Strategy is essential for a business because it provides direction, competitive advantage, and adaptability in a constantly evolving business landscape.
It helps businesses thrive, grow, and achieve their long-term goals while effectively managing risks and resources.
Since in September this will be the topic of the EMBA module studied by the 2023 EMBA class, we challenge you to continue investing in your professional development by registering to a new workshop dedicated for executives with roles in leading and designing business strategies.
This will be the 5th edition of the PostMBA School - special guest: Mr. Virgil Șoncutean, CEO of Allianz-Țiriac.
In this 6-hour workshop, we invite you to immerse yourself in the intricate world of leading change within organizations. Uncover the essential skills and strategies needed to navigate the evolving landscape of business.
Through an engaging blend of interactive discussions, real-world case studies, and hands-on exercises, you will gain profound insights into effective change leadership.
Main topic
Our facilitator, Mr. Virgil Șoncutean, CEO at Allianz-Țiriac Asigurări, with more than 20 years of experience in sales and management and a proven track record on leading successful teams globally, will share his expertise on how to use in practice the 8 Steps for Leading Change - Kotter’s award-winning methodology, proven approach to producing lasting change.
Join us for an immersive journey into the art of leading change, where you'll gain the insights and confidence to embrace the challenges of change and emerge as a masterful change leader, equipped to steer your team toward lasting success.
What to expect from this session:
Participants will be split into two groups and each group will be receiving a mandate: they are the newly appointed senior management team with the mission to design a turnaround change management plan and save a company. The company is in financial distress, declining customer’ satisfaction while employees’ engagement is historically low.
Each team will receive a basic data set and a time plan with deliverables with the clear mission to develop a convincing change management plan to turn around the company and avoid bankruptcy.
During the 6h session there will be a few tollgates where each team will present the status, further collect data and meet people from the organization in order to build a solid plan. The last toll gate is the final presentation of the change management plan to turnaround and save the organization, in front of all participants, while showing the key deliverables of the change management plan:
- Establishing the sense of urgency
- Identify the right team
- Create vision & strategy
- Communication
- Empower others
- Short-term wins
- Anchor changes
Along the way we will engage in sharing experiences and real stories on turnaround cases.
The PostMBA session are designed for the:
- EMBA graduates
- Executives with previous knowledge in strategy and business management
- Middle-top management roles with strategic business implication
Agenda for the day:
1.45 - 2.00 pm: Welcoming the participants at BT Campus (Dorobanților 30)
2.00 - 3.30 pm: First session
3.30 - 4.00 pm: Coffee break
4.00 - 5.30 pm: Second session
5.30 - 6.00 pm: Coffee break
6.00 - 7.30 pm: Third session
7.30 - 8.30 pm: Dinner and networking
Pre-reading:
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (let us know if you need access to the book)
Fees:
€100/event for TEE community members or previous registration
We welcome any executive-level participant from outside of the TEE community for a €120/event.
Who is facilitating the workshop?
Virgil Șoncutean joined ALLIANZ-TIRIAC Asigurări in 2001 and, until 2006, worked within the company in the area of Sales and Sales Management, first as Director of the Training department, and then as Regional Sales Director, with the role of coordinating the company's activities in Bucharest.
Between 2006 and 2012, he was co-opted in the ALLIANZ team from Germany. During this period, he coordinated organizational transformation programs in various entities of the ALLIANZ Group from over 20 countries. Virgil led the Distribution Management Consulting Division within the ALLIANZ Group OPEX (currently ALLIANZ Consulting), as well as the CEEMA regional consulting center of the ALLIANZ Group OPEX.
On January 1, 2013, Virgil took over the position of Sales and Distribution Director within ALLIANZ-TIRIAC Asigurari, also becoming a Member of the company's Board of Directors. Since 2016, he has been the CEO of the company.
He graduated from the 'Babes-Bolyai' University in Cluj-Napoca and holds an MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management from Germany.