The BBS Executive Management Program is a nine-day management program for executives in demanding management positions. The program delivers deep insights into the principles of modern management and helps you:

• Understand your own leadership successes
• Give direction to your own areas of responsibility
• Recognize, from many examples, the impact of different management philosophies on performance and motivation
• Integrate new ideas and insights into your own leadership activities

Skillful leadership comprises two main spheres of action. First, the leader specifies the direction and designs systems that boost motivation and performance. Second, in the world of everyday business, effective leaders lead by example, following principles of leadership and motivating people, not in a contrived or artificial way, but authentically.

The first part of the program focuses on setting the direction and rules of the game in a way that develops the organization in the desired direction. This includes communicating the vision, developing the mission, articulating the strategy, structuring operations and shaping the corporate culture. The second part of the program covers the central themes of leadership: the qualities of the leader, leadership styles, issues around leadership behavior, communication, motivation and delegation. The third part explores ways to energize people and teams and strengthen implementation capacities.

• Experienced executives who have known leadership successes and seek new inputs in meeting their demanding management responsibilities
• Managers who provide direction and want to design effective systems
• Entrepreneurs, managers, top executives and members of the executive board

Business Mission

Employees want to know what is expected of them. Only when the company's basic objectives are clear to them do they feel empowered to contribute to the common goals. Nothing slows more than lack of direction. We show what a business mission needs to look like to motivate employees toward common results and lay the foundation for top performance.

From Vision to Strategy

Visions are usually vague ideas about the future. They are based on scenarios, trend research and intuition. Visions are good, but for daily business, they are usually too diffuse. The art of good leadership is to transform visions into precise strategies. We show how visions can be translated into strategies so that they can act as guides to move the company in the desired direction.

Developing Business Models

Once strategic guidelines are in place, individual business models need to be developed: for individual business units, products, groups of products or brands; for countries, branches, regions; for customer segments or distribution channels. Developing a successful business model requires entrepreneurial talent and business sense. Ideas need to be converted into profitable market positions, potential customers into satisfied customers.

Shaping Structures and Processes

The best business model will fail if the business structures and processes are too complex or designed wrong. Real leaders know how to plan for efficiency and avoid over-complexity.

Financial Consequences of New Strategies

Before a new strategy is put in motion, the financial consequences must be thought through. A key question: What are the likely effects of a new strategy on shareholder value?

Developing Core Competencies

New strategies require new capabilities. Developing new capabilities is, in part, everyone's responsibility and, in part, the responsibility of the individual leader, who functions as a coach. Talent needs to be discovered: young professionals are waiting for their chance to prove their mettle.

Leadership: An Executive Responsibility

As executives take on increasing responsibility, their share of management tasks drops, while their share of leadership tasks rises. By empowering others, leaders boost their impact and increase their personal productivity. This program shows what it means to lead others to success by removing yourself from operational matters and optimizing the overall performance of the organization.

Insights of Leadership Theory

Every leader develops a personal leadership style but, over time, many start taking their style for granted. This program encourages you to reflect on your leadership style in light of the latest insights from management theory.

Governance Models and Management Principles

Should every executive lead as she herself thinks is right? Or are certain principles and guidelines of leadership predetermined or fixed? If so, which ones and how?

Building Motivation

Everyone wants motivated employees. In practice, however, it is not easy to achieve and maintain a high degree of motivation among a wide variety of people over time. What should executives do to build above-average motivation?

Losing Motivation

It is much easier to destroy motivation than build it: one management mistake can undermine motivation. In order to avoid management errors, managers need to be able to recognize «leadership traps.» And when mistakes do happen, how does a «motivation repair» work?

Everyday Leadership

Leadership is demonstrated, in large part, in day-to-daybusiness: in the ability to deal confidently with different leadership situations, build trust, give praise, communicate effectively, listen actively, negotiate effectually and demand changes in behavior.

Change Management, Corporate Culture

The only constant is change. The skillful handling of regular change or change induced by strategic decisions often requires changes in attitudes and behavior, and always requires the willingness to give up the tried and tested. Work on corporate culture has become a central leadership task.

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