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It is easy to be firm if you listen first
, Heidi Hammarsten
Leadership and Strategy
Success depends on effective leadership and builds on individual talent wired to improve, enhance and add value to a company’s activities. Executives face challenges and opportunities that extend beyond their own organization, across industries and around the world. They require a strategic perspective and global vision of what is possible.
Aalto EE helps executives to set a strategic direction for the future and strengthen their ability to lead and implement strategy in a global context. Our leadership, strategy and advanced management programs are built to challenge your current perceptions and values relating to leadership, while encouraging you to think and lead differently. We develop new mindsets and skills and prepare leaders for more senior positions and broader leadership roles.
Upcoming Programs
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Boosting Your Leadership Skills
The program is designed around the concepts of self-awareness, creativity and communication, empowering participants to lead with confidence. The core modules, Self Leadership and Leading Others, can be taken as stand-along two-day programs.
Management Communications (online)
Program Schedule 7 weeks
Location Online
This is an online program that offers a unique insight into newly emerging perspectives in communication and learning that serve the needs of the 21st century professionals by equipping them with the skills necessary to succeed in the ever-changing business environment.
Fee: € 980 (+ VAT)
Global Strategy
Program Schedule May 13-15, 2019
Location Helsinki, Finland
This is a three-day core module of the Global Leader Program which can also be taken as a stand-alone program. It focuses on the fundamental issues in strategy planning and will give you the skills needed to develop the long-term viability of your organization.
Fee: € 3,590 (+ VAT)
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Business of Culture
Program Schedule June 3, 2019 - November 8, 2019
Location Copenhagen, Helsinki and Gothenburg
The Business of Culture is an executive program for leaders from the art and culture sector in the Nordic and Baltic region. The program is tailored to enrich and develop their understanding of how effective leadership, management, and networking can transform their business and organizations.
FinanssiJOKO
Program Schedule September 10, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Location Helsinki, Finland
This program is targeted for professionals and managers in the financial industry. The program provides a broad understanding of the business and changes in the industry, taking digitalization, globalization and responsibility into account. The program supports participants' personal development and management skills. The program is held in Finnish.
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Global Leader
Program Schedule The program can be completed in 12 months
Location Helsinki, Finland
An international program that strengthens the strategic skills of leaders who manage across functions in a multinational environment. What we provide is a unique opportunity to learn more about different areas of business that impact your career potential.
Fee: € 13,800 (+ VAT)
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Strategic Foresight
Program Schedule 3 days
Location Helsinki, Finland
The Strategic Foresight program is a comprehensive introduction to the approaches and tools of industry foresight, and how these link to the management decision-making process to create strategic advantage.
Leading Change
Program Schedule December, 2019
Location Helsinki, Finland
The module focuses on developing awareness and skills in how to lead and coach yourself, your team and your organization through change. Participants will learn about the difference between change and transition and what it takes to maintain a balance between these from a leadership perspective.
Fee: € 3,590 (+ VAT)
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Fundamentals of Change Management (online)
Program Schedule Licence for three (3) months
Location Claned e-learning environment
This online program develops strategic skills for leading and implementing strategic change projects in a global context. By participating in the program, you will learn the key issues about the difference between change and transition and what it takes to maintain a balance between these from a leadership perspective.
Fee: € 150-200 (+ VAT)
Mergers and Acquisitions
Program Schedule 5 days
Location Helsinki
The Mergers and Acquisitions program gives you a structured understanding of the M&A process and equips you with the tools and skills you need for succeeding in each phase of the process.
Fee: € 8,500 (+ VAT)
Global Leader
The program strengthens the strategic skills of leaders who manage across functions in a multinational environment.
Rolling Intake
Advanced leadership skills are needed to manage change
Our world is changing at a faster pace than ever. Companies that can transform and adapt to our rapidly-changing world will not only survive, but also thrive in the competitive market. This calls for exceptional leadership.
The path to great leadership starts from within."
The path to great leadership starts from within. To succeed, leaders must gain a better understanding of their own approach to leadership and acquire new ideas in order to optimize and sustain their potential. The most effective leaders treat change as an opportunity to learn and grow as individuals, teams and organizations. They handle both the structural side of change and the human side of leading transition effectively. They realize that new mindsets and skills may be required to create a successful future, and that they may need to let go of practices that no longer serve their purpose.
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Leading change and managing transition
Exceptional leadership requires an understanding of the difference between change and transition, and what it takes to maintain a balance between these from a leadership perspective. Successful leaders must recognize their individual and behavioral leadership styles and preferences regarding change, and how these preferences influence their response to change. They must know how to lead more effectively and coach both themselves and others through the change process. They also need concrete tools for leading organizational change in the workplace.
Strategy is about building the future of your company
Strategy is not only about setting goals. It is about solving problems, choosing and building your own competitive space, and developing skills and competencies that are hard to copy. It is about identifying a path towards success in an ever-changing environment of global competition, and successfully pursuing that path. Strategy is about building the future of your company.
Strategy is a unique topic in management, as it cuts across all specializations from finance and marketing to leadership and innovation. Strategic management deals with three interrelated elements: leadership and people, competition and the business environment, and organization and capabilities. Strategic management requires the analysis of each of these domain areas, the formulation of a strategy applicable to the situation in all three domains, and coherent implementation efforts that connect to and shape all three areas.
Digitalization and globalization as overarching megatrends
Digitalization continues to be an overarching megatrend driving strategic change in several industries. It is shaping competition and setting new skill requirements for individuals, leadership and management practice. It also has an impact on the design of organizations.
Another factor driving strategic change is the on-going globalization of business. Organizational decision-makers need an international mindset to negotiate in the turbulent global environments they face. Internationalization is creating a need for agile responses to technological developments and new business models, the striking of a balance between local adaptation and global standardization, and the grasping of the new opportunities brought by a broader range of customers and innovative new ideas in the global marketplace.
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Maria Karsten
Associate Director, Open Enrollment Program and Networks