SFLP helps senior financial executives understand the nexus of finance, leadership, communication and finance. You will become a partner in the formulation of the company’s strategy and help in its execution. You will leave the program with the tools to become a trusted strategic advisor who not only ensures that finance flows from, informs and fits strategy, but also to lead it.
- The Role of Financial Leadership
- Recasting Financial Statements for Value Creation
- Developing a Strategic Mindset
- Strategic Challenges in Top Management Teams
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Why Smart Executives Fail
- Broadening Leadership Styles
- Understanding Situational Leadership
- Influence Without Authority
- Communicating Strategically
- Using Corporate Communications to Enhance Reputation
- Leadership and Personal Responsibility
- Leading in a Crisis
- Assessing and Managing Risk
- Measuring Strategic Performance
As part of your strategic learning experience, before, during and after the program, you have the opportunity to explore and expand your self-awareness as a leader as well as hone your personal leadership style.
PRIOR TO COMING TO TUCK
As part of the pre-program preparation, you will undergo a 360-degree leadership assessment with individuals at your organization who have had experience with you in a leadership role. The purpose of this assessment is to see how others at your organization perceive your leadership and to uncover your leadership blind spots. The assessment is optional, but experience has shown that it is a powerful part of the overall transformational learning experience.
DURING THE PROGRAM
- Via a simulation as well as classroom and breakout sessions you will examine with Tuck Professor Pino Audia what makes leaders effective – leadership styles; influence without authority; situational leadership and how to better respond as a leader to continually changing business environments.
- You will participate in a workshop with Professor Audio, expert on leadership, organizational change, team dynamics, and strategy implementation.
- You will review your leadership assessment report in peer coaching sessions help you understand your strengths and areas for improvement as well as helping you develop a personal action plan.
- You will complete a Myers-Briggs assessment and participate in a ‘leadership lab’ to practice and understand leadership behaviors and how to get results with others.
AFTER THE PROGRAM
You will return to your company with an action plan to be a more successful leader. You will have a clearer picture of what it takes to lead effectively and how you can have a direct impact on the working atmosphere of your company, team or division, and ultimately on the organization.
ACTION LEArNING/APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN
As part of your learning experience, you will collaborate on an action learning project of strategic relevance to your company. These hands-on projects are designed around company-specific issues and focus on real challenges that are at the nexus between strategy and finance.
Applying the concepts to real issues provides an ROI on the learning experience and delivers a payoff to improve business performance for the company. Action learning also encourages the development of a common internal language around strategy, finance and leadership.
Tuck faculty have extensive experience in integrating and supporting action learning projects as part of the overall learning experience. Prof. Robert Howell is actively involved in the process to help shape the projects and ensure a linkage between finance, strategy and leadership.
Senior financial executives and their high-potential staff who are increasingly involved in developing, communicating and leading strategy. SFLP is open to individual participants as well as teams.
Robert Howell, David T. McLaughlin D'54, T'55 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Business Administration, specializes in accounting and finance and is a leading authority on corporate governance and financial measurement, analysis, reporting, and control practices. He has consulted for such companies as General Electric, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar, Boeing, Hallmark, AT&T, and Nestlé.
Joining Professor Howell are Tuck faculty:
Sydney Finkelstein An authority on strategy, strategic leadership, and top management teams. His best-selling books – Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It from Happening to You and Why Smart Executives Fail are considered definitive works in the field of business leadership.
Pino Audia An expert on leadership, organizational change, team dynamics, and strategy implementation, Professor Audia has helped managers at major global firms increase their leadership effectiveness.
Paul Argenti, professor of management and corporate communication at Tuck, he is an expert in corporate communication strategies. He has provided management, strategy, and corporate communication consulting and training for more than 50 organizations.
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The educational rationale of the program is to provide senior financial executives with the tools – both financial and strategic – to link strategy, leadership, and financial decision-making to long term value creation. We believe that, too often, this linkage is not strong enough, and potential value creation is missed.
