CEE, IBA Conducts Workshop on "Leadership in the Digital Era

Center for Executive Education (CEE), IBA, hosted a workshop on "Leadership in the Digital Era" on 30 January 2020. The program focused on creating awareness about the new ways of connecting, communicating & collaborating by understanding the associated elements of Leadership Behaviors in the digital world.

The training also helped the participants in effectively leading their teams and to make their organizations thrive in a digital world while effectively dealing with the volatility, uncertainty and the disruption-based change that is pervasive today and is here to stay. In order to achieve its learning agenda, the program used a four-element based cognitive framework of Digital Acumen, Digital Adaptability, Digital Agility & Digital Analytics.

IBA Faculty: Shuja Shams

Following were the Key Learning points of this workshop:

• Differentiating Leadership from Management.
• Three key lessons on Contemporary Leadership.
• Trait based Leadership versus Leadership through Context-based Cognitive Mapping approach.
• The new context – Arrival of the Digital Era.
• Understanding popular misunderstood terms like Digital, Digitization, Digital technology and Digital Transformation.
• New context requires New Mindset – The Digital Leader's Mindset.
• Digital Leadership Excellence Model – Digital Acumen, Digital Agility, Digital Adaptability and Digital Enterprise Analytics.
• Achieving Digital change agenda using the Digital Leadership Excellence Model.

Tracy N. Dias (Area Facility Management Supervisor, Chevron): "Instructor Shuja Shams is a great Presenter and Personality with vast knowledge, workshop should cover more time to course various digital explanations of the course participants from different highlights"

"I would highly recommend the training course on leadership in Digital Era by Shuja Shams as it is the need of digitization initiatives in many organizations".