Your Course of Study
A New Path incorporates classroom discussions, case studies, team interaction, individual counseling, and web-based tools to facilitate self-assessment and personal discovery, as well as to update business skills and knowledge. At the heart of this leadership training program are regular meetings with your Board of Advisers—an intimate group of peers and faculty coaches who share perspectives, provide insights, and enable you to formulate your own personal plan of action. Topics include:
Business Fundamentals for Successful Managers: Finance, Marketing, Negotiations, Leadership, Strategy, and Entrepreneurial Effectiveness
- Applying financial tools for business analysis, planning, and management
- Discovering new techniques to market effectively, with an emphasis on the role of the Internet in contemporary marketing
- Exploring best practices and understanding current competitive dynamics to develop and implement sound strategies
- Employing effective negotiation techniques
- Acquiring frameworks for meeting the challenges of an entrepreneurial initiative
- Analyzing the challenges encountered by leaders who face significant organizational change
Career Planning and Job Search Strategies
- Defining a new career vision via proven self-assessment tools, exercises, and small group sessions
- Enhancing competitiveness in the global marketplace
- Developing successful job search strategies and tactics, including effective résumés, interviews, networking, and job negotiations
- Creating and implementing an action-oriented plan for rebuilding a career to meet your professional and personal objectives
- Learning new ways to search for a job, while managing competing priorities, time pressures, and other obligations
"It was an amazing week, and A New Path gave me the confidence to step out and start my own business. Despite starting my business in the middle of a recession, I am having an absolute blast and haven’t had a single regret in making the decision. In a sign that I am probably suited to starting my own business, I am actually really energized by the risk and the uncertainty—it’s an incredibly fun challenge to try to make this all work."
Megan Donnelly [President], Quabbin Advisors, LLC., U.S.