Module 1 – How to Present Effectively on Stage, in a Conference Room or Across a Desk
This module is about how to present effectively, and covers the core principles for being an effective presenter.

Module 2 – How Accountability Works in Corporate Environments
How do you hold people accountable for getting their work done in a corporate environment? What is the cycle for how work gets done, particularly at the upper levels of the company? There’s a rhythm, a cycle, and a schedule to how that whole process works, which is important to understand and know how to ask the right questions to determine what the cycle looks like in your particular organization.

Module 3 – How to Navigate Corporate Politics
Politics is really just another word for working with people who sometimes have differing agendas. To the extent you want to be effective in a corporate environment, you need to understand how to read the political situation and how to navigate it, and in Module 3, you’ll learn how.

Module 4 – Winning the War for Talent – Considerations in Human Resource Strategy
If you want to be effective in dealing with the people issues a CEO faces, you need to understand how you win the war for talent — human resources from a strategic standpoint. Module 4 covers all of the key issues and considerations that go into those kinds of decisions and discussions in depth, so that you can participate in those kinds of discussions as well.

Module 5 – Core Concepts in Marketing and Brand Strategy
How do the C-level marketers and upper echelon executives think about marketing? What are the big issues? What are the things you can never screw up? What are the things they are paranoid about? This module gives you a crash course on how to deal with a marketing executive and about how to be effective with the head of marketing.

Module 6 – How to Design, Create and Analyze a Sales Force Model (and establish deep credibility with sales executives)
Module 6 tells you about all of the considerations in designing a sales model, a sales distribution channel, how to think about them, what the tradeoffs are, and really educates you on the things that you don’t know you don’t know. It’s a great introduction to sales force analysis.

Module 7 – Career Strategy – Filling the Leadership Vacuum
One of my favorite career strategies is “Filling the leadership vacuum.” It’s a technique to really jump up very quickly as a rising star in your organization, and a strategy I used multiple times very successfully.  This strategy is covered in depth in Module 7.

Module 8 – Power: How to Acquire It, Borrow It, Use It
If you want to be effective in your career, you need access to power. I’m not talking about electricity here; I’m talking about power or gravitas, and being really powerful inside your organization. You can either acquire it formally, you can borrow it from other people, and ultimately I’ll teach you how to use it really effectively. Module 8 shows you how to be a power player, which is really important if you want to be a rising star in your field.