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The Strategic Executive

Breiseth Hall • 570-408-4460 (T) • 570-408-7846 (F) • Email

The Strategic Executive: Executive Development Program
(42 hours)
Designed for: CEOs, vice presidents, senior management, directors, and divisional executives
 
Through the Strategic Executive Track you will enhance your strategic decision-making ability and improve your competitiveness by working with a peer group of outstanding executives with comparable levels of responsibility and growth goals. Through the program, we help executives to identify and create a vision of where the organization is headed, and then guide the implementation of that vision to achieve successful results. 
 
 
1.             The Strategic Executive I & II (12 hours)
Strategic thinking is the competency that sets successful executives apart from those that fail to achieve. Building a solid, sustainable, strategic approach is imperative to ultimate business success. Strategic thinking enables a focus on a vision, the building of the best team and best processes to achieve that vision, and creates accountability for great results. The strategic executive sees the big picture and understands the importance of the details. The strategic executive knows what it takes to be successful, and has a plan in place to get there. 
 
2.            Succession Planning & Talent Management I & II (6 hours)
Developing employees and keeping them happy within the organization is key to profitability, growth, and controlling your future. This course is designed to give executives an understanding of the growing importance of succession planning and talent management in today’s workplace to ensure ongoing leadership at all levels. We will discuss the concept of succession planning, its importance for organizational health and prosperity, and its influence on retaining good employees.
 
3.            Communicating, Negotiating, & Influencing (6  hours)
Leaders are required to have many tools at their disposal to achieve organizational ends and none are more important than communicating, negotiating, and influencing. At the executive level, this skill set must be mastered in order to ensure that desired organizational results are achieved.
How do you get people to follow your lead? You will leave this course with a number of new ideas at your disposal. We will discuss strategy and tactics in detail and provide insights into how to put them to use.
 
4.            Leveraging the Corporate Culture (6 hours)
As society becomes more and more global, organizations are challenged with opportunities for new directions, new learning and new initiatives to realize sustainable advantages. People of different generations, genders, ethnicities and national origins are finding themselves working together to fulfill the organization’s mission. This session examines the business advantages of planning and implementing a diversity initiative. It explores methods of using existing employees and new partnerships to attract and retain talented people, spur innovative business processes and pursue new, profitable market segments.
 
Electives (3 hours) 
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