Ken Blanchard Executive Master of Business Administration

• Leading Self
  
  Leading Self is designed to prepare the students as they strengthen important leadership skills and develop a personal leadership vision. The module combines knowledge and application by examining the results of leadership research and how it can be used to develop a clear sense of purpose of leadership, increase leadership communication skills, and deepen awareness of personal leadership styles.
  
  
• Customer Value and Service Excellence
  
  The course is designed to focus on what customers really want, building customer loyalty, and becoming a service excellence leader.
  
  
• Solutions Based Relationship Management and Branding
  
  The course will examine the role of corporate brands in creating a competitive advantage and focus on the critical issues facing senior leaders today including measuring marketing performance, managing customer information, building cross-cultural customer relationships, and leveraging the internet.
  
  
• Financial Intelligence and Decision Making
  
  Financial Intelligence and Decision Making focuses on understanding, interpreting, and using financial information for the purposes of making sound financial decisions.
  
  
• Balancing Conflicting Financial Interests
  
  Balancing Conflicting Financial Interests explores the challenges faced by managers, investors, and corporate boards and the tremendous pressures they are under to report sales growth and strong financial results.
  
  
• Leveraging Human Capital
  
  Leveraging Human Capital presents the perspective that management of human capital is the responsibility of every manager/leader throughout the organization. Talent management, succession planning, employee development and motivation, and performance management and metrics are examined.
  
  
• Leading Others
  
  Leading Others provides the structure and direction for teams to remain focused on a common goal to achieve a common result. Using research validated evaluation methods, the course documents agreements on how to accomplish the team's purpose by creating buy in and increasing commitment for task accomplishment.
  
  
• Serving Communities
  
  Serving Communities brings a unique societal perspective to the decision-making process within organizations. Human and quality of life issues center on social responsibility and community outreach. . Case studies will be used to profile and examine organizations considered as exemplar corporate citizens.
  
  
• Growth Strategies
  
  Growth Strategies examines the opportunities and challenges inherent in mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and other types of strategic alliances. There is a focus on financial viability and integration issues involved in merger and acquisition activities.
  
  
• Strategic Advantage within the Global Economy
  
  Strategic Advantage within the Global Economy examines the global competitive landscape in which firms operate. An examination of real life CEO's and how they have successfully seized growth opportunities in unexpected ways provides an actuarial perspective.
  
  
• Building Efficient Organizations
  
  Building Efficient Organizations examines how to streamline and drive inefficiencies out of a firm's internal processes in order to build a super lean, highly efficient organization.
  
  
• Building Innovative Organizations
  
  Building Innovative Organizations introduces the challenge of balancing efficiency with the ability to innovate successfully.
  
  
• Leading Organizations
  
  This module will examine how and why change efforts get derailed, why people resist change, and how leaders can overcome these challenges. Specifically, the real life lessons learned by a number of CEOs will be examined and discussed.