Adaptive Strategic Execution Program

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Adaptive strategic execution program

Welcome to the adaptive project leadership course catalog

A daptive project leadership

has many benefits, the most

fundamental of which is the ability

to change course when the situation

requires. At every level, project

leaders have to be more responsive

to surprise market shifts, more resilient

to unpredictable disruptions, and more

adaptive in situations where what

has always worked no longer does.

By giving leaders the right approach,

methods, tools, and capabilities

to navigate these challenges,

organizations can become better

able to do what they need to and

meet their goals. Leaders who are

flexible and think strategically can

make the right choices in uncertain

circumstances, leading the business

forward rather than stifling it with

rigid thinking.

We hope you enjoy browsing this catalog and finding the right courses for your or your team’s professional development goals!

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THE ADAPTIVE STRATEGY EXECUTION PROGRAM (ASEP) CERTIFICATE

With Korn Ferry, you can earn

recognition for your accomplishments

and steps taken to raise your

performance and benefit your career

through our Adaptive Strategic

Execution Program (ASEP), built in

partnership with Duke Corporate

Education. Contact us for more

information around certificates

and certificate paths.

PERSONAL TRAINING CONSULTATION

When you’re investing in training,

it’s vital that you choose the correct

areas to make the most of your

investment. Our experienced team will

consult with you on your background,

experience, challenges, and goals to

select the most suitable course or

program for your career development

and organizational needs.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

Each of our instructors brings vast

experience and expertise within their

field and a deep passion for teaching.

Localized perspectives come to life in

each classroom.

WHY KORN FERRY

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Our Course Topics

Choose from an extensive and holistic curriculum

that allows you to refine both your technical and

leadership skills. We offer targeted coursework

in areas including:

Why choose us for your learning partner?

Project and program management

Adaptive project leadership

Lean and Agile

Business analysis

Contract management

Business skills

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Training delivery options

TRAINING OPTIONS

We understand that full-time

working professionals are busy, and that people learn in different ways and at different speeds. By catering to specific training needs, we can help your people learn using the method that works best for their schedules, budgets, and learning preferences.

SELF-PACED E-LEARNING

e-Learning brings you high-quality course

content in a convenient online format.

Learning objectives are supported with

quality e-Learning interactions, all crafted

in an up-to-date format.

VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR-LED COURSES (VILT)

Join the classroom at the same time

as other participants and instructors

from remote locations, allowing for

an engaging learning experience.

ON-SITE INSTRUCTOR-LED COURSES (ILT)

Bring training on-site for your teams

or whole organization for a totally

focused course experience.

PUBLIC CLASSROOMS

Scheduled year-round, these

courses offer you the chance

to meet professionals in person

and a hands-on way to learn.

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Adaptive Strategic Execution Program (ASEP)

You can earn recognition for

your accomplishments and the steps you take to raise your performance and benefit your career.

By developing leaders with the

right approach, methods, tools,

and capability to navigate this

business context, organizations can

increase their ability to execute strategy

and achieve goals. Leaders who are

not wedded to an ideology, strategy,

or other methods can act strategically

in volatile circumstances, leading a

business forward rather than stifling

it with myopic thinking.

The Adaptive Strategic Execution

Program (ASEP) built in partnership

between Duke Corporate Education

and Strategy Execution, focuses

explicitly on building leaders of

project-driven work as they navigate

unanticipated market shifts and

unpredictable industry disruptions.

It is structured around three domains

that influence and define how work

gets done: strategy, work, and people.

To earn a program certificate of comp

letion from Duke University’s Fuqua

School of Business, two required

courses and four electives must be

successfully completed.

• Consisting of eight courses,

the program will holistically equip

you with the necessary adaptive

leadership skills to succeed in our

volatile and complex environment.

We want to create adaptive leaders

who can: think and act strategically to

understand, respond to, and influence

the vision, goals, and intended

outcomes of the work.

• Constantly redefine and reconfigure

the work to execute the strategy as

effectively and efficiently as possible.

• Engage people doing the work

through meaningful interaction that

unlocks their potential.

To earn the Adaptive Strategic

Execution Program Certificate, learners

must complete:

• Aligning Work with Strategy

• Making Sense of Complexity

and choose 4 of the following:

• Building Effective Teams

• Delivering Business Value

• Driving and Influencing Change

• Design Thinking for Results

• Influencing Without Authority

• Managing Critical Relationships

VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR

WHY VILT?

Access anywhere in the world.

Real-time communication with

instructors and other students.

Access to recorded courses

for up to one year afterward.

The fastest and most cost-effective

way to finish training

and get certified.

Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) is

training conducted live online in a virtual classroom that allows for real-time interaction with instructors and class participants.

