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The Financial Times recently ranked the Ross School of Business 10th globally for executive education. This new ranking puts Ross among the top ten in the world for open-enrollment education programs for executives looking to gain knowledge and skills for career advancement and effectiveness.
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Leaders today are seeking proven techniques to maximize profitability, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement. In "Virtuousness and Performance," professor Kim Cameron outlines specific ways leaders and organizations can realize better results through clear and direct techniques for invoking positive leadership. This white paper is packed with ready-to-implement ideas to improve your bottom line.
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"Not too dissimilar from high-potentials who fixate on the 'corner office,' many climbers are completely gripped by the idea of 'Everest' and have an irrational dream about what it means to summit the mountain." Management professor Scott DeRue blogs about the similarities between leading teams on Everest and leading teams in high-risk business situations. Read his blog on the Harvard Business Review Blog Network to see five common leadership lessons to know in either environment.
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"Chances are, innovation doesn't work where you work — or only works some of the time, mostly in spite of your organization's system and processes. Why?" Faculty member Jeff DeGraff tells CNN Money the five truths about innovation most of us get wrong and how to get it right. Read his piece on CNN Money to find out more about these truths.
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Up-and-coming executives need space and time to develop their leadership skills. But the day-to-day demands of work can get in the way. Gretchen Spreitzer, professor of management and organizations, brings her expertise in leading change to the Ross Executive Education Emerging Leaders Program. In this Q&A, Spreitzer talks about the need to provide emerging leaders with a place to learn by doing and with guidance from top faculty experts along the way.
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"I try to be in and create environments that bring out the best in people." In this profile in the Financial Times, faculty member Paula Caproni shares advice on how to be a better leader and how to navigate the business environment.
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Decision-making by intuition might sound like a bad thing, but Ray Reilly, faculty director of Business Acumen for High-Potential Executives, shows that taking the time to develop a regular practice of thinking about problems, asking the right questions, and considering the answers leads to highly-effective and informed process for using intuition to make decisions.
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Through a new partnership between Ross Executive Education and the University of Michigan Medical School, all the new medical students will receive training that goes beyond anatomy, physiology and other traditional subjects. They will learn how to work with others to lead change, helping set them on a course that will continue through their careers. U-M is the first medical school to give all its students this kind of training, which will prepare them to be the impactful change agents that American health care will need in the coming decades.
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The Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business is the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Management's research impact award, recognizing the center's impact on management practice in the real world. The research of POS forms the basis of Michigan Ross's Executive Education's Positive Leadership program.
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Ross hosted this year's University Consortium for Executive Education workshop as it explored how social media will change the way business leaders access education to further their skills in today's world. The academically-based workshop brought together more than 70 representatives from more than 90 institutions around the globe.
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Melanie Barnett, MBA '91, chief executive education officer at Ross, was appointed as chair of the International University Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON). UNICON is the leading organization advancing academically-based executive education around the world.
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Negotiation. The word evokes an image of adversaries at a table scheming to outwit one another. Delete those images, say Michigan Ross professors Shirli Kopelman and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks. Their research and teaching experience show specific techniques can build swift-trust and highly-productive, sustainable relationships in any negotiation setting, whether it's a high-stakes global deal or an everyday internal matter. Oh, and that negotiating table? Don't expect to find one. Negotiating takes place everywhere, they say. In this Q&A, they share their insight for establishing negotiating leadership. Learn more about their program Negotiating for Positive Results.
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"Understanding your customer requires a break from the functional mind-set," says Michigan Ross faculty member John Branch. To truly bring about value, he says, leaders need to ask probing questions exploring the way consumers act. In this Q&A, Branch illuminates how to go beyond functional thinking in solving business challenges. He shares his expertise with leaders in Business Acumen for High-Potential Executives and the Michigan Ross Executive Program.
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Michigan Ross faculty members Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank and RBL Group colleagues define what it means to be an effective HR professional through the recently-released Human Resource Competency Survey, the largest global study ever of human resource professionals. The study, using data from more than 20,000 respondents around the world, found that HR managers play an integral role in determining the success of a company's performance.
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Kim Cameron, the William Russell Kelly Professor of Management and Organizations, recently was named associate dean of Ross Executive Education. Cameron brings more than 20 years’ experience teaching and administering Ross Executive Education programs. Over the next year, Ross Executive Education will continue to expand its portfolio of solutions for executive development, introducing new open-enrollment programs, a redesigned Ross Executive Program, and enhanced global offerings.
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The term "born leader" often is invoked during times of change and disruption when leadership is at a premium. But are leaders born fully formed or are they developed through experience? At Ross Executive Education, our faculty experts believe leadership can be taught, but it requires more than lectures and books. Professors who teach in our leadership suite have designed a series of action-based programs that immerse participants in high-stakes scenarios, simulations, and challenges that pull them from their comfort zones and expand their leadership capacity for great results.
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Melanie Barnett brings expert perspective to international consortium of executive education providers. UNICON is the leading organization advancing academically-based executive education around the world. Its members include more than 90 providers of executive education representing the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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There's a proven science to leading high-performing teams. So why do so many leaders simply wing it or rely on charisma? That's a question faculty member Paula Caproni often ponders, especially in the wake of catastrophes like the 2008 financial crisis and the 2010 BP oil spill. Her new Ross Executive Education program, Leading Teams: Creating a Culture of High Performance, illuminates best and worst team practices and offers strategies to foster an inspiring work environment. Next offered Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, the program delivers tools that can be applied to any team: high-performing, low-performing, or even virtual.
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Executives at TVS Logistics Services in Chennai, India, recently embarked on a three-year, general management program conducted onsite by Ross School faculty. The action-based program consists of three parts and will roll out in a series of modules every three months: 1) General Management Essentials; 2) Core and Domain Skills; and 3) Individual Professional Development. "The key intention for this (partnership with Ross) is to build capability internally to cater to the future leadership requirements of TVS, which has seen phenomenal growth in recent times," says R. Dinesh, the organization's managing director.
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Change often is a difficult, even painful, process. But a group of award-winning Ross faculty in the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) says it doesn’t have to be that way. They are helping leaders unlock their highest potential to drive innovation and change. In this video, POS pioneers Bob Quinn, Gretchen Spreitzer, and Lynn Perry Wooten explain the philosophy behind their groundbreaking research and take you inside the classroom for a look at Positive Leadership: Leading Positive Change. The program is next offered by Ross Executive Education Dec. 4-9. The professors recently received the Joanne Martin Trailblazer Award from the Academy of Management.
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