The Gallup MBA/MA in Executive Leadership program provides leaders with a unique approach to graduate education and leadership development. This program is delivered through a combination of on-site intensive learning sessions, online learning, and executive performance coaching. The program is delivered by top faculty from the University of Nebraska, Gallup University, and other universities around the world. Guest lecturers, authors of bestselling books, and program alumni will be involved throughout the program to further enhance the learning experience.
Leadership Foundations
The Leadership Foundations module is designed to equip leaders with the necessary tools to create and lead a world-class team that can affect substantial and measurable business impact. In this intense, strengths-based educational environment, participants develop crucial skills for effective leadership. The first step is to know and understand yourself as a leader, which is the foundation of what we call "authentic leadership development." A key element of this module will be geared toward helping each participant learn about his or her talents and how to cultivate them.
However, leadership is not just about leading your own life but also about leading others. Each participant will learn how to identify and develop the talents of his or her team members. The goal is to create a healthy team environment that enables each person to contribute his or her talents, overcome challenges, and generate valuable solutions that contribute to the organization's goals and vision for the future.
Leadership Operations
During the Leadership Operations course block, participants will explore the practice of "lean thinking" and how it has been used successfully by companies such as Toyota. Famous for its lean production philosophies and methods, Toyota has watched lean thinking migrate to all aspects of business, including knowledge work. Lean thinking differs significantly from corporate improvement programs, which can be over-simplified, rule-centered, and too prescriptive to be effective. The goal of lean thinking is to create organizational value through the human-centered principles of:
Lean thinking is often seen as synonymous with manufacturing process improvement and cost-cutting activities. However, the real power of lean thinking is that it conveys a higher viewpoint that empowers workers to become independent goal seekers -- leveraging deeper problem-solving skills and critical thinking capabilities -- in service of the real customers' needs.
The goal of this module is to develop innovative leaders who are capable of eliminating organizational inefficiencies, generating new business, and motivating employees toward higher productivity. Participants will learn how to create lean operations that encourage activities that add value while driving organic growth through today's best marketing practices. They will learn how to build an effective organizational structure tailored to their business's needs. Finally, participants will anlyze reward systems to determine the best ways to motivate employees and maximize potential while keeping organizational costs down.
Leadership Strategy
The Leadership Strategy module takes place in a location outside the United States, such as Beijing, China. This module teaches individuals how to analyze their organization, market from a global perspective, and create a strategy to win additional market share. In the first course, students complete a reflective diary on how they have developed a more global mindset toward business after spending time abroad and apply what they have learned to assessing the level of global mindset in their organization. The second course requires students to conduct an analysis of a local company that enables the students to become more familiar with doing business in that culture. The third course requires students to do an assessment of global cultural differences that affect business operations and performance.
Throughout these courses, small teams of participants conduct an extensive organizational analysis of their business. This analysis requires the student to assess their organization as if they were a competitor. In the past, student teams have conducted an extensive analysis of their own organization, after which they have presented their results for critique to their top management team. Rather than have just the professor evaluate the quality of their work, the students can be evaluated by their own top management in terms of their analysis and recommendations, which are meant to be considered and, in many cases, adopted by top management.
Additional Courses
In addition to the courses listed above, courses in accounting, finance, and economics round out the curriculum.
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