Global Leadership Forum Liz Wiseman

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Global Leadership ForumLiz Wiseman Dinesh
Chandra
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Business Drivers

• American Companies
• How do we ensure we are getting the desired
  performance and productivity gains from our
  operations in India and China and other global
  expertise centers?
• How do we effectively manage and collaborate
  virtually with our global colleagues?
• How do we control costs in our offshore
  operations?
• How do we manage the rapid pace of change?
• As more of the supply chain moves to other
  nations, how do we move up the value chain?
• How do we maintain our competitive edge?

• Indian Companies
• Weve acquired global companies, how do we manage
  them and get the desired performance and
  productivity?
• How do we effectively manage and collaborate
  virtually with our global colleagues?
• How do we deal with inadequate infrastructure?
• How do we retain our staff in a growing talent
  market?
• How do we manage the rapid pace of change?
• How do we gain a global perspective fast enough
  to stay competitive with other emerging markets?

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Common Business Issues

• Performance and productivity improvement
• Change management
• Expense management
• Virtual collaboration
• Cross cultural communication
• Maintaining competitive advantage

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Forum Objectives

• Overall Objectives
• Strengthen global mindset and leadership in
  business executives from Silicon Valley and
  Indian firms by creating a forum for a rich
  exchange of ideas and worldviews.
• Build global leadership capabilities among senior
  leaders to fill the talent pipelines for global
  corporations

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Global Mindset

• What is Global Mindset?
• Global Mindset is an open state that enables the
• Agility to work effectively and seamlessly across
  cultures and organizations.
• Ability to see connection and interdependencies
  between organizations, countries, and cultures
  and optimize the whole system.
• Acknowledgement that diversity is as a rich
  source of creativity, not just an economic
  necessity or mandate.

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Participant Objectives

• The Forum will develop global leadership
  capabilities by
• Providing models and tools to increase
  effectiveness of planning, and execution in a
  global setting
• Creating a network of business professionals with
  responsibility for leading global operations
• Building the following global leadership skills
  while addressing a real global issue during the
  forum.
• Managing change
• Global collaboration virtual collaboration
• Organization development Moving up the value
  chain (creating new opportunities)
• Enabling each participant to create a plan for
  driving a 20 productivity improvement within 12
  months in one of his/her global operations.

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Tentative Agenda
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Fusion Learning Approach
Project Selection

• Fusion Learning brings together learning and
  strategy management into one seamless process.
  Leaders are developed while working on
  high-stakes strategic problems. The group starts
  by learning together and then immediately
  applying the learning to the work challenge at
  hand. They work under the direction of a project
  sponsor, facilitators, and external thought
  leaders and produce a concrete business plan.

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Benefits to Sponsor Organizations

• Global skill development for participants (with
  follow up measurement)
• Build pipeline for global leadership talent
• Concrete plan for 20 productivity improvement in
  a global operation

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Forum Sponsorship

• Commit 2 or more participants
• 5000 pp for US travel
• 2500 pp for India travel
• Provide input on forum work project
• Be guest speaker during forum (optional)
• Provide support to their participants as they
  complete their individual work projects (for 20
  productivity improvement)