Our 12-day development programme is for senior leaders in medium and mid-sized businesses* who have the drive and ambition to take their business to the next level.
Leading Business Growth
For the Change Makers
Contents
If you’re ready to innovate & implement new ideas, welcome to WBS.
4
The aim of the programme
6
Critical business themes
For the Change Makers.
7
Your own business challenge
8
Benefits for you and for your business
10
The workshops
12
Our faculty
14
Talk to us
14
Apply today
2
3
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
Are you a leader who has the drive and ambition to take your business to the next level? The Leading Business Growth programme will provide you with the time and space to step back and develop fresh perspectives on your role and how you take your business forward. The part-time executive development programme is designed to leverage both the internationally renowned expertise of Warwick’s faculty as well as opportunities to learn from fellow delegates representing a wide variety of backgrounds. The experience will prove to be thought provoking, challenging, enjoyable and ultimately rewarding. We will engage directly with you and your business to address challenges in key areas of innovation, productivity, digital transformation, strategic and organisational resilience, and leadership. You will also focus on your personal impact as a leader, exploring how you can adapt and evolve your leadership to meet the challenges your business faces. During the six workshops, you will test your ideas and refine your thinking with the support and input of Warwick Business School’s world renowned faculty. You will also leverage the experience and insights of peers on the programme, and industry leaders invited as guest speakers. Build resilience and create sustained growth for your business
“At WBS, we have a wealth of experience in working with organisations, large and small, across the world leveraging the extensive knowledge of our faculty and network. Our Leading Business Growth programme pulls together this experience to provide a thought provoking, challenging, yet ultimately rewarding experience, helping you find answers to your business challenges.”
Alan Matcham Course Director
4
5
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
You will focus on critical business themes
You will work on your own business challenge
Five cross-cutting themes, that are critical to business performance in today’s economy, will inform and shape the content of each workshop. These include key drivers of change that every business leader needs to understand and grapple with, as well as enablers of growth.
A major benefit of joining the programme will be the space it provides for you to think more strategically about the critical issues you are facing at work. You will have a new forum and network to draw on as you work through a key ‘workplace strategic challenge’, maximising the opportunity for change and improvement.
Our faculty team will deliver the latest research insights in a practical and actionable format that will turn “next practice” into today’s way of working for your business.
This process is primarily an opportunity to do two things: ■ Apply the concepts from the programme to a real-life strategic challenge ■ Leverage the resources of the programme to deliver value and impact for your business.
Innovation For your business to thrive, innovation and improvement is crucial. How do you build organisational capability around innovation, an entrepreneurial mindset to carve out new markets, and achieve success in a highly competitive and rapidly changing landscape?
Executive coaching One-to-one executive coaching will provide the space you need to focus your strategic vision, sharpen your thinking, and reflect on your leadership style and areas for development.
Global business expertise You will learn from Warwick Business School’s passionate and engaging faculty, who will push, encourage and champion you to develop your thinking, resilience and leadership. You will also gain access to key business leaders as speakers, and as part of the wider WBS business network.
Productivity Generating productivity growth is a primary goal for the best managed companies. Investing in technology, process innovation and skill building, while embracing leadership and management best practice to achieve a high-performance workplace, are all keys to competing successfully.
Your workplace strategic challenge
Digital What opportunities does technological progress in the fields of artificial intelligence, blockchain, open APIs, big data, and platforms present for your business? How will this force incumbents and new entrants in your industry to rethink value creation and business model innovation?
A toolset for business impact Across the workshops, peer learning, coaching and your strategic challenge, you will develop insights, experiences and new skills drawn from the five themes. You will be encouraged to build these into your specific set of tools to achieve impact for your personal leadership growth, and to deliver for your business.
Peer learning This will be a key thread through the workshops and project process of the programme. You will discuss and debate ideas in a creative environment, peers will provide a sounding board and challenge for your new thinking. During each workshop a half- day will be set aside for you to meet in facilitated peer learning groups.
Resilience In a dynamic marketplace, the ability of an organisation to respond rapidly to new challenges and seize opportunities is key to sustained success. Does your business demonstrate the strategic adaptability, operational agility and leadership mindset that creates organisational resilience in the face of constant change?
Leadership How do we lead more effectively? How do we lead in a new kind of business environment? How has leadership itself changed? What does that mean for us individually and collectively as leaders?
6
7
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
Benefits of the programme
For you as a leader
For your business
“Everyone on the Leading Business Growth programme wants you to succeed and do well. I felt extremely comfortable sharing my thoughts and experiences in the room, and have developed a strong network of like- minded leaders. The course has introduced me to new skills and techniques that have helped me develop my leadership style, and also gain confidence in my own abilities. The programme has helped me to rediscover the joy of learning and the importance of lifelong learning.”
