ITTA catalogue dedicated to directors, executives and members of leadership in Geneva and Lausanne: business strategy definition and deployment, governance, executive and director leadership, high-stakes communication, non-verbal communication, crisis management, persuasion, change and transformation management, leader posture, annual reviews and high-stakeholder discussions. A learning path for profiles who carry the vision and commit the organisation toward its stakeholders.
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Active listening training in Geneva and Lausanne. 1 day to reformulate, validate and create real trust in exchanges with ITTA Switzerland today.
Non-verbal communication training in Geneva and Lausanne. Half a day to decode body language signs at ITTA Switzerland.
Persuasion training in Geneva and Lausanne. 1 day to master influence and conviction techniques in any professional context at ITTA Switzerland.
Public speaking training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to structure, deliver and embody your message orally with ITTA Switzerland confidently.
Storytelling training in Geneva and Lausanne. 1 day to master the art of storytelling and engage your audience at ITTA Switzerland.
Time management training in Geneva and Lausanne. 1 day to organize tasks, hierarchize priorities and regain real serenity at ITTA Switzerland.
Difficult conversation training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to prepare, conduct and conclude sensitive discussions at ITTA Switzerland.
Recruitment training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to frame the need, source, conduct a reliable interview and decide at ITTA Switzerland.
Business strategy training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to build a clear vision and deploy it into concrete actions at ITTA Switzerland.
Team burnout prevention training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to spot signals and protect your team’s health at ITTA Switzerland really.
Executive leadership training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to embody a clear posture and inspire your full organization at ITTA Switzerland.
Crisis management training in Geneva and Lausanne. 2 days to structure your cell, communicate well and last over time at ITTA Switzerland.
Beyond operational management, the role of director carries a specific responsibility: carrying the vision, arbitrating between conflicting interests, committing the organisation over time, representing the company before its stakeholders, and holding the course through turbulence. Under the directors audience, ITTA brings together training courses designed for members of leadership, department directors, general managers, partners, board members, business-unit leaders and all profiles whose mission combines strategic vision, governance and executive leadership.
This category brings together profiles holding a global or director-level responsibility: members of an executive committee, chief financial officers, HR directors, operations directors, sales directors, transformation directors, IT directors, secretaries-general, founders and SME leaders, partners. The common denominator is not the size of the reporting line but the nature of the commitment: high-impact decisions, long horizon, communication to diverse stakeholders (employees, clients, shareholders, authorities, media), governance responsibility and the duty of coherence between stated strategy and actual decisions.
Defining a strategy remains within reach of many organisations. Deploying it over time, keeping alignment between the leadership team, middle management lines and operational teams, is the harder exercise. ITTA training courses aimed at directors cover the definition of business strategy, the translation into a concrete action plan, the steering through key indicators, the rhythm of strategic reviews, the alignment of governance and the follow-up of execution. They build on real business cases and on peer sharing around the strategic dilemmas typical of an executive committee.
Many directors today lead digital, organisational or cultural transformation programmes. Success implies understanding the global architecture of the enterprise, identifying levers and brakes, sequencing initiatives, dosing the pace and protecting teams from transformation burnout. The TOGAF standard provides a recognised methodological framework to structure these enterprise architecture initiatives. Change management courses round out the arsenal to engage teams over the long run, without breaking human dynamics nor short-term performance.
A director spends a significant share of time communicating: general meeting, executive committee, works council, addressing teams, interviews, internal communication plan, key client meetings, sensitive negotiations. Dedicated courses work in depth on posture, voice, mastery of non-verbal cues, building a clear narrative, managing stage fright, ethical persuasion, executive storytelling and decision-making under pressure. They often include filmed simulations with individual coaching to adjust posture in real time.
Crisis management has become a core skill of the modern director: cyber-attack, departure of a key executive, social rumour, negative media exposure, loss of a strategic client, major external event. Knowing how to activate a crisis cell, communicate with clarity, make structuring decisions in partial information, protect teams and brand, are skills built upstream through training and simulation. ITTA offers dedicated modules on crisis management, high-stakeholder conversations, stress reduction and burnout prevention within one’s team.
Leader posture is built throughout a career: fully owning responsibility, accepting the loneliness of leadership, delegating decisions wisely, saying no, taking unpopular decisions, leading high-stakes conversations (senior reframing, separation, salary negotiation, succession planning). Training in this audience supports directors in consolidating that posture, with work on personal values, authenticity, coherence and executive communication.
To explore the detailed offer for directors, here are the main entry points in the ITTA catalogue:
Director training sessions take place in Geneva and Lausanne, with a format that favours peer exchange, real case studies and individual coaching. ITTA offers both inter-company sessions (useful to compare one’s practice with other directors) and tailored intra-leadership programmes, to align an executive team around a strategy, a transformation or a new governance. Durations range from one to several days spread across time to allow practice between sessions and lasting anchoring of learnings.
From which hierarchical level does director training apply? The criterion is not the size of the reporting line but the nature of the responsibility. A founder of a 10-person SME, a department director in a large organisation, a member of an executive committee or a partner are all concerned by director training. The key marker is global responsibility: representing the company before its stakeholders, arbitrating between conflicting interests, committing the organisation over time.
What is the difference between director training and executive coaching? Both are complementary. Training provides a methodological framework, shared vocabulary, tested tools and peer exchange. Executive coaching supports over time the personal posture, individual blind spots and career transitions. Many directors combine both to gain lucidity and effectiveness.
How to articulate strategy, governance and operations? ITTA director training insists on this articulation: a strategy is only as valuable as its translation into a concrete action plan, a governance only works if felt by operational teams, and operations only hold over time if anchored in a clear vision. Modules on strategy definition and deployment explicitly address these interfaces.
Beyond tools and methods, what sets high-performing directors apart is posture: the ability to embody values, to carry a vision over time, to say no, to arbitrate without emotional bias, to publicly acknowledge mistakes, to protect teams in difficult times. This posture is built slowly and fed by moments of reflection (training, coaching, peer exchanges), concrete experience (crisis management, major transformations, succession) and structured feedback (360 reviews, executive committees). ITTA offers programmes that cross these three dimensions to support directors in consolidating their career and impact over time across their full mandate.
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