'Re-Engineering the Future of Business: How to Survive & Thrive in Today's New World'
Learn more about the program cost, available packages, accredited certificates in leadership, and program & speaker details.
AFEE is proud to partner with USJ-CFP for this program.
Details
Webinar Platform: Zoom
Webinar Format: Interactive Sessions – Video Cameras On – Breakout Rooms – Q & As – Polls – Webinar Feedback Questionnaire.
Webinar Times: All private webinars will take place on week days as follows:
- Block I: from 9-11 AM New York Time
- Block II: from 12-2 PM New York Time
Main Outcomes:
- Empower Yourself to Successfully Drive your Company in Today’s New World;
- Get a Competitive Business Edge; Learn from World-Class Experts… the Best in the Field!
Additional Possible Outcomes:
- Receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs);
- Receive Credit Hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR Re-Certification;
- Receive an Accredited Executive Certificate in Leadership;*
- Become a member of AFEE’s closed “International Community of Leaders Club.”
Assessment of Learning for Accreditation & Units/Credits: To receive an Accredited Executive Certificate in Leadership, Continuing Education Units [CEUs] or Credit Hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR Re-Certification, participants need to complete the following:
- Formative Assessment: During Each Webinar
- Summative Assessment: At the End of All Webinars (in the form of a project).
* Receiving an accredited executive certificate in leadership would entail attending all webinars and fulfilling the assessment and package requirements.
Seats are limited. Register today.
Topics
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
- Navigating your Business in Today’s New World (#7)
- Business Transformation in Today’s New World (#5)
- Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation (#6)
B - Micro-Leadership Skills
- Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis: Leading Self, the Business, and the People in Business (#1)
- Crisis Leadership: Outer Impact Through Inner Mastery– Developing impactful strategies and helping others do better, from a foundation of self-leadership (#2)
- Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build more Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (#4)
- Leadership-Mindset: Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce (#8)
- Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being in Today’s New World (#10)
C - Financial Skills
- Financial Management in Times of Crisis (#3)
D - Marketing Skills
- Leading Change with Digital Marketing (#9)
Program Details
| October 4 |
Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis: Leading Self, the Business, and the People in Business (Wael El Helou, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon) |
| October 4 |
Crisis Leadership: Outer Impact Through Inner Mastery (Dr. Paul Ingram, Columbia University, USA) |
| October 5 |
Financial Management in Times of Crisis (Dr. George Jabbour, The George Washington University, USA) |
| October 5 |
Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build More Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (Johanna Zeilstra & Joan Toth, CEO & Advisor, Gender Fair, USA) |
| October 6 |
Business Transformation in Today's New World (Ralph Bounassif, Co-Founder of L'Atelier du Miel, Former McKinsey & Company and Booz & Company, France) |
| October 6 |
Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation (Dr. Jay Rao, Babson College, USA) |
| October 7 |
Navigating your Business in Today’s New World (Dr. Rand Ghayad, Harvard University, USA) |
| October 7 |
Leadership-Mindset Webinar: Team Decision-Making When Time is Scarce (Dr. Daylian Cain, Yale University, USA) |
| October 8 |
Leading Change with Digital Marketing (Dr. Maria Frangieh, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon) |
| October 8 |
Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being in Today’s New World (Deb Lewis, Colonel, US Army (Ret.), West Point’s 1st Class w/Women; Harvard MBA; Engineer who Led a $2.1B Construction Program in a Conflict-Ridden Combat Area; Founder of Mentally Tough Women, USA.) |
B - Micro-Leadership Skills
Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis: Leading Self, the Business, and the People in Business (Wael El Helou, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon, 2 hrs.)
In a world where extreme change has overnight become the new normal, past experience, old values and acquired habits seem to work no more. The list of variables under constant pressure is so long; it is making everyone’s Maslow’s pyramid (Hierarchy of Needs) go nuts over what to service first and what priorities look like today. Leaders have found themselves overnight playing a new game with new rules that almost no one is familiar with.
