Here are 25 questions to reflect upon for any manager seeking to improve his or her management skills, leadership and impact. The questions are based on the 9 modules of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program. These questions frame the discussions, learnings and reflections throughout program. The diversity of participant experiences across a wide range of industries and functions, coupled with the insights of faculty, ensures that they examine these questions from a number of angles. The result is a more open and questioning perspective and a greater level of confidence in meeting their future challenges.
Reflective Mindset – Managing self
- What type of leader am I?
- What type of leader do I want to be?
Tools and Practices – Making decisions
- How does the competitive environment affect business decisions?
- What tools and information are useful for which decisions?
- What can I learn from critically assessing financial and management results?
Value Creation – Managing value
- What is your value creation objective and what business model do you need to deliver it?
- What levers and industry factors can we use to create value, while avoiding competitive disruption?
- How can we align our resources and measure our success at creating value?
Operational Excellence – Managing operations
- What levers can I use to optimize a company’s operations?
- How can I establish operational excellence as a management philosophy?
- How can I establish effective performance management?
Analytical Mindset – Managing organizations
- How does strategy happen in organizations?
- How does structure and design impact on how organizations work?
- How do we make strategic decisions and implement strategic initiatives?
Collaborative Mindset – Managing relationships
- How can I identify opportunities for effective collaboration?
- What does it take to develop and maintain meaningful collaboration?
Sustainability Challenge – Managing contexts
- Why is sustainability important?
- How can sustainability enhance competitive advantage?
- What concrete steps cay you take as a manager to improve-in strategic ways- our organization’s social and environmental performance?
Worldly Mindset – Managing in context
- How can I learn about context?
- How can I manage in environments that are different from competitive, cultural and institutional points of view?
- Why, where and how to internationalize?
Catalytic Mindset – Managing innovation and changes
- How can you foster and manage creativity and innovation?
- How can you manage and successfully implement strategic change?
- How can you enhance people’s and organization’s ability to change?
