Senior Executive Leadership Program—India

The first module provides an overview of critical business issues and topics that you will examine in greater depth in subsequent modules, including:

• Strategy: Looking critically at your business as a whole; evaluating your company's capabilities, advantages, potential, and challenges in the context of the global economy; and cultivating new sources of value and advantage
• Leadership: Building your capabilities in the context of the leader's multifaceted role; becoming a more effective negotiator; leading authentically and ethically while creating a more accountable organization; and driving changes that generate performance and shareholder value
• Innovation: Becoming an entrepreneurial leader; leveraging design thinking and improving
your organization's ability to innovate; and taking full advantage of digital technologies and related opportunities
• Globalization: Gaining a broader understanding of the increasingly interconnected global economy and how global conditions affect your company's opportunities and challenges in both developed and emerging markets

Diving deeply into the case method of learning, you will open yourself to new insights as you work individually, in small groups, and in the larger classroom. You will begin working on your Value Mapping Strategy Project and also use a detailed questionnaire as the basis for starting work with your personal coach.

You will examine how successful companies build the capabilities to create customer value and sustain competitive advantage. In the process, you will expand your ability to define, measure, and monitor performance—and align your company's operations to achieve its strategic objectives.

• Design sound competitive strategies and growth plans
• Deliver more value to customers—and corporate stakeholders
• Empower employees and align service levels and cultures with strategic choices
• Translate corporate mission and business strategy into a comprehensive set of performance targets and measures
• Balance economic, social, and governance goals while managing risk

You will focus on improving your personal performance as a leader and refining a key executive skill—negotiating. Examining multiple dimensions of innovation, you will learn how open, creative, and exploratory thinking can contribute to both personal and organizational success.

• Adapt your leadership style to your organization's needs while managing competing demands on your time
• Expand your ability to manage yourself, your team, and your internal and external networks
• Negotiate more effectively—in routine situations or in high-stakes deals on which your company's future depends
• Develop and sustain an empowered, entrepreneurial, and innovative culture
• Embrace the strategic and tactical opportunities presented by new technologies and trends

You will refine leadership strategies that can help you take your company forward. Reflecting on course themes and your leadership journey during the past year, you will delve into the nature of authentic, responsible leadership and prepare to continue growing as a leader throughout your career.

• Drive the changes that align your organization to achieve strategic goals while improving accountability
• Meet your organization's ongoing financial needs, ethical obligations, and legal requirements
• Foster effective teamwork by empowering and inspiring others
• Lead authentically with greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and integrity
• Balance work and home life and obtain greater satisfaction from your leadership role

A yearlong program creates the opportunity to build close, trusting relationships with a small, diverse group of peer executives who can understand your challenges—but are not part of your organization. Throughout the program, you will work with a small group of peers who will stimulate your learning as you:

• Absorb global insights by working with executives from different countries, cultures, and professional backgrounds
• Share diverse perspectives as you discuss cases and assignments
• Complete small group exercises and projects as a team
• Give and receive feedback and advice—both personal and professional—in a safe environment

While on the HBS campus in Boston, you will share accommodations with your living group, forging relationships that serve as a valuable source of peer feedback, support, and advice.

Each living group works with a professional coach to optimize group dynamics and maximize the value of the group learning experience. In addition, coaches work with you one-on-one to help you develop a personal leadership style that works for you.

Using the 360-degree leadership assessment and feedback tool as a starting point, your personal coach will work closely with you during Module 4 to identify your strengths, target areas for improvement, and help you develop a personal action plan for ongoing development. All coaching sessions are strictly confidential, giving you the freedom to share your personal goals and professional challenges.

Throughout the program, you will work on an individual Value Mapping Strategy Project that addresses a strategic challenge facing your organization. In the process, you will:

• Utilize a powerful framework for analyzing the value of your offering or business line, considering value from the customer's perspective
• Compare your own offering with those of competitors
• Refine your competitive strategy and develop a short presentation based on feedback from faculty, peers, and your personal coach
• Share your Value Mapping Strategy with your organization and team, and develop an action plan for driving the changes that will improve value and sustain success