“The Berkeley Executive Leadership program will dramatically change the way I do my day to day work. It was exceptional! The program helped me take a step back and have a 360-degree overview of my leadership style, my organizational culture and the kind of mindset a leader needs to be successful.”
- Sabrina Mekhalfa, Senior Director of Finance, Oracle Corporation
Our unique one week business leadership development program begins with a baseline analysis of your organization's culture and your personal leadership style (with prior input from you and your colleagues). Through peer and professional coaching, we help you determine what you wish to change to improve the performance of your organization.
Throughout the week, you will work with accomplished peers, top UC Berkeley faculty, and industry thought leaders to create a personalized plan to unlock innovation and growth, create energy and urgency, and drive results. In addition, the program includes one-on-one sessions and feedback from our Executive Coaching Team.
You will return to your office with a practical, vetted plan you can put to use immediately.
Sessions
Day 1: Facing the Facts about You and Your Organization
Measuring your personal leadership style, and the culture of your organizationUsing two assessment tools—one for your personal leadership style, and another for your organizational culture, we will give you measurable, actionable insights into where you are today. The first assessment will focus on your dominant leadership styles—as reported by you, and as perceived by others. The second assessment will focus on the shared beliefs and behaviors of your organization—again, as reported by you and as perceived by others. We will examine the gaps between where your organization stands, and where you want to take it—and develop a plan to get where you want to go.
Day 2: Creating an Innovation and Growth Engine in Your Company
Developing your organizational culture and structure to foster innovation and growthThe business press is filled with stories of flash-in-the-pan innovation. But how do you, as a leader, assemble the tools, resources, and culture to create a repeatable pipeline of innovation for the long haul? Where everyone is on the prowl for the next thing that will make your company better? And how do you select and implement the best ideas so that you can reach your growth targets year after year? At the close of this session, you will be armed with tangible tools you can employ immediately, to create growth and enduring value. The evening of day two, you will have the first of three one-on-one coaching sessions with an experienced executive coach.
Day 3: Motivating and Energizing Your Organization
Pursuing opportunity and managing risk through disciplined, results-oriented collaborationContinuing from the prior discussion on building the foundation for growth in your organization, we will turn to the most common struggle executives face: keeping their people motivated and energized. Combining our faculty's extensive consulting experience with their cutting edge research, we will present a tested toolkit for creating and maintaining a high-performance culture, including recruiting, selecting, training, socializing, coaching, and recognizing employees who will drive top performance. Employing case studies and exercises, we will review the latest on how to frame risks and opportunities in a positive manner that mobilizes your teams; how to influence and persuade your stakeholders; how to create urgency and ownership; and, how to develop high potential talent.
Day 4: The Balancing Act: Your Current Business and Your Future Conquests
Motivating and energizing your organization, striving for excellence, and owning results at every levelIn this session, we will build on the tools and practices of the prior three days, and focus on industry practitioners who have put them to work in their organizations. What worked for them? What didn't work? And why? Through short case studies, you will work through a series of leadership challenges with current practitioners. How do you maintain success and momentum in current lines of business, while filling the pipeline with the products and services that will fuel tomorrow's growth? How do you balance discipline and urgency with flexibility? At the end of this session, you will have a clearer vision not only of best practice, but also what makes sense to implement at your organization.
Day 5: Communication, Influence, and Persuasion
Using best practices for working with people to get things doneAt high levels of power and influence, a leader must effectively reach and inspire people at all levels of the organization. Doing this well does not mean trying to change who you are, but it does require focused effort. Using a series of experiential exercises developed with generals in the US military, we will explore the nuances of interpersonal rapport, interpersonal status behaviors, and best practices for effective exercise of influence and persuasion across multiple levels of the organization. At the end of an intensive week, you will emerge with many plans –the next task will be to bring everyone along with you in your pursuit of excellence. The final day of our Executive Leadership training program will be devoted to preparing you.
