Turn Your Top Team into Tomorrow's Leaders


Boost leadership skills in the 50 best and most promising co-workers and have them deliver actionable strategic insights

 

Top 50 Strategy Program

The Top 50 Strategy Program is a proven successful management development program. It has the format of an online challenge: light on the calendars but heavy on participation.

Teams design the strategic agenda based on latent and emerging customer needs.

Its super side effects are that the participants learn to develop actionable future scenarios, practice their 21st-century skills, and find new ways to keep adding value to the organization.

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Are You Looking for Ways to Advance Your Team and:

  • Holding off management development programs because they take too much time and don't deliver tangible results?

  • Angry with yourself because you're letting your best people escape to "new steps in their career" while you taught them well and relied on them?

I know the feeling! Every executive can recall a woolly yet expensive workshop series with insights that lasted a week at most. We're all under pressure, but we must invest in our best to outperform.

Fortunately, there is a way to develop the critical thinking and decision-making skills of your top 50 that DOES deliver WITHOUT taking too much time.

Let me explain: 👇👇👇

The Top 50 Strategy Program Builds Tomorrow's  Leaders

It's a management development program designed to build 21st-century competencies, practice skills, and show what it means to lead confidently and decide wisely. 

It is designed as an online challenge. This format is especially suited for organizations wanting to bring their top management layers to a higher level without the hassle of simultaneously getting everybody in the same room. The challenge format is also best suited for teams that require varied learning styles and/or want to learn and work at the same time.

 The challenge results in researched and tested your services, products, or brand positioning innovations.

Deliverables

Competencies Built:

  1. Strategic Awarenes: Strategic awareness focuses on having a broad understanding of the long-term direction and goals of a business. It involves recognizing where a company stands in relation to its competitors and the industry as a whole. This awareness helps leaders identify opportunities for growth, plan how to achieve objectives, and make decisions that align with the overall strategy. 

  2. Context Awareness: Context awareness hones in on the immediate surroundings and specific conditions that affect a business at a given moment. It enables businesses to adapt their strategies in response to the current situation and ensure that their actions are relevant and appropriate within the present context.

  3. Organizational Sensitivity: Organizational sensitivity goes beyond just recognizing the surface-level interactions. It involves empathetic awareness of how decisions, changes, and actions impact different people within the organization. Leaders with organizational sensitivity can foster collaboration, resolve conflicts, and make decisions that consider the well-being of all stakeholders. 

  4. Team-Oriented Leadership: Team-oriented leadership recognizes that no one person has all the answers and that harnessing the collective intelligence of a group can lead to more innovative and effective solutions. This approach is precious in complex and rapidly changing environments where different perspectives and skills are needed to tackle challenges and seize opportunities.

Skills Acquired:

  1. Problem Scoping: Effective problem scoping helps prevent getting lost in irrelevant details and ensures that efforts are focused on the most relevant aspects of the problem. 

  2. Managing Uncertainty: Leaders who excel at managing uncertainty are skilled at assessing risks, taking calculated actions, and adjusting their strategies as new information emerges. 

  3. Scanning 2.0: Advanced scanning going beyond traditional information gathering and involves using technology and data analytics to identify emerging trends, potential threats, and opportunities that could impact the organization's future.

  4. Sense-making: Sensemaking helps individuals and teams make sense of new information, navigate change, and develop coherent narratives that guide decision-making. 

  5. Productive Conflict: Productive conflict can lead to innovative solutions, improved decision quality, and stronger team cohesion. 

  6. Qualified Evaluation: Involves considering relevant criteria, analyzing pros and cons, and making well-informed decisions based on a combination of experience and data. 

  7. Networking Skills: Strong networking skills can help individuals access information, support, and resources that contribute to personal and professional growth.

Tasks Completed:

  1. Practiced Methods: Apply trend analysis, innovation methods, and rapid prototyping techniques.

  2. Developed Vision: Construct a concept of the possible organizational futures from multiple sources into an integrated, meaningful, and actionable vision.

  3. Took Action: Demonstrate a readiness to take action by gathering data, sharing insights, and other actions to implement innovation.

  4. Integrated Learnings: Create new tasks or objectives incorporating learnings.

  5. Evaluated Outcomes: Judge innovated offerings on feasibility using corporate criteria, substantiated by real-life tests.ort, and resources that contribute to personal and professional growth.

Hear it From the Expert

I am one of the few futurists worldwide who has earned a Ph.D. on managerial blind spots and can combine the insight with 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience in the real world.

I know where to look and what to look for.

Since 2010

I've been facilitating this online program since 2010 and kept updating it with the latest LMS software and customer feedback. You can count on a smooth experience.

Certified by the Best

In 2022, I got certified by Harvard's Bok Center for Higher Education with a 9.4 (out of 10) grade average.

The Case Centre certified me as an online case instructor.

Key Top 50 Foresight Components

pestle analysis

Weak Signals

What they are, where to find them, and how to find them and how to embed scanning.

trend extrapolation

Bias Reduction

Why successful managers tend to overlook and misinterpret weak signals and what to do about it.

Clustering

Strategic Plurality

How to widen your thinking to include multiple possible trajectories and strategies.

All The Online Tools You Need To Learn on the Job

  • The challenge format is based on over a decade of introducing and facilitating online collaboration using various tools.
  • My first online challenge as an instructor took place in 2010, and many have followed since.
  • Its format is based on adult learning principles and enriched by innovation managers, feedback trainers, and, first and foremost, all previous participants.

The top 50 managers take on an exciting and fantastic journey into the future through the framework of exercises and rich storytelling content. They'll learn new skills and develop an actionable vision that infuses every mind in your company. They’ll make critical thinking a habit, take the initiative the norm, and reap tested innovations, all in one program.

The program is designed to let managers demonstrate a willingness to participate, show interest by seeking data, actively build on each others’ best skills, and internalize an appreciation for the future-ready company. You'll get tangible feedback on the top 50 executive behaviors.

How to Book the Top 50 Strategy Program:

The Top 50 Strategy Program is shaped as an online challenge and will be tailored to your goals, team, and timeframe. So, before you decide, let's develop your ideal online challenge.

Please choose a date and time for a Zoom or Teams call in my online calendar to talk about your requests.

Talk to you soon!

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The Top 50 Foresight Program Comes With:

 

  • With a Ready-Made Strategy Room

The Top 50 Strategy Program has a resource section filled to the brim with background materials, links to foresight sources, templates, and how-tos. Everything your top 50 needs to hit the ground running.

  • Online Tools Included

Every step is done online, with the help of online tools like whiteboarding, voting, webinars, surveys and polls, and hot-seat coaching in Zoom. Tools are included in the fee for the duration of the program.

  • 30-Day Money Back Guarantee

You'll have the first 30 days of the program to cancel and get your money back. By then, you'll know if the format will deliver or if it's just not for your team. So, when the 30 days are behind us, there's no going back ;)

Knowing the Future? No.

Get the Next Best Thing: Carefully Crafted Scenarios

Take six fast steps to good, actionable future scenarios. Get immediate access to the Scenario Planning Sprint.

 

It's Yours for:

€ 15,-

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