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The Five Mindsets
Making better management business as usual
This unique program is designed around managerial challenges and mindsets instead of functional silos. The IMPM focuses on the essence of what it means to practice management and every aspect of the program ensures that participants apply what they learn to their own business context.
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The Reflective Mindset: Managing Self
Delivered by Lancaster University, UK. Lancaster, with its strong focus on research in leadership and management, is ideal for fostering introspection and personal growth in leaders. The UK provides an inspiring historical and cultural context, encouraging participants to appreciate past experiences and build on tradition, making it an ideal setting for this reflective journey.
- Objective: Encourages leaders to pause, reflect, and connect deeply with their values, experiences, and intentions before acting.
- Goals: To cultivate self-awareness and thoughtful decision-making, helping leaders understand their impact and clarify their leadership style.
- Content: Topics include reflective thinking, ethical leadership, managing business paradoxes, and fostering engaged management. Leaders are equipped to enhance organizational effectiveness through a foundation of purposeful, value-driven leadership.
Analytical Mindset: Managing Organizations
Taught at McGill University, Canada. Known for its rigorous analytical programs and diverse environment, McGill provides an optimal context for honing strategic decision-making skills. Canada’s reputation for innovation and inclusivity supports a nuanced understanding of complex, global business environments.
- Objective: Equips leaders with tools to critically assess organizational challenges and make informed, data-driven decisions.
- Goals: To enhance decision-making through structured analysis, financial acumen, and risk management, fostering a grounded, evidence-based approach to organizational challenges.
- Content: Strategic thinking, big data analytics, managerial finance, and industry insights allow participants to break down complex issues and build sustainable strategies.
Worldly Mindset: Managing Context
Conducted by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in India. India’s dynamic economy and cultural diversity offer an ideal setting to explore global and local intersections. IIM’s expertise in entrepreneurship and cultural sensitivity adds depth to this mindset, helping participants gain a rich understanding of how to operate successfully across borders.
- Objective: Prepares leaders to engage meaningfully in diverse global contexts, valuing a range of perspectives and understanding the broader impact of business decisions.
- Goals: To foster an expansive worldview that integrates cultural diversity, innovation, and adaptability in complex global systems.
- Content: Participants explore global market dynamics, cultural perspectives, and frugal innovation, emphasizing how organizations can create meaningful value while navigating diverse societal and market landscapes.
Collaborative Mindset: Managing Relationships
Delivered at Yokohama National University, Japan. Japan’s collaborative cultural values and practices, such as “Kaizen” and “Sanpo Yoshi,” provide an ideal backdrop for this mindset. Yokohama National University brings expertise in cross-cultural collaboration, making it an excellent setting for cultivating an inclusive, cooperative approach to leadership.
- Objective: Focuses on building and nurturing collaborative relationships across organizational and cultural boundaries.
- Goals: To enhance interpersonal effectiveness, teamwork, and stakeholder engagement, fostering a cooperative environment that values diverse perspectives and mutual growth.
- Content: Topics include strategic collaboration, cross-functional teamwork, human resource development, and global project management, encouraging a culture of trust and synergy.
Action Mindset: Managing Change and Innovation
Conducted by Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Brazil. Known for its emphasis on entrepreneurship and innovation, FGV provides a context where leaders are encouraged to adopt bold, action-oriented approaches. Brazil’s dynamic, entrepreneurial environment mirrors the mindset’s focus on resilience and adaptability, reinforcing the drive for impactful change.
- Objective: Empowers leaders to translate vision into action, managing change decisively and effectively.
- Goals: To foster a results-oriented approach that emphasizes agility, innovation, and adaptability in the face of evolving challenges.
- Content: Participants learn to mobilize stakeholders, drive sustainable change, and lead innovation, preparing them to be proactive, decisive leaders who execute impactful strategies.
Innovative Approaches to Transformative Learning
Over the past two decades, we have developed a range of pedagogical innovations that will help you achieve your full potential. The innovations are simple, yet have a profound impact.
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Friendly Consulting
Friendly consulting is a competency-sharing process that focuses on the kinds of challenges and opportunities senior managers face in their business environments. You come to the table with the issues you are grappling with in your work and benefit from the experience, insights and advice of other participants in the program.
Reflection Papers and Peer Coaching
After each module, you write a reflection paper. This is not an academic paper: you review what particularly struck you during the module and relate it your personal needs, at your own job, or within your organization. During the writing process, you connect with a team of colleagues, and a faculty tutor, who work with you to make these papers as helpful as they can possible be.
Managerial Exchanges and Company Visits
You will be paired up with a colleague and spend the better part of a week as host and as visitor at each other’s workplace. This process of observing another manager is considered one of the most enriching experiences of the program, as the benefit is twofold. Participants receive constructive feedback after being closely observed in their own organization and gain insight into how they themselves work by watching another manager in action. To broaden participants’ experience of organizations throughout the program, participants visit a range of companies across commercial, public and plural sectors applying concepts introduced during modules.
Impact Teams and Mini Modules
You are given the opportunity, with our guidance and supporting materials, to designate an impact team back at work, of colleagues or direct reports, to help you carry your learning back into the organization. You debrief your team after each module, and discuss how to use the learning for constructive change. In this way, the IMPM becomes far more than management development; it is organization development. It is a smart investment for your business or unit because the learning cascades beyond the individual to others within the organization.
Reflections and Roundtables
Impactful learning from experience does not happen without refection – without probing, wondering, analysing and synthesizing. Each morning of the program, participants have the opportunity to take time for thoughtful refection – a time to consider input by academic faculty, contributions from other participants, and experiences from the previous day. Participants share their reflections to learn from each other’s ideas and experiences at their roundtable on a wide range of economic, ethical, political and business issues, followed by plenary discussion.
Support Team of Advisors
You are not alone in your learning journey. In addition to a top team of administrators, you will be supported by:
A personal tutor who provides guidance for your papers and bridges the gap between theory and application in your workplace
Two academic directors who support and guide you through your IMPM studies
Over 50 faculty advisors whose expertise you can tap into for managerial or academic support
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