UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership

UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership
June 6, 2010

Q: How can your company…

Improve collaboration with your most important business partners?
Generate new business opportunities?
Transform high-potential employees into collaborative leaders?

A: UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership

Executive Education with Immediate Payback

Now you can develop future leaders in a real-life setting that delivers immediate business results. UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership brings star performers and their teams together in an environment that strengthens your business through instructive, facilitated collaboration. Participants discover applicable solutions to your current business challenges. They create new business opportunities. And they develop a collaborative leadership style that augments and renews critical business relationships.

Cements Key Relationships

Successful companies understand the importance of boundary-spanning relationships. That’s why most companies seek to identify and exploit opportunities where key personnel within and between organizations can get to know each other better. It’s a way for them to deepen and leverage relationships that will increase revenue, profitability, productivity, quality, and market share.

UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership facilitates and cements critical business relationships through a state-of-the-art executive education experience.

The five-day, retreat-style leadership program strengthens business relationships in an environment that reinforces integrity, ethical values and diversity. Participants learn how to draw on the personal strengths of others, while increasing their confidence as an individual contributor and leader. Professional bonding comes from working together to solve real business challenges and from sharing a rigorous and relevant educational experience.

Builds Your Business

In many ways, UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership feels like a custom program. You hand-select which high-potential leader you will send to the program, and then build a team around that person. The team could be a cross-functional inter-company team, or even more powerful, a team made up of your company’s customers and suppliers.

Example: Inter-company Team:
Marketing/Sales Director + product management + external suppliers/distributors + manufacturer’s reps + key accounts + marketing/advertising agency

Example: Cross-functional Team:
Marketing Director + product management + sales + manufacturing/operations + finance/accounting, etc.

In addition, the problem-solving exercises and group challenges are specific to your business. Participants will tackle, in a workshop environment, existing business challenges and attempt to identify new business opportunities.

Program Outcomes

To stay competitive and successful, business leaders look into the future and increasingly see that tomorrow’s leadership capacity will require greater flexibility, vigorous change management skills and extensive cross-cultural/global comprehension. Their leadership skill set will also require continued critical strategic thinking, strong interpersonal skills, and exceptional financial, operational and marketing literacy.

Consequently, effective leaders and their organizations must learn, develop and shape collaborative relationships that will span numerous functional and inter-organizational boundaries.

UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership spans these boundaries to build key strategic relationships. A significant outcome of this program will be a measurable growth in building key business relationships. Delivered in a retreat setting and focused on “learning by doing” ensures an environment where collaborative leadership is experienced first-hand.

A second important outcome of this program relates to the use of *action learning. Teams will identify a current business challenge or opportunity, and working throughout the week, they will develop a proposal for new business development that will be presented to their leadership team. In addition, extended learning can happen beyond the classroom when teams continue to work together to bring their proposals to fruition.

*Action learning: an approach to individual and organizational development whereby individuals work in sets or groups tackling important organizational challenges in order to learn from their combined efforts to cultivate change. Action learning entails experiential learning, creative and complex problem solving, acquiring relevant knowledge, and co-learning group support. The focus is on “learn by doing.”

Creates Stronger Leaders

UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership creates a facilitated, problem-solving environment that is the ideal setting for helping teams learn while they bond through shared experiences. By the end of the program, your team of high-potential leaders will be able to:

Make collaborative decisions
Span boundaries
Embrace change
Think critically
Act strategically

Learn More

Please contact us today to learn more about UST Executive Education for Collaborative Leadership. We can provide you with guidance on:

How to select the right attendees
What you might expect in terms of outcomes
How to select the right team members
How to get started with the program
Request an application, or download a PDF of the application now
Contact Pat Tollefson, Director, Executive Education, at (651) 962-4412, or John Lyfoung, Program Manager, at (651) 962-4616 for more information and additional program details.