Carlson General Management Program
Program Details
This 6.5-day program spans 5 months (2024 dates include: Nov. 5-6, Dec. 12; 2025 dates include: Jan. 22-23, Feb. 11, and Mar. 11-12)
42.25 Contact Hours | 4.22 Continuing Education Units (CEU)
About the Program
The Carlson General Management Program is our flagship program for senior-level leaders who are assuming enterprise-wide responsibilities. In this 6.5-day program (across 5 months), participants will immerse themselves in far-reaching leadership topics, polish their understanding of business strategy, and acquire the soft skills required to lead in today’s environment of continuous disruption.Â
The program utilizes a holistic approach to leadership with a focus on:
- Leading the Business: Business Strategy, Customer Centricity, Financial Accountability, Supply Chain Leadership, Digital Transformation / AI / AnalyticsÂ
- Leading and Influencing Others: Leading Peak Performance, Enterprise / Global Collaboration, Leading ChangeÂ
- Leading Self: Business Ethics for Leaders, Leadership Agility, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership Success Circle Â
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Experience
The program is designed to fit the needs of busy professionals. Participants join their cohort for three immersive modules as well as two live online sessions alongside faculty and their peers. Surrounded by a close group of colleagues, participants will build relationships and expand their networks as they prepare to lead.
Results
At the end of this prestigious program, participants will have enhanced their capacity to lead by acquiring a well-rounded understanding of business strategy and leadership skills. Coursework covers navigating a digital-first world, building sound business strategy, providing financial accountability, creating customer-centric programs, leading change, ethical decision-making, and enterprise-level collaboration, as well as leading inclusively, cultivating executive presence, and working with emotional intelligence.
Learn how you can customize this program for your organization.
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Program Contact
- Email: croeckle@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-625-5412
- REQUEST COURSE CATALOG
Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Senior leaders aspiring to enterprise-wide responsibilities
- C-Suite
- Directors
- Vice Presidents
- General Managers
- Elevate leadership capabilities to drive organizational growth
- Develop a global, enterprise mindset to lead across complex organizationsÂ
- Explore vital topics including digital transformation, strategy, and inclusive leadership
- Connect with influential leaders and gain valuable insights from other industries and perspectives
- Apply new knowledge immediately and drive business impact
A program like this helps hone our leadership skills —to get us to that next level.
There are some cutting-edge things that are hitting companies and this [program] was a great way for me to become much more knowledgeable about them.
It's important for me to get away and brush up on skills, talk about current issues, and get refreshed so I can go back to my team and lead change in a way that they can identify with.
Schedule
Forming Strategic Vision
- Business Strategy: Learn to align strategy to changes in the business environment. Discuss the role of company culture in implementing strategic changes.
- Leading Peak Performance: Learn tactics for fostering a supportive, productive environment for teams and self.
- Customer Centricity: Examine the key elements of customer-centricity through the lens of organizational exemplars in the battle for customers’ hearts.
- Enterprise/Global Collaboration: Move beyond silos to an enterprise-enhancing mindset. Learn specific actions that build trust and shift mindsets to meet enterprise-level goals.
Leadership Agility Part IÂ
- 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 who are critical to success. Learn how to gain perspective and how to utilize it to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Driving Results
- Financial Accountability: Participate in a financial simulation, which mimics running a business for multiple business cycles. Participants will have full decision making power and will be accountable for business results.
- Executive Panel: Hear from executives as they discuss the path to leadership.
- Supply Chain Leadership: Supply chains have become a major concern since the pandemic. Learn more about designing and sustaining a resilient supply chain through the building blocks of supply chain leadership model.
- Business Ethics for Leaders: Managing an ethical organization requires reflection. Apply a decision making framework to help with ethical analysis.
Leadership Agility Part II
- 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.
Leading the Future
- Digital Transformation, AI & Demystifying Data Analytics: Systematically develop organizational capabilities using descriptive, predictive, causal and prescriptive analytics. Gain an understanding of what digital transformation is and how it impacts business.
- Leading Change: Learn how to plan for, lead, and manage a successful change effort. The session will utilize interactive class discussions and a change simulation.
- 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 and workplace.
- 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.
Forming Strategic Vision
- Business Strategy: Learn to align strategy to changes in the business environment. Discuss the role of company culture in implementing strategic changes.
- Leading Peak Performance: Learn tactics for fostering a supportive, productive environment for teams and self.
- Customer Centricity: Examine the key elements of customer-centricity through the lens of organizational exemplars in the battle for customers’ hearts.
- Enterprise/Global Collaboration: Move beyond silos to an enterprise-enhancing mindset. Learn specific actions that build trust and shift mindsets to meet enterprise-level goals.
Leadership Agility Part IÂ
- 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 who are critical to success. Learn how to gain perspective and how to utilize it to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.
Driving Results
- Financial Accountability: Participate in a financial simulation, which mimics running a business for multiple business cycles. Participants will have full decision making power and will be accountable for business results.
- Executive Panel: Hear from executives as they discuss the path to leadership.
- Supply Chain Leadership: Supply chains have become a major concern since the pandemic. Learn more about designing and sustaining a resilient supply chain through the building blocks of supply chain leadership model.
- Business Ethics for Leaders: Managing an ethical organization requires reflection. Apply a decision making framework to help with ethical analysis.
Leadership Agility Part II
- 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.
Leading the Future
- Digital Transformation, AI & Demystifying Data Analytics: Systematically develop organizational capabilities using descriptive, predictive, causal and prescriptive analytics. Gain an understanding of what digital transformation is and how it impacts business.
- Leading Change: Learn how to plan for, lead, and manage a successful change effort. The session will utilize interactive class discussions and a change simulation.
- 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 and workplace.
- 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.
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This 6.5-day program spans 5 months (2024 dates include: Nov. 5-6, Dec. 12; 2025 dates include: Jan. 22-23, Feb. 11, and Mar. 11-12)
42.25 Contact Hours | 4.22 Continuing Education Units (CEU)
This 6.5-day program spans 5 months (2024 dates include: Nov. 5-6, Dec. 12; 2025 dates include: Jan. 22-23, Feb. 11, and Mar. 11-12)
42.25 Contact Hours | 4.22 Continuing Education Units (CEU)