Virtual Instructor-Led Training

This format incorporates expert

content, interactive exercises,

and engaging instruction from

anywhere you’d like to learn.

VILT is our most popular format.

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TRAINING COURSES

Adaptive project leadership courses

Instructor-Led Training

Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Digital/e-Learning

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Describe global trends that make

today’s work environments different.

• Explain the importance of translating

and aligning project-based work to

organizational strategy.

• Identify areas of misalignment in your

organization and team that impede

strategic execution.

• Utilize a framework model to identify

domains that must be aligned to

improve chances of project and

program success.

• Assure that project-based work

success serves the goals of

the organization.

• Architect the alignment of necessary

elements for strategy execution.

• Translate the organization’s strategy

to the work of the department,

team and individual.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Link your execution to larger goals. Learn the value of thinking and acting strategically as you lead and work effectively within your organization. This course illustrates how today’s complex environment requires a more adaptable, responsive, and fluid concept of strategy—and reinforces the need for a tightly coupled feedback loop between strategy and execution.

MODALITY

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Build the team you need. Effective teams don’t just happen, they’re built. In this course, you’ll learn how to build and guide diverse teams as they navigate a work landscape subject to external and internal forces. Discover how to form, coach, and lead resilient teams that are responsive to complex work and volatile contexts.

MODALITY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Describe what a high performing

team is and establish the conditions

that must be in place to create one.

• Discover the structure and elements

that comprise high performing teams

and apply tools that can be used to

build them.

• Define the most important drivers

of team performance in almost

any environment.

• Employ leadership behaviors and

actions to improve the performance

of your teams.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

• Builds effective teams.

• Builds networks.

• Collaborates.

• Develops talent.

• Drives engagement.

• Ensures accountability.

• Self-development.

• Situational adaptability.

• Values differences.

SKILLS

• Performance management

process design.

• Project strategy creation and alignment.BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

• Being resilient.

• Business insight.

• Courage.

• Drives vision and purpose.

• Global perspective.

• Instills trust.

• Manages ambiguity & complexity.

• Organizational savvy.

• Resourcefulness.


• Strategic mindset.

SKILLS

• Commercial acumen.

• Organization design and development.

• Performance management process design.

• Policy development and implementation.

• Project benefits management.

• Project business acumen.

• Project strategy creation and alignment.

• Strategic planning.

Aligning Work with Strategy

Building Effective Teams

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Explain the fundamental

principles of time value of money

and financial management.

• Define value creation and

what drives it.

• Describe the composition of

financial statements and assess

information from selected

corporate financial statements.

• Explain the importance of forecasting

and create effective forecasts.

• Evaluate project risk.

• Incorporate intended benefits

into the overall leadership of work.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Master value-driven decision-making. In this course, you’ll learn mindset and tool sets to create the maximum possible business value from your work. Gain insights you can apply to strategic, portfolio, and work levels of leadership when you make decisions. Learn to leverage financial, strategic, planning, and risk concepts to drive value.

MODALITY

SKILLS

• Commercial acumen.

• Costing and budgeting.

• Project cost and budget management.


• Decision quality.

• Financial acumen.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Changing how you think adds value. Learn the value of customer-focused thinking, and why not all innovation revolves around product. In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn about a real-life business need, then engage in a design-thinking process that asks you to change your thinking about the problem. Experience firsthand how process and service innovation also shape solutions.

MODALITY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Describe how the application of a

design thinking process can yield

offerings that create, deliver and

capture sustainable and differentiated

value in the marketplace.

• Apply a customer-centric approach

to elicit the needs of the customer.

• Define innovation and its

multiple sources.

• Apply an ideation approach to ensure

broad diversity of thought and

perspective into the development

of a concept.

• Build a business model canvas to

address the marketplace and matrix

sides of the value chain in moving

from idea to revenue capture.

• Apply an iterative prototyping

approach to refine and streamline

concepts into offerings that are

novel, desirable, defensible, doable

and profitable.

• Define a test-and-learn model to

implementation of ideas.

• Present offerings in a clear, concise

and compelling manner.



• Collaborates.

• Cultivates innovation.

• Customer focus.

• Drives results.



• Instills trust.

• Manages ambiguity.

• Resourcefulness.


SKILLS

• Analyze alternatives and

recommend solutions.

• Customer and market analysis.

• Define future state/to-be state.

• Define product/process

change strategy.

• Market research and analysis.

• Product development.

Delivering Business Value

Design Thinking for Results

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define the new normal in the VUCA

world driving the need to have an

adaptive mindset.

• Practice applying a model for change

using a business case example and

your own business context.

• Explore the attributes of a successful

change driver and influencer.

