Setting Sail on the “Top Ten” Plan

--Providing World-Class Executive Education

　　Since 2012, RBS will formally conduct the “Top Ten Plan” to select ten of the top 50 world-class business schools as the strategic partners to jointly offer executive education programs.
　　Johnson Management School of Cornell University, Industrial Labor Relation School of Cornell University, and Business School of National University of Singapore were among the first to be identified as such partners.
　　MOUs have been signed to encourage collaboration covering such areas as: study trip, open-enrollment program and research collaboration. Joint programs to be launched include:
　　The “Leadership and Coaching Program” with Johnson Management School of Cornell University: the RBS--Johnson Leadership Model is the framework for this leadership development program. Working with scholars from Cornell University's Center for Advanced Human Resources Study, it benchmarked the leadership competencies of Fortune 100 firms and combined those findings with a thorough review of the most recent research on leadership skills. The Model highlights the primacy of personal mastery as the foundation of all leadership success, and then defines four other key leadership components - Action, Knowledge, Relationships, and Vision - in which successful leaders excel. Students grow as leaders by developing the individual competencies associated with each of these areas highlighted on the Leadership Model.
　　More program information can be found at: http://edp.rbs.org.cn/course_show.php?id=15
　　The “CHO Program” with Industrial Labor Relation School of Cornell University: too many firms find their chief human officer (CHO) role difficult, if not impossible, to fill with internal candidates. The reason often given for this insufficient pipeline is that the CHO job is vastly different from those that report into it—leaving direct reports w