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Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate

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Programme Description

Whether you’re new to management, a first-line or middle manager, a team leader or a seasoned executive, the ability to successfully influence the teams you work with and guide the teams you lead through continuous change and transformation is important for your continued effectiveness as a leader and for the growth of your organization. Through the development and execution of strategy aligned with change management knowledge, you can build resiliency, agility and infuse new thinking within your teams and organization overall to capitalize on change, rather than being disrupted by it.

Duration

24 Week Program

External Market Drivers and Disruptors Course- 4 Weeks
Developing Strategic Business Models Course– 4 Weeks
Transformational and Visionary Leadership Course– 4 Weeks
Developing a Creative Mindset Course–4 Weeks
Strategic Negotiation Course– 8 Weeks

Fees: ₹1,98,000 + Taxes

Programme Schedule

Cohort 3
1^st June 2026

Pedagogy

100% Online
Weekly Online with Global Cohort.
- Live sessions will Cover case studies, news related discussion on the study area
- Recording of session will be made available for learners

Program Content

External Market Drivers and Disruptors Course

Developing Strategic Business Models Course

Transformational and Visionary Leadership Course

Developing a Creative Mindset Course

Strategic Negotiation Course

Key Learning outcomes

External Market Drivers and Disruptors Course

Understanding the Speed of Change

Establish the current context for the ever-changing business marketplace
Explore how factors such as demographics, climate change, pandemic-altered business models and supply chains, Industry 4.0, and geo-political events accelerate the rate of change
Understand the importance of recognizing and assessing your response to change and learn to mitigate risk

Key Strategic Drivers for the Rate of Change

Assess the drivers of change that your organization or functional area is most vulnerable to
Learn to proactively leverage opportunities created by these drivers through competitor analysis and lifecycle mapping
Track the business environment you're operating in through external environmental analysis
Gain steps for effectively leading change through Kotter’s strategic model

Strategies to Avoid Disruption and Embrace Change

Utilize open systems strategy to help your organization re-strategize based on external drivers and disruptors
Understand the right questions to ask to test the effectiveness of open systems strategy
Recognize the dangers of ignoring external drivers and disruptors
Develop and apply tools to overcome biases, blind spots, and avoid threats

Selecting the Best Change Strategy for Your Organization

Apply the tools, methods, and best practices learned to develop your unique open system strategy
Communicate your strategy for organizational buy-in and alignment
Predict and plan for future disruptors

Developing Strategic Business Models Course

Optimizing First-Line Performance Through Strategic Planning

Utilize tools and techniques, including PESTLE, competitor, segmentation, and value chain analyses to gain a better understanding of your functional strengths and weaknesses
Analyze existing business processes to ensure alignment with external drivers of change
Develop goals and objectives to align the organization with senior leadership’s broader vision, purpose, and goals
Complete a SWOT analysis to create actionable objectives for functional leadership

Aligning Functions within Strategic Business Units

Gain tools, models, and methods to translate the organizational vision into functional goals
Interpret and develop aligned goals and objectives to meet the needs and requirements of individual teams and functions
Recognize valuable resources for strategic synchronization, including market research and strong supplier relationships
Renew or stabilize an organization

Understanding Corporate Strategy

Gain tools and techniques for maintaining a healthy organization, including resource allocation, portfolio analysis, and capital distribution
Recognize the nine critical roles corporate strategists embody in successful organizations
Utilize the three primary levers of corporate strategy — vertical/horizontal integration, empowerment, and diversification
Analyze the structure of your organization and identify its strategic needs

Future-Proofing Organizational Strategy

Recognize the critical strategic questions all employees must ask regardless of role
Understand how the organization’s strategy is serving your aspirations
Explore current trends in organizational strategy, including structure, technology, training, and sustainability
Analyze stakeholder capitalism, one of the most powerful strategic models in business today

Transformational and Visionary Leadership Course

Developing a Creative Mindset Course

Strategic Negotiation Course

Negotiations Basics and Negotiation Styles

Identify what constitutes negotiation and which negotiations to engage in or avoid
Define fundamental concepts (BATNA, issue, position, resistance point, zone of agreement) and how they relate to negotiation
Apply the best negotiation styles to employ in a given negotiation context

