The Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute is designed to refresh, engage and strengthen your management expertise, providing proven, practical ways to gain the skills you need, when you need them. These compact, two- and three-day executive open enrollment programs capture the essence of Vanderbilt’s world-class MBA faculty and curriculum, and are designed to accommodate your time and budget demands. There are no formal admissions requirements for enrollment.
Space is limited in each program. To reserve your spot, register online or call 615.322.2513.
Fall 2009 Programs
Leadership Dynamics
September 28-29, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
How can you improve the effectiveness of your organization? Build stronger teams? Communicate in ways that motivate? Become a better leader? Strong leaders are masters of communication and negotiation. This course will strengthen your skills in both areas. Professors Fred E. Talbott and Ray Friedman provide you with proven strategies for improving organizational performance; general frameworks for cross-functional and cross-organizational relationships; key communication, negotiation and team-building skills; tools for assessing your leadership style and effectiveness.
ONLINE REGISTRATION: To register for Leadership Dynamics, please click here and submit your information on the MyOwen - Information Quick Start page. Once you submit your information and log in to the Executive Development Institute page within MyOwen, click on the Leadership Dynamics link in the Open Enrollment Programs section to register. If you already have a MyOwen login, click here to access the Executive Development Institute page for registration. If you have any questions, please call Maureen Writesman at 615.322.2513.
Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
October 5-7, 2009
Program Cost: $2,700
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Critical company decisions depend on extracting, understanding, and evaluating key performance and profitability data. But to someone unfamiliar with cash flows, income statements and EBITDA, making sense of financial and accounting information can be difficult. Professors Germain Böer and Paul Chaney remove the mystery of the numbers and offers key insights, methods, and tools for gathering and analyzing company data. Through this three-day program, participants will learn how to use standard management analysis to extract vital information from the accounting system.
Business Essentials for Lawyers
October 15-16, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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The ability for lawyers to speak, understand and apply the language of business when advising clients, particularly in today’s challenging economic environment, is critical. Business Essentials for Lawyers, a two-day open enrollment offering, has been designed by and will be delivered in conjunction with faculty members from the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and Vanderbilt Law School. This hands-on, interactive program was designed to provide attorneys with a broad exposure to various business concepts in an academic setting (accounting, finance, antitrust, strategy, ethics and risk management) that can immediately be applied on the job. Along with a certificate from the Vanderbilt Executive Development Institute, 15 hours of CLE credit will be awarded to each participant who completes the two-day program and 7.5 hours of CLE credit will be awarded to those who only attend one day of programming.
Executive Leadership
October 26-28, 2009
Program Cost: $2,700
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Executive Leadership will equip you with the insight, strategies, and tools to help you develop a personal action plan to lead your organization to the results you desire. Be prepared to emerge ready to drive a high-performance culture of productivity, support, teamwork, and trust; to steer your organization through change; and to set the pace for others. In this three-day program taught by Professor Dick Daft, let your leadership abilities set the pace for others, transform your organization, and drive a high-performance culture of productivity, support, teamwork, and trust.
Strategic Innovation
November 9-10, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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How do you get others to listen to bold new ideas? How can you make innovation a corporate strategy? Innovation is too important to be left to chance. Get on course to make it part of your organization's culture. Professor David Owens focuses on the following topics in this two-day program: how organizational and technical forces interact to nurture or stifle innovative ideas; Why best practices of organizations with innovation cultures succeed; how to benchmark innovation in your organization; how to develop an innovation strategy; how to get new ideas heard, accepted, and implemented.
Change Management
November 16-18, 2009
Program Cost: $2,700
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Why do so many changes fail? Change is essential to organizational growth and progress, yet researchers report that more than 60 percent of new strategic plans, re-engineering projects and mergers fail to achieve intended results. The reasons for failure include false assumptions and inadequate planning for key issues, including people issues. This hands-on, action workshop, led by Professor Dick Daft, draws the best insights and newest techniques from change research. Learn the frameworks, models, and strategies that will make your change project succeed. Learn to avoid the mistakes that foil other projects.
Sales, Persuasion and Influence
December 7-8, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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The program objective is to introduce and heighten participants' ongoing awareness of applied influence, persuasion, and sales knowledge and skills. Professors Fred E. Talbott and Rick Schell will explore ways in which to understand and identify opportunities, recognize essential influence approaches, begin to master the power of persuasion, and apply key professional presence and communication applications for ongoing success. Participants will also learn and apply essential customer value, decision, and engagement processes, develop best positioning approaches, develop a questioning process essential to helping customers pinpoint their critical needs, enhance relationship management, and develop robust and successful development, marketing, and sales integration.
Why We Hate HR
December 14-15, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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Designed for non-HR leaders within an organization, the purpose of this course is to develop your ability to determine whether a firm has the HR practices in place to deliver the human capital (HC) the firm needs to execute its strategy. Professor Neta Moye will introduce you to a leading edge model called the Strategic Alignment Model which you can use as a tool to guide your decision making in this arena. By applying the model, you will be able to ask the right questions, and to determine if, indeed, you have the right HR practices – those that will deliver the human capital you need to execute your given business strategy.
Spring 2010 Programs
Change Management
Spring 2010 - TBD
Program Cost: $2,700
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Why do so many changes fail? Change is essential to organizational growth and progress, yet researchers report that more than 60 percent of new strategic plans, re-engineering projects and mergers fail to achieve intended results. The reasons for failure include false assumptions and inadequate planning for key issues, including people issues. This hands-on, action workshop, led by Professor Dick Daft, draws the best insights and newest techniques from change research. Learn the frameworks, models, and strategies that will make your change project succeed. Learn to avoid the mistakes that foil other projects.
Thinking Like a CEO
Spring 2010 - TBD
Program Cost: $1,800
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If you are a sitting CEO, aspiring to become one, or are leading a division, department, or team trying to follow the lead of your CEO, Professors David Furse, Michael Burcham and Kimberly Pace provide you with the valuable insights into the role and the skill sets of a successful chief executive. CEOs fail as often from trying to do too many things, as from failure to make the right decisions. “Thinking like a CEO” is a course about how to be—and how to support—a CEO so that the whole organization wins.
Achieving Operational Excellence
Spring 2010 - TBD
Program Cost: $1,800
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Achieving operations excellence requires high performance processes - processes that outpace the competition by delivering more value to customers at lower cost. Professors Nancy Lea Hyer and Karen Brown teach you to: assess your operating strategy in the context of your target market, core competencies, and business goals; identify key processes to target for customer-focused improvement; conduct ‘value-chain’ audits of their operations’ processes; lead transformational process improvement teams; measure process performance and set improvement targets.
Leadership Coaching
Spring 2010 - TBD
Program Cost: $1,800
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Effective coaching builds employee skills, addresses shortcomings, develops leadership capability and enhances executive performance. Surveys show that employees at multiple organizational levels find coaching very useful and are calling for more coaching opportunities and better quality coaching. Effective coaching requires developing a distinctive set of competencies. Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizations, Mark Cannon, will help you build the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to coach effectively and enhance leadership and performance.
