Agenda: New Sessions Added

New Leadership Sessions Presented by Practioners

Teach Leaders to Succeed in the Current Financial Crisis Using The Budget You’ve Got

Three new sessions will offer practical ideas for teaching leaders how to lead in a crisis, and will describe some leadership program activities you can deliver at low or no cost. Sessions will feature award-winning practices at Mars, Inc., Cigna and Satyam.

Mars, Inc. Builds Leadership Development Into Business Problem-solving

Presented by: Andre Martin, Director, Leadership Development

Mars, Inc. embeds leadership development into business problem solving. Their approach goes far beyond action-learning activities, and engages middle and senior-level leaders in creating an innovative and collaborative environment, allowing leaders to work and learn together as they take on the company’s most significant challenges. The effort supported Mars’ successful acquisition of the Wrigley’s Gum Company, and their move to a new designation as the fastest growing food company in the world. Learn how Mars' leaders are creating a highly innovative work environment that encourages participation from associates at all levels.

Satyam’s Rich Leadership Development Programs Incorporate Cost-Saving Technologies

Presented by: Ed Cohen, Chief Learning Officer, and Author, “Leadership Without Borders”

Satyam leadership programs feature leaders-as-teachers and customers-as-teachers modules, with a rich virtual learning program that incorporates podcasts, videocasts and television broadcasts. Satyam leadership programs focus on addressing real-time business issues, and developing the entrepreneurial capabilities of the 5,000 leaders who each run a Full Lifecycle Businesses. All programs encapsulate and address research on how to build successful global businesses that provided the foundation for Ed Cohen's book, "Leadership Without Borders."

Cigna Programs Prepare Leaders To Take Position As Industry Leader

Presented by: Karen Kocher, Chief Learning Officer

Cigna underwent a comprehensive re-alignment of its business that led to significant changes in leadership roles, and the leader’s span of control. Programs and leadership competencies were reformed around the company’s new strategic direction, and business leaders were invited to participate in program design. The revised programs include leaders as adjunct facilitators, affordable and accessible self-directed learning programs, and behavioral coaching, and are effectively supporting the company’s change agenda.

FREE Copy of Scholars, Authors, Leaders & Thinkers (SALT) Directory

Tool Saves Significant Time in Leadership Design

Medical, industrial and other uses of salt are almost without number. And now, CorpU is building a SALT Directory to enhance your leadership development programs and key initiatives. The SALT Directory presents a map of critical business issues and the corresponding relationship of leadership development topics.

For example, a node on globalization will connect to topics like leading global teams, the importance of global social networks, and the implications of globalization on the speed of business change. Each topic is then connected to a list of scholars, authors, leaders and thinkers (SALT members) who are recognized experts on the topic by the business community or by their peers.

Profiles on each SALT Directory member will provide contact information, a list of reference companies they’ve advised or presented to, teaching methods and approaches they’ve used to teach leaders, research they’ve done or would like to do in partnership with an organization, conferences where they’ve presented, and links to their books, articles and presentations that you can incorporate in your leadership programs or use as pre-reading materials. The Directory also will present fees and contract terms for engagements and presentations at a corporate site.

The SALT Directory provides a map of topics that are critical to business leaders, and the most comprehensive source of expertise. Those responsible for creating rich, meaningful leadership programs will find new relationships between business issues and leadership topics, and save countless hours searching for experts and materials that are relevant to their programs.

An initial copy of the directory is being compiled and will be presented to all conference participants. Participants also will be invited to offer ideas for additional SALT Members. The directory will be maintained and updated by the CorpU team, and will be published as an on-line tool to help CorpU Members.

Final Thought

You know that now is a critical time to develop corporate leaders who must navigate this unprecedented economic downturn. Leaders must learn how to find growth opportunities in new places, to preserve the current customer base, and to sustain shrinking margins through differentiated and value-added services. They need skills to prioritize projects and to select those that can move the company to a position of strength. They must be able to exercise keen judgment in downsizing activities, and optimize teams who’ll be asked to do more with fewer resources. And, leaders must become experts on innovation, the lifeblood of long-term success in an increasingly challenging marketplace.

The Global Leadership Congress will help you preserve essential leadership development activities, and even improve them, by giving you new methods, tools and approaches to design and deliver improved leadership programs that can fit the budget you’ve got.