EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN LEADERSHIP & CHANGE MANAGEMENT FROM XLRI

The pace of change in organisations has increased manifold in recent times. Improvement in processes, structures, and systems is often being attempted to achieve better efficiency and effectiveness. However, it is known that most change initiatives fail to achieve their desired objectives. One of the reasons for the failure is the lack of skills among managers driving the change. While training their managers, organisations usually consider leadership development and developing skills for managing change as different challenges. Although most organisations train for leadership development, training for managing change is not given due importance.

If change programs are to succeed at the organisational level, they need ‘able’ managers with both leadership and change management concepts, tools, and techniques. Therefore, executives trained in both of these domains have a better chance of career advancement, as they can execute changes more successfully. Hence, leadership development and change management training should ideally go hand-in-hand.

With this philosophy, we designed the first such program in 2016, and have improved it after each batch. The programme, taught by various faculty of XLRI, will offer insight into theories and application of leadership and change management, emphasising reflections at an individual level and providing an ability to understand how organisations work. The programme is known for its participative pedagogy with many reflections/assessments into one’s leadership style, organisation, and change management, thus, providing opportunities to identify specific areas of improvement for career success.

Module 1 – Knowing Self

·                 Knowing yourself – Self-awareness and Self-management

·                 Knowing yourself – Strengths

·                 Knowing yourself – Emotional and social intelligence

Module 2 – Dealing with People at Workplace

·                 Delegating effectively and motivating people

·                 Building a high-performance team

·                 Managing interpersonal conflicts

·                 Decision Making and Biases

·                 Moral dilemmas and Ethical leadership

Module 3 – Organization Strategy Making, Diagnosis and Design:

·                 Understanding Customer Value

·                 Understanding organization strategy

·                 Stakeholder analysis and competitor analysis

·                 Organization structure and Design

·                 Conducting Organizational Diagnosis

·                 Understanding and diagnosing cultures

·                 Balanced Scorecard – Online Simulation by Harvard University

Module 4 – Managing Change at Workplace

·                 Understanding Change Contexts

·                 The process of managing change

·                 Power and Politics of Managing Change

·                 Organizational Change Simulation – Online by Harvard University

·                 The Psychology of change and Change Communication Narratives        

·                 Creating reliable sustainable processes

·                 Coaching and mentoring for managing change

·                 Building organizational participation for change – Tools

·                 Demand based session on contemporary management topics

·                 Recap, integration, and planning.

XLRI is one of India’s leading management school based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. Established in 1949 as the Xavier Labor Relations Institute, by Fr. Quinn Enright, XLRI is acknowledged as India’s oldest business management school.

XLRI with its single vision of Magis, i.e., pursuit of excellence, focuses on three areas: academic excellence, personal values and social concern. XLRI spares no effort to make its curriculum world-class and deliver it in the most effective manner. It constantly scans the developments in business and in society and tries to pro-act to meet the challenges. Its world-class faculty with its commitment and deep sense of service delivers the curriculum very effectively.

Consistently being acknowledged as the Best “HR Course” in Asia–Pacific, it has also been recognized for its research acumen by the London Business School and is ranked among top 5 research schools in India cutting across management and technical institutes. For more details, visit www.xlri.ac.in

XLRI features consistently among the top 5 business schools of the country. In 2012 XLRI was ranked No. 4 among top 75 B-schools in India across Private and Government sector by Outlook India. Among other rankings, it was ranked #5 by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18′ s Top B-Schools in India, #4 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2012, #3 by Business World B Schools Unplugged.

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