Develop strategic insights to accelerate growth and increase the value of your business
Challenge, refresh and reset how you think about your business
■
■
Learn with a group of peers from other sectors and industry backgrounds Take time out to reflect on your impact as a leader in challenging times
■
Identify a critical strategic challenge and produce a concrete action plan
■
Investigate unique industry insights and learn directly from high- performing organisations
■
■
Andy Mathias Marketing Manager, North Europe Region, Bridgestone Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Access talent resource from MBA and Masters students to action your ideas
■
Utilise executive coaching to support your personal leadership journey
■
Participate in the latest WBS professional networks and events to remain up-to-date
■
Acquire new frameworks and tools to enhance executive decision-making
■
Renew your vision, ambition, and energy to drive the business forward
Sharpen the organisational focus on productive innovation
■
■
Strengthen organisational agility and resilience
Grow your professional and personal networks alongside business leaders and global experts
■
■
8
9
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
The workshops
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Leading Forward
Driving Sustainable Growth
Critical Decision-making
Digital Adoption
Sustainable Future Organisations
Delivering Impact and Value
Winning engagement
Seizing opportunity
Informing action
Re-inventing the business
Implementation
Transforming culture
Two days
Two days
Two days
Two days
Two days
Two days
The forward challenge for business leaders is to address a context of exponential change, heightened uncertainty, increased complexity and new models of work in the digital age. Authentic, values-based leadership connects employees to purpose at all levels to maximise engagement and performance.
In an environment where technology and the digital landscape is driving rapid change, competitive advantage is transient and short-lived. Business leaders need to embed strategic agility to turn threat into opportunity and deliver sustainable business growth, whether in home markets, or internationally.
Leaders make decisions that profoundly influence and shape the future of the organisation. Mining the full potential of big data and analytics to turn into strategic insight, as well as leveraging the world of behavioural science to fully understand the human factors at work, will lead to higher quality decision-making.
Being a digital business is about organisational change at every level. It is not one project but a collection of all the strands that together will ‘instil’ digital into your organisation at every point; from the customer interface to digitising processes, to the supply chain and generating new sources of value for the business.
The future of work will be driven by learning and agility. Increasing collaboration and connectivity will wire your organisation to allow the easy flow of ideas and unlock pathways to quickly mobilise new initiatives.
You’ve got the knowledge, the tools, now is the time to put your new learning into practice. As well as working on you as a leader, at the core of the programme will be your work with faculty and colleagues to refine, develop and deliver responses to your strategic challenge. Progression of initiatives will be driven by the learning from workshop themes continually revisited in an applied context, your peer learning group engagement, and your personal leadership growth, to create impact within your business. This final event will bring together the strands of innovation, productivity, digital, resilience and leadership essential for sustainable growth. You will share the focus of your strategic challenges and identify the templates for future success, which you have built.
You will use advanced, evidence-based tools to analyse and evaluate your leadership practice. Identify and action new ways of leading forward to increase your personal and organisational impact as a leader for the future economy.
You will be equipped with cutting- edge strategic thinking tools, and will identify the dynamic organisational capabilities that form the bedrock of strategic agility and growth in fast- moving markets.
You will sharpen your strategic and financial decision-making, using critical sound reasoning, critical thinking and rigorous analysis. You will turn information into actioned knowledge, tracking through to advanced performance.
You will identify the most current digital questions / strands for your business – how, when and where they will impact, and the nature of the response required.
You will strengthen your capability to build, lead and shape organisational culture, and will create behaviours and norms that enable innovation and enhance organisational agility.
10
11
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
Our faculty
We believe that business should be used as a power for good. Our faculty of research and teaching academics are constantly striving for excellence in everything they do, from the latest ground-breaking research impacting society, to inspiring our students. Members of our faculty include:
Guest speakers include industry leaders from:
Piers Ibbotson Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group)
Christian Stadler Professor of Strategic Management (Strategy & International Business Group)
Alan Matcham Course Director
Pietro Micheli Professor of Business Performance & Innovation
Umar Taj Associate Professor of Behavioural Science
Tina Kiefer Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Dimitrios Spyridonidis Associate Professor (Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group)
Tina has worked extensively in executive education, with organisations ranging across different sectors, including banks (UBS), insurance companies (PatriaHelvetia, Deutscher Ring), the pharmaceutical industry, police forces (in UK and Canada), and government organisations (local Government, specialised service organisations) in different countries. Her research focus is on the daily experience of ongoing change and innovation, positive and negative emotional processes at work, justice processes, cultural implicit leadership theories, leadership behaviours in change, toxic and harmful work experiences’, and of budget cuts for public sector employees.
Umar’s interest lies in helping public and private institutions apply the latest insights from behavioural science to improve decision making. His current projects span the domains of HR, tech, health, finance, security, politics, education and international development. Umar is the founder of Nudgeathon™ - a crowd-sourcing platform in which diverse teams of stakeholders come together to find behavioural solutions to social problems. He is also the founder of Behaviour Insight™ - a tech-based behaviour change solution that systematically identifies barriers to behaviour change and guides the user to develop successful interventions. He delivers regular training and facilitation workshops and has provided his service to over 50 global institutions.
