Georgia Tech College of Management offers two-day executive education workshops that build the leadership skills necessary to develop strategic goals and, more importantly, translate those goals into comprehensive plans that energize your company and boost innovation and profitable growth. Best of all, you can put your knowledge to work immediately.
Complete any four of the six classes listed below and receive a Georgia Tech Certificate in Advanced Leadership. You have two years to complete the course work.
Applied Change Management: Effectively Implementing Change
Designed for change leaders, this action-learning workshop arms you with valuable strategies and tools to effectively plan, communicate, and implement a major change initiative. Through the ExperienceChangeTM simulator, teams will plan and implement a strategic shift necessary to save a fictional company and experience firsthand the dynamics of managing an important project in an environment of rapid change, uncertainty, and risk.
Leading Technical Professionals
Explore the characteristics and experiences that make leading technical professionals and others with training in technical and scientific disciplines a particular challenge. Equip yourself for the challenge by examining your leadership approaches and developing the necessary competencies.
Managing Innovation & New Product Development
Examine two market-tested drivers of organic growth: innovation and new product development. Develop an understanding of what leaders need to do to stimulate ideas and develop them into innovations and products in the most cost effective and barrier-free way.
Marketing Strategies: Building Brands & Customer Solutions
Take an intensive look into the market planning process. Learn how to develop a competitive marketing strategy for existing and new brands and craft solutions for customers.
Negotiation Skills: Conflict Resolution & Influencing Others
Focus on negotiation and creating opportunities for mutual gain with respect to valued resources, the ability to maintain and build relationships, and trust. Learn to unite and build trust using conflict management techniques and proven tools of communication. Discuss in-depth negotiation best practices.
Strategy Execution: The Most Critical Leadership Competency
Dive into strategies and mindsets executives use to decide when and what decisions to execute. Develop the ability to execute evenly and risk effectively with a thorough understanding of how to align strategy, operations, and resources.
