Open Enrollment Program Offerings
Emory Executive Education's Open Enrollment Programs offer rich content in an interactive setting. To learn more about each of our program offerings, select the program in which you're interested from the list below.
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Management Development Program
As organizations grow and change with the times, so must managers and leaders. The Management Development Program develops individuals to lead within the complex enterprise. This program broadens perspective, focusing on the interplay between business functions, and it provides participants with a well-rounded set of tactical skills that are immediately applicable to their jobs.
Program Dates:
- June 18-22, 2012
- September 24-28, 2012
Price: $5,995 per person
Program Overview: This focused and intensive program covers crucial business management skills including:
- Strategy and Competitive Advantage
- Operations Strategy and Execution
- Marketing
- Human Capital Management
The Management Development Program concludes with the Capstone Simulation, a rigorous and engaging team-based business simulation that merges all of the topics covered through the week, emphasizes strategic thinking, and the impact of decisions across the organization.
Learning Objectives
Individuals will emerge from this program with the ability to
- Distinguish their organization as a complex system and the criticality of each business function
- Understand and apply corporate strategy concepts
- Recognize the link between operations and strategy and apply tools that will help close that gap
- Develop a marketing response to the components of shifting preferences and generational demographics
- Effectively lead and direct the actions of their teams
- Use key performance indicators to guide organizational growth and development
Target Audience
The Management Development Program is for mid- to upper-level managers, directors, and other executives with a minimum of two years of management experience. It is especially relevant for those who have moved from a tactical role to a more strategic one, who wish to expand their influence across the organization.
Managerial Leadership Program
Build on the success and leadership potential of your top performers with the Managerial Leadership Program. This program drives leader development by emphasizing key individual leader competencies for participants to expand their acumen and skill in managing themselves, their teams, and individuals.
Program Dates
- July 9-13, 2012
- November 5-9, 2012
Price: $5,995 per person
Program Overview: This focused, intensive, and introspective program covers invaluable leadership topics and tools including
- Leadership Styles and Emotional Intelligence
- Leading and Building Teams
- Executive Effectiveness
- 360 Assessment and Individual Leadership Style Diagnostic Instrument
- Individual Development and Action Planning
The Managerial Leadership Program focuses on raising the individual leadership capacity of participants, honing their abilities to affect organizational growth and transformation. Through a rigorous mix of leadership topics, individual assessments, experiential learning activities, and executive coaching, participants emerge with the tools needed to transform themselves into effective organizational leaders.
Learning Objectives: Individuals will emerge from the Managerial Leadership Program with the ability to
- Recognize their own leadership styles, that of others, and how to be an effective leader and communicator within those boundaries
- Understand and apply the results of powerful self assessments
- Move insights gained into action through an experiential learning day
- Develop and execute an Individual Development Plan
Target Audience: The Managerial Leadership Program is for mid- to upper-level managers, directors, and other executives with a minimum of two years of management experience. It is especially relevant for those who have moved from a tactical role to a more strategic one, who wish to expand their influence across the organization.
Critical Thinking and Decision Making
Critical Thinking and Decision Making is a two-day course that exposes participants to applied decision making frameworks designed to enhance creative and strategic abilities. This course aims to improve decision making by applying techniques that minimize risk and maximize impact and influence.
Program Dates
- July 25-26, 2012
- December 3-4, 2012
Price: $1,995 per person
Learning Objectives: After completing Critical Thinking and Decision Making, you will have the ability to
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- Analyze situations requiring decisions and determine which decision making approaches are most effective
- Understand and identify strategies for overcoming decision making biases
- Recognize which decision making tools are useful in influencing a decision when you do not have official decision making authority
- Understand frameworks for making sound and informed decisions
- Build consensus and communicate effectively in group / team decision making situations
Target Audience: Critical Thinking and Decision Making is appropriate for leaders at the mid to upper management level who impact decisions within their organizations and who want to enhance their level of ability and influence.
Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager
Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager is a two-day course that helps participants learn basic financial principles and apply them in a real-world context. The first day is devoted to understanding financial statements and analysis; the second day focuses on the links between strategy and finance. This experiential program relies upon the use of Microsoft Excel; participants are assumed to have a working knowledge of this software.
Program Dates:
- August 20-21, 2012
Price: $1,995 per person
Learning Objectives: After completing Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager, you will have the ability to
- Understand the language associated with finance
- Read and assess financial statements
- Understand basic financial terms and analysis techniques
- Recognize the link between organizational strategy and financial objectives
- Use “the numbers” to your best advantage to make more informed decisions
Target Audience: Finance for the Nonfinancial Manager is appropriate for leaders with limited knowledge and/or experience with finance who are currently, or who will be, functioning in nonfinancial areas and need to enhance their financial acumen. Participants should have working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and understand basic financial calculations.
Developing Talent that Drives Organizational Success
Developing Talent that Drives Organizational Success enables participants to strategically plan, manage, and grow their leadership pipeline in three areas: talent identification, development, and retention.
Program Dates:
- October 24-25, 2012
Price: $1,995 per person
Learning Objectives: After completing Developing Talent that Drives Organizational Success, you will have the ability to
- Implement effective talent management practices
- Recognize which talent management practices are best suited for your department and/or organizational context, and determine how they should be executed
- Execute talent management activities with your peers, direct reports, and others within your organization
Target Audience: Developing Talent that Drives Organizational Success is appropriate for senior level executives, general managers, and HR directors with responsibility for developing and implementing talent management initiatives.
