curiosity & creativity ~ Be interested in life-long learning & social interactions ~ Work independently/be self-reliant ~ Observe patterns of change & adjust to these shifts ~ Be improvement oriented ~ Display self-efficacy, functioning well in stressful or unexpected situations ~ Maintain balance between adaptation & own cultural identity ~ Be self-sacrificial, resilient, dedicated, flexible, a critical thinker & a risk-taker ~ Adapt to work in a new/different environment ~ Be open-minded & receptive to new ideas ~ Possess a sense of humour.
Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
Understand cultural dimensions & the relationship of history, values, religion, culture, & gender norms to people, their societal systems & leadership expectations ~ Observe mindfully ~ Conceptualize & interpret situations ~ Recognize own assumptions & unconscious bias ~ Adapt behaviour to act appropriately & successfully ~ Show respect & unpretentiousness ~ Demonstrate positive moral perceptions ~ Possess realistic views specific to an ethnicity or host country/culture ~ Understand power dynamics.
Relationship Building Skills
Be aware of & sensitive to others’ perceptions and concerns ~ Foster cooperation & collaboration ~ Strengthen others by recognizing contributions & encouraging capability ~ Manage conflict & difficult personalities ~ Be supportive ~ Mentor & coach ~ Possess strong oral & written communication ability, facilitation skills, creative problem solving capacity, solid negotiation & social skills ~ Be a team integrator~ Inspire trust ~ Earn respect ~ Know when to lead and when to follow ~ Show dignity, integrity, authenticity & humility ~ Be honest, sincere & fair.
Analytical and Emotional Intelligence (IQ & EQ)
Know own values & beliefs & operate with a clear personal code of ethics ~ Be mindful of own motivations/expectations of life in or working with another country/culture or ethnic group ~ Possess solid cognitive ability ~ Maintain positive & enthusiastic attitude ~ Show good judgement ~ Be able to manage ambiguity ~ Set high level of performance & excellence ~ Be open to constructive criticism ~ Exercise self-care, management & understand own limits ~ Learn from mistakes and experience ~ Model exemplary behaviour ~ Possess self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-confidence, social awareness, patience & determination.
Intercultural Communication
Understand diversity within & between cultures ~ Analyze situations appropriately ~ Communicate clearly & convincingly (verbal, non-verbal & written, multi-lingual, using new technologies & appropriate medium) ~ Practice observational, networking & advocacy skills, ~ Communicate expectations & principles for excellence ~ Empower others towards shared/common vision of the future ~ Give & receive suitably, constructive feedback ~ Use diplomatic conflict resolution, active listening & precision questioning ~ Display empathy & openness ~ Be inspirational, motivational & trustworthy.
Our bespoke approach embraces the following key core guidelines:
- Core Leadership Principles
- Setting Performance Expectations
- Providing Constructive Feedback
- Taking Corrective Action
- Effective Listening
- Positive Reinforcement, for leaders with more advanced demands on their capabilities we offer additional skills training with emphasis on the following core skills:
- Moving from compliance to Commitment
- Building a Foundation of Trust
- The Human Resources Pyramid
- Resolving Conflicts and Differences
- Leading and Managing Teams
- Managing Change
And through our approach we seek to assist executives and executive teams to find answers to the following key future challenges that we all face, amongst others:
- Why businesses fail faster than ever—and what you can do to future-proof your organization
- Mastering the 3 Horizons of Growth: Balancing core business, transformation, and innovation
- Business Model Innovation: How to build models that drive real competitive advantage
- Customer-Centric Innovation: How to uncover important but unmet needs
- Culture as the hidden force of transformation—and why most leaders ignore it
- The number ONE success factor in digital transformation (hint: it’s not technology)
- Smart Portfolio Allocation: How much do you need to change, and where should you invest?
