Developing high-performance people and organizational excellence through Positive Organizational Scholarship.

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Advantage Michigan

In today's turbulent business environment, organizations that nurture extraordinary performance and take a positive approach to change have the best opportunity to thrive and prosper. Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is the breakthrough leadership concept, developed at Michigan's Ross School of Business, that encourages organizations to embrace and promote change, foster "positive deviance" and provide an environment where extraordinary people can be successful.

A Positive Approach to Leadership Development

Executive Education programs in Leadership draw on POS concepts, providing resources that help equip individuals with capabilities and tools to lead their organizations to excellence.

This pyramid illustrates our Leadership program's "core" curriculum -- a four-program sequence culminating in Leading the Positive Organization, our capstone program. Additional courses expand and enhance the Leadership offerings with more focused, high-level learning.

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Positive Organizational Scholarship

Executive Education programs in Leadership are the applied arm of the University of Michigan's Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) movement--an exciting new organizational studies discipline that was named as one of the "Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas for 2004" by the Harvard Business Review. POS is based on the premise that enabling human excellence in organizations will unlock potential, reveal possibilities, and facilitate a more positive course of human and organizational performance. Rather than focus on maintaining order and problem solving as other approaches do, POS investigates and encourages "positive deviance"--the ways in which organizations and their members flourish and prosper in extraordinary ways.

Access Michigan

Managers can access Leadership concepts and tools through a series of focused executive education programs from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Positive Leadership: Building Extraordinary Personal Leadership Capabilities

Positive Leadership: Creating Spectacular Organizational Success

Becoming an Exceptional Coach

Talent and Retention Management

Management of Managers

Leadership Success for Mid-Level Managers (formerly Management II)

Basic Management for the Newly Appointed Manager

Leadership programs are led by faculty that includes researchers, teachers and consultants from the Ross School of Business, as well as faculty from the University's social sciences, medicine and arts disciplines, and leaders from public and private sector organizations. In addition to teaching, faculty members apply their expertise and current research to guide many of the world's leading companies in developing and implementing new change leadership strategies and techniques.