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Executive Program for Women Leaders

2008 Dates: May 12- 16
Application Deadline: Still accepting applications
Tuition: $8,700 USD

 

In facing the challenges of managing their careers to maximize professional and personal goals, women often struggle with how to develop their own leadership styles and effectively enhance their power and status within an organization. To reach the highest levels of management, it is essential for women to recognize, understand, and transform common business challenges into career-building opportunities.

Through a rigorous combination of lectures, interactive exercises and leadership diagnostics, this unique forum allows women executives to explore frameworks and tactics to achieve their goals in dynamic work environments.

Content Overview

Taught by the world’s leading professors in business, the Executive Program for Women Leaders confronts the critical areas of negotiation, team effectiveness, power and relationships, social networks and influence, and communication, and empowers participants with the latest techniques to navigate these complex management issues.

Key Takeaways

  • Knowledge of the various dynamics involved in successful negotiation and the skills to develop expertise as a negotiator
  • Ability to optimize team effectiveness through analyzing team composition, leveraging information sharing, and resolving leadership issues
  • Skills to interpret the subtle messages of power, identify and understand management styles and their organizational impact, and manage meetings involving many individuals with different goals and agendas.
  • A deeper understanding of social networks and techniques to influence individuals and groups

 

Programs, dates, fees, and faculty are subject to change.


SU Seal Luz Deras
Associate Director, Programs
Office of Executive Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Phone: 650.724.6301
Toll Free: 866.542.2205 (US and Canada)
Fax: 650.723.3950
Email: deras_luz@gsb.stanford.edu