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High Potential Leaders Program

Program Description:

Leading diverse teams and developing new customer markets are essential to your company's competitive advantage. The High Potential Leaders Program is a four module management development program which imparts new approaches to increase value creation for your firm and its clients. Each course is delivered over a 5-week period and a total of 30 hours of instruction time.

LeBow College's Graduate Certificate programs are delivered by Drexel University faculty who teach in our internationally recognized Master's degree programs.

Target Audience:
This program is designed for high potential middle and senior level professionals who have been select for future leadership and management roles. This program will enhance basic management skills and help to build leadership capabilities. The program will enable professionals to complement their existing talent and technical skills with an innovative business approach and prepare for greater responsibility and growth.

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate Degree

Cost:
$2,670 per module. Includes course fees, materials and for face-to-face classes parking and refreshments.

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Location:
Classroom sessions are held on Drexel's Philadelphia or Malvern Campus
Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Requirements for Graduate Certificate/Certificate Awards

Complete the entire four course series* and receive a Certificate of Professional Development. Upon completion of individual courses or the entire program, participants may earn graduate-level course credit which can be applied toward selected Drexel University MBA or M.S. programs. A formal graduate application must be submitted. Continuing Education Units (CEU) credits and Continuing Professional Educational (CPE) credits may also be applicable. Successful completion of the four course program can earn the participant 144 CPE credits in the areas of Business Management and Organization, Finance, Personal Development and Social Environment of Business.

Course Details

Program Director
Donna DeCarolis, PhD
Department Head and Associate Professor of Management, Drexel University's LeBow College of Business; Faculty Director – Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology

*Business Basics Overview
(This course does not qualify for credits but will prepare the participant to address business concepts covered in the program.)
Delivery: Classroom, 8 hours
Students will learn to deal interactively in two critical areas: 1) planning and shaping the external outreach of a company through marketing, branding, competitive strategy, and innovation and 2) anticipating and responding to major threats, shifts, and forces in the marketplace - including crisis. Students will also analyze key corporate-wide, growth-driving, actions and tactics used today - such as planning, positioning, differentiation and branding, market selection, innovation, competition, crisis management, and the role of the media. The purpose of this short course is to introduce students to broad business topics and show how they relate to the functions of an entire organization.

MODULE 1
BUSN 501 Measuring and Maximizing Financial Performance
Delivery: Classroom or Online
This course introduces students to the content, methodology, and application of computer-based accounting systems that support the decision-making process at all organizational levels and presents an accelerated treatment of the principles of financial valuation and the tools and techniques that facilitate financial decision-making in the areas of financing, investment, working capital, and operating decisions. Topics include: interpreting financial statements; assessing an organization's financial environment; calculating risks and returns on investment, discounted cash flows, bond & stock values, derivatives and the cost of capital; understanding the key elements of international finance.

MODULE 2
MGMT 698 – Project Management/Operations Management
Delivery: Classroom or Online
This course studies the input-output transformation process in organizations, including analysis of administrative functions and planning and control of such processes as setting work standards, scheduling tasks and personnel, managing materials, and quality control.

MODULE 3
ORG 625 Leadership & Professional Development
Delivery: Classroom
This course helps students develop knowledge and skills to enhance their professional development and to become effective leaders. Students will understand trends in contemporary organizations, enhance their self-awareness, and refine their interpersonal skills, and apply these skills to improve their work effectiveness.

MODULE 4
ORG 631 Leading High Performance Organizations
Delivery: Classroom
Leading Strategic Change focuses on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize your corporation. You will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments, gain insight into a current change initiative within your organization, and immediately begin to apply your learning to make rapid progress with issues that are currently pressing for you.

LeBow College of Business, Division of Drexel University, is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.

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Content can be modified to meet your schedule and specific needs. Customized learning solutions are offered online, face-to-face on Drexel's Philadelphia or Malvern campuses or on-site at your location. For more information about tailoring any of these programs to your organization's strategic corporate training initiatives, Carol Walton, at call 215-895-1604 or email caw22@drexel.edu.