By Lacie Blankenship
Vanderbilt Executive Education is excited to offer 6 fall 2023 short programs: Leadership Coaching, Leading Change, Executive Leadership, Strategic Communication for Leaders, Navigating Organizations: The Manager’s Roadmap, and Financial Fundamentals for Non-Accountants. Limited seats are available for each program, and early registration is encouraged to avoid the waitlist.
What is a Vanderbilt Executive Education Short Program?
Jon Lehman
Vanderbilt Executive Education Short Programs are 2- to 3-day programs taught by world-class industry experts that help participants develop and immediately strengthen critical business skills without the commitment of earning a degree. These programs are offered throughout the year for open enrollment by individuals or groups.
“Vanderbilt Executive Education courses allow professionals to develop invaluable skills and refine what they already know,” says Jon Lehman, Faculty Director, Vanderbilt Executive Education. “The fall 2023 short programs are proven and practical ways to change your career trajectory.”
What courses are available this fall?
Leadership Coaching (August 29-30)
Whether you manage entry-level employees or executives, this program will help you build the competencies to coach effectively, build employee skills, address shortcomings, and develop leaders.
Who should attend?
- C-Suite executives
- Managers of all levels
- Human Resource professionals
- Consultants
- Organizational Development practitioners
What will participants learn?
- Methods to enhance leadership capabilities through effective coaching
- How to use coaching to develop, attract, and retain talented employees
- How to identify employees’ key needs, set goals for their development, establish action plans, and provide ongoing assessment
- Ways to positively motivate employees in ways that improve individual and team performance
Who is teaching?
Mark Cannon
Mark D. Cannon, an expert in Organization Studies, is teaching the first fall 2023 short program, Leadership Coaching, this August.
What will participants learn?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
Leading Change (September 14-15)
Change is essential to organizational growth and progress. Through this intensely focused, hands-on program, you’ll learn research-based frameworks, models, and strategies to help you become a stronger leader of change within your organization.
Who should attend?
- C-Suite executives
- Mid-level managers
- Project managers engaged in change initiatives
What will participants learn?
- How to ensure that change projects succeed (and how to apply course learning to a current change project in your organization)
- Identify common mistakes to avoid and anticipate barriers to change
- Understand how to build support for embracing and sustaining change
- Useful strategies to leverage technology for change
Who is teaching?
Ray Friedman
Ray Friedman, an expert in Organization Studies, is teaching Leading Change this September.
Where can I learn more?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
Executive Leadership (September 20-22)
By the end of this highly interactive, 3-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.
Who should attend?
- C-Suite executives
- Board directors
- Mid-level managers
- Rising supervisors
What will participants learn?
- How to become a stronger leader who can build a shared vision, improve teamwork and increase productivity
- Ways to motivate people using key leverage points based on character and ability
- Techniques to develop a personal action plan to create greater impact in your organization
- Skills for leading change more effectively
Who is teaching?
Mark D. Cannon, an expert in Organization Studies, who also taught the first of the fall 2023 short programs, is teaching Executive Leadership this September.
Where can I learn more?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
Strategic Communication for Leaders (October 25-27)
Kimberly Pace
The higher you move up the management ladder, the more communication skills play a critical role in your ability to be an effective leader. In this interactive, live-online program, you’ll develop and practice techniques for communicating at a senior level.
Who should attend?
- C-Suite executives who want to take their game to the next level
- Rising senior leaders who expect to join the C-suite in the next 12 months
- Division, department, and team managers who want to differentiate their leadership
- Entrepreneurs who find themselves thrust into leadership positions
- Board members who must provide direction and guidance for senior executives
What will participants learn?
- Effective presentation techniques
- How to communicate during a crisis and in stressful situations
- How to create a personal brand strategy and a unique executive presence
- Ways to improve listening skills to hear and solve problems the first time
- How to write persuasively with a clear and concise executive tone
- Ways to lead meetings that motivate
- Ways to communicate a strategic vision that people listen to and clearly understand
Who is teaching?
Kimberly Pace, an expert in Communications, is teaching Strategic Communications for Leaders this October.
Where can I learn more?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
Navigating Organizations: The Manager’s Roadmap (November 6-7)
Ranga Ramanujam
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.
Who should attend?
- Project managers
- Rising supervisors and new managers
- Managers, directors, and executives leading organizational change
- Directors moving up to lead divisions or large-scale organizations
- Small business owners and entrepreneurs
What will participants learn?
- How to manage people (including themselves)
- Techniques to manage information
- How to manage upwards
- Techniques for managing within your unit
- How to manage outside the organization
Who is teaching?
Rangaraj (Ranga) Ramanujam, an expert in Healthcare and Organization Studies, is teaching Navigating Organizations: The Manager’s Roadmap this November.
Where can I learn more?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
Financial Fundamentals for Non-Accountants (November 8-10)
Rita Gunn
This program will provide you with the foundational knowledge you need to understand the numbers and speak the language of business. Through discussions, exercises, and case studies, you’ll discover the meaning of the numbers and learn how to use your company’s financial data to build effective strategies for managing your company’s financial resources.
Who should attend?
- Small business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Marketing managers
- Operations managers
- Technology/product-line managers
- Rising supervisors with budgetary responsibility
What will participants learn?
- How to assess and recognize financial risks in advance
- Ways to interpret the financial strength of a product line, division, or company
- Methods for identifying factors that improve cash cycle
- Ways to unlock financial disclosures
Who is teaching?
Hunter Land
Rita Gunn and Hunter Land, experts in Accounting, will teach the final fall 2023 short program, Financial Fundamentals for Non-Accountants, in November.
Where can I learn more?
Read more details, including what previous participants said about the course, here.
