October 24-26, 2017 and April 17-19, 2018
Program Objectives
Leading in Complex Organizations provides a highly integrated approach to strategic implementation and performance
management. Participants will significantly increase strategic thinking, decision-making, personal leadership, and
influence skills while maximizing the use of management systems to increase their ability to create organizational
performance and growth.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for those charged with creating
and implementing strategy and developing organizational
capability. It is ideal for those with functional and general
management responsibilities who seek to enhance their
strategic leadership effectiveness. The participant may or
may not have direct reports but is in a position of strategic
influence in the enterprise or business unit.
Note to Government Professionals: This program fulfills much
of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) required for Senior
Executive Service.
Program Benefits
Leading in Complex Organizations provides practical
knowledge and tools for:
• Creating and implementing business unit strategy
• Aligning business unit initiatives with enterprise direction
• Increasing results in strategy execution through the use of
major componenets of strategic alignment
• Creating systems to generate and measure performance
• Developing your personal management/leadership style
This program awards 2.4 CEUs. Penn State Continuing
Education Units (CEUs) are available based on a standard
unit per ten hours of classroom instruction.
Value Created for You and Your
Company
Application is a key element of program design.
In a risk-free environment, participant teams test
implications of complex, long-range decisions
in running their own company. Key concepts are
driven home by:
• developing strategic thinking
• building competitive awareness
• demonstrating the overall interaction of various
parts of a business; and,
• measuring the effectiveness of team-based
decisions
This program also features a 3600 assessment
plus follow-up executive coaching on a project or
leadership challenge.
Program Content
Beyond lecture and deep engagement with faculty
and peers, content is tied together through a
“management simulation” which gives participants
the opportunity to apply learned skills directly and
immediately each day. Feedback on simulation
performance is provided daily.
Strategic Leadership
• Translating the Competitive Enviroment
• Developing Strategic Capabilities
• Implementing Strategy from the Enterprise to
the Operating Departments
• Working Within New Organizational Models
Register for this Program
Reserve your place by phone or e-mail, and then complete your registration online at
www.smeal.psu.edu/psep. Please find our all-inclusive fee information on the back.
Phone: 1-800-311-6364
E-mail: [email protected]
Leading in Complex Organizations
The Leader’s Role
• Leadership Styles
• Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Leadership and
Influence
• Shaping an Effective Organizational Culture
• Strategy Implementation: Process, People, and Purpose
Managerial Leadership
• Communication and Relationship Management
• Performance Management
• Motivational Techniques
• Encouraging Employee Commitment
Capability and Culture Building
• Shaping Social Operation Systems and Processes
• Creating Solutions to Complex Situations
• Creating an Effective Value Chain
• Increasing Organization Effectiveness
Decision Making
• Decision-Making Techniques
• Organizational Impacts on Decision Making
Faculty Leaders
The program is taught by faculty leaders with extensive
backgrounds in research, consulting, and educating executives.
Each brings to the classroom best-practices and implementation
processes for achieving world-class results.
Mr. Charles Ninos, Program Faculty Director; President, C. Joseph
Ninos and Associates
Dr. Shawn Clark, Director, Clinical Professor of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, Smeal College of Business, Penn State
Dr. Tim Pollock, Michael J. Farrell Chair in Entrepreneurship, Smeal
College of Business, Penn State
Ms. Maria W. Taylor, Managing Director of Executive Programs,
Smeal College of Business, Penn State
Location
This three-day program will be conducted at the Penn State
University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania, and held in
private, modern executive education facilities. Participants lodge at
the historic Nittany Lion Inn.
Penn State Executive Programs
Open the doors to transformational learning
experiences with Penn State. We work with
organizations and leaders from around the world
to help shape strategies and practices that fuel
competitive advantage and business success. We link
strategic understanding with powerful ideas about
how decisions affect overall corporate performance.
Each program in our diverse portfolio offers:
• Learning experiences that pair practical action
learning and coaching with new knowledge, tools,
and perspectives;
• Exposure to leading faculty and practitioner
executives with extensive experience working with
business professionals;
• Deeper exploration of critical topic areas with
examples of how organizations around the world
are addressing challenges now;
• Focus on successfully applying concepts to meet
the needs of your unique situation.
Earn a Certificate
Recognizing the interdependence of strategy
development and execution in driving growth,
Leading in Complex Organizations is part of a series of
programs that develop the skills critical to your
success as a senior leader. Complete three and
earn a Professional Certificate in Strategy and
Organizational Performance. The following other
courses may be taken in any order over a period of
time:
Strategic Leadership provides leaders with the
perspective to develop strategy and steer change in
the organization.
Fees
Finance for Strategic Decision Making provides
practical financial knowledge for making operational
decisions that positively affect the performance of the
enterprise.
The program fee for Leading in Complex Organizations is
$4,750. This includes all instructional materials, private room
accommodations, and meals.
Winning with Rapid Value Chain Innovation uses
teams to produce measurable improvements on endto-end process challenges.
Active military personnel, PSU alumni, and teams of three or more
attending this program from one company are eligible for a 20%
program discount.
We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover, and American Express.
Women's Leadership Series:
Negotiation Strategies develops advanced skills
essential to influencing people, impact decisions,
create change.
Increasing Your Power and Influence improves
leadership effectiveness through persuasion
techniques and responsibly leveraging power to
motivate others.
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