 At every phase in their careers, general managers assume a new realm of responsibilities and confront a unique set of challenges. The General Manager Program™ (TGMP) is a comprehensive Executive Education program designed to prepare business unit managers and country managers for recently acquired or expanded general management roles. In doing so, it also helps companies institute organizational learning and improve their ability to lead change.
By focusing primarily on the individual, The General Manager Program enables participants to step back from their day-to-day responsibilities; gain a broad, integrated perspective of general management; and examine the challenges before them. Specifically, the program helps them to understand their complex roles and how they encompass all organizational disciplines; learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; perform a working assessment of their respective business units; and formulate solutions to individual job challenges.
As this vital group of corporate managers takes the next step on the career ladder, the program's analytical approach teaches them how to strengthen their leadership capabilities, develop strategic decision-making skills, drive change, and build organizations positioned to compete globally.
Program Objectives
Developing great general managers is the overriding goal of The General Manager Program. Throughout the two parts, general managers develop a sound understanding of the crucial role that they play in the success of their companies. They return to their organizations with the knowledge and skills to competitively position their businesses well into the future.
In this highly interactive learning experience, participants will:
- Gain insight into the ways critical business processes evolve and interact to achieve objectives and to facilitate growth and profitability;
- Formulate an integrated business perspective based on an understanding of functional roles, systems, and processes that span inter- and intra-company boundaries;
- Sharpen strategic decision-making skills based on an understanding of how organizations operate, compete, and succeed;
- Enhance teamwork and collaborative skills by working effectively and creatively as both a team member and a leader to influence group processes and dynamics and to produce desired outcomes;
- Build and change organizational culture by creating conditions that motivate people to overcome barriers to achievement—and to work toward a shared vision;
- Formulate business strategies that draw on existing capabilities and capitalize on new opportunities; and
- Create results-oriented action plans to ensure individual success and organizational competitiveness in today's global marketplace.
Curriculum
Unlike conventional programs that address a series of functions, The General Manager Program takes a completely integrated approach to the general manager's demanding job, weaving key components around two basic challenges—diagnosis and action. The first part focuses on tools to examine the opportunities presented by the business that each participant must manage—and to develop a sensible agenda for moving forward. The second part concentrates on the forces affecting the general manager's ability to drive both action and change.
Part I: Understanding the General Manager's Role
- Overview The general manager is viewed as a strategist, an organization builder, and a doer. It is a huge, boundaryless job, and everything is relevant. The focus is on systematic approaches for getting the job done.
- In-Depth Assessments Frameworks are presented to assess the business position, possibilities, and needs of each participant as a general manager, including: competitive strategy, fundamental financial economics of the business, service profit chain, organizational dynamics and values, product and process innovation, drivers of financial health, performance measures, resource allocation, operational flexibility and innovation, negotiations, organizational capabilities, organizational learning and team building, portfolio of the firm, disruptive technology, and transformation.
Intervening Weeks
- Individual Implementation Back in their own organizations, participants begin applying the approaches and frameworks acquired in Part I to examine their businesses. As they tackle challenges and test solutions, they continue to collaborate with fellow participants and the faculty via the Internet.
Part II: Leading Fundamental Change
- Technology And Globalization
The program focuses on the impact of technology revolutions and the volatile global political economy on the internal processes and capabilities of companies, their products, and their markets. Given the ever-changing corporate context, the formidable challenges of driving fundamental change, integrating strategy globally, and leading entrepreneurial organizations are examined in-depth. Globalization also is studied through country analyses and management approaches specific to multinational companies.
- LEADERSHIP
This context of quantum change provides the setting for sizing up the personal and ethical challenges of leadership, as well as the scope of the general manager's job in managing transformation. Participants use in-depth case studies as well as structural and systems' tools, in their analyses of the many leaders discussed in the program.
Participant Mix
The General Manager Program is intended for managers of business or country units, who have demonstrated capabilities and proven leadership potential. Participants typically include a culturally diverse group of managers—from fast-track individuals in their first general management positions...to seasoned professionals taking on major, new general management assignments...to those about to assume the responsibilities of general manager. They represent multibillion-dollar global companies actively engaged in dynamic markets that demand fast, flexible, expert management. Companies are encouraged to sponsor several participants, thereby building a team of general managers that establishes a foundation for cross-organizational learning.
Date:
January 30 -February 25, 2005 Part I (Participants encouraged to arrive by January 26, 2005)
April 24 - May 13, 2005 Part II (Participants encouraged to arrive by April 20, 2005)
Fee - click here
Location - Boston, Massachusetts (Residential)
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