Rising Leader Programs
Abilitie’s Rising Leader Programs are immersive leadership development experiences that give emerging business leaders the business acumen, strategic thinking, and cross-functional leadership skills they need to advance to the next level in their careers.
Abilitie’s Rising Leader Programs
Participants in these intensive director-level mini-MBAs try their hand at running complex businesses in competitive marketplaces and learn from their mistakes, their interactions with peers, and customized debriefs led by certified facilitators. They get exposed to relevant case studies in small groups and learn from a senior-level action-learning project.
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Program Components
Our rising leader programs create the perfect learning environment for growing leaders who need a challenging, real-world environment to question their assumptions and flex their leadership skills. We work with you to adapt our Rising Leader solutions to the needs of your organization, focusing on core competencies such as:
- Enterprise Thinking
- Business Acumen
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Strategy & Innovation
Business Intelligence
Our Business solutions for Rising Leaders reinforce confidence with making long-term strategic business decisions. Our Business Challenge simulation creates a practice environment to use financial data to make decisions that drive business value. Participants will put their skills to the test and learn from their successes and failures. Through expertly facilitated debriefs, rising leaders will more confidently communicate about business metrics and evaluate financial data. Key learning objectives include understanding the drivers of value for a business and anticipating the long-term implications of business decisions.
Enterprise Intelligence
Our solutions for Rising Leaders offer your learners the opportunity to practice leading large, cross-functional teams, making strategic decisions, and executing in VUCA environments. The integrated Enterprise Challenge simulation lets participants fully inhabit their positions as organizational leaders and learn from their own actions and mistakes in a safe environment. Through research-based, Socratic debriefs and simulated practice scenarios participants hone their executive decision making skills. They gain a deep understanding of the trade-offs they make in their own careers and practice working through difficult scenarios and situations.
Our Enterprise Challenge simulation helps your rising leaders hone the cross-functional leadership and strategic thinking skills they need to advance to the next level in their career. Core focus areas include operating strategically and executing strategy under VUCA conditions. Key learning objectives include communicating and collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams and making effective decisions under pressure.
Audience
The Rising Leader Programs provide the perfect learning environment for growing leaders who need challenging, real-world practice environments to flex their leadership and business acumen skills.
Gave me the opportunity to fully understand the complexities of an organization as a whole.
Rising Leader, Zimmer
Sample Program Schedule
Abilitie’s Rising Leader Programs are tailored to the needs of each client. Our programs can work as condensed 1-week programs or can be spread out over multiple months as desired.
Action Learning Projects
Action Learning Projects are an ideal complement to our intensive simulation-based practice sessions. We work with you to identify and design projects that are adapted to your industry and company initiatives. Action Learning Projects (ALPs) present program participants with a real world problem that your organization has previously or is currently struggling with, or an issue that you’d like to prepare your learners to face in the future. Your learners will be split into small groups to work through the assigned ALP for the duration of the program, and will have a chance to apply what they are learning via the blended curriculum and immersive simulations through the lens of the real-world.
This was the best business training exercise I have ever participated in. Better than anything in my 5 year evening MBA program.
Participant, AMD
Program Details
The Rising Leader Programs are tailored and designed to work either as stand-alone leadership programs or as complements to your broader learning and development strategy.
This is by far the best class I have taken! I loved the simulations and hands-on approach.
Participant, Medtronic
Description
A challenging leadership curriculum for rising business leaders.
Audience
Sr. Manager to Sr. Director
Cornerstone Simulations
Business Challenge
Enterprise Challenge
Cohort Size
12 – 48 people
Duration
1-3 months
Group Project
20-hour project with group presentation
Peer Assessments
Peer feedback councils and peer evaluations
Case Study Discussions
Small study group discussions on finance, strategy, operations, and leadership
Online Content
Fluent in Finance business acumen, articles, and Harvard Business School case studies
Give Us a Call
We work with clients in interactive design workshops to find the right solution for you. Schedule an exploratory conversation today.
