Leadership and ManagementEssential Skills for Executive Management
A newly appointed executive is expected to contribute to decisions across finance, strategy, risk and people while being expert in only one of them, and the common response is silence outside their own function. This course builds the working command that ends that. Delegates work through reading financial statements and management accounts well enough to ask a useful question, strategy and the difference between a plan and a set of intentions, and governance including what the board is accountable for and what management is. Risk and the executive's role in it are covered. People and organisational decisions at executive level follow, along with the discipline of a functioning executive committee. The course closes on the transition itself, on the first months in the role and on managing a former peer group.
Course objectives
- Read financial statements well enough to ask a useful question
- Distinguish a strategy from a set of intentions
- Understand what the board is accountable for and what management is
- Contribute to risk discussions outside your own function
- Make people and organisational decisions at executive level
- Operate effectively within an executive committee
- Manage the transition, including a former peer group
Who should attend
- Newly appointed executives and senior managers
- Functional heads moving onto an executive committee
- High potential managers earmarked for executive roles
- Business owners formalising executive practices as they scale
Course outline
- 01Expert in one function, accountable across several
- 02Financial statements and management accounts
- 03Asking a useful financial question
- 04Strategy against intentions
- 05Governance and board accountability
- 06Risk and the executive role
- 07People decisions at executive level
- 08The executive committee and the first months
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 to 7 October 2026 | Maputo, Mozambique | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 13 to 15 January 2027 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 24 to 26 February 2027 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |