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Content Overview
Leading Organisations in Disruptive Times is an online programme delivered over 6 weeks that combines video lectures, real-life examples, discussions, quizzes and an Action Learning Project to bring the key concepts to life. The content is divided into four key topics and covers the more traditional ‘above the surface’ issues senior leaders typically face, as well as the less obvious ‘below the surface’ challenges that arise when leading an organisation.
The Decision Challenge:
Fair-Process in Team Decision-Making
- Acknowledge the importance and impact of decision-making as the core work of leadership
- Recognise how decision-making in today’s “empowered” workforce is less about “telling” than it is about guiding and facilitating an effective decision-making path
- Explore a practical model for implementing Fair-Process Leadership norms in your setting
The Change Challenge: Leading Formal Change
- Deepen your understanding of the complexities of change amidst digitisation
- Explore ten pillars to guide organisational change in your organisation
- Acknowledge the ‘X factor’ to change management while considering essential shared elements to lead to success
The Political Challenge:
Networks & Influence
- Explore why people often have ambivalent reactions to power and influence, even in “rational” organisations
- Differentiate between hard and soft power, emphasizing the significance of developing the latter, especially in increasingly horizontal and network-driven work environments
- Examine the human proclivity for ‘familiar’ and ‘clan-like’ relationships, instead of exploring new and diverse relations, and understand the importance of cultivating social curiosity and openness
The Culture Challenge:
Organisations in a Digital Age
- Develop a deeper understanding of how to pinpoint and define something seemingly abstract as organisational culture
- Gain insights into analysing organisational culture and navigating the array of diverse mental models and competing organisational narratives
- Explore ideas for shaping organisational culture so that it supports your change management strategy
The Ambidexterity Challenge:
Managing Contradictions in
Turbulent Times
- Develop an understanding of the key contradictory forces faced by growing business organisations
- Learn a framework to help you manage those contradictions: Paradox Mindset, Skill Versatility, Team Cohesion, Structural Moves, Contextual Work.
The xCHANGE Simulation: Boost your learning
Please note: the Xchange Simulation is offered as an optional add-on to the programme.
The INSEAD xCHANGE Simulation is a one-of-a-kind, game-changing simulation tool that puts you in the driver’s seat and empowers you with the understanding, the confidence, the leadership frameworks and the hands-on tools to lead transformation within your organisation.
Developed in partnership with innovation pioneers, Prendo and xLEAD, the xCHANGE Simulation dynamically captures the challenges of change that define today’s business context, integrating the very latest thinking on agile organisations with real-world, practical insights for immediate impact. You are required to respond cognitively, emotionally and strategically – confronting an authentic, simulated leadership challenge that highlights the importance of getting beyond the team to engage the larger ecosystem and build the collaboration frameworks to drive innovation. The challenges are real but the learning happens in a safe, risk-free environment; one that is enriched by immediate and clear feedback and actionable takeaways for you and your organisation.
The xCHANGE Simulation is a profound, experiential and transformative learning process where the focus shifts from performing to experimenting, from the risk of failure to the opportunity to learn, to understand and to identify your own strengths and weaknesses in successfully executing rapid and innovative change.
How you benefit:
- Develop the competencies to build and align an effective change team
- Learn to deploy formal and informal networks
- Discover and leverage compelling influencing strategies
- Successfully navigate the complexities of organisational culture and politics
- Maximise stakeholder support for a specific innovation
- Build networks across the organisational ecosystem to secure buy-in for change
- Make organisational change happen.
Please note that participants who purchase the xCHANGE Simulation add-on have the opportunity to complete the simulation twice.
Your Online Learning Journey
Throughout the programme, an INSEAD Learning Coach will be guiding you and helping you maximise the impact of your learning journey.
*Please note the programme may include a pause week(s).
Action Learning Project
A cornerstone of INSEAD’s cohort-based online programmes, Action Learning Projects (ALPs) are guided, real-world assignments that enable you to apply new skills directly to your role and organisation—delivering immediate and lasting business impact.
Closely aligned with each programme’s learning objectives, ALPs are supported by learning coaches and enriched through peer feedback. They offer a safe environment to test ideas and develop practical strategies ready for implementation.
With guidance from your learning coach, you will design an ALP relevant to your context and personal learning goals. For select programmes, if participating with colleagues, the learning coach can help structure a more ambitious team ALP for collaborative work.
The ALP process unfolds in three phases:
Scoping the ALP
Define the scope with your learning coach to ensure alignment with programme goals and a clear, actionable outcome.
Applying Concepts Weekly
Throughout the Content Weeks, apply the tools and frameworks introduced each week to progressively build your ALP.
Synthesis and Peer Review
At the end of the Content Weeks, consolidate your insights into strategic recommendations and submit them for peer review. In the final week, each participant will review four peer submissions and provide feedback.
Typical Week on an INSEAD Online Programme
Each week of content follows a very clear path to facilitate learning for busy executives. The platform allows participants to learn at their own paceduring each week, by viewing the content, completing assignments and engaging in discussions, taking on average 4-6 hours per week* to complete.
*This is the recommended number of hours per week however please note that working on the Action Learning Project (ALP) may require up to two additional hours/week.