Distributive Negotiations and Hardball Tactics

Describe how information is used in distributive negotiations
Identify sources of leverage and set an appropriate target by considering relative leverage
Determine when and how to make first offers and concessions
Identify and respond to different hardball tactics

Integrative Negotiations

Identify potential ethical issues in negotiations and discuss moral reasoning to guide decision making
Know the legal criteria used to assess fraud

Detecting Deception and Biases in Negotiation

Recognize the challenges in detecting deception and responses when you suspect deception
Identify and define biases in perception and cognition and describe how they affect negotiations
Contrast effects of positive and negative emotions and how emotions affect memories in negotiation

Planning Process and Evaluating Success in Negotiations

List the components of negotiation planning and create a structured plan
Identify various measures of negotiation success

Ethical Issues, Cognitive Biases, and Emotion in Negotiation

Identify potential ethical issues and moral reasoning used to guide negotiation decisions
Know the legal criteria used to assess fraud

Communication and Conflict Management

Describe best practices for communicating in negotiations
Identify common missteps in communication and evaluate different communication modes
Explain Ury’s Barriers and Breakthroughs model and apply breakthrough strategies to negotiation scenarios
Distinguish between third-party options and describe pros/cons of each; apply third-party principles to mediate conflicts between employees

Teams and Multiparty Negotiations

Explore complexities of moving from two-party to multiparty negotiations and understand group roles
Discuss the pros/cons of voting rules

Cross-Cultural Negotiations

Identify cultural dimensions and their impact on negotiations
Review Weiss’s familiarity-dependent strategy for cross-cultural negotiations
Review counter rules to identify and reverse bias and improve negotiation strategies

Eligibility

The five-course Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate is designed for the manager, senior manager, or executive tasked with leading strategy development at multiple levels and wanting to build resiliency, agility and infuse new thinking across the organization and align overall strategy, vision and goals.

Programme Delivery
Online Self-Paced

Expert Sessions
Live Session by Senior Professors

Admission Criteria
Open to all

Mode of Examination
Online

Programme Timelines

Particulars	Cohort 3 Date
last day to apply	25th March 2026
Programme Start	1st June 2026
Batch End	28th Nov 2026

Evaluation Methodology

Online Quiz for every Course

3 attempts to learners to clear the Quiz

Maximum 2 years to complete the Course

Certification Criteria

On successful completion of assessment and assingment

Creative Business, Strategy and Leadership Certificate

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Programme Description

Duration

Fees: ₹1,98,000 + Taxes

Programme Schedule

Pedagogy

Program Content

1. How Does Change Affect the World?

2. Why Do People (and Organizations) Resist Change?

3. What Drives Change?

4. How Can Change Help You Transform?

1. Functional Strategy

2. Divisional Strategy

3. Corporate Strategy

4. The Strategy of Today and Tomorrow

1. Understanding Yourself and Your Peers

2. Understanding Your Influence and Power

3. Understanding Your Organization

4. Understanding Your Market

1. Creative Decision-Making

2. Techniques for Creative Decision-Making

3. The Creative Power of Groups

4. Creative Decision-Making in Business

Negotiations Basics and Negotiation Styles

Key Learning outcomes

Understanding the Speed of Change

Key Strategic Drivers for the Rate of Change

Strategies to Avoid Disruption and Embrace Change

Selecting the Best Change Strategy for Your Organization

Optimizing First-Line Performance Through Strategic Planning

Aligning Functions within Strategic Business Units

Understanding Corporate Strategy

Future-Proofing Organizational Strategy

Your Personal Leadership Style

Lead From All Levels

Organizational Analysis

Industry Analysis

Creative Decision Making

Techniques for Creative Decision Making

The Creative Power of Groups

Creative Decision Making in Business

Negotiations Basics and Negotiation Styles

Distributive Negotiations and Hardball Tactics

Integrative Negotiations

Detecting Deception and Biases in Negotiation

Planning Process and Evaluating Success in Negotiations

Ethical Issues, Cognitive Biases, and Emotion in Negotiation

Communication and Conflict Management

Teams and Multiparty Negotiations

Cross-Cultural Negotiations

Eligibility

Programme Timelines

Evaluation Methodology

Certification Criteria