Foundation Module Courses
Toronto, Canada
Business Statistics
From productivity to product quality, statistics can provide managers with essential insights into organizational performance and identify which levers lead to positive change. This course addresses how statistics can be used to meet many day-to-day business challenges. It focuses on key stages of statistical analysis: (a) definition of the managerial problem; (b) statistical formulation of the problem; (c) data collection; (d) data analysis; (e) conclusions about the statistical problem; and (f) what light this analysis sheds on the managerial problem. In the latter stages of the course, students are asked to apply their learning to an actual challenge currently faced by their company. In the past, this exercise has sometimes led to five- and six-figure savings for the companies in question.
Global Strategic Management
Navigating in a field of growing complexity and risk is proving increasingly challenging for professional general managers. Global Strategic Management makes substantial use of cases and articles to connect theory with application. Addressing core concepts, the course builds on a comprehensive and coherent framework to create an integrated approach to relating and applying diverse streams of strategic management research and practice. This framework draws together “four-plus-one” critical areas of strategy: initiating the process, defining strategic positioning, delivering value and leading change—plus performance management.
Leadership Presence
This course is structured to help participants develop the knowledge and skills needed to lead high-performing global teams. At the outset of the course, students will conduct an assessment of their leadership style by completing a series of self inventories examining personality type and emotional intelligence. Students will then have an opportunity to have a one-on-one debrief of their leadership assessment results with a course instructor. Team skills will be developed by examining the qualities and characteristics of high performing teams and through cross-cultural communication exercises. The essential team leadership skills of influencing and persuading, and giving and receiving feedback, will be developed by reviewing evidence based-models and through practical simulations. Students will be introduced to a logic-based model of developing and delivering high quality presentations that drive effective decision making.
Negotiating in a Global Environment
While negotiating skills have always been highly valued, their value increases exponentially in complex global contexts. Based on thoroughly tested concepts adapted to the international business arena, Negotiating in a Global Environment teaches effective negotiating for global enterprises. Participants learn by engaging in simulated negotiation sessions designed to highlight important issues in global business and cross-cultural negotiating.
Organizational Leadership
How do you organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change? Organizational Leadership explores some of the theories, skills and tools needed to solve organizational problems and to influence the actions of individuals and groups within the firm. It focuses on the management issues that a leader needs to understand when building the high-performing global organization.
