UC Davis Executive Program
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The 2012 UC Davis Executive Program will meet Thursdays, March 8-May 10, 2012, from 1:30-8 p.m.
Sharon Huntsman, Director,
UC Davis Executive Program
| Topic | Date |
|---|---|
| Mental Models | March 8 |
| Self Mastery | March 15 |
| Collaborative Negotiation | March 22 |
| Leadership Through Innovation | March 29 |
| Leadership Styles and Efficacy | April 5 |
| Leading Change | April 12 |
| Crisis Leadership | April 19 |
| Case Study | April 26 |
| Innovation: Making Your Idea a Reality | May 3 |
| Ethical Leadership | May 10 |
Mental Models
All leaders have "mental models" that shape their thinking about the organizations they lead and those their competitors lead. These mental models also structure what we see and how we work with people, both within our organization and with customers and clients outside of our company, agency, firm or business. Examine the lenses each of us uses to view the world--and how those mental models impact our roles as leaders.
Neil Bodine, J.D.
Neil Bodine is a partner with the Oakland and Sacramento law firm of Beeson, Tayer & Bodine. He has many years of experience negotiating and mediating successful agreements in dozens of high-profile disputes both in the United States and abroad.
Self Mastery
Research has shown that education, experience and intellectual prowess may not be enough to achieve the highest levels of success. As a leader, your critical resources are your thoughts, your emotions and your time. Mastery of these personal resources enhances not only your business life but your personal life as well. Although IQ is considered immutable, you can learn to understand and control your thoughts and emotions (the skills of emotional intelligence—EQ) and how to better manage your time. This interactive session covers the dimensions of EQ, including: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management, with special emphasis on time management.
Este Geraghty, M.S., M.P.H., M.D.
Este Geraghty is an assistant professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Division of General Medicine at UC Davis. Her interests include spatial epidemiology and geographic information systems (GIS) as methodologies for understanding the interplay between health and the environment. She teaches GIS for Health Applications as well as emotional intelligence, time management and public speaking. Geraghty earned her M.D. from UC Davis and also holds a Masters of Medical Informatics and a Masters in Public Health from UC Davis. She is a graduate of the UC Davis Primary Care Outcomes Research Fellowship, a certified Geographic Information Systems Professional and among the charter class of Certified in Public Health professionals.
Collaborative Negotiation
Today's leaders are expected to engage in a wide range of negotiations—from the formal to the infomal, between individuals and among different groups. Knowing how to obtain good results is critical. Explore the attitudes, approaches and strategies that produce lasting and qualitatively effective agreements. We will consider how best to prepare for discussions, along with ways to productively engage people, create acceptable options and build ownership for implementation.
Susan Carpenter, Ed.D.
Susan Carpenter is a mediator, trainer and writer. She has 35 years of experience developing and managing programs that help groups reach consensus and resolve controversies at the local, state and national levels. Carpenter was the founding director of the Program for Community Problem Solving in Washington, D.C., and currently works with organizations and groups to build capacity for collaborative leadership and conflict resolution.
Leadership Through Innovation
Everyone talks about leading change. But it isn't leading change that catapults organizations forward, it's the ability to innovate. Gain hands-on experience in the cutting-edge discipline of leadership innovation. Begin by analyzing different tools that generate innovation, then investigate methods for building collaborative teams to solve problems and produce valuable results. Discuss who you need on your support team, and explore pragmatic applications, including case studies illustrating effective leadership execution and accountability.
Robert Smith, Ph.D.
Robert Smith is the president of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. For the past three years, the Chronicle of Higher Education has selected SRU as one of the "Best Colleges and Universities to Work For." He has more than 25 years of experience teaching in executive leadership programs at the University of Tennessee, Texas Christian University and the University of Kentucky, and has received two national awards for teaching excellence. He has also served as a consultant for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Leadership Styles and Efficacy
Organizations often fail to reach their potential because senior leaders are limited, sometimes severely so, in their ability to adapt their leadership "styles" to changing situations. Unlike personality, which is linked to genetics and almost impossible to change, leadership styles are entirely learned behaviors. In this session we will explore six different styles of leadership, all of which can be learned, and each important in different ways and in different situations.
Gene Crumley
Gene Crumley was the director for the UC Davis Executive Program for 10 years, from 1998-2008. Currently, he is chair of UC Davis Extension's Business & Leadership department. Prior to coming to UC Davis, Crumley spent 13 years with Habitat for Humanity International. He is a graduate of both UC Davis and the San Francisco Theological Seminary (Presbyterian).
Michael J. Thomas
Michael Thomas is the deputy executive officer of the California Central Coast Water Board, which regulates a wide range of activities, including ecological restoration projects, agricultural and urban land use, wastewater treatment plants, landfills and major pollution cleanup. Thomas oversees the organization’s engineers, geologists and environmental scientists, and leads efforts to create a more performance-based organization. He has also been an instructor with the UC Davis Executive Program for four years—through which he has learned that the greatest challenges are personal, and that true leadership is largely a personal journey.
