Executive Education
Executive Education brings powerful results to organizations by helping participants bring new value to their work and equipping them with knowledge to share with co-workers and supervisors. Executive Education should help individuals become stronger assets to their organizations, perform at higher levels and increase changes for personal and career success. As your partner in Executive Education, WPI Corporate and Professional Education strives to create and deliver open-enrollment or tailored corporate programs that empower participants with new skills and knowledge they can start using immediately.
Introduction to Management & Communications Program
Through a variety of formats including lecture, role playing, self assessments, group discussions and experiential exercises, you will develop a new set of skills to help you effectively carry out your management responsibilities and improve your own, and your organization’s, productivity. Each segment includes specific tools and techniques that can be put to use immediately upon return to the workplace. WPI’s Introduction to Management & Communications Certificate Program features the latest essential skills necessary for new supervisors and managers to be successful in their organizations.
Advanced Management Program
This program will provide specific tools and techniques to enable managers to quickly implement new skills. Presentations are highly interactive giving participants the opportunity for team experiments, group discussions, role playing, case studies, in-class management demonstrations, and addressing specific areas of students’ concerns. The WPI Advanced Management Program is designed for professional managers who have several years of experience and would like to enhance their skills. The topics were carefully selected to address all functional areas in which managers must be expert.
Executive Leadership Program
The program is designed especially for senior managers who have been targeted to assume significant managerial responsibilities. You will acquire the skills needed for managerial success such as strategy formulation, negotiation, conflict resolution, decision-making, implementing change and managing culture. The WPI Executive Leadership Program shortens the learning curve for new leaders by developing the skills needed to achieve excellence as a cross-functional executive.
You will have the opportunity to experiment with new approaches and to discuss your own professional challenges with your colleagues and faculty facilitators. Our program demonstrates how to maximize people and resources, develop a broader understanding of integration across functions, and make accurate projections to enhance your organization's effectiveness and profitability.
Leadership Institute
The WPI Leadership Institute is designed for a group of exceptionally talented employees that are selected by senior management at their company to participate in the program. Focus is on various aspects of leadership covering both internal issues like team-building and process improvement as well as outward-looking topics such as innovation and best practices.
The Leadership Institute is a week-long residential program in which participants learn new concepts and skills during the day and have discussions and deliberations in the evenings. Program content will be customized to meet the needs and challenges of your organization. Your company issues and concerns can be confidentially discussed. Participants will finish the program armed with skills and techniques that can be immediately applied in the workplace.
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