EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Leadership and Management

Strong leadership in your company today doesn’t guarantee strong leadership tomorrow. Leading organizations don’t leave succession management to chance. They know that a leadership shortage can put business at risk, jeopardize their ability to compete in rapidly changing market conditions, slow innovation, and hinder their ability to meet customers’ needs. SMU Cox Executive Education is the answer to building a strong bench of leaders for the future.

The SMU Cox Executive Education Leadership Series provides you with the skills and tools you need at critical junctions in your corporate career. Whether you are moving into your first managerial job or you’re already at the senior executive level, you’ll be more effective after you refine your essential competencies, business acumen and important soft skills.

The Leadership Series gives you maximum flexibility. Depending on your expertise and experience, you can take one or two courses or all three—in any order you like. There are no prerequisites for any of the courses.

We’ve designed each course to bring you and your company:

  • Immediate and lasting impact
  • Greater value for the time and money invested in the program
  • Dynamic content and instruction in targeted packages
  • Maximum flexibility to minimize time away from the workplace
  • Ideal learning environment tailored to the needs of managers and executives

Here’s an overview of the courses in the Leadership Series. Because enrollment is limited, apply today to ensure your place.

 


Certificate in Management
This 12-session course will provide you with a solid base in management tools and concepts. You’ll focus on your own management style, learning how to develop productive relationships with others while you gain an understanding of business concepts managers use daily. When you implement these skills, you will improve your communication within your company and your understanding of business interrelationships. You’ll gain a systemwide perspective on how all business activities relate and reinforce one another in a competitive organization.
- September 15 - December 8, 2009  - On-line Application
 


Certificate in Leadership
This program provides the tools you need to move into a leadership position in your company and function as an effective corporate leader. The 12 sessions focus on four areas of leadership: thinking and acting strategically; building constructive work relationships; improving personnel performance; and optimizing resources. The approaches you learn will position you to make more effective business decisions, take on added responsibility and move up in your organization.
- February 10 - April 28, 2009 - On-line Application
 

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 applicatio


 

Certificate in Advanced Leadership
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.
-September 22 - December 17, 2009 - On-line Application
  


Women in Motion Executive Leadership
This advanced leadership course, is designed to help women develop their skills as strong leaders. While the number of women in management and leadership positions continues to increase, women still face cultural pressures within their organizations and in society. This course will help you develop your own leadership style. It also will help you deal effectively with the pressures women still encounter. You’ll examine fundamental issues, including your own and other women’s experiences with authority and leadership; women’s employment and “the glass ceiling” in various organizations; traditional stereotypes and how they still affect women; and the impact of social and economic changes.

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