Build the Capabilities to Succeed

Custom Learning Solutions

Overview

Build a critical mass of leaders who are aligned in their behaviors and approaches and are ready to develop innovative solutions, be catalysts for change, and drive growth. For more than 60 years, we've created and delivered practical learning solutions that tie straight to the strategic direction, culture, and operational processes of organizations like yours.

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Custom Delivery

Flexible Delivery and Duration

Our programs are flexible in length, timing, location, and delivery. We'll work with you to understand your goals, challenges, and opportunities in order to build learning experiences that easily integrate into your developmental initiatives and management processes.

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Collaborative, not Prescriptive

Your organization is unique. We will partner with you to develop solutions that are relevant, practical, and directly tied to your business goals.

Education, not Consultation

We'll design your custom solution so your team will be able to actively transfer what is learned in the program to real life-creating real value for your organization.

Teaching strategies may include: presentation of new theories, concepts, and research; analysis of best-practice organizations; applied learning through case studies and activities; large and small group discussions, simulations, assessments, and action planning.

Our Expertise

Leadership & Strategy
- Build a critical mass of effective leaders to improve performance and drive change.
Supply Chain Management
- Develop a foundation of supply chain excellence with strategies and practices that fuel business success.
Management & Supervisory Development
- Secure your leadership pipeline from end to end by focusing on middle-manager competencies.
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.

Penn State Executive Programs brought us a willingness to look hard at product that we wouldn't have been willing to consider before. We were asking how else to grow, how else can we have people experience our brand...The framework we brought from Penn State was a system for us to use when ideas came up internally or from outside. Before, we were reactive. Now we are proactive.

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Our Custom Learning Process

Explore

You will work with a Relationship Manager - your PSU lead point of contact - through the entire engagement. Together, we will frame a clear understanding of your goals that include strategic imperatives to address, key responsibilities for the learners, and a vision of the ideal outcome. Through this collaboration, you'll be supported by our Operations Team to ensure successful execution regardless of location or delivery mode.

Assess

We learn YOUR goals. We'll take a deeper dive into your learners and organizational culture so that we may pinpoint a custom design that matches your organization's strengths and propensity for success. We identify a Faculty Leader with deep content expertise, experience teaching leaders, and a “fit” for your organization. Ongoing conversations provide added value in revealing internal issues that may be future barriers to transformation.

Design

Business knowledge integrated with corporate strategy and vision. Your Faculty Director will create a high-level design of the experience comprised of learning objectives and outcomes tied to your business goals and design standards that ensure success. Your program may include a variety of modalities that leverage the resources of working with a university provider as vast as Penn State. We're flexible and scalable in delivery. Your solution may be a single intervention delivered on-campus or at a site of your choosing, a virtual experience, or a multi-session learning academy supporting long-term change initiatives.

Deliver

Transformative, empowering, and relevant learning experiences. During the program, our Faculty Leaders expertly help your learners tie critical new perspective, concepts, and techniques to immediate application in the workplace. Interactive sessions, Applied Learning Projects, simulations, and small group work facilitate transfer to use back in the office. Learners begin to see themselves as agents of change; thereby not only developing themselves as leaders but also contributing to broader goals of the organization.

Evaluate

Were the learning objectives met? Program evaluation is critical and built into every turn of the process. We review learner evaluations with you following every program. Assessment and conversation identify strengths and refine content for future sessions.

Enhance

The start of a new relationship. Organizational learning and leadership development are critical components of successful organizations. Penn State Executive & Professional Programs excels at perpetuating your success through long-term partnerships with our clients. From our first engagement and into the future, we relentlessly focus on satisfied stakeholders and will continually refine the learning experiences leading to greater Return on Expectations (ROE).