Christian Stadler is a Professor in Strategic Management. Prior to joining Warwick Business School he was at University of Bath School of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Innsbruck University.
Pietro has worked with over 50 organisations as mentor, consultant and trainer. These include: Amec, BAT, BP, British Energy, Emirates Group, KLM, Morgan Carbon, Orange, Shell, Veolia Water, Wartsila, Council of Europe, UK Department of Health, House of Lords, National Audit Office, UAE Government and the United Nations. Pietro’s research and consulting interests focus in two main areas – design and innovation management. He has worked in the areas of design thinking, strategic design and new product development.
In 1990, Piers became an Assistant Director with the Royal Shakespeare Company working alongside some of the best directing talent in the British theatre. It was this experience, observing the techniques and approaches of directors, working to tight deadlines with dynamic creative groups that began his interest in the transfer of skills from the Arts to Business. Piers set up his own training and development consultancy in 1998 and became a regular contributor to senior management programmes in the UK and around the world, introducing leaders and senior managers to concepts and techniques from the creative arts.
PA Consulting
Alan is an internationally experienced educator, programme director, speaker, author and facilitator. He designs and delivers experiences which help business leaders and managers find more helpful ways of thinking and behaving in the face of an exponentially changing world. Alan is a former Executive Director of the Management Innovation Lab (MLab) at London Business School an applied learning centre dedicated to identifying new models of management fit for the 21st century. He was also a former Director of the Leading-Edge Forum Executive Programme, a global research organisation dedicated to addressing the key issues at the intersection of business and technology.
Prior to joining Warwick Business School, Dimitrios was at Henley Business School and Imperial College London. Dimitrios has taught leadership and leadership development around the globe including UK, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, Malaysia and Hong Kong. At Warwick Business School, Dimitrios is the Programme Director of the Executive MBA and the Executive Diploma in Strategic Leadership. Dimitrios is at present on the editorial board of Human Relations. Dimitrios’ core research interests are Leadership and Innovation.
■
April Strategy
■
HM Prison & Probation Service
■
The Rainmakers Group
■
Christian addresses fundamental strategic questions that enable
companies to grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors. His research
AI Professional Services
■
examines how organisations can achieve sustainable competitive advantage. In 2021 Thinkers50 shortlisted Christian for the Strategy Award.
Sportech PLC
■
Sainsburys
■
12
13
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
Talk to us
Apply today
Meet Us Choosing where and what to study is a big decision and one of the best ways to help you decide is by meeting us in person, or online. 1-2-1 Chat Book an online 1-2-1 chat with our Business Development team, to discuss how the programme can deliver new leadership thinking and drive your organisation forward. Book a 1-2-1 chat: wbs.ac.uk/go/executive121 Open events and taster lectures We host several Executive Education Taster Lectures throughout the year, to give you a taste of what studying with us is really like. Take a look in our events calendar below to find one that suits you. wbs.ac.uk/go/events
Applications are made online and once received will be reviewed by our team. We will then contact you for a consultation on joining the programme. We are always happy to talk through any queries, and support on building a business case for programme applicants. For the latest fees and funding information, start dates and entry requirements please visit our website: wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
W
To apply please visit wbs.ac.uk/go/LBGApply W
W
I decided to embark on the Leading Business Growth programme because I was both interested in the theory and practical application of management and leadership, learning from experts in their field. I wanted to learn more about how I could involve the team in decision and solution making processes The course gave me lots to reflect on including how to give myself the time to make decisions, and to focus, as well as how I can help others to develop and lead. It also taught me that when things go wrong, it isn’t necessarily a failure, and there shouldn’t be a blame culture, instead we should take learnings from the situation. The course has given me the confidence to trust in myself and others. The speakers and contributors were so valuable and inspiring and the discussions we had were extremely insightful.” Andrew Taylor Head of Conferences at Warwick Conferences
“
T +44 (0)24 7652 4395 E execed@wbs.ac.uk
Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL
Georgina Lewis Recruitment & Business Development Executive georgina.lewis@wbs.ac.uk
14
15
Warwick Business School Leading Business Growth
wbs.ac.uk/go/lbg
M69
M1
M6
Birmingham
Coventry
M5
Rugby
M42
M40
Leamington
Stratford
Worcester
Distance Learning MBA ranked 1st in the UK 2nd in the world Financial Times’ Online MBA Ranking 2023.
Full-time MBA ranked 1st in the UK and 2nd in the world 2022 Better World MBA Ranking
First UK business school to be triple accredited and to receive the Athena SWAN Silver Award for improving gender equality
Page 1 Page 2-3 Page 4-5 Page 6-7 Page 8-9 Page 10-11 Page 12-13 Page 14-15 Page 16Made with FlippingBook Learn more on our blog