Professional Education for Executives

Change Leadership

Know how to initiate, lead, and manage successful change initiatives as you explore change models, change management strategies, and the organizational learning associated with change experiences.

Coaching and Mentoring

Build on your performance management skills and learn how effective leaders can excel at mentoring individuals and groups for high performance teams.

Financial Management and Budgeting

Explore financial practices within organizations as you learn concepts of managerial finance as well as how to make and understand financial decisions. Topics include budget variances analysis, operating leverage ratio, cost and revenue analysis, and computing break-even points.

Human Resources Foundations

Understand the human resource function as an extension of the line manager’s responsibility as you explore effective human resource management processes, methods, and techniques.

Implementing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) at Work

Explore the concept and applications of emotional intelligence (EQ) in organizations as you discuss EQ styles and the role they play in daily workplace interactions.

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

This sem­i­nar will intro­duce basic finan­cial con­cepts to par­tic­i­pants whose pri­ma­ry role is in oth­er func­tion­al areas. You will gain an under­stand­ing of how finan­cial state­ments are pre­pared and how to inter­pret finan­cial state­ments and data in order to make pru­dent finan­cial decisions.

Interpersonal Communications

Explore listening, questioning, and non-verbal techniques that will help you express yourself more clearly, better interpret the messages of others, and enhance your understanding of interpersonal conflict.

Leadership Communications

Connect the concepts of leadership and communication as you learn strategies for persuasive communication that generates buy-in both with internal and external audiences.

Leadership Fundamentals

Identify effective leadership models and enhance your success and value in the workplace as you explore leadership theories, practices, styles, and strengths.

Leading Strategic Planning

Understand how to build and implement a strategic plan for successfully leading your organization toward a set of goals. Topics include goal and direction setting, moving from strategy to action, and project planning and delivery.

Leading Teams

Learn how to assess your leadership practice as you recognize what makes a team and understand the rules of team development and performance management, as well as strategies for developing talent and building an environment of trust and resiliency.

De Bono Six Thinking Hats

Explore ways of trans­form­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion, mov­ing beyond obvi­ous solu­tions, reduc­ing meet­ing times, and intro­duc­ing pos­i­tive team dynam­ics into the meet­ing process.

Negotiations

Find out how to recognize and respond to negotiating tactics, learn how to negotiate successful agreements, and develop the ability to establish a negotiating process for creating collaborative partnerships.

Stakeholder Relationships

Learn leadership strategies to effectively manage the interests of multiple stakeholders as you discuss topics like stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement.

Strategic Management

Learn how to think strategically about your company and explore a structured methodology to develop optimal solutions to the key business problems and opportunities facing organizations.

Developing and Leveraging Executive Presence

We will explore key traits, behav­iours, and mind­set need­ed to project a strong and authen­tic pres­ence. You will be taught prac­ti­cal meth­ods for cul­ti­vat­ing these traits, includ­ing activ­i­ties you can incor­po­rate into every­day work and life.