The connection between strategies, goals and efficient corporate governance is a recurrent theme, as are change processes. Four themes run throughout the entire program:

• Creating and leading effective teams
• Your own business challenges
• Coaching leadership which you will get to practice with a colleague
• Try out some of the program’s exercises at your workplace and recount your experience on the program.

The program is designed to provide business models, analytical methods and practical exercises which form a toolkit that will support you in your day to day business. These are some of the benefits:

For you

• You will acquire better self-awareness
• You will understand how better to steer and lead the business and acquire a number of tools to do this
• You will understand and be able to communicate financial terms and be able to communicate key ratios which are essential to your business
• You will get a deeper insight into how strategy, control and leadership are interdependent.

For your organization

The Manager and Leader program contributes not only to your development as an individual but also to that of your company or organization. The program provides you with access to Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education’s alumni network, Networker. It is a high-level managerial network through which you and your organization can continue to develop. You will get access to current research and the opportunity to exchange experiences with other managers and companies.

Manager and Leader is primarily aimed at middle managers who are relatively new in their roles or are becoming manager of other managers.

You probably have at least two years experience of being a manager with responsibility such as personnel, products or development.