One of the many great things about the faculty we work with is that they are very dynamic individuals as well as teachers with a range of interests. They are passionate about their subject areas; they have deep experience in their respective fields, and they respect the knowledge and experience their students bring to the classroom.
Based on our knowledge of the field and many conversations with faculty member Paula Caproni, Professor Caproni is building a module around power and sustainable, ethical influence. Key learning questions and subtopics include:
- What is ethical, sustainable power and influence?
- What are the characteristics of highly influential people?
- What are the strategies for developing sustainable, ethical power and influence?
- Avoiding dysfunctional politics
- Developing your personal action plan for enhancing your influence
Dave Owens, the professor we’ve identified to teach about innovation, has offered an alternate topic in his area of expertise — Product/experience development: concepts and application. This module focuses on how to take an idea for a product, program, presentation or the like and use experiments to learn more and build support. Key learning questions and subtopics include:
- How do you take a new idea and experiment it forward to build buy-in and support from the right people at the right time?
- How do you see the needs and make sure the idea matches the needs identified?
- Managing change at different levels.
- What you need to know to move new ideas forward?
- Defining process to create the buy-in required.
It about using process to build on new ideas, from a bit of a different perspective.
Greg Reilly, our finance faculty member, believes that finance is more than numbers. It provides a connective architecture for an organization. It helps to quantify long and short term strategy and operations. Finance writ large is about understanding, capturing and communicating value.
Professor Reilly is designing a day focusing on these key questions and subtopics:
- If value creation is THE goal of all organizations, how can financial management help quantify and compare aspects of value creation for stakeholders?
- What role does finance play in key organizational decisions? How does timing and approach affect a team’s or an organization’s ability to make decisions?
- How do individual leadership styles affect the roles and goals of people as they contribute to and take from the financial system?
- Everyone has varied degrees of understanding and expertise in finance. In thinking through career paths, what additional learning would be beneficial?
Let us know what you think. Are these topics that feel valuable now and into the future? What are you struggling with in your careers right now that relate to any or all of these topics?
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