Rising to the challenge

Wednesday 25th November 2009

If your organisation needs to reposition itself in order to induce business, there is only one way of going about it, you must acquire the knowledge

When we face up to a challenge, it is the first step in doing something about it. Facing reality and taking action is the key to getting through unforeseen changes in the climate around us. Instead of a single-minded focus on what it is that has caused the challenges to escalate, leaders need to adapt their methodology.

Taking place between Wednesday February 24 and Friday February 26, Stanford Business School’s ‘Leading In Challenging Times’ is designed to help you lead your organisation in today’s economic climate. We have all had to adapt to the climate around us, and this programme highlights a set of tried-and-true principles to help you run your business. This two-day programme is being launched in February 2010 as a brand-new addition to the already comprehensive collection of programmes currently offered.

Efficiency and effectiveness are as important as ever, and the programme starts by introducing several cutting-edge practices to lead employees. As business challenges mount and global competition intensifies, leaders need to essentially “do more with less”. ‘Leading In Challenging Times’ promotes a rethinking of business, whereby leaders are endowed with the tools and information to discover new ways to extract more value from their operations.

Decreased budgets and increased pressure to perform forms the staple of the problem faced by leaders in today’s market. ‘Leading In Challenging Times’ is designed specifically for business and public sector leaders, helping executives under pressure find new ways to identify and create value in their firms.

Over the course of the programme, participants are taken through a reconsideration of their existing approaches to personnel management, motivation and collaboration. The concentrated form of the two days leaves leaders with fresh insight on how to address their most significant leadership challenges in today’s climate. Their future actions are detailed with an action plan customised to suit their unique situation and goals.

“Managers keep asking about what they can do to effectively lead their workforce in these challenging times,” says Stanford Business School’s Faculty Director, Francis Flynn. “What many of them need are new methods of management that offer a fresh take on classic problems of motivation, developing talent, and collaborating with others. This program is designed with that goal in mind.”

Recently ranked first by Forbes in its sixth biennial ranking of business schools in 2009, Stanford Business School’s ‘Leading In Challenging Times’ programme is a timely addition to the current repertoire and the problems you face as leaders.

Stanford’s ‘Leading In Challenging Times programme’, running next February, gives participants a number of takeaways. Firstly, it provides and facilitates frameworks for making sound decisions in the face of difficult financial challenges. Secondly, participants can take away new method of motivating employees to work not only harder, but smarter, with resources at their disposal. The third key takeaway from the programme is tool-specific; participants are endowed with the tools to foster and sustain a supportive organisational culture, even in tough times.

Programme running dates: February 24 - 26, 2010
Application deadline: February 1, 2010
Programme tuition: $4,900

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