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Module One - Managing Self: The Reflective Mindset

Focus includes:

• Developing participants’ experiences and reflection into new practices of thinking and acting
• Appreciative inquiry and action inquiry
• Organizational cultures
• Considering virtue ethics and responsibility in an organizational context
• Incorporating vision, community, creativity, and insight into management practice.

Module Two - Managing Organisations: The Analytic Mindset‌

Desautels Faculty of Management, Â鶹AV, Canada

Focus includes:

• Role of evidence and experience in business and management
• Strategic thinking and practice
• Organizational models for business
• Examining how decisions are made and negotiations take place within different types of organizations
• Innovation awareness and AI, how data is used and what biases exist in decision making processes

Module Three - Managing Context: The Worldly Mindset

Focus includes:

• Conditions for innovation and entrepreneurship for sustaining international business growth
• Applying a multi-cultural, diverse global mindset in context
• Innovation and creating new forms of value in international settings
• Managerial and organizational political dynamics in diverse settings
• Sustainability, ecosystems and nonmarket dynamics

Module Four - Managing Relationships: The Collaborative Mindset ‌‌

Focus includes:

• Relational coordination and collaboration
• Role of intra- and inter-organizational trust
• Cross-sector collaboration across sectors
• Managing disasters and crisis through collaboration
• Human-machine collaboration and ethical collaborative tech

Module Five - Managing Change: The Action Mindset

Focus includes:

• Exploring catalytic change
• How business and global dynamics interact with management and organizational action
• Change management and process analysis of change and continuity
• Understanding the responsibility of leaders and organizations beyond themselves
• Action research for catalytic change, transformation and impact