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ADS Master Class 1 'Wicked leadership'

Focusing on the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors this unique programme will challenge participant's understanding and advance their learning of key business activities and practises.

ŒCreating Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Warwick Executive Updates: ŒCreating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
James Bannerman

Business Enterprise, Innovation, and Creativity are closely connected.
With this in mind, this imaginative, interactive, thought-invoking, and
business-relevant
half-day seminar aims to introduce you to a variety of practical innovative
thinking tools and techniques for helping you to:

1. Identify entrepreneurial opportunities you may not have considered before
2. Discover Œadditional and alternative¹ ideas for growing your business and
creating new value
3. Sharpen your ideas so their entrepreneurial potential can be exploited
more effectively.

ADS Master Class 2 'Power and resistance at work'

Focusing on the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors this unique programme will challenge participant's understanding and advance their learning of key business activities and practises.

World-Class Leadership

Let David Taylor, author of the world's fastest selling business book The Naked Leader,
help you move beyond good leadership to great through access to practical actions which will deliver rapid and sustainable results.

Delivering Strategic Transformation

Led by Professor David Wilson, author of seven books and over 50 articles on innovation, strategic decision making, organisational change and strategy, study the key elements essential to delivering success when charged with leading and managing strategic transformation. Consider real-life examples of both failed and thriving initiatives, and learn how to connect strategy with implementation and drive change forward. Join us to diagnose your own challenges, identifying where your roadblocks lie and how to get past them.

Eversheds Academy

Driving Performance for Business Success

Warwick Executive Updates: Driving Performance for Business Success

Explore the particular leadership attributes or "habits" that mark out today's most effective operations leaders - those responsible for the activities that directly connect an organisation to its consumers and the rest of its value chain. Consider how these attributes allow organisations to deliver sustainable performance and ensure enduring business success.
Mike is a Warwick Associate and Professor of Operations & Supply Management at Bath School of Management. He has worked many major bluechips to improve their operations, and is co-author of Operations Strategy and co-editor of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Operations Management .

How to manage your reputation for organisational success

Warwick Executive Update: How to manage your reputation for organisational success

Business leaders around the world regularly cite reputation as a critical topic that concerns them, yet remarkably few claim to have a strategy to protect or enhance the reputation of their business. Is this fatalism or folly? Could your business do more to mitigate risk or create competitive advantage?
Discover how to measure, manage and report reputation both as an intangible asset and risk liability.
Garry, a WBS Associate, is the author of the Gower 'Short Guide to Reputation Risk' and the CIMA Guide to Reputation Risk Reporting.

World Class Organisational Leadership (Thursday 17th May 2012)

Warwick Executive Updates: World Class Organisational Leadership

Just what is it that world class leaders and organisations do, that others do not? Gain insights into the exact and specific practical action taken by organisations and their leaders. Over the last 20 years organisations the world over have spent billions on change initiatives, and yet the vast majority of these have at best stood completely still, while the rest have disappeared.
Focus on change and organisational leadership from a totally different perspective - one that actually delivers the changes you need in your people.

Getting the best out of Coaching in Organisations

Warwick Executive Updates

Great coaching is a uniquely valuable way of achieving organisational and personal success. It is especially helpful at overcoming hidden blockages to success and can unleash the power within individuals and organisations to achieve at higher and higher levels. However, business still lags behind sport in its understanding of the power of coaching. Too often it fails to ensure that it has the right coaches, doing the right things, with the right people, at the right time.

Developing your personal brand for business success

Warwick Executive Updates

Your personal brand is important currency and immensely valuable. More than that, it is becoming a crucial weapon in your personal development armoury. But just what is it?
Put simply, it is about taking control of the marketing of YOU - building a future the way you want it to be rather than one others set for you. Don't leave it to chance or let some random event hijack your life. But where do you start the planning? Explore how to manage your brand, segment your audiences, build messaging frameworks, and work with on and off-line media channels.