Learning outcomes
Designed to embody Thunderbird’s unique DNA – where global management hard skills are taught in the context of cultural nuance – the Thunderbird Global Executive Program provides unlimited opportunities to expand your global awareness and harness your global potential while exploring growth-opportunity countries around the world.
Invaluable learning outcomes
- Insight into global leadership as it relates to regional nuance
- Confidence to operate more effectively in a complex, global environment
- Sharpened awareness of regional business practices and cultural implications
- Knowledge of trends and developments in the global economy and key regions relevant to strategic decision-making
- A deepened understanding of global, multilateral institutions that affect financial and political risks
- An enhanced Global Mindset and a broader international perspective
- Awareness of tools designed to identify new opportunities for growth and ways to capitalize on them
- The ability to lead, motivate, communicate and manage conflicts across cultures
- Insight into your personal leadership style, allowing you to formulate a leadership development plan for the future
- Immediately applicable leadership skills and techniques
- The capacity to develop a blueprint to impact your organization’s strategic global direction
Global success requires a Global Mindset
During Thunderbird’s more than 65 years on the leading edge of international management education, we have discovered that nothing plays a greater role in global success than a well-developed, nimble Global Mindset.
Defined as a collection of behavioral, emotional and cognitive characteristics that drive an individual’s interaction with, understanding of and appreciation for other cultures, your Global Mindset can predict your propensity for success in today’s multi-cultural business environment. With the Thunderbird Global Executive Program, it can also be developed, honed and expanded for optimum global success.
This program broadens your Global Mindset through
- Self-assessment
- Instruction
- Hands-on learning opportunities
Using Thunderbird’s Global Mindset tools and philosophy as the foundation for the program, each module and learning experience in the program focuses on enhancing your individual Global Mindset in the following areas:
Social capital
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Psychological capital
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Intellectual capital
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- Enhanced ability to manage in cross-cultural scenarios, with a sensitized new understanding of behavioral differences among cultures
- Feeling less cultural distance between self and individuals with varying cultural backgrounds
- Further developed and expanded global network
- Increased ability to communicate, negotiate, motivate/lead and manage cross-cultural conflict
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- More open-minded leadership approach
- Ability to listen, learn and lead better
- Increased passion for diversity
- Change of interest in extra-curricular activities to those that embrace diversity
- Greater confidence in cross-cultural situations
- Increased assertiveness in global negotiation situations
- Increased sensitivity to cultural differences
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- Enhanced managerial language
- Ability to comprehend market intricacies and potential risk factors in global regions
- Understanding of consumer behavior/profiles in module nations
- Insight into global political, economic and cultural issues related to business
- Deeper understanding of global, multilateral systems
- Broadened understanding of global strategy
- Heightened speed of decision-making, particularly in cross-cultural scenarios
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Contact Us Today
Charlotte Cole
Managing Director, Executive Education Programs
charlotte.cole@thunderbird.edu
Tel: 1-602-978-7353
Fax: 1-602-439-4851
Toll-free within the U.S.
Tel: (800) 457-6954
Fax: (800) 457-6982
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1 Global Place
Glendale, AZ 85306 |
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