University of Toronto: Rotman
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University of Toronto: Rotman Executive Education |
| Website: | http://ep.rotman.utoronto.ca/ |
| Country of Origin: | Canada |
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Executive Programs
Rotman School of Management, Rotman South,149 College Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1P5
Open Programs
Programs Currently Offered
Advanced Health Leadership Program
The Advanced Health Leadership Program, now in its third offering, is offered as part of the collaboration between the Rotman School and Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Through a combination of health leadership development and management school expertise, the program provides a challenging opportunity for personal leadership development for current and potential members of the executive teams of health service providers. The program has been updated with subject matter on LHINs, Accountability Agreements, Wait Times Strategy and Family Health Teams to reflect recent changes in the Ontario health system.
Advanced Program in Human Resources Management
The Advanced Program in Human Resources Management (APHRM) is Canada’s most comprehensive certificate program in senior HR management. This program, offered by the Rotman School since 1986, helps individual HR managers to develop a strategic understanding of their role and combine this with solid business knowledge. The program helps organizations develop the HR expertise and systems needed to become and remain great performers and top employers.
Board Assessment Workshop
This workshop, which is by invitation only, addresses the challenges for women who aspire to join a corporate board. In conjunction with SpencerStuart, this workshop will reveal the ins and outs how to prepare a board resume, what the required core competencies are to be ready for corporate boards, and the stories behind the scenes about board search. Participants will learn from industry experts and from current chairs of nominating committees. As well, participants will have the opportunity to network with current board members and other senior women participants.
Bright Beginnings: A Program for Up-and-Coming Professional Women
The Bright Beginnings program…
Business Edge for Internationally Trained Women Professionals
This intensive program is designed to support internationally trained women professionals as they navigate their careers in the Canadian workplace. It will help them build professional confidence and acquire relevant business skills in order to advance within their firms. The program will bring out a better understanding of the subtleties of the Canadian workplace and help them adopt ways that could make a positive difference to their professional work experience.
Business Leadership for Women Lawyers
This three-day intensive program is designed specifically to help women lawyers who want to build professional confidence and acquire relevant business skills in order to advance within their firms. This partnership initiative between the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is the result of surveys conducted with women in the profession and conversations with firm partners and leaders who are committed to advancing their talented female lawyers.
Canada’s Outstanding Principals Program
Canada’s Outstanding Principals program is a collaborative partnership between The Learning Partnership and the Rotman School of Management. Each year, leading principals from across the country participate in a four-day executive leadership development program at the Rotman School.
Customer-Focused Marketing for Pharma Professionals
Customer-Focused Marketing for Pharma Professionals (CFMPP) offers an innovative approach to pharmaceutical-specific marketing. Designed for pharma professionals with one to three years of experience, CFMPP aims to expose pharmaceutical marketers to leading-edge frameworks focused on customer adoption. The results are marketers equipped with the tools to develop and implement innovative customer-focused marketing strategies.
Directors Education Program
The Directors Education Program is a partnership program of the Rotman School of Management and the Institute of Corporate Directors that has been offered since 2003. The program consists of four three-day modules run over eight months. The curriculum includes best practices in board strategy, function and composition; financial reporting and auditing systems; monitoring, assessing and evaluating compensation issues; and handling bankruptcies and mergers and acquisitions.
Emerging Leaders Program
The Emerging Leaders Program aims to help high performing women managers transition successfully into more senior leadership positions. This four-day residential program fosters personal and professional confidence and the development of participants’ own leadership styles through a combination of new skills acquisition and exposure to carefully selected models and strategies.
Financial Literacy for Directors and Executives
With the completion of this program, participants are able to operate confidently in the boardroom when dealing with financial statements and corporate reports. The program, offered by the Rotman School in partnership with the Institute of Corporate Directors and KPMG, is three days in length and is committed to ensuring that graduates understand financial statements, are able to ask management the right questions and can successfully navigate through corporate reports.
Leading Strategic Change
Change is an ongoing business reality, and an underlying component of virtually all business efforts. Organizations and individuals who embrace this are more likely to achieve their business objectives and be competitive. This three-phase program focuses on developing the leadership, knowledge and integrative skills that executives and experienced senior managers need to implement effective strategic change. Participants gain confidence and skill as they implement a real-life change project at work during the program.
Make It Work: London, UK
Make it Work is a one-day workshop for mid-level to senior professionals who are at a career crossroads due to corporate restructuring or downsizing. From a big-picture overview of what’s happening in the UK’s economy, to the tools you can use to leverage your skills and experience, the program will help you maintain momentum in your career. Learn how to make a lost job an opportunity that will work for you. Whether you want to keep your career on track, or chart a new course, you will leave the program with a plan of action and the skills you need to make it work.
