Carlson General Management Program
Program Details
Hybrid (In Person: Minneapolis, MN, and Live Online)
$12,950
About the Program
Accelerating your career trajectory requires you to look beyond your own area of expertise, embrace a comprehensive view of your organization, and adopt a holistic approach to leadership. During the Carlson General Management Program, you will prepare to lead across your enterprise by participating in 3 hands-on, interactive modules spanning 5 months. Sessions will broaden your individual leadership capabilities, enhance your ability to lead a team, and elevate your cross-functional management skills. The program is grounded in a holistic approach to leadership with a focus on:
- Leading Self: Inclusive leadership, leadership agility, business ethics for leaders
- Leading & Influencing Others: Leading peak performance, enterprise/global collaboration, leading change
- Leading the Business: Creating and executing strategy, customer centricity, financial accountability, supply chain leadership, digital transformation, AI, and analytics
Experience
The programs’ in-person and live online modules offer flexibility for busy executives. You will join world-class faculty, industry experts, as well as your cohort of peers: executives with diverse functional and industry experience, for 3 in-person modules and 2 live online sessions. In the final module, you will engage in an interactive leadership activity to reflect on what you have learned, share personal successes and challenges, and build an action plan for your continued development.
Learn how you can customize this program for your organization.
Program Contact
Contact Carol Roecklein
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 612-625-5412
- REQUEST COURSE CATALOG
Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Senior leaders aspiring to enterprise-wide responsibilities
- VPs
- Directors
- General managers
- Enhance your soft and hard skills in preparation for your next executive role
- Learn how to move beyond silos and demonstrate actions that build trust as well as meet enterprise-level goals
- Broaden your organizational perspective and acquire tools and frameworks for effectively communicating with your cross-functional partners
- Enhance your ability to lead through complexity and change by embracing the concepts of leadership agility
- Practice proven, actionable, and practical techniques to make data-driven decisions
- Identify real opportunities to create value for your firm by exploring digital transformation, AI, and analytics
- Learn how to develop a culture of teamwork and collaboration that supports major change initiatives
- Connect and network with influential leaders and gain valuable insights from other industries and perspectives
Schedule
Module 1
Forming Strategic Vision
In Person
- Creating & Executing Strategy: Learn how to develop a sound strategy and foster its implementation throughout your organization.
- Leading Peak Performance: Explore the intentional actions necessary for leading a supportive and productive team environment.
- Customer Centricity: Examine the key elements of customer centricity through the lens of organizational exemplars in the battle for customers’ hearts.
- Enterprise/Global Collaboration: Learn how to embrace an enterprise-enhancing mindset. Learn specific actions that build trust and shift mindsets in order to meet enterprise-level goals.
Online Session 1
Leadership Agility Part I
Half-day Virtual Session
- Leadership Agility Part I: Explore the first two fundamentals of the Leadership Agility Compass framework: Context-setting and stakeholder agility. Enhance your ability to identify and empathize with key stakeholders critical to your success. Learn how to gain perspective and utilize it to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Module2
Driving Results
In Person
- Financial Accountability: Participate in a financial simulation, which mimics running a business. Practice how to engage in financial discussions as well as confidently evaluate projects and proposals.
- Executive Panel: Hear from a panel of local executives as they discuss their paths to leadership.
- Supply Chain Leadership: Learn how to design and sustain a resilient supply chain by utilizing the building blocks of the supply chain leadership model.
- Business Ethics for Leaders: Managing an ethical organization requires reflection. Apply a decision making framework to help with ethical analysis.
Online Session 2
Leadership Agility Part II
Half-day Virtual Session
- Leadership Agility Part II: Explore the final two fundamentals of the Leadership Agility Compass framework: Self-leadership and creative agility. Understand how to lead by example and invest in self-leadership. Create a participative culture and rethink basic assumptions. Develop emotional resilience and a capacity for dialogue in order to build support.
Module 3
Leading the Future
In Person
Digital Transformation, AI & Demystifying Data Analytics: Systematically develop organizational capabilities using descriptive, predictive, causal, and prescriptive analytics. Explore how traditional and generative AI can create tremendous value for organizations.
- Leading Change: Participate in a change simulation to enhance your ability to plan for, lead, and manage successful change efforts.
- Inclusive Leadership: Get the most out of diverse teams through self-exploration and drawing connections to others. Examine bias as well as power and privilege in the workplace. Take away concrete communication tools to create inclusive teams.
- Leadership Success Circle: Participate in a facilitated session to reflect on the Carlson General Management Program and how you will apply what you’ve learned to your role, your team, and your organization. Share personal leadership successes and challenges, create an action plan for your continued development, and form strong connections within the cohort.
Module 1
Forming Strategic Vision
In Person
- Creating & Executing Strategy: Learn how to develop a sound strategy and foster its implementation throughout your organization.
- Leading Peak Performance: Explore the intentional actions necessary for leading a supportive and productive team environment.
- Customer Centricity: Examine the key elements of customer centricity through the lens of organizational exemplars in the battle for customers’ hearts.
- Enterprise/Global Collaboration: Learn how to embrace an enterprise-enhancing mindset. Learn specific actions that build trust and shift mindsets in order to meet enterprise-level goals.
Online Session 1
Leadership Agility Part I
Half-day Virtual Session
- Leadership Agility Part I: Explore the first two fundamentals of the Leadership Agility Compass framework: Context-setting and stakeholder agility. Enhance your ability to identify and empathize with key stakeholders critical to your success. Learn how to gain perspective and utilize it to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Module2
Driving Results
In Person
- Financial Accountability: Participate in a financial simulation, which mimics running a business. Practice how to engage in financial discussions as well as confidently evaluate projects and proposals.
- Executive Panel: Hear from a panel of local executives as they discuss their paths to leadership.
- Supply Chain Leadership: Learn how to design and sustain a resilient supply chain by utilizing the building blocks of the supply chain leadership model.
- Business Ethics for Leaders: Managing an ethical organization requires reflection. Apply a decision making framework to help with ethical analysis.
Online Session 2
Leadership Agility Part II
Half-day Virtual Session
- Leadership Agility Part II: Explore the final two fundamentals of the Leadership Agility Compass framework: Self-leadership and creative agility. Understand how to lead by example and invest in self-leadership. Create a participative culture and rethink basic assumptions. Develop emotional resilience and a capacity for dialogue in order to build support.
Module 3
Leading the Future
In Person
Digital Transformation, AI & Demystifying Data Analytics: Systematically develop organizational capabilities using descriptive, predictive, causal, and prescriptive analytics. Explore how traditional and generative AI can create tremendous value for organizations.
- Leading Change: Participate in a change simulation to enhance your ability to plan for, lead, and manage successful change efforts.
- Inclusive Leadership: Get the most out of diverse teams through self-exploration and drawing connections to others. Examine bias as well as power and privilege in the workplace. Take away concrete communication tools to create inclusive teams.
- Leadership Success Circle: Participate in a facilitated session to reflect on the Carlson General Management Program and how you will apply what you’ve learned to your role, your team, and your organization. Share personal leadership successes and challenges, create an action plan for your continued development, and form strong connections within the cohort.
Faculty
Miquel Lladó
Carlson Executive Educators Network
Abdul Omari
Carlson Executive Educators Network
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$12,950