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EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
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Certificate in Advanced Leadership
"The Certificate in Advanced Leadership is 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. Participants are sponsored by senior executives within their companies so they get continuous communication and mentoring during and after the program."
Nancy Long
Program Sponsor
Sabre Holdings
Description
This highly interactive program will improve your ability to lead. Focused class sessions—paired with a personalized executive coaching component—deliver powerful results in a short amount of time. You’ll benefit from lasting application of learning and behavior change. You’ll see your progress and results through ongoing executive coaching, company sponsor support, peer accountability and ROI progress management. The core of the program consists of three-day sessions each month combined with one-on-one coaching. You’ll find that this approach effectively enables new ways of leading and operating.
Who should attend
Candidates targeted to join a company’s top-level executive team, senior executives, managers who manage other managers and owners and operators of mid-sized companies.
Topics
- Language of personal accountability
- Understanding leadership characteristics
- Self assessment of leadership skills
- Driving innovation
- Being courageous
- Leading across generations
- Developing trust
- Creating leadership presence
- Leading high performance teams and strategic decision making
- Succession planning
- Successful negotiating
- Building effective reward and compensation plans
- Building a successful corporate infrastructure
- Effectively influencing others
- Making tough decisions
Benefits to you
- Understand how decisions impact the entire organization
- Learn how to recognize and leverage your strengths and identify your developmental needs
- Gain a better understanding of your personal values and beliefs associated with courage and taking risks
- Learn how to develop high-trust relationships that will help you lead people more effectively
- Gain an understanding of how to impact the performance of other employees and resolve performance problems
- Play a leading role in your company’s future success by learning tools of awareness building, alignment, accountability and adaptation
- Learn tools for problem solving and decision making and for increasing innovation and creativity
- Identify opportunities for organizational change
- Through coaching, shift to new ways of being and operating that are sustainable over time
Benefits to your organization
The knowledge and skills you gain will help your organization develop top-level successors for continuity, increase adaptability to changing external forces, improve its business plan to increase profitability and develop leaders who can help ensure future success.
Faculty
Kym Sosolik, M.A., is director of leadership and organizational development for SMU Cox Executive Education. She is certified to consult and deliver Lominger International’s competency-based “Human Resource Suites the Emotional Competence Inventory” and the Climate Improvement Accreditation.” She is also a qualified administrator of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator and a Texas-certified dispute resolver. Before joining SMU Cox, Sosolik was director of management development and training for PDI Inc., a diversified sales and marketing services provider to the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Earlier in her career, she held positions as director of a proprietary health career educational school, pharmaceutical sales representative and medical technologist. She holds a bachelor of science degree in medical technology from Midwestern State University and a master of arts degree in organizational leadership from Dallas Baptist University.
Marsha Clark, M.S., is the founder and owner of Marsha Clark & Associates, an organizational development consulting firm. As a consultant, Clark focuses chiefly on change management, leadership development, performance management, executive coaching, meeting facilitation and keynote speaking. Clients have included Accenture, BMC Software, Bell Helicopter, JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity Investments, IBM, Microsoft and Texas Instruments. Before founding her firm in 2000, Clark held executive positions with EDS—including corporate vice president and assistant to the chief operating officer—working in the areas of strategic alliances, performance management, and account operations improvement. She also served as director of the EDS Employee Development Program. Clark holds a master of science degree in organizational development from American University in Washington, D.C.
Rita Bailey is founder and chief executive officer of QVF Partners Ltd., a consulting firm that helps organizations and individuals create people-focused cultures and relationships. As an international speaker and consultant, Bailey has presented to groups in Europe, Mexico, Brazil and Australia on people-success strategies, leadership, innovation, culture, branding, customer service and other topics. Before founding her own firm, she worked for Southwest Airlines for 24 years, holding positions focused on employee development. As director of Southwest's University for People, Bailey and her team created leadership, career development and professional/personal programs for more than 32,000 employees. She holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Texas in El Paso.
Jerry E. Magar is director of performance improvement at SMU and an adjunct faculty member for the Cox School of Business, where he teaches organizational development and change. As lead faculty for several SMU Executive Education leadership-development programs, he works with numerous oil and gas clients, including Merit Energy, Pioneer Natural Resources and Spectra Energy. Magar has more than 20 years of experience in individual and organizational consulting. In addition to his role at SMU, he’s a founding partner of People Systems Consulting Group, where he works with clients of all sizes, including Dell Computer, JP Morgan Chase, Lucent Technologies, Shell Oil and Southwest Airlines. His areas of experience include leadership development, strategic planning, interpersonal communications, change management, marketing, public relations and business development. Magar holds certification and master certification for more than 25 programs and assessment instruments and has certified hundreds of trainers and educators across North America. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in speech communication from Texas A&M University.
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