Details
Healthy organizations have a strategy for addressing the learning needs of their management teams. This strategy is a living, visible segment of their overall succession plans and, ultimately, helps to build concrete foundations for effective performance and sustainable growth. Ambitious professionals will find the new program, Growing Great Managers: The Core Essentials, critical in building the nuclear management skills and providing a solid base for a strong, progressive enterprise. Throughout the program, executives are absorbed in a highly interactive learning experience that helps them learn the core concepts of business and broadens managerial and strategic perspectives. Managers and high-potential talent will enhance their business competencies and sharpen the ability to tackle cross-functional challenges. Participants will return to their businesses with a broad, solid base for continuous personal and organizational growth, and new knowledge, ideas and approaches to share across their enterprises.
The fee covers all program materials, program-related meals and housing in a private room at the Inn at Darden for the specified program dates.
This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.
Audience
The program is designed for those seeking to build fundamental business skills and expertise in strategy, marketing, operations, finance and leadership. The course is ideal for new managers who are ready to increase or build their cross-functional business knowledge. Successful registrants have two-to-six years of management experience, and a need to evolve their skills in all core business areas.
Individuals coming from contributor roles who have recently been promoted to management roles; those moving from peer to manager; and professionals with engineering, consulting, IT and other technical backgrounds who are transferring to broader management roles will find great value through participation.
The course offers an ideal opportunity to explore some of the core topic areas associated within the MBA degree. Benefits
Examine a full breadth of topics required in the modern manager’s competency and capability kit. The approach and curricula will not only test existing assumptions, they will ensure that you build the necessary key management success factors, and help position you at the forefront of today’s business thinking.
BENEFITS TO THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ORGANIZATION
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- Broaden business knowledge and develop capabilities pertinent to management success and necessary for driving results.
- Case discussions, simulations, workshop activities and exercises provide the opportunity to apply learning business challenges, and stretch the thinking and abilities of management teams.
- Cultivate self-awareness and develop an overall foundation of skills identified in extraordinary management.
- Develop a sound knowledge of management fundamentals to help further shape the future of the enterprise.
- Drawing on program learnings, participants consider ideas and opportunities that can be developed now.
- Drive cultural change with the development of a healthier business vocabulary that enables increased communication and collaboration spanning organizational boundaries.
- Examine the difference between leadership and management, and what is required to lead and manage successful firms in the contemporary business environment.
- Explore the dynamics of leading and managing teams across borders and cultures.
- Gain a clearer understanding of how operational and financial decisions impact strategic efforts.
- Improve leadership capabilities for management bench strength and enterprise advantage.
- Infuse best practices into routines by immediately applying classroom knowledge to real-business situations.
- Learn/Do — Learn and immediately relate knowledge of strategy, leadership, marketing, operations and finance to individual and company-wide roles, as well as other functions.
- Own a deeper appreciation of the value created through other functions, and understand their importance and contribution to implementing ideas and organizational growth.
- Personal Action Plan. Leave with a personalized plan that will serve as a guide for continued learning and development.
- Return with key concepts, tools and ideas to share with other managers.
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This program counts as one week toward earning a Certificate of Specialization.
Topics
Finance
Recognizing that sound financial analysis is critical to the success of any enterprise, participants develop their capacities to use financial data to assess and understand business performance impact. Managers will develop:
- A clear understanding of financial statements.
- Best practices in using financial data to assess business performance.
- Increased knowledge about cash flow drivers and their significance.
- The ability to use financial reports in business decision making.
Leadership
- Consider the dynamics of change and how to lead through constructive and effective change processes.
- Develop presence as a leader and capacity to deliver powerful, influential messages.
- Dive into the challenges and opportunities of leading and working in teams.
- To ensure the successful integration of a workforce, explore the dynamics of leading and managing teams across diverse cultures.
Marketing Strategy
Explore various frameworks and concepts in marketing, and manage brand and customer value. Participants will:
- Enhance the ability to analyze markets and competitive forces.
- Explore the basics of marketing metrics.
- Gain an understanding of the role of the customer and the importance of customer loyalty.
- Improve understanding of customer behavior.
- Recognize the importance, scope and nature of marketing in a complex, changing, and competitive world.
- Understand the elements of the marketing planning process.
Operations
- Develop methods to evaluate current performance of operations and understand key improvement levers.
- Implement Lean thinking into operations and across the enterprise.
- Translate corporate strategy into effective operations.
- Understand how improving operations helps to achieve competitive advantage.
Strategy
- Consider how various dimensions of an organization must align for the organization to be effective.
- Explore the dynamics of strategy and leadership, and develop the capacity to analyze market and competitive forces.
- Identify how strategy helps to drive value to customers, shareholders and employees.
- Learn and practice strategy mapping.
- Master the ability to analyze business models and apply core business concepts to tactical and strategic problems.
- Review and “thought-storm” on the organization’s strategic vision.
- Understand the role that talent plays in corporate capability.