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. These compact executive open enrollment programs capture the essence of Vanderbilt’s world-class MBA faculty and curriculum, and are designed to accommodate your time and budget demands. There are no formal admissions requirements for enrollment.
Space is limited in each program. To reserve your spot, register online or call 615.322.2513.
Upcoming Programs
Creative People Must Be Stopped: Strategic Innovation
December 14-15, 2009
Program Cost: $1,800
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How do you get others to listen to bold new ideas? How can you make innovation a corporate strategy? Innovation is too important to be left to chance. Get on course to make it part of your organization's culture. Professor David Owens focuses on the following topics in this program: how organizational and technical forces interact to nurture or stifle innovative ideas; Why best practices of organizations with innovation cultures succeed; how to benchmark innovation in your organization; how to develop an innovation strategy; how to get new ideas heard, accepted, and implemented.
Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
February 1-3, 2010
Program Cost: $2,700
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. Professors Germain Böer and 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.
Registration: To register for the upcoming February 2010 Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers program, please click here and submit your information on the MyOwen - Information Quick Start page. Once you submit your information and log in to the Executive Development Institute page within MyOwen, click on the Finance & Accounting link in the Open Enrollment Programs section (right column of the page) to register. If you already have a MyOwen login, click here to access the Executive Development Institute page for registration. If you have any questions, please contact Maureen Writesman at 615.322.2513.
Executive Leadership
February 22-24, 2010
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.
Thinking Like a CEO
March 29-30, 2010
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.
Marketing for Growth and Profitability
April 5-6, 2010
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. We begin with a look at differing fundamental views of marketing before examining several methods to improve marketing decisions via the use of analytics. In addition, we will examine the relationship between segment selection and the critical targeting and positioning decisions with an emphasis on current targeting and positioning tools (e.g., perceptual maps, category and image based positioning). We then investigate how to effectively communicate the benefits of products/services in the marketplace. The final portion is designed to blend earlier decisions with the development (or maintenance) of a successful brand. The focus here is not solely on the advantages of having a strong brand, but instead, on the steps that are necessary to build, revitalize or extend a brand.
Leadership Dynamics
April 12-13, 2010
Program Cost: $1,800
How can you improve the effectiveness of your organization? Build stronger teams? Communicate in ways that motivate? Become a better leader? Strong leaders are masters of communication and negotiation. This course will strengthen your skills in both areas. Professors Fred E. Talbott and Ray Friedman provide you with proven strategies for improving organizational performance; general frameworks for cross-functional and cross-organizational relationships; key communication, negotiation and team-building skills; tools for assessing your leadership style and effectiveness.
Leadership Coaching
April 19-20, 2010
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.
Achieving Operational Excellence
Spring 2010 - TBD
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.
Why We "Hate" HR ... and Why Your Company Will Fail Without Strategic Organizational Execution
Spring 2010 - TBD
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Designed for non-HR leaders within an organization, 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.
