SHORT COURSES

Explore the importance of iteration in the innovation process, engage in an interactive team-based exercise in design thinking, solve an unfamiliar problem to better understand and apply design thinking concepts, and apply all that you’ve learned in a high-impact problem-solving activity. In this course, you’ll dig into the strategy and principles of design thinking. Finish feeling ready to solve any problem back at the office.

The intersection of innovation, business strategy, and organizational mission…where organizations thrive.

How might an innovator’s toolkit be used to challenge and reinvent the business strategy of an organization? And, how might it also help unlock a business’ ability to “do good” while also “doing well”? This course provides you with the frameworks and tools to bring those disciplines together, to keep the strategy of an organization fresh and more agile at responding to changes in customers and increasingly disruptive times, and to uncover and act on a more human mission for the company. By exploring strategy, mission, and innovation at the same time, and how they interact, you will be able to help your own organization disrupt itself before anyone else does.

Designed for those interested in further developing and formalizing their current coaching skills to adapt themselves, their teams, and their organizations to an ever-changing and complex environment. The Executive Coaching Diploma consists of two parts ─ the Executive Coaching Foundations Certificate and the Advanced Executive Coaching Certificate ─ and provides participants with the training and mentor coach hours needed for the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

In today’s business environment, executives must guide their organizations using the best communication possible to navigate challenges and obstacles faced. Executive Communication & Leadership Presence empowers current and aspiring executive leaders to communicate with confidence, success, and inspiration to their audiences and organization. This short course will enhance your business communication skills with focuses on confidence, clarity, message structure, persuasion, and authority.

In the Goizueta Executive Women’s Leadership Forum, you’ll examine the power of storytelling, develop a personal leadership narrative, and discover how you can leverage your own story to drive your organization’s culture, strategy, and direction. Join your peers in this dynamic program to discover the role executive narrative plays in leading organizations and inspiring high-performing teams.

With globalization and the rapid growth of technology, organizational change has become an everyday part of corporate life. New products and services, diversification of roles, or major strategic shifts of focus can often create challenging dynamics. This course provides leaders, managers, and change agents with models to better understand reactions to change, and the skills to navigate the conversations required to gain buy-in and support when adapting to new workplace conditions.

Master effective negotiation strategies that can be applied in an array of business environments. You will feel more confident making tough decisions within the realm of negotiating and bargaining; you will have the ability to close deals more effectively; and, you will have enhanced your overall negotiation skillset.