The Lagos Business School has re-launched its Chief Executive Programme for senior business executives to address emerging trends in today’s business world.
LBS in a statement issued over the weekend said that as the business terrain changes, it was important to equip leaders with the needed skills and resources.
The Director, Executive Education, Lagos Business School, Victor Banjo, in his introductory remarks, emphasised that, just as the business environment has evolved, so must the approach to leadership development.
“The way CEOs are developed must mirror this evolution. it must enable people leadership practices that influence CEOs to be imaginative, open to learning and unlearning. A significant proportion of learning in this programme will come out of peer-stimulated learning, the sharing of experience and stress-testing each other’s ideas.
“Participants will learn to go beyond problem-solving skills to using design-thinking to build ecosystems that harness success. Participants will learn to handle numerous inherent paradox situations that defy either/or solutions and compromises, to build on existing value streams and at the same time, find new ones thereby ensuring resilience and agility,” he said.
Also speaking at the relaunch programme, the Chief Operating Officer, Pan Atlantic University, Dr. Peter Bamkole, said the programme needed to be relaunched after 28 editions before COVID-19 to address present and emerging realities.
“There is a different way of working and the CEO must understand that. The CEO is constantly being challenged in many directions and the relaunched programme is to prepare the CEOs and Senior Business Executives for these new challenges,” Bankole added.