MBA Essentials for Managers
MBA Essentials for Managers is a series of eight evening sessions that will introduce you to the study areas that form the basis of the Rotman School’s MBA for Executives. The sessions are led by members of Rotman’s outstanding faculty, who offer a highly regarded academic perspective that is complimented by their experience as consultants, managers and expert advisors to some of the world’s most successful corporations.
Navigating Through Economic Uncertainty
In response to recent turbulence in financial markets, Rotman has developed a four-day program, one day per month over four months, to bring clarity to the confusion surrounding the crisis and offers strategies to assist organizations with navigating projects, processes and people through the storm of uncertainty.
Presented by Rotman’s preeminent faculty, this program series offers fresh perspectives and insights which will enhance your understanding of the heightened economic and financial crisis. Please join us for this opportunity and gain some powerful business insights to one of the most complex and unique financial frenzies.
Next Steps: A Program for Experienced Women Entrepreneurs
The Next Steps program gives high growth women entrepreneurs the confidence and skills they need to effectively grow and lead their businesses. It will provide participants with access to an advisory panel of senior-level, accomplished women entrepreneurs. One industry expert will be present at each of the program modules. Topics of discussion may include: business growth, financing business growth, managing professional relationships, sourcing opportunities, unlocking business value (or succession strategies), and talent management.Participants will leave the program with new networks and skills that will enhance how they lead their companies.
Not-For-Profit Governance Essentials Program
Non-profit and voluntary sector organizations manage more than $112 billion in revenues. Every day, these organizations make decisions that significantly impact Canada’s economic, social and cultural well-being. There is a growing understanding that decisions made by all directors are felt far beyond boardroom walls, affecting individuals, corporations, and society. This innovative new three-day program, offered by the Rotman School and the Institute of Corporate Directors and presented by TELUS, will provide learning on key accountabilities and responsibilities of not-for-profit leaders.
Police Leadership Program
The only MBA-style program in Canada designed specifically for police executives, the Police Leadership Program was developed as a partnership between the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) and the Rotman School of Management. It is an intensive course with a customized curriculum that covers strategy, financial management, human resources, leadership, police service delivery, community knowledge, political astuteness and communications.
SME Board Effectiveness Program
Sound governance is one of the most accurate measures of corporate performance. Investors look at the quality of a Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Board in the same way they assess its revenues and earnings. To meet this requirement the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, have developed the ICD SME Board Effectiveness Program. This 3-day specialized program provides an understanding of the role of the board and the obligations of its directors by teaching new and experienced board members how to add value through their fiduciary role.
The Judy Project: An Enlightened Leadership Forum for Executive Women
The Judy Project’s goal is to strengthen business organizations through the advancement of more women into senior leadership positions. Its focus is to equip senior women executives to better navigate the upper reaches of corporations. This five-day residential forum brings together participants from diverse business sectors, senior academics, and business leaders for frank discussions and challenging academic thinking.
UHN-Rotman Leadership Development Program
The UHN-Rotman Leadership Development Program, now completing its fourth year, is offered in partnership with the University Health Network but is open to teams from any hospital or health centre. This modular, 12-day learning experience provides directors and managers with the understanding and tools they need to play an effective role to achieve the strategic vision of their organization and to enhance their people management skills.
Custom Program Approach
http://ep.rotman.utoronto.ca/custom/
“We deliver specialized programs with intense, action-oriented learning on topics such as leadership, organizational change, finance and marketing specifically tailored to the needs of each client. Rotman has been recognized for its excellence by BusinessWeek magazine, which in 2005 ranked Rotman Executive Programs 13th globally for the development and delivery of customized programs.
Whether designing and delivering a program for a small group of 30 senior executives or a large group of 200 managers, the Rotman custom programs team offers partners flexibility, quality and innovation.
Rotman custom programs are acknowledged by our clients for their ability to offer participants a forum in which to analyze their organization’s challenges, and to examine those challenges in light of new perspectives on leadership and strategy.”
School Uniqueness
- In the 2008 Financial Times rankings of MBA programs, Rotman ranked 1st in Canada, 20th in North America, and 40th in the world
- In the “Best in Finance” category, Rotman placed in the top 10 worldwide (6th) alongside NYU Stern, Chicago GSB, MIT Sloan, Harvard GSB and Wharton