Emerging Leaders Program

• You are a managers who has recently been appointed to your first significant leadership position.

• You are a high potential individual in preparation for your first significant leadership role.

• The program is designed to embrace participants with diverse professional and personal backgrounds across regions, sectors, and industries.

• Acquire knowledge, mindset, and tools needed to successfully transition into a leadership role.

• Gain awareness of the challenges and responsibilities that come with leadership.

• Learn how to create value for yourself and your organization by fostering productive working relationships with your collaborators, peers, and superiors.

• Benefit from our post-program support which will provide you with a source of state-of-the-art business knowledge and a thriving global community of emerging leaders.

Module 1: The context of leadership, ESMT Berlin

• Leadership transitions and self-development
• Authorizing yourself as a leader
• Building an effective network
• Creating value through downward, upward, and lateral management
• Exploring leadership styles
• Communicating as a leader
• Understanding organizational culture and shaping team culture
   

Module 2: Personal leadership skills, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy

• Managing challenging interpersonal situations
• Inquiry-driven leadership
• Leaders as initiators and executors of change
• Influencing beyond authority
• Dealing constructively with conflict
• Cultural intelligence, intercultural communication, and building trust
• Ethical and psychological foundations of leadership

• ESMT Berlin is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe for executive education
• This program can be taken as part of the ESMT Postgraduate Diploma in Management
• Diverse classes, interactive exercises, renowned faculty, peer-to-peer coaching 
• Delivered in partnership with SDA Bocconi