Leading Change
Each year literally dozens and dozens of books are written about leading organizational change. The amount of theory and advice is often overwhelming, confusing and frequently contradictory. Academic theory is important, even necessary, but not sufficient unless it is linked to experience. In this session, the focus is on applying organizational change theory and learning from the experience of the instructors, who have both led major organizational change efforts, and who share their insights about what works and what doesn't. Their insights may surprise you.
Gene Crumley
Gene Crumley was the director for the UC Davis Executive Program for 10 years, from 1998-2008. Currently, he is chair of UC Davis Extension's Business & Leadership department. Prior to coming to UC Davis, Crumley spent 13 years with Habitat for Humanity International. He is a graduate of both UC Davis and the San Francisco Theological Seminary (Presbyterian).
Michael J. Thomas
Michael Thomas is the deputy executive officer of the California Central Coast Water Board, which regulates a wide range of activities, including ecological restoration projects, agricultural and urban land use, wastewater treatment plants, landfills and major pollution cleanup. Thomas oversees the organization’s engineers, geologists and environmental scientists, and leads efforts to create a more performance-based organization. He has also been an instructor with the UC Davis Executive Program for four years—through which he has learned that the greatest challenges are personal, and that true leadership is largely a personal journey.
Crisis Leadership
Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes calls your office and wants to interview you for a feature about the developing crisis in your organization. By the way, she and her film crew are 10 minutes away. Are you prepared, or are you headed for a crisis within a crisis? Leading effectively in crisis mode is a most difficult and often perilous responsibility. Mistakes are costly and negative risk is higher than ever. A crisis is, by its very nature, difficult to anticipate and hard to recover from. Some crises are predictable while others are not. In this session, you will critique case studies to evaluate crisis leadership in two mythical organizations and be introduced to real-life planning and response models. You will also learn incident command skills/styles for demonstrating leadership in crisis situations--and you'll understand why these styles are successful. When Stahl and her film crew leave your office, they will be impressed by your cool and calm. This will be reflected in the 60 Minutes feature airing that week.
Calvin Handy
Calvin Handy brings 30 years of experience and leadership in community policing, organizational change and emergency management. He served as chief of police and emergency director at UC Davis from 1993-2005 and concurrently as coordinator of police services for the UC system. He also led the system-wide evaluation of UC crime prevention and public safety programs in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. At UC Davis and as liaison to the UC Davis Health System, Handy established professional standards and incident command processes and procedures. Each year UC Davis awards the Calvin E. Handy Leadership Award in his honor, and in 2005 former UC Davis chancellor Larry Vanderhoef conferred upon him the title Chief of Police, Emeritus.
Case Study
In fewer than 10 years, Waste Connections, Inc., went from its initial public offering to becoming the largest publicly-traded company based in the greater Sacramento region. Valued at more than $1 billion, Waste Connections has outdistanced other well-known Sacramento-based companies. So, how did they do it? Join Darrell Chambliss, the organization's COO and executive vice president, as he explores the strategies and disciplines Waste Connections employed that have resulted in their extraordinary success. Learn to incorporate Chambliss' successful techniques into your own leadership methods and style.
Darrell Chambliss
Darrell Chambliss is the executive vice president and Chief Operating Officer of Waste Connections, Inc. His experience in a variety of executive positions has spanned more than two decades, including division manager of U.S.A. Waste Services, Inc., where he was responsible for the operations of 19 companies as well as supervision and integrating acquisitions. He also held various management positions with BFI.
Innovation: Making Your Idea a Reality
Successfully launching meaningful products and services is not easy. Problems range from articulating the idea to validating the technology, and developing marketing and business models. And then, there is the problem of executing the plan that often has "miracle occurs here" buried somewhere in it. In this session, Wil Agatstein, a leader in product development and services around the world, shares successful approaches for launching your ideas, at your organization or beyond.
Wilton Agatstein
Wil Agatstein is visiting assistant professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he leads the International Study Program and teaches business development. He is also the executive director of the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship, where he helps scientists and engineers take their science out of the lab and into the world. Prior to joining UC Davis, he led Intel's innovation, specifically in and for the developing world. He is the father of the Intel-Powered ClassMate PC—the $200 Laptop.
Ethical Leadership
The research is clear: those who manage ethically also manage best. The 2012 Executive Program ends with this critically important seminar. Learn how sound personal ethics create an environment of trust and commitment, and how trust and commitment form the foundation upon which organizations succeed. Explore how individuals' personal ethics affect their professional behavior, and how as a senior manager that behavior shapes the ethical environment in an organization or business. Examine how the ethical environment affects the bottom line—whether the measurement is profitability or productivity.
Miles O'Brien Riley, Ph.D.
Miles Riley has spent his entire professional life in communications and ethics. He earned a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, a doctorate in communications from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in marriage and family counseling from the University of San Francisco. He has given workshops throughout the United States and in 50 countries worldwide. For 30 years, he served as the director of communications for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and has had the longest running radio program in San Francisco Bay Area history, on KSFO—To Whom It May Concern.