Learning Outcome:
Participants will be able to explore ways to align the 3 pillars of the continuum of leadership:
Pillar 1: Leading Self
- How to balance values and priorities, and therefore actions that seem contradictory or pulling in opposite directions, and yet, when looked at closely, are complimentary for our internal balance and sanity;
- How to apply a tool inspired by Buddhists in the Tibet called the Wheel of Life.
Pillar 2: Leading the Business
- How to, simultaneously, survive and build fitness, resilience and stamina during this crisis (act for short term readiness), and reinvent the business in such a way for it to fit the world of tomorrow that is under construction with a debatable shape, depending on the time the market will take to normalize (act for long, and maybe medium term readiness);
- How to apply a creative problem-solving process inspired by the work of IDEO and strategy consultants;
- How to use a feedback format that builds creative momentum.
Pillar 3: Leading the People in Business
- How to equip people with the right mindset;
- How to create agility in teams;
- How to become aware of the Relationship Systems Intelligence (RSI) and its impact on fitness, resilience, and engagement, and what to do about it.
B - Micro-Leadership Skills
Crisis Leadership: Outer Impact Through Inner Mastery – Developing Impactful Strategies and Helping Others Do Better, From a Foundation of Self-Leadership (Dr. Paul Ingram, Columbia University, USA, 2 hrs.)
This two-hour webinar will present a practical, interactive guide to effective leadership during crises. It will consist of three domains:
A - Personal Leadership: The Role of Values
Leadership is a social act, but effective leadership begins with 
leading ones’ self. We will offer guidance and a practical tool for personal leadership in crises through the lens of values. We will begin with a discussion of how leaders rely on their values during crises, including examples. We will then conduct a hands-on exercise helping the participants identify their most salient values, so they can rely on them during crises for motivation, decision making, stress management and trust building.
B - Interpersonal Leadership: Inspiration and Inclusion
Responding to crises takes a team. Effective leaders bring out the best in the people they lead during a crisis. We will again begin with examples and go on to identify best practices for inspiring a team to operate effectively during crises and making the most of their efforts and perspectives to solve novel problems. A key concept will be what the leader can do to produce psychological safety during the crisis.
C - Strategic Leadership: Prioritization and Planning
We’ll discuss the role of strategy during a crisis and how to lead strategically with a clear, concise communication of priorities to the organization. We will also introduce and engage the concept of scenario planning as a way to prepare strategically in the face of uncertainty. Participants will put this tool to work to think of uncertainty in their own domain.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify the top values that can be called on during a crisis to:
- (1) Make decisions;
- (2) Motivate;
- (3) Resist stress
- (4) Build trust-based connections with others;
- (5) Act ethically.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate best practices for inspiring and including others during a crisis, including:
- (1) Using tools for producing psychological safety;
- (2) Identifying what to communicate and when.
- Participants will be able to lead strategically during a crisis by:
- (1) Setting strategic priorities in a crisis;
- (2) Using a tool for preparing strategically for uncertain futures.
C - Financial Skills
Financial Management in Times of Crisis (Dr. George Jabbour, Vice Dean for Executive Education and Professor of Finance at The George Washington University, USA, 2 hrs.)
Learning Outcome:
Participants will be able to explore the following in order to survive:
- Basics of Financial Management
- Reaction to a Crisis
- How to Survive a Crisis
- Financial Management Tips & Recipe for Success
B - Micro Leadership Skills
Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build More Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (Johanna Zeilstra & Joan Toth, CEO & Advisor at Gender Fair, USA, 2 hrs.)
During this interactive webinar, participants will learn strategies and practical skills that will help them become more inclusive leaders and unlock inclusion in their teams.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify the “What & Why” of unconscious bias and its impact on the work environment;
- Participants will be able to model inclusive behavior through examples and case studies;
- Participants will be able to explore solutions designed for action and behavior change;
- Participants will be able to recognize how to leverage bias “interrupters;”
- Participants will be able to explain the importance of being an “upstander,” not a “bystander.”
