Providing high-impact development for key managers and executives in today’s competitive business environment is one of the most important, yet challenging investments your company can make. We understand that addressing specific executive development needs requires a customized approach. The Rady Center for Executive Development focuses on topics that build upon and refine theory, while integrating techniques and concepts participants have attained from previous learning and experience. Rady delivers a graduate level of executive education to your doorstep.
Rady faculty and staff are committed to a collaborative design process and will help you develop a learning solution that meets your specific needs. Our distinguished faculty are drawn from both within and outside the UC family, giving us access to the best practicum available for executive participants' specific educational needs.
Programs are highly interactive and contain specific content topics to address the issues determined by a needs analysis.
For more information you may contact Assistant Dean Clark Jordan by phone at 858.822.0829 or by email at ccjordan@ucsd.edu
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & STUDENT GROUPS
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The Rady Center for Executive Development offers non-degree and professional training to international businesses and student groups for short or long term visits. Each program can be customized to meet the needs of your group.
EQ: The Art & Science of Emotional Intelligence, one of our most popular open enrollment programs, is now available to conduct as an in-house program for up to 30 participants. Participants will learn the latest research and scientific advances in the area. Participants will also practice techniques used by actors to engage in active listening, connect to an audience, connect to their own emotions and de-stress before a big event.
These open enrollment programs have been specifically tailored to meet the needs of healthcare and life science industries, and can also be offered in a custom format:
Innovation strategy enabled by disruptive technologies
Innovator’s Dilemma: How to sustain growth
Strategies for effective innovation management
Transformational growth in the global information age
12:00-13:00: Lunch and Group Photo13:00-14:30: Marketing & Product Strategy for Innovation
Customer analytics using Big Data
One-to-one marketing
Rise of social media and implications for marketing
14:45-16:15: Building Global Brands
Branding strategies
Building global brands
16:15-17:00: Campus Tour and Visit to UCSD CalIT2 Research Center
Tour of 3D StarCAVE
Day 3
9:00 – 11:30: Nature-Inspired Innovation Opportunities and Strategies
Spotting New Market Opportunities from Nature
Developing New Businesses from Sustainable Technologies
11:30-12:30: Lunch
12:30-13:00: Transportation to San Diego Zoo
13:00 - 16:00: Innovation in Real Action – Site Visit
San Diego Zoo – Lecture on bio-mimicry, creative products, green tech, and sustainability
Guided zoo tour
16:00 -16:30: Transportation back to Rady
Day 4
9:00-12:00: Technology and Commercialization
The startup owner’s manual
Intro to lean startups
Customer Discovery
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-13:30: Company Site Visit to a technology driven company
13:30-16:30: Innovation in Real Action – Company Site Visit & Case Study
Case study about technology-enabled innovation
California’s innovation economy
Day 5
9:00-12:00: Business Model Definition for New Technologies and Opportunities
Business Model Foundations, Innovations, and Strategy
Integrating Product, Service and Licensing Business Models for Market Success
Case Study - HP
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00 – 16:30: Success Through Execution of Strategy and Innovation
Managing risk and execution in growth, innovation, and strategy
Achieving time to market and business success in a competitive environment
Day 6
9:00 -12:00: Global Financial Markets for Growth and Innovation
Global capital markets: What entrepreneurs need to know
Managing risks in the global financial markets
Firms’ growth cycle and sources of finance
Global financial reform, governance, and innovation
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00- 16:30: The Psychology of Decision Making
Strategic decision-making in rapid-moving, highly uncertain environments
Leading towards the future: Entrepreneurial leadership
Loss aversion, managing change, predicting performance
Cultural differences in decision making and leadership
Science of happiness: Would you be happier if you were richer?
18:00-21:00: Closing Dinner
Tour of La Jolla Cove eco-system
Closing dinner
Presentation of Certificates of Completion
EQ: The Art & Science of Emotional Intelligence
About the Program
Technical know-how, subject expertise and IQ only get you so far in business today. Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to manage your emotions and connect with others. This ability is critical in our culturally diverse, dispersed, fast-paced, global workplaces.
This course focuses on both the art and science of emotional intelligence. Participants will learn the latest research and scientific advances in the area. Participants will also practice techniques used by actors to engage in active listening, connect to an audience, connect to their own emotions and de-stress before a big event.
Focus
This interactive course will teach participants:
A framework for understanding and managing your own and others' EQ
A series of tools for building EQ, as well as practice and feedback
How professionals, like actors and psychologists, use communication cues to convey a message and determine others' true feelings
The latest research on the brain, emotions and performance
Impact
Assess your own EQ, the areas of strength and how to leverage those
Take home proven EQ exercises and learning tools that you can use yourself and with your team members, family members and others
Learn how to read people, including the hidden messages in body language
Strengthen your own emotional intelligence
Library List
Leadership
Adaptive Leadership & Influence
Avoiding Legal Pitfalls: What Every Manager Needs to Know About Employment Law
Building a Star-Performing Organization
Building & Leading Virtual Teams
Building Personal Information Networks
Change Management
Coaching Others to Improve Performance
Coalition Building &Alliances
Cognitive Agility: More than Strategic Thinking
Create Change through Partnership – Stakeholder Participation
Creating a culture of Innovation
Engaging Talent on Your Team
Executive Career Transition
EQ: The Art & Science of Emotional Intelligence
Governance &Working with a Board
Harnessing the Creative Power of Teams
Improving Technology Team Management
Individual Action Planning (IAP)
Institutionalizing an Organizational Culture
Introduction to Assessment
Leadership Assessment
Leadership for Growth &Value Creation
Leadership succession planning
Leading in Turbulent Times
Managing Across Generations
Managing Change in Turbulent Times
Managing High Performing Teams
Managing the Gold-Collar Worker
Managing the Unmanageable
Managing the Workforce
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment
Recruiting &Retaining Key employees
Structured Problem Solving for Decision Making
Team Development
Using Values & Vision to Help Build a Company
Vision-Focused Leadership
Marketing
Audience Engagement &Retention in a Multi-Platform Media
