Nondegree Executive Education Programs
Fuqua’s nondegree executive education programs provide professional development for executives and managers across various functions, industries, and geographies. Program participants are equipped with knowledge, strategies, action plans, procedures, and tools that they can immediately apply in their organizations.
Leading Through Negotiation
Leading Through Negotiation is beneficial for a wide range of individuals involved in business transactions, partnerships, or deal-making scenarios. Effective negotiation—whether with partners, employers, managers, clients, or colleagues—is a foundational skill in management and leadership. In addition to negotiating tactics, this program focuses on strategies to use, whether negotiating once or when nurturing a long-term relationship is highly valued. Participants learn how to leverage what makes them different from others to gain a positional advantage. During the program, participants practice their skills by role playing negotiations in a variety of settings, integrating their personal experiences with key principles from exercises and discussions.
Duke Leadership Program
Duke Leadership Program is ideal for anyone with current or anticipated leadership responsibilities, ranging from high-level executives and managers, to managers preparing to take on leadership roles. The program provides a framework for understanding and improving participants’ individual leadership styles. Central to the course is a proprietary 360-degree assessment that explores participants’ strengths and weaknesses in six leadership domains and identifies specific challenges and opportunities. Participants work one-on-one with experienced executive coaches to develop personalized plans for successful leadership that can be implemented immediately. Learning happens through case discussion, experiential exercises, teamwork, and reflection. Upon completion, participants leave with a Personal Development Plan (PDP) and an Organizational Change Initiative (OCI).
Duke Management Program
Duke Management Program is ideal for those who lead teams, departments, or units where work is accomplished by guiding and managing others. The program is valuable to people of various levels of organizational management, from project managers to people managers. Both new and seasoned managers can benefit from the program. The program translates the science of management into practical insights and actionable strategies. Led by distinguished Fuqua professors who are experts in decision-making, teams, motivation, and conflict management, participants learn to identify obstacles to individual and team success and leverage different techniques to improve team dynamics, manage people and performance, and establish a productive culture.
Leading AI-Era Organizational Transformation
The Leading AI-Era Organizational Transformation program equips executives with the frameworks, practices, and insights needed to enable dynamic change within their organizations. Central to this program are the Organization Transformation (OT) Canvas and People Centered Transformation (PCT) Framework, designed to guide leaders through the complexities of organizational change. Over the course of the program, participants develop an OT Canvas and PCT Framework unique to their organization’s challenges. By the program’s conclusion, participants will be ready to return to their organization and drive the change envisioned.
Strategic Business Communication
Strategic Business Communication is intended for professionals who want to enhance their ability to influence stakeholders, drive organizational change, effectively communicate their vision, and pitch ideas that resonate. Participants will learn to be seen as authentic, trustworthy, visionary, and pragmatic by harnessing effective tools and techniques of influence. Ultimately, individuals will be better able to drive change through crafting compelling messages, understanding audience psychology, and leveraging storytelling techniques.
Certificate of Leadership and Management
Individual programs can address a specific area of need, but combining multiple programs can address needs on several levels while enhancing overall leadership and business acumen. Whether to strengthen leadership skills or invest in high-potential employees, the Duke Certificate of Leadership & Management is a mark of distinction which communicates values focused on career growth and continuous development. The certificate offers a customizable learning pathway: a solid grounding in leadership that can be tailored with electives in management, communication, negotiation, and more. To earn the certificate, professionals must complete the Duke Leadership Program and three additional electives from Fuqua’s Executive Education portfolio within three years.
In-Person Delivery
In-person programs are held at the JB Duke Hotel & Thomas Executive Conference Center located on Duke’s West Campus, adjoining the Fuqua School of Business. Visit fuqua.duke.edu/programs/executive-education for a list of in-person programs.
Virtual Delivery
Duke faculty will engage diverse cohorts of leaders in live virtual class sessions and complement the learning experience with their own online teaching via videos, facilitated group discussion/exercises and recommended cases and articles to prepare for class discussion. Visit fuqua.duke.edu/programs/executive-education for a list of virtually delivered programs.
Tailored Programs
Any of these programs can be tailored for a particular organization. Tailored Programs are excellent for addressing challenges and opportunities at the organizational level, as well as nurturing and developing internal talent as force multipliers for achieving strategic aims. Visit fuqua.duke.edu/programs/executive-education or email execed-info@duke.edu for more information and to speak with a member of the Executive Education team.