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The Emerging Leaders Programme gives you a broader strategic understanding of the business, greater self-awareness and the enhanced skills to make things happen. Participants gain the capability, credibility and confidence to influence key stakeholders in order to make things happen beyond the immediate scope of their role.

Developing a critical understanding of yourself and the impact you have on other people is key to becoming effective as you progress in your management career. The Emerging Leaders Programme will give you a powerful picture of who you are and how others interpret your actions. Working with your peers in cross-cultural teams to achieve results gives you a unique chance to use and improve your skills in influencing and directing others. Crucially, you'll be given feedback from skilled coaches on your team interaction so that you can define specific learning objectives.

At this stage in your career, you need to understand your contribution to the broader strategic objectives of your company, to develop innovative solutions in your business environment that deliver value. You'll appreciate how different areas of the organisation connect, understanding the contribution of other functional management areas. As a result, you'll be able to see how your personal area of responsibility fits with the strategic direction of the business. The Emerging Leaders Programme takes your new knowledge and pushes you to apply this in a variety of practical assignments. The strategic audit and business simulation will enable you to integrate the functional management areas, encouraging you to use more rigour and consistency in your business decision-making.

The less experienced manager tends to succeed through sound technical skills and strong motivation to get the job done themselves. Making the transition to a management role requires a step-change in performance and the ability to make things happen through other people. Achieving results becomes a matter of creating a common understanding of the task at hand as well as setting ambitious and achievable objectives as a team. The Emerging Leaders Programme will help you to understand your team responsibilities and the shifts in behaviour required to become truly effective. Hands-on experience of working in a virtual team and guided support from skilled coaches will help you build a sense of your value, boost your confidence in your managerial knowledge and build your leadership skills. The programme sessions cover fundamental knowledge of how individuals and teams function in organisations, focusing on the skills needed to take effective action.

For further information on the Emerging Leaders programme, download the brochure. Alternatively email Tim Pearson in our dedicated client services team or phone him on +44 (0)20 7000 7391. You can also arrange to speak to programme director, Pegram Harrison by filling in this form.

• Feasibility study
  You'll be assigned a company to investigate, giving you the opportunity to apply your new strategic knowledge and industry analysis skills. You and your team will prepare an audit report, combining your business know-how and skills acquired from the first week of the programme. Each group will then present its findings to the rest of the class and faculty members.
• Business simulation in virtual teams
  You'll work together to build your market share within a simulated industry situation. To succeed as a company, you must develop an integrated approach to problem solving and work together efficiently and effectively as a team, whilst spread across the globe. Producing competitor analysis and financial plans, you'll work to refine your strategy to meet the challenges of a changing and competitive environment. The practical application of skills ensures that the insights learned in the classroom are understood and immediately usable in your workplace. The simulation runs between the two residential modules and you will use London Business School's virtual learning environment to share information and work with your team members around the world.
• Workplace challenges
  You'll be asked to find an assignment where you can apply your new business knowledge back in the workplace. Between the modules you'll then have the opportunity to discuss your challenge with your line manager and find a sponsor to help you implement the project. Returning for the second module you'll report back on your progress. Companies who nominate small groups of participants can tailor a group assignment specific to their business.

Emerging Leaders Programme Overview

• Individual application review and interview with Programme Director
• Pre-reading and preparation via virtual learning website.

Developing self-awareness

• The leadership challenge - Learning Journal I: Understanding yourself
• Strategy
• Marketing 
• Weekend One
  Optional Introduction to Finance and Accounting.

Applying business know-how

• The leadership challenge:
• Team effectiveness
• Learning journals II: You in a team
• One-to-one with a coach
• Understanding team dynamics
• Understanding organisational success
• Measuring performance
• Planning and budgeting.

Six weeks back in the workplace

• Business simulation in virtual teams
• One-to-one meeting with your line manager to discuss application of the learning
• Strategic analysis of your company or client company
• Feasabilty study.

• Making thing happen
  - Business simulation debrief

• The leadership challenge
  - Learning journal III: You as a leader
  - One-on-one with a coach

• Making it happen: 
  - Competitive negotiations
  - Integrative negotiations
  - The negotiation players and context
  - Feedback and presentation skills
  - Group processes and influencing
  - Strategy in action, the challenge of implementing strategy
  - Taking up the leadership challenge
  - Graduation and celebration.

• Follow up one-to-one phone calls, two and six months after the programme

For further programme timetable information download the brochure

More than a business education
The Emerging Leaders Programme is more than a business education and is an intensive and challenging learning experience in a highly international and social environment. Intensive team work lies at the heart of the programme and you'll learn from the range of cultures, personalities and functions represented. You will also have the opportunity to fully immerse in the school community and the London location, taking advantage of the unique multinational, multi-cultural learning environment.

Emerging Leaders Programme team
We have an Emerging Leaders Programme team dedicated to meeting your needs. You'll have a direct point of contact with either a representative from our client services team, Programme Director, programme manager at the enquiry, application and accepted stage of the process.

For further information on the Emerging Leaders programme, download the brochure. Alternatively email Tim Pearson in our dedicated client services team or phone him on +44 (0)20 7000 7391. You can also arrange to speak to programme director, Pegram Harrison by filling in this form.