Dates &Times:
Sat. September 13, 2008

9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Mon. September 15 - December 8, 2008

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
 Location:
TU Campus

Fee:*
$1,895 per person

Early online registration 14 days before the start of the program: $1,595 per person

$1,395 per person for four or more from the same company

*subject to change for future programs

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A TU Mini-MBA

Course Schedule

First class is held on a Saturday and all other classes are held on Monday nights.

Sept. 13: The Bottom Line and the Language of Business

No matter where you are in the company—the bottom line is what it’s all about. The basics of finance and accounting are musts for every manager. This six-hour kick-off event puts you in the seat to buy, grow and make money in your company. Along the way—you’ll learn financial terminology, create your own financial statements, gain understanding of the link between strategic decisions and financial performance, and deal with other bottom line issues. Paradigm Learning’s Zodiak Financial Strategies Simulation.

Sept. 15: Financial Statements: Painting a Business by Numbers

Understanding Financial Statements takes a little patience, a little focus, and several helpful hints along the way.   In this class we will learn what financial statements are, why we have them, and what to do with them.  Learning to appreciate the value of financial statements is not in the numbers themselves, but the knowledge derived from them through comparisons and ratios.

Sept. 22: Creating a Successful Strategic Plan

"Strategy." Perhaps one of the most overused words in business vocabulary today. What exactly is a strategy? What process can be used to create a successful strategy? From which examples of successful and unsuccessful strategies can we learn? Discuss and analyze examples of public and private sector strategies. Leave with a clear understanding of strategy, systems used to create and measure strategy, and practical applications.

Sept. 29: Employment Law—What Every Manager Needs to Know

Litigation. New rules for the workplace emerge every day. Look at the hottest legal topics in an interactive session on recruiting, interviewing and hiring (not just for HR any more!); distinguishing employees from independent contractors; plus race and color discrimination. Don’t forget gender, religion, national origin, age, and disability discrimination; employee testing, and evaluation. Court is in session—get ready to argue your side.

Oct. 6: Managerial Decision-Making: The Human Factor

So you want to go global with your latest product. From beer and burgers to cars, the grass may look greener on the other side of the world, but how do you identify the “realistic” opportunities? What do you need to know about foreign business culture, the world economy and fluctuating currency rates? Examine the risks and rewards of global business before you make the leap into other markets.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a “must do” in today’s business environment. It’s always cheaper to keep a good customer than to develop a new one, but how do we maintain our best customers? Take a look at the issues involved in forming and growing partnerships. Begin with shaping perceptions drive behavior. Win a bond with the customer that leads to repeat business.

Oct. 27: A World of Change

Change happens.  Today’s fast-paced, fiercely competitive environments demand corporate agility and punish those who try to maintain the status quo.  Yet, organizational change efforts are resisted and often fail.  In this session, we accept that change is a fact of organizational life and get down to the practical application.  Using case studies, you will explore ways to create urgency for change, learn how to analyze and overcome resistance, study effective methods for communicating the need for change, and find out how to get your organization moving in the right direction…and how to keep the momentum going.

Nov. 3: Managing Innovation & Technology

Be the follower in a new market. Cannibalize your own products or services. Don’t listen to your best customers. This can’t be a prescription for value creation—but it is! Using case studies, explore surprising methods for successfully managing innovation and technology. Topics include marketplace convergence versus upheaval, disruptive and sustaining technologies and a tool for identifying your market enemies.

Nov. 10: Power & Conflict: The Positive Perspective  

Organizations are discovering that the terms power and conflict are not necessarily negative. Discover the five types of power and five types of conflict, determine your styles and how to use your styles more effectively. Positive conflict is necessary for organizations to change—analyze their effectiveness. Take a look at the power and conflict situations faced by Rudy Giuliani pre and post 9-11.

Nov. 17: The Language of Contracts

From the time our founders gave Constitutional protection to our right to contract, we have taken contractual terminology, interpretation and legal enforceability to the max! Bilateral or unilateral, executed or executory, void, voidable, valid or unenforceable: what’s the difference and why does it matter? This session takes you from terminology through interpretation and enforceability, with some interactive contract drafting and negotiating along the way.

Nov. 24: Effective Leadership & Communication

Examine the thinking of some of the most respected leadership gurus. Look at how executives learn the leadership skills to succeed in today’s competitive environment, and how you can become a leader who provides support, positive feedback and emphasizes sharing over authority. Leave with a model and practical tips to become leaders of an empowered workforce that works as a team to solve problems, increase productivity, and improve results.

Dec. 1: Ethics at Work

Ever engaged in an ethical debate with someone and wondered, “How can he/she think like that?” An interactive session on what researchers have termed different “ethical styles,” and why individuals make the choices they do. Determine your ethical style and develop skills for implementing ethics when confronted by real-world ethical dilemmas. Everyone talks about ethics; now what do you do about it?

Dec. 8: Dialogue with a CEO

Keith Bailey, retired Williams Co. CEO, will share what C-level leaders want and expect from their employees and leadership team. From leadership, management, quality, teamwork, dialogue with the former leader of one of Tulsa’s key companies. Does the CEO want to hear from you? And what is your role and accountability to upper management. Participate in this unique dialogue.

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