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. Our programs in Management Fundamentals and Health Care offer you the best of several worlds. These compact, two- and three-day courses capture the essence of Vanderbilt’s world-class MBA curriculum, with instruction by distinguished Owen faculty. But the courses are also designed to accommodate your time and budget demands.
Space is limited in each program. To reserve your spot, please complete the online registration form or call 615.322.2513.
Fall 2008
Leadership Coaching
December 1-2, 2008
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.
Strategic Alignment of Human Capital
December 8-9, 2008
Program Cost: $1,800
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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.
Crisis Communications: Restoring Public Trust in American Financial Institutions
December 15, 2008
Program Cost: $900
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With a great deal of anxiety in the financial services industry, it’s time to restore and enhance consumer, employee, and investor trust—the foundation of modern banking and financial services. This one-day interactive communications workshop is designed to help you do just that. Professor Frederick E. Talbott shares the critical role of effective communications in times of crisis. You will learn the keys and help develop new approaches to championing trust throughout your organization, market, and industry.
Spring 2009
Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
February 9-11, 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. Professor Germain Böer and Professor 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.
Executive Leadership
February 23-25, 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.
Marketing for Growth and Profitability
April 6-7, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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The goal of the program is to expose participants to a variety of frameworks for understanding key marketing decisions. Professor Steve Hoeffler begins with a look at differing fundamental views of marketing before examining several methods to improve marketing decisions via the use of analytics. In addition, he examines the relationship between segment selection and the critical targeting and positioning decisions with an emphasis on current targeting and positioning tools, before investigating how to effectively communicate the benefits of products/services in the marketplace. The final portion of the program is designed to blend earlier decisions with the development (or maintenance) of a successful brand.
Change Management
May 4-6, 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.
Emerging Health Care Trends
May 11-12, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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Created for managers at all levels, this two-day program focuses on the major trends impacting the United States health care marketplace and provides participants with updated information as well as perspectives on how this will affect their business going forward. Professors Larry Van Horn and Jim Cooper will focus on four key areas: insurer / financing update; provider update; regulatory update; technology update.
Thinking Like a CEO
May 18-19, 2009
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
May 19-20, 2009
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
June 8-9, 2009
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.
