Short Programs
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Short Programs Overview
Vanderbilt Executive Education offers proven and practical two- and three-day focused programs to help you develop and strengthen critical business skills without the commitment of earning a degree. Become a more effective leader, broaden a skillset, or learn to think strategically.
Bonus! By taking four Short Programs in a period of 36-months, you can save money and earn a Certificate.
If you have questions, please contact Kate Paradis or Cheryl Bates.
Which Short Program is Right for You?
Which statement best describes your current development goals?
Which area of leadership would you like to focus on?
The following courses may fit your needs.
The following courses may fit your needs.
Based on your career interests, the following courses may fit your needs.
Based on your career interests, the following courses may fit your needs.
Based on your career interests, the following course may fit your needs.
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Short Programs Catalog
Spring/Summer 2020
Leadership
A hands-on, highly engaging experience tailored to each individual, this program empowers new leaders with the skills to mobilize teams and generate results.Strategy and Innovation
Through this highly interactive course, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of important skills for effective managers: how to act with strategic intent, exercise influence, build and maintain networks, seek and share information, anticipate emerging opportunities and challenges, and continuously innovate to improve structures and processes.Management Fundamentals
This program helps you understand the numbers in order to speak the language of business. Through a series of exercises and case studies, you’ll understand what the numbers mean and how to use your company’s financial data to manage more efficiently.Strategy and Innovation
In this program, you’ll learn an analytic framework to help think more clearly about any negotiation you face and get feedback to help you become a better negotiator. Through a variety of exercises—starting with simple simulations that become increasingly complex—you will be able to immediately see the effects of different negotiation strategies for different scenarios.Leadership
This program will focus on strengthening persuasive presentation and negotiation skills, navigating challenging group dynamics and overcoming organizational roadblocks by employing effective leadership skills.Strategy and Innovation
Whether you are part of team or an individual strategist, this program will take your thinking to the next level. You will be able to demonstrate your strategic vision faster and smarter than ever before.
Leadership
Change is essential to organizational growth and progress. Through this intensely focused, hands-on program, you’ll learn research-based frameworks, models and strategies that will help you become a stronger leader of change within your organization.Leadership
By the end of this highly interactive, three-day program, conducted by one of the nation’s leading business experts on executive leadership, you’ll be equipped to lead more effectively and achieve your professional and organizational goals.