Building a reservoir of successful business leaders
Volatility, competition, partnering, outsourcing, globalization, acquisitions, mergers, increased regulatory measures...business leaders face these issues every day. How executives manage these opportunities distinguish the successful ones from those not-so-successful.
So how do you navigate the increasing complexity of business and successfully lead others in the midst of all this rapid change? It takes broad experience, on-going coaching and sustained leadership development activities to meet the critical challenges facing business.
Executive Education at SMU Cox can help with its brand new offering for senior executives -- Advanced Leadership: High Potential; High Performance. Many leadership courses exist, but the SMU Cox program is different. The unique program design uses a variety of tactics to ensure that the skills learned transfer into meaningful and sustained change.
It's not about being fed information; it's about taking an active role to learn with others in a workshop environment. Participants do just that - participate. Key features include:
- Executive coaching
- Feedback loops that include instructors, participants and co-workers
- Experiential components to result in immediate application in the workplace
- Accountability to organizational sponsors
- Multi-dimensional manager view as an individual, group member and part of a larger organization
Common benchmarks suggest:
- 70 percent of management development occurs
on the job
- 20 percent occurs through other people
- 10 percent occurs through formal training
SMU Cox's program captures all three: academic content, structured experiences, peer accountability and feedback from other participants and instructors.
The 12-session learning experience is conducted at the James M. Collins Executive Education Center on the SMU campus in Dallas, Texas. Learn more about the 2007 program.
Execs share real world experiences
"The Advanced Leadership program provides an excellent opportunity to get outside your day-to-day comfort zone and learn in an environment surrounded by other successful and motivated executives who bring real world experiences. Another neat aspect of the program is that participants are sponsored by senior executives within their companies so they get continuous communication and mentoring during and after the program."
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Nancy Long, program sponsor, Sabre Holdings. |
