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This course will help anyone supporting or moving into the sector with the knowledge and tools to communicate effectively with real estate professionals.

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The IFS Residential Conference is held biennially and brings together tax practitioners, academics, policymakers and people from business and the third sector to discuss an area of the tax system from a variety of angles.

This module aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the status of an authorised economic operator in the export and in import of goods. This includes the advantages of the status, trusted trader, and the process securing the authorised economic operator status.

The IFS Residential Conference is held biennially and brings together tax practitioners, academics, policymakers and people from business and the third sector to discuss an area of the tax system from a variety of angles.

Target Audience Senior managers with several years of experience and leaders looking to transition to the highest levels of leadership where the remit is characteristically more strategic, more authority, fewer direct reports and greater influence internally and externally. Duration 2 Days Course Overview The Executive Leadership course is an intensive program is for seasoned leaders who are responsible for large teams, departments, or entire organizations. It is designed to elevate senior leaders’ capabilities to excel in volatile, global, and digitally-driven contexts. Building on established leadership theories, this course dives deeper into advanced, research-backed models such as Complexity Leadership, Strategic Agility, and Ethical Governance, integrating insights from organizational psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience. Through high-level case studies, strategic simulations, and peer-to-peer dialogue, participants will refine their ability to lead transformative change, foster organisational resilience, and align purpose-driven strategies with stakeholder expectations. The course emphasizes practical application for navigating ambiguity, driving innovation, and ensuring sustainable impact. The Leadership Tension Lens will be revisited to help leaders more critically analyse competing strategic priorities and the most challenging leadership dynamics. This course is designed by highly qualified learning design experts, assisted and guided by a Doctoral & Masters level leadership team. Working closely with subject matter leaders with extensive domain experience, this course is built on sound academic rigour and applied real world experience. Run in a cohort-based, activity-led format, it goes beyond theory to provide practical methods and frameworks that you can immediately apply in your workplace. Key Outcomes Revisit the Leadership Tension Lens: Departmental Trade-offs and Tensions & Short Term v Long Term Define Organisation-wide Vision and Strategy - Strategic foresight Drive Organizational Performance: Metrics that Matter Apply Leadership at Scale: Building and Managing Executive Teams Explore Executive Coaching, Stakeholder Management Techniques Drive Cultural Transformation: Aligning Culture with Strategic Goals Apply Executive Reflection: Learning from Experience and Driving Change

The need for key staff to have commercial skills is paramount, as the public sector is increasingly opened up as a commercial market, in which organisations compete against each other and the private sector for contracts. Generating additional income and being commercially aware is vital for this to be a success, and is what many public sector organisations are looking to do. This programme will help you: See commercial awareness as not just another skill-set, but as a different mind-set Use a variety of tried-and-tested commercial, analytical decision-making techniques and tools Define your commercial objectives Develop a strategic focus Start looking at service clients as market segments Analyse, in a competitive context, your service offering Plan a commercial strategy, prepare for its implementation and see it through to execution 1 What is commercial thinking? Understand what it means to be a commercial thinker Identifying commercial opportunities often involves not only a different skill set but also a different mindset; looking at the services that you provide 2 Defining strategic commercial objectives Defining your key commercial objectives Prioritising your strategic objectives Two key strategic planning tools:Resource and Competency MatrixPESTLE How to apply these tools to your particular situation 3 Developing a strategic focus Decision-making on how to compete in the markets identified by your strategic objectives requires a strategic focus Developing strategic focus A tool for helping you to make those decisions: using the Ansoff Matrix 4 Defining customer targets How to think more commercially by understanding who all your customers are and how they differ from each other how to apply the principles to your areas to identify the type of customers you have and their key characteristics - Customer segmentation Who are your customers? How do their needs vary? - Scenarios 5 The competitive market place Understanding the competitive forces at play Different types of competition Analysing your competitive environment using Porter's 5 Forces model 6 Meeting stakeholder expectations Two simple models to help you identify the key stakeholders who could influence your commercial environment How to use your stakeholders to help you achieve your commercial objectives 7 Implementation - systems, structures and processes Effective commercial activity involves working with others to implement ideas and strategies What do you need to have in place before you implement your commercial strategy? How to health-check your organisation prior to implementation using the McKinsey 7S framework 8 Implementation - people and culture A good commercial strategy only works if the people involved buy in to the ideas and if the culture of the organisation is conducive to the effective implementation How the latest thinking in behavioural economics can help you develop your culture and people to work commercially 9 Tools and checklists Be more commercial within your sphere of influence using a commercial checklist to help you Using the checklist as a benchmark against the most commercially aware organisations Using the checklist as a health check - both corporately and individually