Dates:
Dates to be Announced
8:30am - 4:30pm

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Location:
TU Campus

Fee: $395
Early bird rate:

$325 per person
 

$295 per person groups of 3 or more from same company

Register for all 3 strategy seminars in advance: $1,995

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Strategic Leadership Series

 Creating Your Competitive Edge:
Becoming a Strategic Thinker

7 contact hours/ .7 CEUs/ 7 CPEs

What skills and talent does it take to be a leader?  Various gurus answer the same question in many ways.   But there is one common thread in all the leadership seminars: strategic thinking.  Strategic thinking is a mindset.  This seminar introduces key concepts and examines proven and against-the-odds leaders: the traits, skills and attitudes that shaped their strategic thinking.  Participants will complete a StrengthFinder Assessment before the class as a basis for in class activities. 

Participants will learn:

• Strategic thinking and awareness concepts

• How to create advantageous conditions for success

• Keys to evolving from a team member to team leader

• Classic and new methods used in strategic thinking

• Use of SWOT Analysis

• Porter’s Five Forces

• Basics of game theory.

*Prior to class, participants must complete the online assessments and read two case studies to prepare for class.

Who Should Attend:
Managers with three to five years experience and high potential employees.

Instructor: 
Chris Pautler is co-founder and managing partner of Liquid Compass, LLC., a company he founded to help companies break through barriers to achieve better bottom line results.  Prior to launching Liquid Compass, LLC, Chris served as regional revenue manager for US Cellular, where he not only had strategic and operational accountability for a $650 million budget, but also played a critical role in overhauling the company’s entire pricing structure. He has also worked for Wiltel and with a number of R & D firms launching new technology ventures. Chris received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tulsa, and earned a master’s of science degree in telecommunications from Oklahoma State University. He is an active member of the downtown Rotary Club of Tulsa and a member of TU Friends of Finance.