World-class Management Programs

When the global economy is in crisis what are the things that will help grow your business? It is a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world these days and in order to lead a business successfully through it management has to be innovative, ambidextrous (that is cope with the present while developing strategies for the future) and agile.
The world’s best business schools from Wharton, Columbia, Michigan, ChicagoBooth and Berkeley and Stanford in the US through Oxford Sad, London Business School and Ashridge in the UK and acronymic INSEAD, IMD , IESE, ESADE and IE in mainland Europe to the emerging economies’ top management schools of CEIBS (in China), ISB (India), INSPER (Brazil), Skolkovo (Russia) they all are creating new management ideas and thought-leadership that can be translated quickly and effectively into businesses through their open and custom management programs.
Management programs at these and other leading business schools have transformed in recent years while some of the more technical topics of finance and some marketing are still very classroom based, the softer skills of leadership and general management programs are much more experiential. They blend some classroom knowledge-transfer’ time with practice-based learning, projects and experiential sessions. Increased understanding of adult learning and the advances in our concepts of how the brain operates is changing the way managers are developed.Business schools are leading the way in researching both what makes a good leader and how to make management take up these skills. Increasingly it is being understood by executive leadership development professionals that embedding leadership development skills into their executives is not something that can be achieved in a single short open management program, but needs to be built into the organisational environment (making the workplace a learning environment) where best leadership practice can be experimented and rehearsed on a daily basis. Like any other skill, playing the piano or public speaking say, it is only through practise and experience that improvement can be achieved.
The new approach to management development is much more engaging and experiential than before but none the less challenging for that. The impact from project and experiential learning is much greater and more enduring and the cost often lower, increasing management programs’ ROI across the board.
Other benefits of management development programs are the increased retention rates of participants in organisations which often is seen as greater engagement with the business too and this enthusiasm can positively transfer across whole departments to change workplace culture.Good leaders are the need of all business organizations whether big or small. Business schools are increasingly focusing on making great leaders with their excellent leadership programs developed by industry experts.
IEDP monitors the provision of world-class management programs from the world’s leading business schools. For more information on management programs of all shapes and sizes see www.iedp.com .
At this time of fluctuating economy, an ambidextrous management is the need of the hour. Some of the top management schools are creating new management programs that are more engaging and experiential than before.
The author has five years of experience as a management trainer in one of the leading management schools in the UK. He has been training a large number of business professionals from some of the top organisations the world over.