Business Management

Based on her popular book of the same name, and modeled on the live workshop experience Susan Fowler brings to organizations such as Microsoft, CVS, NASA, and H&R Block, this video includes real-life examples and poignant stories to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Optimal Motivation process. You’ll get actionable advice on how to move people away from dependence on external rewards, and help them discover how their jobs can meet the deeper psychological needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence.
4 hours, 34 minutes

In this video course, designed for any and all levels of professionals who want to up their presentation performance, you’ll learn to harness key expert- and research-driven best practices for planning, preparing, and giving formal presentations. This course is designed to empower you—the business professional—with the necessary skills to present more confidently, to communicate more clearly, and to persuade more powerfully.
1 hour, 42 minutes

In this video course, designed for new managers and supervisors or even experienced ones who need to learn to “let go,” you’ll see how effective delegation can save you time, develop your team’s individual skills, allow you to groom a successor, and motivate your team. You will learn when it is appropriate to delegate, what to delegate, to whom to delegate, and how to delegate. Whether you are leading a team on a project or you’re the company owner, this video course will examine the steps to effective delegation and discuss some of the problems (and solutions) that can result from not delegating properly.

With this training, you’ll first explore how the Lean approach grew from challenges with traditional waterfall and agile methods. Then, you'll discover how to make informed decisions on your own projects by using Build-Measure-Learn cycles. By hearing real world examples that describe how Lean fits into typical work contexts, you’ll learn to identify scenarios that can benefit from this approach and gain the ability to answer questions about the Lean process, so your teams can avoid product failure and realize value sooner.

Columbia Business School Executive Education faculty members share the latest research, ideas, and concepts affecting today's business environment through complimentary 30-minute webinars.

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