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SMU Cox Executive Education hosts a number of webinars with subject matter experts across the wide variety of fields that we touch. Whether it is perspectives about leading in unprecedented times and becoming a transformative leader, or leveraging diversity and inclusion for a competitive advantage and thinking strategically, we have the webinars to help jumpstart the thought process and give a taste of what we offer at the Cox School of Business. |
Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage: Tomorrow's winners will be the best at developing adaptive growth strategies. They will think and act in ways fundamentally different from those caught in yesterday's reality, and will have the confidence to see, and courage to go after, new market opportunities that most others will miss.
February 11, 2021
12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. CST
Join SMU's Luigi Pecoraro and learn the key factors to designing and executing a successful high potential program for your company's leadership with this webinar.
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Recordings of previous webinars can be found below:
Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage
October 8, 2020; 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. CT
Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage is a provocative two-day program that explores the new rules and realities for creating sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded world. Through interactive sessions, small group work and case studies, you'll discover and practice the capabilities, mindset and toolkit it takes to build a courageous, flexible strategy for a stronger future. Learning and strategizing with professionals from across industries, you'll roll up your sleeves and gain mastery in the important new mindset of dynamic strategic thinking. You'll reframe how you think about strategy and come away with the tools and network to help you be a more powerful force in leading your organization forward.
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Building the Intelligent Enterprise
July 16, 2020 & September 24; 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
Data-driven companies are harnessing the power of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to make smarter decisions, optimize service and streamline operations. Where does your organization stand in its evolution? Hettie Tabor, Director of SMU Cox's Masters of Science in Business Analytics Program and Academic Director of SMU Cox Executive Education's new Building the Intelligent Enterprise program, will lead a discussion about the imperatives of digital transformation, and exploring and demystifying big data, data science and artificial intelligence’s latest iterations of machine learning and deep learning.
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Essentials of Finance & Accounting
September 10, 2020
Our Essentials of Finance & Accounting certificate program will arm you with an understanding of the accounting and finance concepts you need to assess your performance - and the performance of your competitors. You'll learn how to read, interpret and analyze financial statements, learn forecasting and financial-planning approaches to help you with the budgeting process, and get the basics of net present value and capital budgeting techniques to apply when evaluating projects.
This certificate program is offered online-only. The classes are recorded, offering greater support for review, or for those who live in different time zones.
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Master Negotiation: The Gain-Gain Approach
August 27, 2020
Master Negotiation is a three day program taught by Robin Pinkley, Ph.D., the Duchossois Endowed Professor of Management & Organizations at the Cox School of Business, Dallas, founder of the M2M Center for Profitable Negotiation, and creator of the Gain-Gain Approach to Effective Negotiation. At the heart of the program, you will learn the newest negotiation tools needed to ensure success in negotiations with peers, clients, customers and adversaries, and how to avoid common errors and negotiate rationally and effectively increase your success with even the most difficult negotiators. Join us to learn more about the program.
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Leading Change in Volatile Times
August 20, 2020; July 30, 2020
Change is inevitable. Disruption is certain. Is your team prepared? This new one-day course about Leading Change in Volatile Times will bring to the surface unproductive leadership habits - and teach and reinforce better ones. Jerry Magar, Academic Director of SMU Cox Executive Education's new Leading Change in Volatile Times program, will lead a discussion about the program and how it can help with integrating a new division or a shift in business priorities, and shed light on how those companies that manage change and buy-in well are resilient and gain or retain an competitive advantage.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
August 13, 2020 - 12:00 - 1:30 P.M. CT
Mergers & Acquisitions: Where Theory Meets Practice is a new kind of program at SMU Cox. We’re delivering practical intellectual stimulation that satisfies your academic curiosity and balances theory with ready-to-use insights. You get the academic rigor you expect plus interactive exercises, real-world case studies and lessons from leading industry practitioners that help you turn ideas into action. This results-focused balance begins with leadership from Associate Dean Shane Goodwin, Ph.D., a former investment banker with more than 20 years of M&A experience on Wall Street, including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Join us to learn more about the program.
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The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
July 9, 2020; 12:00 - 1:30 P.M. CST
What exactly are the five practices of leadership, and how can you apply them? Jeff Strese, an instructor for the Transformational Leadership certificate course, will lead a discussion about the five practices of leadership and the ten key commitments for effective leadership, and help participants take an honest look at themselves and their leadership behavior.
The session will conclude with a brief introduction to two leadership programs offered this fall through SMU Cox Executive Education: Fundamentals of Management and Transformational Leadership.
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Leveraging Diversity & Inclusion for a Competitive Advantage
June 25, 2020; 12:00 - 1:30 P.M. CST
Research shows that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially than their less diverse counterparts. A 2018 report by McKinsey found that diverse organizations are 33% more likely to outperform companies without diversity initiatives. Join diversity experts Dr. Candice Bledsoe and Ana Rodriguez to discuss evidence of diversity’s contribution to organizational success. Gain practical advice on how individuals and organizations can achieve their diversity goals and implement D&I efforts to impact business growth and performance.
The session will conclude with a brief introduction to our Executive Education programs supporting Multidimensional Diversity, including the new Women in Leadership program.
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Session One: Lessons from the Oval Office |
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Session Two: Leadership Needed: Agility & Practical Innovation |
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Session Four: How to Apply Adaptive Strategy in Uncertain Times |
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