Rady School: Exec Leading in Turbulent Times

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About the Program

Challenges in the current business environment have resulted in many organizations managing the downturn without consideration of the upturn. In difficult times, company leaders must move quickly and maintain focus. The most successful companies can balance challenges while also preparing their organization for eventual upturn.

This course reviews key tools for strategy development, decision making, organizational alignment, communication and execution. It is a must for any leader managing during the worst recession in our lifetime.

Focus

This course teaches business leaders to drive revenue and reduce costs through:

Improving processes and systems
Team execution
Maintaining customer satisfaction

Maintaining quality
Managing the workforce
New product/service development

Details

Tues., Dec. 15, 2009

$295

Course runs from 7:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. Registration fee includes course materials, campus parking and continental breakfast.

Participants

This course is appropriate for any executive or manager in a leadership role in today’s business environment.

Impact

Participants in this course will gain valuable leadership tools , including:

Ladder of Inference — A tool to improve your process for considering alternatives, setting priorities and having more thorough dialogue.
Cause/Effect — A “Way of Thinking Model” using root cause analysis and problem solving.
Decision Framing — A front-end process that reduces mistakes and difficulties in setting goals and objectives and in execution.

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Instructor

Dr. Ron Rembisz has worked for the past 25 years as a full-time consultant to corporate management. His primary professional focus has been on organizational, team and leadership effectiveness. Ron has had a varied career with time spent in management as executive director of a large not-for-profit organization, the Behavioral Sciences Institute (BSI), in Carmel, California; as senior consultant with a U.S.-based consulting firm, RHR International; as Principal of Rembisz & Associates; and as co-founder of Performance Systems International (PSi, Limited).

He has worked with large global, Fortune 100 companies, as well as with many entrepreneurial and startup organizations in a variety of industries. Dr. Rembisz attended undergraduate school at Seton Hall University, graduating with a bachelor’s of arts in psychology. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University in 1977. He is a licensed psychologist in California and Illinois. He has worked and traveled widely and lived in Spain for several years. He now lives in Coronado, California.

Leland Sandler is currently the executive director of organizational srategy for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He has been with Amylin for over four years. He previously had his own pharma/medical device consulting business, The Sandler Group, LLC. The Sandler Group was an international consulting group focused on leadership, organizational and team execution and effectiveness, and strategic planning. Clients included Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences, Agouron Pharmaceuticals (a division of Pfizer), Roche and Baxter Healthcare.

In Europe he has worked with Roche Pharmaceuticals, Groupe Danone and Alstom Transport. Leland attended the University of California, Berkeley, and has an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University (organizational effectiveness) and an M.A. in education technology (corporate learning) from San Francisco State University.