Leading the Way in Management Development

About

Leading the Way in Management Development takes place on demand. If you are interested in this workshop, contact Olga Veligurska at olga.veligurska"ceeman.org, to discuss possible dates.

In the fast-changing world of management development, it is crucial that leadership teams of educational institutions share the same perception of the main challenges and strategy, are able to develop comprehensive plans for dealing with external and internal changes, and work efficiently together to implement these plans.

This strategic retreat, designed by a group of experienced presidents and deans from CEEMAN member institutions, is intended to help top leadership teams of management schools (deans or directors attending with their top team members) to stress-test and fine-tune their strategies and plans. This is achieved through a series of Masterclasses on key issues that management development institutions are facing, extensive faculty coaching and peer-to-peer feedback.

The programs' name Leading the Way in Management Development, has been chosen with three underlying beliefs in mind:

1. Measuring up to best practices, whether local or global, is not enough. The new gold standard must be to lead the way.
2. In a world where both management and management development are continuously faced with a host of new challenges, innovation and change must be key components of any institution's future strategy and plans.
3. CEEMAN institutions, with their unique experience in the world's rising economies, can and should take the lead on the world stage.

Participant teams are able to progressively stress-test their strategies and plans:

• first, in terms of their strategic integrity, market potential, and marketing effectiveness;
• second, in terms of anticipated changes in both management itself and in management development;
• and third, in terms of what needs to be done to realign teaching, research, faculty policies, and organization for the future.

     Who should attend?

Deans/directors with 3-5 members of their core management team e.g. associate deans/vice-presidents for academic affairs, research, or major programs, CFOs, heads of administration, etc.

Why attend?

Teams should expect the following main "take-homes":

• A revised perception of the main challenges ahead as well as a thorough rework of strategies and plans to deal with these.
• A shared understanding and commitment by the whole team to tackle these issues and implement the needed changes.
• Very substantial and lasting individual and team learning about the leadership challenges confronting all management development institutions worldwide, and how to think about them and deal with them given the particularities of one’s own institution.

• To have maximum impact in practice, the program is directed at top management leadership teams, not just at the dean/director/president only.
• A daily series of Masterclasses which prompt progressive reworking of each participating institution’s strategy and plans
• A leitmotif of the whole workshop is to learn how to combine excellence with relevance in both teaching and research. Relevance is becoming an imperative for management development worldwide and CEEMAN, through its core membership in the world's rising economies, is committed to taking the lead in this long-overdue course correction.
• The belief of CEEMAN and Leading the Way faculty is that it is precisely institutions in the world's rising economies that are likely to lead the way in both management and management development in the future. This program thus provides a unique opportunity to share experience, to learn from each other, and to forge these new paths together. This collaboration is expected to extend into the future with CEEMAN acting as a catalyst.
• Take-home is primarily a reconsidered and reworked plan and 2-3 high-priority strategic initiatives to take each participating institution to the future, as well as team commitment to make the needed changes happen. 
• The potential exists for a very high return on investment for participating institutions. Once take-home plans are put into practice, the financial, quality, and reputational returns are likely to far exceed the relatively small fee investments.

Program

Program Objectives

• To better understand the future world of management, the capacities that will be required, and the influence that this may have, among other things, on the future of management development. 
• Within these contexts, how to set future strategic direction and positioning and their implication for program content, learning processes, research, and faculty policies, as well as internal resources, organization, and external outreach.
• To apply the above learning to one's own institution - through closely-coached project work aimed at stress testing each participating team's current plans, revising them as needed, and developing specific strategic initiatives to achieve these.
• For individual team members, to share ideas and experience with others with parallel responsibilities from other participating teams (deans/directors; associate deans/VPs for teaching; associate deans/VPs for tesearch; heads of finance/administration; etc).

• Each participating team should submit, at least one month ahead of the workshop, a 3-5 page overview of their operating environment/markets; their mission, vision and strategy; and their perceived key challenges. Guidelines for these submissions will be distributed by the faculty well in advance of the workshop. Each team should also review the internet sites of other participating teams and be ready to make comments.
• A progressive series of Masterclasses (12 in all) act as "stress tests" to provoke rethinking, refinement, elaboration, or in some cases, complete redrafting of these original submissions.
• The three days wind up with a final Masterclass dedicated to define and then implement 2-3 high-priority "strategic change initiatives", the focus of the "homework" which will precede a half-day online session for the teams three months after the workshop itself.

Faculty

The workshop is lead and taught by Professor Derek F. Abell, who also coaches the teams.

Prof. Derek F AbellProgram Leader, Founding President of ESMT-European School of Management and Technology, Germany, former dean of IMEDE (now IMD), Switzerland

Derek F. Abell is the founding president and Professor Emeritus of ESMT European School of Management and Technology (Berlin, Germany). His primary teaching and research interests are in strategic marketing, general management, leadership in technology-based industry and the broader responsibilities of the executive "beyond the bottom line".

From 1981 to 2003 he was Professor of Strategy and Marketing at IMD, Lausanne, and parallel to that, from 1994 to 2003, Professor of Technology and Management at the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne). He was Dean of IMEDE (the institutional predecessor of IMD) from 1981 to 1989, and from 1969 to 1981 a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Business School.

Prof. Abell originally graduated as an aeronautical engineer from the University of Southampton. He holds a Master's degree from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and his Doctorate from Harvard Business School. He has served as a consultant to governments in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as to many multinational corporations around the world. He has also served as a board member of a number of European-based public and private organizations. Prof. Abell has been closely involved in the development of CEEMAN and is currently its Board member and IQA Accreditation Committee President.

Prof. Abell has published five books and numerous articles. His most recent book is “Managing with Dual Strategies: Mastering the Present; Preempting the Future”, published by Free Press, New York.

Fees

Participating teams may vary in number from 4 to 6 members. The dean/director/president must always be included as a leadership team member.

Depending on the team size and the number of teams, fees start at €5,700 per team.for CEEMAN members  and €6,500 per team for non-members.  

Logistics

The workshop will take place online through an award-winning learning & collaboration platform called MiTeam. Before the event, participants will receive instructions and access to the platform. The platform prides itself in being secure and accessible from any browser or mobile device. You can find a brief description of the platform here.

Registration

To register for the workshop, please send completed registration form to info@ceeman.org. 

In order to benefit most from the program, a good working knowledge of English is recommended.

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