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In this Issue:
Feature Article: Distinguished Leadership Series
On January 23 rd 2006, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business hosted its 4th annual featuring Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt with 120 participants took part. This event, titled Strategy at the Edge of Chaos, sets the tone for the upcoming business year as the School addresses cutting edge issues in the global market.
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor at Stanford University.
The topics covered in the seminar were:
- Turning Chaos into strategic opportunity
- Business Strategy as simple rules
- Restitching Business Portfolios
- Cross-business synergy
- Short-term growth strategy
- Long-term growth strategy
- Rhythm and timing
Through out the day, break out sessions facilitated participants' interaction and provided an opportunity to share experience and generate new ideas.
At the end of the day, participants had an opportunity to interact directly with Professor Eisenhardt and received a signed copy of her Best Selling Book- Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos.
Centre for Training & Development
This five-day workshop is strategic in its design and takes participants through the entire training cycle – from diagnosis to evaluation. The workshops feature cutting edge training methodologies and techniques and the latest findings on the teaching/learning process.
Topics covered include how to:
- Design the strategies, structure, and materials for learning
- Deliver instruction in an effective, efficient, and appealing manner
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Establish the context of the training function as a “ knowledge management” tool required to be successful in the global information economy
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Determine the exact nature of organizational problems, specify training objectives, and conduct
post-training evaluation to determine if performance was actually improved
A major challenge for today's manager is getting people to work together in teams and to function effectively in order to achieve the best results possible.
As a manager, your contribution to your organization's success will undoubtedly rest on your ability to mobilize diverse individual strengths in the development of effective work teams and to maintain employee commitment in pursuit of the organization's goals.
This two-day workshop is designed to assist you in developing the skills needed to become an effective team leader. It will provide tools and techniques for managing team performance as well as allow you to identify your managerial strengths and to develop a personal plan for your development as a team leader.
Topics covered include how to:
- Understand how productive teams work
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Use teambuilding exercises and activities to boost team spirit and understand the importance of
synergy - Unleash individual potential for greater team effectiveness
- Create an enabling environment to facilitate improved team performance
- Harness team diversity for enhanced results
- Define your team
Facilitated by Howard Rohm , the Executive Director of Balanced Scorecard Institute , this course starts with a scorecard management system and works backwards to show how each component contributes to the overall success of the management system. The course discusses the enablers of a successful complete management system, not just the building and implementing components.
The goals of this three-day course are to:
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Learn techniques for building and implementing a balanced scorecard performance management system
- Learn about change management aspects of the balanced scorecard journey
- Learn facilitation and coaching skills necessary to lead team workshops in the development
of a scorecard system - Learn how to do communications strategic planning
- Learn how to overcome the ten most common challenges to success
- Learn how to get your existing scorecard system back on track
Risk management has become increasingly more visible as an integrated component of an effective project management plan. In this course, students learn to identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks. The course also explores risk response control. Through the use of lectures, exercises, a case study, and classroom discussion, that will aid in preparation for the PMP® certification examination.
Influencing and motivating others without formal organizational authority is one of the project manager's biggest leadership challenges. This course provides project managers with the initial step in a life-long process of developing leadership competency. This three-day course focuses on identifying the necessary "soft" competencies required of successful project managers. Participants use self-assessment instruments to identify their preferences for communication, leading, conflict management, and decision-making.
Review the most successful techniques for managing, training, sales promotion, staff meeting, and other corporate events. Learn how to stay within a budget, yet produce events with a creative flair.
Learn How To:
- Select appropriate location
- Determine budgetary requirements
- Use creative flair to ensure that the event is in keeping with company philosophies
- Adapt strategies to suit the type of events like groundbreaking ceremonies
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Negotiate to get the best return on investment (ROI) for your organization
For more information on any of these programmes, please contact our Centre for Training and Development at (868) 662 - 9895 ext. 136/131/307.
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
Website: http://www.gsb.tt Telephone: (868) 662-9894 Fax: (868) 662-1411