High Potentials Leadership 5-day Consortium Program

The School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) proudly presents High Potentials Leadership Consortium Program. The program is designed to develop high flyers by improving their leadership capabilities and offering them access to the latest management knowledge.

It is built on our extensive experience in offering world-class executive education to senior executives and business owners throughout the years.

Program Objectives

High Potentials Leadership Consortium Program develops high flyers in meeting the challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive business environment and provides golden opportunities for networking with executives from diverse industries and backgrounds.

Program Highlights

• Improve leadership capabilities to bring out the best performance
• Foster strategic thinking to create value which is essential for career development
• Broaden perspectives and benchmarking best practices from fellow participants from other leading companies and organizations
• Acquire cutting-edge business and management knowledge and skills for implementation in the work place

Who Should Attend

High flyers of leading companies and organizations, typically with 5 to 10 years of working experien

Module 1 Managerial Decision Making (2 days)

Quality decision leads the success of leaders and managers. This module is designed to help participants to make better decisions in daily life and professional work. The module is organized around an important distinction in decision making between normative and descriptive
approaches. While the normative approach concerns how people or executives should make decisions, the descriptive approach concerns how people or executives actually do make decisions. Both approaches are important for making sound decisions.

This module will help participants to be better decision-makers by providing participants with various analytical tools to make reasonable good decisions by introducing the normative decision-making approach and developing participants’ understanding of decision biases in real decision-making situations by the descriptive decision-making approach.

Module 2 Effective Team Communications (1 day)

It is essential for team leaders to provide feedback and engage team members in order to improve team performance. This module will help participants to improve their communication skills when understanding, influencing, engaging, and motivating their peers and subordinates.

Through lectures, personal assessment tool and interactive exercises, this module enhances communication techniques to improve team efficiency. Participants will learn personal and others’ characteristics to embrace individual differences and discover the ways to work with people of different preferences. Also, they will learn how to improve commitment to enhance team performance.

Module 3 Leading Teams to Performance (2 days)

Organizations in today’s increasingly global and virtual world rely extensively on teams and collaboration to active their objectives. Companies need both more senior leadership teams, who may be together for several years, and strategic account or project teams, who may only work together for a few months, to be successful. However, often teams do not seem to work. Many people feel they take up too much time, cause conflict, add no value and are difficult to manage.

This module will focus on understanding and experiencing how teams operate and learning how to transform and lead teams to deliver value and performance. Participants will understand the critical importance of individual and team behavior, as well as of the appropriate team operating system to achieve team effectiveness. It will include personality self-awareness, emotional intelligence, personal conflict styles, how to achieve alignment, clarity and trust across teams and the value of inspirational leadership.

The module will use facilitated and team discussion, experiential learning exercises, case studies, team simulations and multi-media tools to help participants to experience the challenge of teams and leadership as well as learn the solutions to overcome these challenges.