Are you new to management? Are you looking to grow in your management role? Seeking greater responsibility or even a promotion to director?
Would you describe yourself as ambitious? Eager? Go-getting? If so, we encourage you to embrace that enthusiasm and explore how the Aspiring Manager program can help you achieve success as a manager.
Management is a profession based on fundamental practices and possessing an essential toolkit. Mastery at analyzing your current environment and situation, understanding how to get things done through others, leveraging your influence, and hiring, engaging and retaining talent is needed to succeed.
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Formerly known as Aspiring Manager, these 10 challenging sessions will equip you with the right mindset and skill set to be an exceptional manager. Successful managers create and promote successful working environments. You’ll grow in your confidence to manage people and projects and become more effective with critical skills managers must demonstrate.
Benefits to you
1. Improve your overall management skills and establish an approach that works for you
2. Enhance your capacity to grow as a manager and to develop others
3. Gain a positive approach to people and problem solving
4. Learn to implement strategies from evidence-based research on today’s most valued management topics
5. Create and execute an actionable development plan that helps you grow
Benefits to Your Organization
The knowledge and skills you gain in this management development program will help your organization increase its overall organizational effectiveness, improve retention of future talent, achieve more goals, and reduce the cost and impact of organizational turnover.
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Pricing subject to customization
Upon successful completion of the program, participants receive a certificate.
To learn more about the program, contact us at 214.768.3335 or exed@smu.edu
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Learning Objectives:
This session explores the major economic, technological and organizational factors that are redefining the way work gets done, changing how organizations compete, and shaping the landscape that today's leaders must navigate. Assess the impact of how new technologies are beginning to dramatically redefine the nature of managerial work. |
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Today's leaders need a broadened perspective to successfully influence their employees as they face an ever-changing business landscape. This expanded leadership approach allows leaders to align and evaluate their purpose, values, and strategies in relation to organizational direction. |
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Sherry Vidal Brown |
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Managers need to own and be at the forefront of acquiring talent that reflects the true capabilities and fit needed for the organization. Turnover is a costly result of misaligned expectations between the organization, manager and the person being hired. Learn to get it right the first time. |
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Today’s competitive workplace demands that leaders evaluate performance and provide coaching and mentoring to employees. The new generations entering the workforce want coaching and expect mentoring from their leaders. Being a mentor/coach leader is one of the most effective ways to get more done for the company while building an engaged and enthusiastic workplace. Learn the best new skills and techniques that will prepare you to build organizational capability within yourself and others. |
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Bob Barner |
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As work becomes more complex and collaborative, the ability to build trusting relationships distinguishes those who flourish from those who falter. We are often required to achieve results with groups and individuals well beyond where our formal authority lies. Learn to leverage influence to create more productive and even more enjoyable relationships with your boss, peers and employees. |
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Successful teamwork underlies nearly all work situations. Understanding how teams develop and when to intervene underlies the successful team leadership. You will learn how to help team members exercise the leadership and guidance that isn’t granted by title or status. |
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Patti Johnson
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Managing change successfully requires a new approach for planning your work and communicating with your team and colleagues. We will explore the research behind the behaviors of effective change activators and how to adopt them in your work. In this interactive session, we will discuss real-life situations and identify tips for how to manage through changes in your teams and organization. |
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Participants will learn common and costly negotiator biases and how to avoid them. They will recognize the layers to the negotiation process and anticipate actions and reactions. The overarching message is how to come of out of a negotiation with a win-win. The lessons can apply to every aspect of professional and personal life. |
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Jerry Magar |
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This session will provide skills and tools that can be applied immediately. It is a simple and effective system that increases productivity. The principle behind the method is “parallel thinking” which ensures that all the people in a meeting/team/project are focused on and thinking about the same subject at the same time. |
Tim Durkin |
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Learning Objectives:
This session provides tools for meeting the challenges and managing successfully in the Smart Machine Age. Attendees will learn how critical thinking skills is the ultimate competitive and managerial advantage now and in the foreseeable future. Students will also learn how to use tools such as the ODA Loop for getting better results and overcoming competitive challenges. Additional techniques and knowledge will also be shared that will allow successful navigation of the volatile, uncertain and complex environment common in business and the world at large. |
CPE Hours: 30
To compete and succeed, companies need leaders in every department who can speak the dollars-and-cents language of business. Managers who can interpret financial reports, assess the impact of decisions and communicate operating strategies have a definite career advantage.
Diverse perspectives open doors to enhanced business success. A recent Boston Consulting Group study suggests that greater leadership diversity spurs innovation and boosts financial performance. On average, diverse companies enjoyed a 19% increase in revenue compared to their less diverse counterparts, and SMU Cox Executive Education offers award-winning programs to raise up the diverse perspectives within your own organization.
You are challenged everyday to uncover ways to create value for ever more demanding customers and their rapidly changing needs. A sound strategy can guide what you choose to do and how you choose to do it to survive, grow, and prosper.