Course description
Leadership at the Peak
Leadership is different at the top. Take your organization – and yourself – to the next level.
Leading the enterprise is a powerful — and humbling — experience. C-level executives play an enormous role in the success of their organizations, and the demands of top leadership are far-reaching, complex, and essential to get right. Our world-class C-suite leadership training provides highly individualized leader development within the context of advancing the entire business and addresses the unique challenges of those leading at the peak.
Challenges Addressed in This C-Suite Leadership Training Program
It’s essential for C-suite executives to be able to discern what’s working, what’s not, and why, to ensure success — both their own and for their organizations.
Open by application only, this 4.5-day intensive C-suite leadership development program equips executives to tackle their organization’s biggest challenges. It offers highly personalized development in the company of their peers, and specifically addresses the issues that our research has found are most commonly faced by C-level leaders:
- Navigating business operations, the heart of all other challenges
- Setting and realizing strategy,including vision, direction, and goals
- Managing change, both day-to-day and long-term
- Leading across boundaries like levels, silos, cultures, backgrounds, and interests
- Ensuring the organization’s talent pipeline, both now and in the future
- Understanding and adjusting personal leadership style for greater effectiveness
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
- C-level & senior executives in the top three tiers of the organization.
- More than 15 years of management experience & leadership responsibility for 500+ people.
- Admission is by application.
Training content
Through hands-on exercises, in-depth feedback, and one-on-one coaching, senior executives leave the program with a clear path forward and the tools to see it through. In this C-suite training, participants will learn alongside fellow senior executives as they:
- Gain a clear view of their impact on the organization
- Develop insight into what comes next for themselves and their organizations
- Increase their leadership effectiveness for better interactions with boards, shareholders, partners, and other critical stakeholders
- Enhance their executive presence, along with increasing influence and communication skills
- Learn to balance and sustain energy to maximize health and wellness, so they lead their lives — and their organizations — at their best
Course delivery details
Prepare
Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based assessment surveys, completed by participants, direct reports, peers and superiors.
- A check-in from program faculty to address any questions.
- Contact by CCL researchers to prepare factual questions for simulated live TV interview.
Engage
Led by highly qualified faculty, this low staff-to-participant ratio program includes:
- Highly relevant, research-based content to expand knowledge and address essential challenges.
- Experiential activities to add depth to feedback and key ideas.
- Media interview to assess executive image and presence.
- Health and fitness assessment and daily activities to connect energy management to leader effectiveness.
- A half-day, personal session with a CCL executive coach to integrate the experience and plan next steps.
- Extensive networking opportunities to provide connections, ideas and support.
- Digital access to all materials, resources and personal information for easy reference.
Apply
Senior leaders apply and sustain their learning with a package of resources.
- Two, one-hour phone coaching sessions with their CCL coach.
- REFLECTIONS,® an assessment to measure skills and behavior progress three months after the program.
- Optional, fee-based fitness coaching or media and executive presence coaching.
- Optional, fee-based learning and support: extended coaching engagements, additional eLearning packages and custom initiatives
Costs
The price of this course is:
- Americas: $13,900
- APAC: S$18,000
- EMEA: €11,950
Certification / Credits
Workforce Education Solutions, a division of the National University System, is pleased to provide our participants with CEU certificates for completed programs.
National University (NU) is a private nonprofit university founded in 1971 with a mission to serve the public good by providing quality education to a diverse student body. With more than 165,000 alumni, NU is dedicated to making lifelong learning opportunities accessible, challenging, and relevant, and it has a strong history of providing community organizations with educational programs for their employees. With more than 75 graduate and undergraduate degree programs offered at locations throughout California and online, NU is preparing tomorrow’s workforce.
To claim your CEUs for participating in one of our programs, follow the instructions provided on theNU website for CCL CEUs.
Why choose CCL?
96% of our participants say they're stronger leaders after working with CCL
Over 1 million alumni worldwide
50+ years of pioneering leadership development best practices
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