Leadership & Strategy
Leadership & Strategy
Overview
Courses
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to lead strategically by assessing your opportunities in the competitive environment, developing and implementing strategy with a focus on a constantly changing future, and aligning your organization around the fundamental pillars of strategy, leadership, and culture.
Leading With Analytics: Foundations of Analytic Decision Making
Data analytics is key to long-term viability but requires more than technological investments alone. It demands leaders who can confidently build organizations that embrace and communicate through data. This course helps you emerge from the information overload and help your organization claim ownership of its data. Through in-depth case studies and interactive discussions, you'll learn tools and techniques that strategically capture, analyze, and apply data to decision-making.
Implementing Strategy for Success
Develop an integrated approach to strategy implementation and change management. Build strategic thinking abilities, decision-making acumen, change management awareness, and influencing skills. Maximize your skills to drive organizational performance and growth.
Communication Strategy for Leaders
Today’s workplace offers a complex variety of modes through which leaders communicate critical concepts, ideas, and strategic messages. This program offers a unique design that brings together multiple experts who will help you explore effective strategies for communicating strategic vision up, down, and across the organization, with particular focus on channel selection, message and personal authenticity, and communicating across a variety of stakeholder groups.
Leading for Results: Strategic Financial Management
This program focuses on connecting business decisions with their financial consequences and views finance as an operational element of a successful organization. It is critical for leaders to understand how business decisions impact financial results and how constraints shape business decisions. All too often, operational leaders and strategic decision-makers are siloed from their counterparts in finance. Accounting is the language of business because its terms and concepts translate any business decisions into their economic consequences. As you gain familiarity with the tools and techniques of strategic financial management , you will begin to deploy finance and accounting to empower your business decisions.
The Execution Challenge: Turning Strategy Into Action
Creating a strategy is straightforward, but executing it is where many organizations stumble. Learn how to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with a proven framework for success in this companion course to The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale. Ideal for those who have read the book and those who have not, this program dives deep into key concepts with hands-on practice, case studies, and real-world examples. Through these activities, you will learn how to effectively use this unique approach to inform, translate, plan, and align strategy execution efforts within your team or organization.
The faculty balance institutional knowledge and real world experience. Tying this all together is incredibly important. This made all of the difference.Seth Doman, Director, New Holland Parts & Service Sales, New Holland Corporate of North America
Our Faculty Directors
This portfolio is designed by faculty directors from the Penn State Smeal College of Business. They are executive faculty whose world-class research and industry involvement has created significant change within the private and public sectors. They have applied their expertise to design Executive Programs that balance visionary strategies and actionable results.