2017 COMPREHENSIVE
Executive
Development Programme High-calibre executives with strategic management responsibilities are invited to enrol for this programme to maximise future opportunities for themselves and their organisations.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
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The flagship Executive Development Programme (EDP) equips participants with integrated strategic management and leadership skills that enable them to align their business practices to compete more successfully in a highly competitive global environment. The programme includes personal career coaching, as well as an optional international study tour in the following year.
Programme content During the programme, you will learn from the expertise of highly successful academics and the personal experiences of top business leaders. This will equip you to merge these insights into your own leadership behaviours and management styles. You will also be equipped to integrate executive coaching into your organisational context and to apply ethical reasoning to strategic thinking about the role of business in society.
A learning process facilitator (LPF) is present for the duration of the programme to serve as a learning coach with respect to application, analysis and synthesis of knowledge. This is central to the action learning process. Participants will be required to complete assignments and a group business-driven action learning (BDAL) project.
The programme covers the following subject areas:
Managing digital strategies
Business and sustainability
Career mapping
Justifying the changing role of technology in business and knowing how to plan for this change at a strategic level; comparing the alignment between information systems and business strategies
Understanding suitable frameworks and tools relating to sustainability; implementing such frameworks strategically in an organisation
Identifying and evaluating appropriate career management frameworks in order to pursue appropriate personal career management strategies; utilising structured reflection as a decisionmaking tool
Marketing trends in the new economy
Effective negotiation strategies
Understanding the role and contribution of marketing as a concept within the strategic management process; integrating ethical reasoning into strategic marketing decisions
Undertaking integrated, valueenhancing, relationship building and principled negotiations; applying universal principles of persuasion to get parties to agree to mutually beneficial agreements
EDP
Strategic management Formulating, integrating and applying strategy; relating key strategic concepts to a particular business and applying them.
Evaluating coaching frameworks and models underpinning professional coaching practice; developing and appraising an executive coaching strategy to address identified needs
Strategic leadership Evaluating new challenges facing leaders; evaluating own leadership roles in the context of strategic leadership; motivating the role of women in leadership
Executive coaching and personal mastery
Systems thinking Evaluating systems; justifying cognitive strategies and applying the tenets of systems thinking; appraising system evolution; considering emergent futures and predicting possible future states of a system
Financial strategies Global economic trends Comparing the meaning of economics and economic systems and explaining how economics influence all stakeholders in society
Appraising the drivers of business success and calculating arange of metrics to measure this; defending and applying the drivers of costs and stakeholder value; evaluating the component costs of capital and their application to capital investment decisions
Facilitators The programme is facilitated by world-class local and international faculty and guest speakers. Anticipated faculty include:
Mr Martin Butler (MBA).
Areas of expertise: information systems management; innovative management; project management; systems thinking
Dr Sarah Riordan (PhD).
Areas of expertise: career psychology; career management; human capital management; organisational development; work and gender
Dr Lloyd Chapman (PhD in
Executive Coaching).
Areas of expertise: individual and team executive coaching; work-based learning; stress management
Prof Piet Naudé (Doctor Theologia).
Ms Sarah Babb (PDM; MBA).
Prof Andre Roux (PhD in Economics).
Areas of expertise: self-leadership; personal mastery; transforming leadership culture; leading change; leading for the future
Prof Dave Flynn (MBA).
Areas of expertise: financial management; financial accounting; portfolio management and investments
Areas of expertise: ethics related to politics, economics and business
Areas of expertise: economics; futures thinking; environmental scanning; defence economics
Prof Anton van Niekerk is a
professor of Philosophy.
Areas of expertise: philosophy of the human sciences; ethics
Prof David Venter (master’s degree in Psychology).
is a registered psychologist. Areas of expertise: negotiation; conflict dispute resolution
Dr Morne Mostert (PhD).
Areas of expertise: systems thinking; strategic thinking; futures thinking
Mr Martin Neethling (MBA).
Area of expertise: strategic marketing
Dr Mélani Prinsloo (PhD).
Areas of expertise: marketing; customer relationship management; business development
2017
When & Where
Enquiries Marié van Wyk Tel: +27 (0)21 918 4488 Email:
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CAPE TOWN 1 Block 1: 8 – 19 May Block 2: 14 – 25 August
CAPE TOWN 2
Fees
Block 1: 19 - 30 June Block 2: 11 – 22 September Total duration
9 months
Time out of the office
20 days
Study blocks (SB)
2 SB of 10 days each (full-time; face-to-face)
Individual assignments
5
Group project*
1
NQF alignment
8
Certificate ceremony
Yes
* Group project runs throughout the duration of the programme
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Certificate of Competence On successful completion of the programme (which requires attendance of all classroom-based study blocks as well as passing of all assignments), you will receive a certificate of competence from Stellenbosch University. On completion of the programme, participants become USB-ED alumni.
R98 800 (incl VAT)
Fees include programme material, lunch and refreshments, and are payable before the commencement of the programme. A cancellation fee of 10% will be payable for cancelling fewer than 14 days prior to the commencement of the programme. Please note that programme fees, faculty and dates are subject to change
NQF Alignment
Level 8
The scope and presentation of this programme are aligned with the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level 8.
Admission Requirements No formal tertiary qualifications are required. Candidates must have relevant experience and must have held a senior or executive management position for at least two years. Sound general knowledge or experience of functional management (marketing, finance, human resources, etc.) is a further entry-level requirement for admission. Admission is subject to a selection process, which may include a personal interview.
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INSPIRING THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ACROSS AFRICA At USB Executive Development (USB-ED) you will join a proudly African company that shares in the rich heritage and academic rigour of Stellenbosch University, yet offers the entrepreneurial culture of business. USB-ED was established as the designated public executive education provider within the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) in 2001. The company’s footprint has since expanded across the continent, with local presences in South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. USB-ED has won the PMR.africa Diamond Arrow Award in three countries: Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The USB’s international standing and reputation is confirmed by the triple crown international accreditations, EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB.
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