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Unlock your full leadership potential

Essentials of Leadership

Dates

Aug 6-10, 2025
Duration

5 days
Fee

INR 2,25,000 + taxes
Format

On-Campus (Hyderabad)
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Overview

Overview
Curriculum
Faculty
Executive Benefits
Participant Stories

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Summary

The Essentials of Leadership programme is designed to help high-potential executives develop the key competencies to become strategic and effective leaders. It encourages leaders to embrace the complex challenges and opportunities associated with greater leadership positions and unlock their full leadership potential.

The programme is aimed at demonstrating the nuances of taking up significant leadership positions. In addition, the curriculum equips you to handle these challenges and guide your organisation to success.

Key Takeaways

Build on greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence to effectively manage self
Forge high-quality and effective connections with key stakeholders and make the most of your network
Empower others, learn to influence without authority and build high-performance teams
Develop your personal leadership brand and benefit from high-impact group coaching
Transition from manager to confident change agent. Lead effectively through crises and conflicts
Develop the resilience and mindset for turnarounds in uncertain times

Is This Programme For You?

This programme is best suited for mid to senior managers who are moving or have moved from an operational to a strategic role with increasing responsibility

The participant profile can include:

Directors, VPs, AVPs
Account Managers
General and Regional Managers
Entrepreneurs
Project Managers

from across industries and functions.

Learning Experience

Engage in real-life stories and group discussions to explore your leadership skills. Experience how to showcase your leadership style in dynamic situations. Improve your effectiveness in leading teams in the digital world. Apply your new learnings and skills to accelerate your ascent to leadership at the workplace.

The programme curriculum is organised into three modules consisting of faculty presentations, group discussions, and case studies, scheduled across five days.

Additionally, our executive group coaching sessions in between modules will help you build your own personal narrative and action plan for leadership. Five interactive, intensive sessions give you a grounding in self-awareness, team dynamics, effective interpersonal behaviours, and mindsets required to lead change in crisis and non-crisis conditions.

Admission Criteria

The On-Campus sessions are subject to evolving global situations. Programme content, dates, schedule, fees, delivery platforms, and faculty are subject to change. The programme fee includes food and accommodation at the ISB campus or an equivalent facility based on availability.

Programme Curriculum

Module 1: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Through short case illustrations and real-life stories, this introductory module will focus on why emotional intelligence distinguishes outstanding performers from those who are merely adequate. You will understand what it takes to hone your emotional and relational competencies while:

Supplementing your domain competencies with emotional skills
Enhancing self-awareness which is critical for your leadership effectiveness

Module 2: Building Effective Relationships with Stakeholders

Effective relationships boost engagement, innovation, and individual well-being. Among other things, relationship building requires communicating openly, building trust, and encouraging capability building through mentorship. This module will help you to:

Understand effective ways of giving and receiving feedback
Learn about handling difficult conversations and networking

Module 3: Influencing Key Stakeholders

Using research from social psychology and behavioural economics, we will develop a hands-on model to ‘nudge’ people into buying into your decisions. Specifically, you will learn how to:

Frame information to increase likelihood of buy-in
Use an expanded notion of motivation to gain commitment
Get your decisions/ideas implemented by a group

Module 4: Change Leadership Skills and Mindsets

In today’s dynamic world, effecting minor and significant changes is imperative, even without formal authority, ample resources, or the ability to alter incentive structures or enforce sanctions. Successful leadership hinges on the capacity to lead change credibly and effectively. This module will help you:

Align stakeholders around the change agenda and influence them to get buy-in
Communicating for successful change and energising actions for new behaviours

Module 5: Shaping Your Role: Focus, Storytelling and Personal Brand

You will learn the themes of developing a personal brand based on your unique skills, experience, and interests and what is involved in rebranding and setting a new narrative. You will understand what makes a great story and how storytelling is essential for persuading people. The module further delves into:

Staying focused on priorities and finding your flow
Learning how to tell a great story that gets people’s attention
Understanding what is involved in building your personal brand

Faculty

ISB Certificate

After successful completion of this programme, you will be awarded an ISB Executive Education Certificate, formal recognition of your professional development.

S Ramnarayan

Professor of Organisational Behaviour (Practice), ISB

Saumya Sindhwani

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour (Practice), ISB

Gayatri Das Sharma

Visiting Faculty, ISB

ISB Certificate

After successful completion of this programme, you will be awarded an ISB Executive Education Certificate, formal recognition of your professional development.

ISB Executive Network

On successful completion of this programme, you will be a part of the ISB Executive Network, a vast community of senior executives and entrepreneurs across the globe.

The benefits of the ISB Executive Network include:

Access to ISB Executive Network LinkedIn Group

Access to ISB Executive Education support team over email

5% discount on ISB Executive Education programmes

10% discount on ISB Online progammes

Masterclasses led by faculty and industry experts

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Participant Stories

Influencing Key Stakeholders

Leverage social psychology and psychology to "nudge" your stakeholders to create a buy-in

Animesh Nigam

Global Head - App Integrations, S&P Global

Augment Domain Competencies

Hone your emotional and relational competencies to supplement your domain expertise

Bhaskar

Advertising & Content Marketing Professional

Foster Leadership from Within

Understand why enhancing self-awareness is critical for leadership effectiveness

Deepa Jayaraman

Sr Manager - Automation & Analytics, HP

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Essentials of Leadership

Summary

Key Takeaways

Is This Programme For You?

Learning Experience

Admission Criteria

Programme Curriculum

Module 1: Leading with Emotional Intelligence

Module 2: Building Effective Relationships with Stakeholders

Module 3: Influencing Key Stakeholders

Module 4: Change Leadership Skills and Mindsets

Module 5: Shaping Your Role: Focus, Storytelling and Personal Brand

Faculty

ISB Certificate

S Ramnarayan

Saumya Sindhwani

Gayatri Das Sharma

ISB Certificate

ISB Executive Network

Participant Stories

Influencing Key Stakeholders

Animesh Nigam

Augment Domain Competencies

Bhaskar

Foster Leadership from Within

Deepa Jayaraman

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