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
Business Transformation in Today’s New World (Ralph Bounassif, Co-Founder of L’Atelier du Miel, Former McKinsey & Company and Booz & Company, Paris, France, 2 hrs.)
The explosion of complexity, uncertainty, and frequency of change is disrupting businesses globally. The need to transform has become an essential part of business for most organizations. But the fact is that business transformation is one of the most difficult tasks to undertake. 75% of business transformations globally fail (Source: McKinsey & Co.). While there is no exact recipe for success, there are practices that can help significantly improve the chances of leading a successful transformation.
In this webinar, we will cover the main steps and guiding principles to follow in designing and executing a successful business transformation.
Learning Outcome:
- Participants will be able to build a robust business transformation plan that has significantly higher chances to succeed.
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation--
Mission Impossible: Crises Fuel Creativity and Innovation (Dr. Jay Rao, Babson College, USA, 2 hrs.)
This session will help you to understand how accomplished entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and enterprises use a simple, common and age-old technique to get more innovative and creative.
Jerry Sternin arrived in Vietnam in 1990 to open an office for the UK charity Save the Children, to fight malnutrition there. Sternin was given 6 months to make a difference, with little staff and no resources. Conventional wisdom dictated that malnutrition was a complex problem that stems from poor sanitation, widespread poverty, rampant illiteracy, and lack of pure water. Dozens of experts had analyzed the situation in Vietnam, written research documents and development plans. But nothing had changed. Sternin started with one village. He quickly found a few creative mothers were using ingenious solutions to keep their young ones far better than most. Six months after he started, 65% of the kids in that village were better nourished. Soon, the program reached 265 villages across Vietnam and drastically reduced malnutrition among children. This has now been replicated in many other poorer countries.
Key Lessons: Entrepreneurial Leadership, Risk vs. Uncertainty vs. Ambiguity, Innovation, Creativity, Problem Solving, Positive Deviance, Associative Thinking, Application Innovation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to differentiate between Risk, Uncertainty and Ambiguity;
- Participants will be able to understand Creative vs. Innovative vs. Entrepreneurial;
- Participants will be able to understand how we can all become more creative;
- Participants will be able to understand what Entrepreneurial Leadership is.
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
Navigating your Business in Today’s New World (Dr. Rand Ghayad, Harvard University, USA, 2 hrs.)
The unprecedented impacts of Covid-19 on global and national health systems, economies, trade, cultures, and societies have attracted significant interest globally. The public and private sectors are struggling to respond to the pandemic.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify challenges facing governments and business leaders;
- Participants will be able to discuss the impact on labor and employment markets;
- Participants will be able to examine post-lockdown economy and economic responses;
- Participants will be able to list ways to prepare for the next pandemic.
B - Micro Leadership Skills
Leadership-Mindset Webinar: Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce (Dr. Daylian Cain, Yale University, USA, 2 hrs.)
Award-winning Yale faculty member studies why smart people do dumb things.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to explore the behavioral-economic theory behind making better decisions through RED-TEAMING.
- Participants will be able to examine practical leadership tips on how to apply RED-TEAMING.
- Participants will be able to support healthy disagreement in their teams without wasting time and without lacking confidence.
D - Marketing Skills
Leading Change with Digital Marketing (Dr. Maria Frangieh, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon, 2 hrs.)
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to explore new technologies that are impacting the way businesses, employees and customers are behaving today;
- Participants will be able to elevate their skills in change leadership by embracing the digital transformation in marketing strategies;
- Participants will be able to set up digital marketing plans for individuals and businesses.
B - Micro-Leadership Skills
Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being in Today’s New World (Deb Lewis, Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.), USA, 2 hrs.)
Practical leadership strategies, insights, tips/hacks and tools to survive and thrive in Today’s New world.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to identify challenges and opportunities impacting the hot topic of employee and leader well-being.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate ways to support employee and leader well-being after examining practical leadership strategies and tips.
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