The latest addition to the short courses run by the executive education arm of Grenoble School of Management in France is titled Transformation Management and is described as a programme for leaders, “linking the individual to the collective quest for sense”. In 2020, such training has never seemed more necessary.
Short courses that teach management and leadership skills to companies’ rising stars have been invaluable income streams for many business schools in recent years. The coronavirus has changed all that.
The global university-based executive education market was worth close to $2bn in 2019, and was on an upward curve, according to Unicon, a consortium of 113 business schools providing such courses. But this has come to a juddering halt in 2020.