Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education Announces ‘The Challenges of Leadership’ Scheduled on February 2-5, 2010 in Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) November 30, 2009

The Challenges of Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education is specifically designed for executives in real estate, architecture, planning, and related building industries. This intensive executive program tackles issues of leadership in practice and within organizations, and challenges participants to develop the vision, influence, self-discipline, and motivation required of successful leaders.

The Challenges of Leadership is scheduled on February 2-5, 2010 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Led by Harvard faculty and industry leaders, the four-day program covers the following topics:

Defining your values and putting them to work
Building a strategic vision
Leading a firm in a declining economy
Managing talent
Finding the time to lead
Effecting leadership succession within your organization

By program’s end, participants will have created a customized leadership development plan based on their self-assessment, course learning, peer review, and their own priorities for success.

This year The Challenges of Leadership’s roster of instructors includes:

Julie Benezet, Business Growth Consulting, LLC
Tom Curley, The Associated Press
Anne Drapeau, Center for Leading Organizations
Edward Feiner, FAIA, Perkins+Will
Robert M. Galford, Center for Leading Organizations
Richard W. Jennings, FAIA, Harvard Graduate School of Design
A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA, RIBA, JIA, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Challenges of Leadership is registered with the AIA (American Institute of Architects) Continuing Education System. Participants who complete the four-day program will earn 30 AIA learning units.

Complete program and registration information can be found at: http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/professional/exec_ed/programs/leadership

About the Office of Executive Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Design

The Office of Executive Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the foremost provider of Executive Education programs for architects, planners, and real estate and building industry professionals. Harvard GSD Executive Education offers an extensive menu of programs that covers topics in design and real estate as well as customized programs that can be tailored to an organization’s or firm’s specific learning needs. Drawing upon the unparalleled resources of Harvard University, GSD Executive Education programs are led by renowned faculty from the GSD, the Business School, the Law School, and the Kennedy School of Government, as well as eminent practitioners and scholars from across the country and around the world. For more information, visit http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu

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Afterburner, Inc.’s ‘The Debrief Imperative’ Released July 4 2011 by Fast Pencil Publishing

Afterburner Inc.’s “The Debrief Imperative” helps business leaders identify root causes of failure and improve planning and execution.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 19, 2011

Afterburner, Inc., a leading corporate team building, training, and consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, and the global authority on the Flawless Execution(SM) model is pleased to announce that it will release its fourth publication entitled The Debrief Imperative (Print ISBN: 9781607460404, eBook: 9781607465829). Co-authored by Afterburner CEO and founder, James D. Murphy, and Director of Learning and Development, William M. Duke, the seven-chapter publication about STEALTH(SM) debriefing thoroughly details the strategic ‘Debriefing’ component of the company’s proprietary Flawless Execution(SM) continuous process improvement model.

Afterburner’s Flawless Execution(SM) model addresses the four components needed to accelerate performance and drive alignment and accountability in business process execution, including Plan, Brief, Execute, and Debrief. This latest publication focuses entirely on the ‘Debrief’ portion of the model, and enables businesses to understand how debriefing helps to identify, address and prevent future root causes of failure. The element of strategic debriefing was developed and refined throughout decades of military aviation training and execution by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marines. This critical process of Flawless Execution(SM) encourages nameless and rankless participation in a process that identifies errors and critiques mission execution in order to develop lessons learned that can then be shared with the organization and rolled into planning for the next execution.

“Through my military experience, I recognized that this element of strategic debriefing could be applicable and invaluable to businesses and corporations throughout the world,” said Jim “Murph” Murphy, CEO and founder of Afterburner, Inc. “At Afterburner, we’ve implemented STEALTH(SM) debriefing within our proprietary methodology in order to coach and develop business leaders and managers on how to improve execution. We authored The Debrief Imperative in order to help companies close an all-too-common learning gap.” To learn more about Afterburner’s Flawless Execution(SM) model, visit http://www.AfterburnerConsulting.com or call 877-765-5607.

About Afterburner

Afterburner Inc., founded in 1996 by Jim “Murph” Murphy, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who realized the value of the tools he learned in the ‘zero tolerance for error’ world of military aviation, has trained over 1.5 million managers and executives in the simple, scalable improvement processes of Flawless Execution. Within this model is its Equip solution, which provides training, consulting, and software services through a variety of methods. With a client list that includes over 23% of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies, Afterburner has been featured regularly in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Inc. Magazine, Financial Times, Newsweek, and Meetings and Conventions Magazine. In addition, the company has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and Bloomberg News. For more information about the Equip program, please visit http://www.AfterburnerConsulting.com.

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