'Re-Engineering the Future of Business: How to Survive & Thrive in Today's New World'
Learn more about the program cost, available packages, certificates in leadership, and program & speaker details.
AFEE is proud to partner with USJ-CFP for this program.
Packages & Certificates
- This Program Is Partially Subsidized by ISEE.
- The Digital Certificates will be presented by AFEE, IFWE and USJ-CFP, and will reflect the number of webinars attended along with webinar details.
- The Digital Certificates with HRCI and SHRM Logos, for HR Re-Certification Credit Hours, will only be presented by AFEE (HRCI & SHRM Approved Provider).
- To qualify for the digital Executive Certificate in Leadership, you need to attend and actively participate in at least 8 webinars out of 10.
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 from 11 AM-1 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 a Certificate of Attendance and up to 20 Credits toward HR Re-Certification;*
- Receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs);**
- Receive an Executive Certificate in Leadership;**
- Become a member of AFEE’s closed “International Community of Leaders Club.”
* To Receive a Certificate of Attendance and Credits toward HR Re-Certification, participants need to Actively Participate in Each Webinar for which they Seek Credits.
** To Receive CEUs and an Executive Certificate in Leadership, participants need to complete the following:
- Attendance: They Need to Attend at Least 8 Webinars out of 10.
- Formative Assessment: They Need to Actively Participate in Each Webinar.
- Summative Assessment: They Need to Submit a Summative Project at the End of All 10 Webinars.
Seats are limited. Register today.
Topics
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
- Business Transformation in Today’s New World (#3)
- Navigating your Business in Today’s New World (#6)
- Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation (#7)
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 – Values as a Tool for Leadership in Transformative Time (#2)
- Promoting Employee and Leader Well-Being in Today’s New World (#4)
- Leadership-Mindset: Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce (#9)
- Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build more Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (#10)
C - Financial Skills
- Financial Management in Times of Crisis (#5)
D - Marketing Skills
- Leading Change with Digital Marketing (#8)
Program Details
| February 7 |
Leadership Tools for Times of Crisis: Leading Self, the Business, and the People in Business (Wael El Helou, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon) |
| February 9 |
Crisis Leadership: Outer Impact Through Inner Mastery – Values as a Tool for Leadership in Transformative Time (Dr. Paul Ingram, Columbia University, USA) |
| February 11 |
Business Transformation in Today's New World (Ralph Bounassif, Founder & MD of StratHaus, Co-Founder of L'Atelier du Miel, Former McKinsey & Co and Booz & Co, France) |
| February 15 |
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.) |
| February 16 |
Financial Management in Times of Crisis (Dr. George Jabbour, The George Washington University, USA) |
| February 18 |
Navigating your Business in Today’s New World (Dr. Rand Ghayad, Harvard University, USA) |
| February 21 |
Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation (Dr. Jay Rao, Babson College, USA) |
| February 23 |
Leading Change with Digital Marketing (Dr. Maria Frangieh, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon) |
| February 25 |
Leadership-Mindset Webinar: Team Decision-Making When Time is Scarce (Dr. Daylian Cain, Yale University, USA) |
| February 28 |
Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build More Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams (Johanna Zeilstra & Joan Toth, CEO & Advisor, Gender Fair, USA) |
The use of HRCI's official seal confirms that all the Webinars in this Program have met HR Certification Institute's® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.
AFEE is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
All the Webinars in this Program have been approved for a total of 20.00 Business recertification credits toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
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 – Values as a Tool for Leadership in Transformative Time (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 two 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.
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.
A - Macro-Leadership Skills
Business Transformation in Today’s New World (Ralph Bounassif, Founder & MD of StratHaus, Co-Founder of L’Atelier du Miel, Former McKinsey & Co and Booz & Co, 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.
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.
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.)
This webinar will tackle the basics of financial management in addition to ways to survive and thrive during a crisis and beyond.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will be able to explore the Basics of Financial Management;
- Participants will be able to explore Reactions to a Crisis;
- Participants will be able to explore How to Survive a Crisis;
- Participants will be able to explore Financial Management Tips & Recipe for Success.
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.
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.
D - Marketing Skills
Leading Change with Digital Marketing (Dr. Maria Frangieh, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon, 2 hrs.)
Learn how to navigate the "new normal" using new technologies. Digital marketing has become a necessity for every professional and business. Consumer behavior has changed due to the overflow of information. This is about acquiring the marketing skills that will help you communicate with today's consumers, using the latest technologies and creating a community around your brand.
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
Leadership-Mindset Webinar: Team Decision-Making when Time is Scarce (Dr. Daylian Cain, Yale University, USA, 2 hrs.)
How to Discover that You're on the Wrong Path: FAST!
(Lessons from the Dept. of Defense, Big Tech, Van Halen, and High-Stakes Poker)
Learn how to use "Red-Teaming" techniques to foster healthy disagreement in your teams, without creating disarray and without wasting time. This is not about criticizing one’s leaders, which is often a career-limiting move. Instead, it is about how you—once you are the leader—can create an atmosphere where people below you are more comfortable to speak up before bad ideas gain traction. This is a “fail fast” method that allows you to lead inclusively while holding more decisive meetings.
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.
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.”
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