From self-leadership to enterprise impact: Build the leader within and beyond
Executive Development Program
This transformative program is designed for ambitious professionals ready to elevate their leadership journey.
This pioneering, practical, participant-led program, designed around theories, models and global best practices on leadership effectiveness, includes a comprehensive, menu-based series of interconnected learning modules, structured around five key pillars essential in developing balanced, effective and results-driven leaders. Major emphasis is placed, post-program, on one of the most important challenges of leadership development – mechanisms and interventions to ensure the effective transfer of new knowledge, skills and competencies, on the job, for enhanced role effectiveness, in real time.
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A) Leading Self
This cluster of learning modules is focused on the foundation of leadership - knowing, managing and leveraging oneself - and prepares individual performers for supervisory, managerial and leadership roles. Participants enhance core skills and competencies to reinforce self-awareness, optimize or enhance their leadership ‘footprint’ and improve individual efficiency and effectiveness.
Modules include:
- 100: Communicating with Impact (1 day)
- 101: Leadership Essentials (2 days)
- 110: Emotional Intelligence: The Cornerstone of Success (1-2 days)
- 120: Time Management & Personal Organization (1-2 days)
- 125: Stress Management: Coping Strategies & Best Practices (1 day)
- 130: Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making (1 day)
- 160: Presenting with Impact (2 + 1 days)
B) Leading Others
This cluster of learning modules focuses on the ‘transition’ from individual performance to effectively leading work teams, and more specifically, creating a climate of trust and team psychological safety, reinforcing interpersonal relationships and effectively coping with team challenges and performance barriers. In this series of learning modules, participants learn how to inspire, influence, engage and develop team members to support the achievement of individual and team objectives.
Modules include:
- 200: Leading Without Authority: Influence & Impact (1 day)
- 210: Coaching for Improved Performance (1-2 days)
- 220: Coaching for Future Roles (1-2 days)
- 230: Feedback: The Breakfast of Champions (1 day)
- 240: The Goal Setting Continuum (1 day)
- 250: Delegation & Empowerment (1-2 days)
- 260: Zero-Cost Motivational Strategies and Tactics (1 day)
- 270: Building High Performance Teams (1 day)
- 280: Enhancing Team Psychological Safety (1 day)
- 290: Managing Underperformance (1 day)
C) Leading (others) Managers
This cluster of learning modules prepares participants to manage other managers and effectively cope with complexity and diversity, ensure inclusivity, create a high-performance (team) culture and proactively identify and manage talent.
Modules include:
- 310: Enabling, Introducing and Implementing Change (1 day)
- 320: Managing Complexity, Diversity and Inclusion (1 day)
- 330: Effective Negotiations (1 day)
- 340: Inspiring, Mobilizing and Motivating Managers (1 day)
- 360: Identifying and Managing Talent (1-2 days)
- 370: Managing Conflict (1 day)
- 380: Strategic Implementation and Action Planning (1 day)
D) Leading the Function
This cluster of learning modules enables participants to align strategic growth orientation with operational effort within their function/division and achieve balance between long term goals and short-term priorities.
Modules include:
- 400: Principles of Strategic Thinking (1-2 days)
- 410: Strategic Communication (1 day)
- 420: Managing Performance (1-2 days)
- 440: Boosting Engagement (1 day)
- 460: Creativity & Innovation (1-2 days)
- 470: Influence & Impact Strategies (1 day)
E) Leading the Organization
This cluster of learning modules supports senior leaders in articulating the organizational purpose and clearly communicating the strategic emphasis (vision, mission, values), inspire, energize and motivate assets towards that vision and enhance engagement and commitment during the implementation stage.
Modules include:
- 500: Strategic Articulation - Defining Your Vision (1-2 days)
- 510: Living the Values (1 day)
- 520: Strategic Implementation (1-2 days)
- 530: Creating a High-Performance Culture (1-2 days)
- 540: Creating a Client-Centric Organization (1-2 days)
- 550: Developing Your Talent Strategy (1-2 days)
- 560: Leveraging & Harvesting Innovation (1 day)
- 570: Leadership & Succession (1 day)
- 580: Destructive and Toxic Leadership (1 day)
Leveraging client-specific input and aligned with organizational vision and priorities, this highly interactive series of learning modules guide, empower and support participants to evolve from self-leadership to organizational leadership roles, via formulating the essential mindset and enhancing skills, competencies and strategies to drive sustainable personal and organizational growth.
This program is not confined to a purely classroom-based participant experience. We believe that program impact is manifested during time between learning events.
Thus, this is a truly unique, client-driven leadership development program as (1) it encompasses not only global best practices on leadership but moreover (2) includes the Rapid Business Improvement (RBI) implementation platform, which ensures that learning in ‘translated’ into enhanced performance, (3) is consistently reinforced by additional individual participant coaching, mentoring and counseling and (4) ultimately measures and evaluates the ROI, on the leadership development endeavor.
Dr Louis Neophytou
Dr Louis Neophytou is currently the Founder & CEO of Influence Consulting (Greece). He is a holder of a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from the University of Durham (UK).
Prior to his current role, Dr Neophytou has spent nearly 30 years in the consulting sector, in Cyprus and Greece, in the capacity of Partner, Director and Special Advisor to Management. He has also worked for Coca-Cola 3E, as the Group Organizational Director, for Hay Group as Director, Leadership Development and for PwC Greece as a Senior Advisor on Strategy for PwC Greece.
During his consulting career, he has advised numerous organizations in the areas of Strategy, Leadership Development, Top Team Development, Organizational Diagnostics, Management Assessment, Creativity & Innovation and Talent Management. He has designed and implemented more than 1000 leadership/management development programs, working with senior executives, middle managers and supervisors.
He has an Advanced Masterclass Accreditation as an Executive Coach, with more than 900 hours of coaching, and is an accredited consultant in psychometric testing and personality profiling (British Psychological Society – Level B).
He is an expert on ‘Destructive & Toxic Leadership’ and has done extensive research on the adverse impact of CEO Narcissism on organizational outcomes, in Greek organizations.
He is also currently a Visiting Professor of Organizational Psychology at the American College of Greece (Deree).
