Professional
Certificate in Core Management and Leadership
Don’t just survive. Thrive!
Welcome to our newest leadership and management initiative. Designed and developed to help
companies and individuals in our community thrive, the Professional Certificate in Core
Management and Leadership will provide critical learning experiences that will take your
management and leadership skills to the next level.
This three-day intensive and cost-effective
program will meet the needs of:
Managers and leaders from all industries with at least five years of management experience,
who want to succeed in today’s tough business environment, and
Companies and organizations that want to raise the bar on their leadership and management
capabilities.
For more information, please contact Kristen Cacka at (619) 594-0787.
For more information about bringing this program to your organization call us at (619) 594-7076
SDSU Research Foundation Program
Holly Green is the CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. based in San Diego, California. She has over 20 years of executive level and operations experience in FORTUNE 100, entrepreneurial, and management consulting organizations.
Fall 2009 Courses
Core Management and Leadership
This intensive three-day program will be followed by ongoing support, including a structured email series providing tools and templates you can continue to use on the job and structured follow up with you and your direct manager should you choose.
Topics include:
Communicating More Effectively
Setting the Stage for Winning
Driving Focus: Getting it Right from the Start
Teaming to Win
Innovating Every Day
Sustaining Alignment
Managing Change
Peer Learning Laboratories and Action Planning
Instructor: Holly Green is the CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. based in San Diego, California. She has over 20 years of executive level and operations experience in FORTUNE 100, entrepreneurial, and management consulting organizations.
Green's background stretches across strategic planning, organization design and development, process improvement, leadership assessment and development, and the integration and alignment of comprehensive business strategies. She has been responsible for successfully designing and building critical infrastructures in several organizations and has worked as both an internal and external resource for multinational corporations including: The Coca-Cola Company, AT&T, Dell Computer, Bass Hotels & Resorts, QUALCOMM, Expedia, Inc., RealNetworks, Inc. Microsoft and Google. She was previously president of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global consulting and training organization, and the biotech firm LumMed, Inc.
Noncredit Schedule No. 09FA 99310 PA Dates:
Fridays, Oct. 23-Nov. 6, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Location: SDSU Extended Studies/Gateway Centers, corner of Campanile Drive and Hardy Avenue. Fee:
$495* | Preferred Partner Fee: $495*
*Reduced fee for 2009-2010 only
Schedule Number 09FA 99310 PA is Closed
Session Topics
Communicating More Effectively
Use assessment instruments to gain clarity about how you prefer to communicate and lead
– a starting point for exercises that will help you develop greater flexibility in how you
work with and manage others.
Setting the Stage for Winning
Draft a strategic plan for your team or organization. Learn how to identify strategic goals
and create action items that build accountability and an execution mindset.
Driving Focus: Getting it Right from the Start
Learn to appropriately give direction and guide others in goal setting to stay aligned and
focused. Drill down further on how to sustain a culture of high performance in a workplace
that now includes four generations.
Teaming to Win
Learn the skills and abilities a team leader must master, and various approaches for building
and sustaining highperformance teams.
Innovating Every Day
Build innovation into your daily mindset by learning specific tools for actively staging
your field of vision, recognizing new connections, incorporating new thinking and new options,
and dealing with ongoing challenges in novel ways.
Sustaining Alignment
Learn the coaching skills you need to provide effective ongoing feedback, develop a culture
of higher performance throughout your organization, and recognize and avoid typical traps
for managers today.
Managing Change
Learn how to realign, re-engage, and re-energize employees in a world of constant change,
and practice an assessment for determining the resiliency of an organization or team.
Peer Learning Laboratories and Action Planning
Ongoing working sessions, including meeting with your peers to share insights and provide
feedback, will help you translate what you learn into action steps you can implement on
the job.
Last update
October 13, 2009
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Professional
Certificate in Core Management and Leadership
Core Management and Leadership