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WISE Executive Leadership Institute at Tuck: Team building exercise

A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used in these sessions, including presentation of frameworks, concepts and best practices; facilitated large group discussions; experiential learning; small group application exercises and individual self-assessment instruments. The faculty-led sessions will be complemented by guest speakers and panelists on selected topics as well as opportunities for reflection, networking and physical exercise.

Leader in Action: Getting Results with Others    Action Learning Associates

• Understand your TypeCoach Verifier personality inventory results and the relationship of those results to your leadership style relative to leading change
• Develop a visceral, behavioral understanding to complement intellectual understanding of leadership and teamwork
• Practice getting results working in teams though a series of performance challenges

Difficult Conversations     Lisa Dicker

• Understand why some of our most important conversations are so hard and the concepts of the internal voice, the structure of difficult conversations and the role of emotions and identity
• Examine the common mistakes we all make
• Develop tools to prepare for and engage in difficult conversations more effectively

The First Tenet of Leadership    Ella Bell Smith

• Understanding the source of your true leadership muscle
• Enhancing your leadership narrative
• Creating stronger followership
• Understanding your approach to leadership from multiple angles

Negotiations    Lisa Dicker

• Reflect on your negotiation style — strengths and areas for improvement
• Learn a vocabulary and structure for setting goals, preparing, engaging and reviewing key negotiations
• Practice applying those concepts in experiential exercises and role plays
• Get expert coaching on your live negotiation challenges

Strategic Leadership: Key Capabilities of Strategic Leaders    Sydney Finkelstein

• Explore what it takes to create a strategic mindset and the essentials of successful strategies
• Identify the major challenges your organization faces now and over the next three years
• Reflect on what you are doing to meet these challenges
• Understand how to make knowledgeable strategic choices so action can be taken

Information Value of Primary Financial Statements    Phillip Stocken

• Develop skills to interpret and confidently use financial statement information for business decision-making
• Discuss the purpose of the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows
• Examine and understand the accounting concepts for revenue and expense recognition

Key Indicators of Profitability for Strategy    Phillip Stocken

• Learn to analyze and interpret metrics
• Understand how to align business decisions with strategy using key performance indicators
• Create a framework for identifying opportunities for enhancing the return to shareholders or the organization

Managing Your Organization's Liquidity and Working Capital     Phillip Stocken

• Analyze short-term liquidity risk
• Discuss ways to effectively manage your organization's working capital

Strategic Networking    Stacy Blake-Beard

• Identify your "developmental opportunities" in relation to your network
• Learn how to enhance your networks
• Learn how a strategically developed network benefits you and your organization

Managing Your Visibility    Stacy Blake-Beard

• Reflect on your own social identities and how the resulting group memberships inform your behavior, feelings and attitudes generally and in specific settings
• Learn about implicit assumptions you may be making about people — and people may be making about you
• Identify action steps to utilize visibility strategies to meet leadership goals

*Subject to change. Session content will be refined based on identified participant needs and experience.