• Make the case for change for

others while helping them

through the process.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Nurture the human side of change. Do you have change under control? In this course, you’ll take part in facilitated discussion, lively activities, and relevant case study exercises as you explore how change affects your work. You’ll walk away with the knowledge, tools, and dispositions to drive and influence change within your organization

MODALITY



• Courage.


• Manages ambiguity.

• Manages complexity.

• Plans and aligns.


SKILLS

• Strategy.

• Managing change.

• Perform gap analysis.

• Planning and organizing.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Place the idea of “influence”

within a context of environmental,

organizational, and networking skills.

• Break influence down into

a series of learnable skills.

• Provide you with means to

negotiate the “political landscape”.

• Help you become build credibility,

resolve performance challenges,

and build networks.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Build your credibility to persuade. Time to sharpen your influence and persuasion skills? In this course, you’ll learn to break influence down into learnable skills and see how it is not simply the product of personal charisma or charm. Learn how leaders successfully influence and persuade others, whether managing up, down, across, or diagonally within their organizations.

MODALITY



• Collaborates.

• Demonstrates self-awareness.

• Develops talent.

• Interpersonal savvy.

• Persuades.


SKILLS

• Negotiation.

Driving and Influencing Change

Influencing Without Authority

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Help you identify the context in

which you are working.

• Identify what response may

help you navigate the context.

• Identify dangers and pitfalls that

prevent you from responding to

a particular context.


• Being resilient.


• Courage.



• Drives results.






PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Bring the right tools to the table. Work is more complex than ever and demands new approaches. In this course

you’ll learn to recognize, diagnose, and respond appropriately to complex

environments and situations. Learn how different mindsets, tool sets, and skill

sets play a key role in navigating complex contexts.

MODALITY

SKILLS

• Multi-project management.


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Push your thinking to uncover win-win solutions.Learn the skills and tools necessary to master relationship management in today’s work environment. Discover the tools and concepts necessary to conduct successful negotiations in high-stress environments. Walk away knowing how to explore options, change the frame, and push thinking to uncover true “win-win” solutions.

MODALITY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Teach how to work with internal

and external stakeholders to achieve

optimal outcomes.

• Demonstrate negotiation for

mutually beneficial results.

• Provide you with techniques

and tools you can immediately

apply to your work.


• Balances stakeholders.


• Collaborates.

• Courage.

• Customer focus.

• Demonstrates self-awareness

Interpersonal savvy.

• Manages conflict.

• Persuades.

• Self-development.

• Values difference.

SKILLS

• Account/client management.

• Collaboration and partnering.

• Negotiation.

• Supplier management.

Making Sense of Complexity

Managing Critical Relationships

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Bring training on-site to your organization

ON-SITE TRAINING

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand complexity and

synchronize the speed at which

markets, organizations and people

change and evolve.

• Learn how to sense and act in real

time using purpose and a customer-

centric frame to identify new arenas

and pivot quickly.

• Balance the core and edge by using

key metrics and data science to make

faster, smarter decisions.

• Learn new frames, tools and

orientations to drive agility through

culture, teams and networks.




• Customer focus.


• Drives engagement.

• Drives results.


• Financial acumen.




PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Strategic Agility requires understanding and managing interactions across

three interdependent and evolving systems: the market, the organization, and

the human. Building Strategic Agility offers a closer look at what is changing

within each and what you can do to help your team adapt quickly and respond.

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SKILLS

• Corporate strategy formation.

• Corporate strategy shaping.

• Culture of innovation.

• Customer and market analysis.

• Navigates customer challenges.

• Promoting customer focus.

• Strengthens customer connections.

Building Strategic Agility*

*This course is not part of the

ASEP program

We look at your training needs holistically and can offer a plan fit your business needs.

W e offer training solutions

to improve each of the

discipline areas needed to transform

an organization from good to great.

By working directly with your

organization using a consultative

and adaptive approach, we develop

learning solutions that address your

specific business requirements to

bring out the best performance in

your projects and people.

If you have ten or more attendees,

we can bring training to the location

of your choice, anywhere in the

world. Depending on your specific

organizational business requirements,

we can deliver targeted training in

13 different languages and one or

more of the following formats:

CONTEXTUALIZED TRAINING

We can contextualize the training to

reflect your specific industry, corporate

culture, business goals, and objectives.

OFF-THE-SHELF TRAINING

We can bring our traditional classroom

courses to a location of your choice

— this is the most efficient option in

terms of implementation and cost.

BLENDED TRAINING

We can deliver a range of training

methods by combining classroom-based

courses with online learning solutions

at all stages of the program.

ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT

Evaluating and benchmarking

capabilities and performance levels lets

you identify and assess the knowledge

and skills your people need to elevate

their project-based work. Through our

assessment process, you can:

• Establish knowledge

and skill baselines.

• Identify individual and

organizational strengths

and weaknesses.

• Identify areas of improvement.

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