Custom Programs
Improve Your Company's Effectiveness
Develop skills for your organization that are influential to addressing today’s business challenges. Collaborate with Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) at the University of St Thomas to develop targeted learning opportunities that help your organization improve its performance, results, and success. Together we will complete a thorough assessment to identify your objectives and ensure your custom business solutions are tailored to maximize success.
Our customized programs offer:
- Expertise of our faculty
- Skills of our custom education team and the input of key leaders in your organization
- Skill driven learning that can be applied in the workplace immediately
- Flexible formats to best fit your schedule, whether on the St. Thomas campus, at your office or virtual
Your custom program draws upon the expertise of our faculty, the skills of our custom education team and the input of key leaders in your organization. Together, we develop and deliver content that is not only relevant, but also has immediate application on-the-job.
Custom Program Process to Establish Course Track
Conduct a Needs Assessment
The custom education team meets with your key organizational leaders to determine the best learning solution to meet your goals. This needs assessment is targeted to outline your optimal learning experience.
Provide an Organizational Solution
Once the assessment is complete, the Custom team works with you to align on the right program.
Limited Customization: We incorporate an existing Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) program with your company's examples and processes to enhance abilities and improve performance.
Significant Customization: Company leaders and key stakeholders are deeply involved in creating and delivering an exclusive program to achieve specific business objectives and goals.
Continued Program Management
Throughout the process, we teach you to support your new program through:
- Senior management sponsorship and involvement
- Messages from leadership that demonstrate how the program is linked to the company's business priorities
- Clear communication of participant expectations prior to, during and after the educational experience
- Ongoing reinforcement after the program plus opportunities for participants to use the new skills, behaviors and knowledge in everyday responsibilities
- Executive coaching to support and sustain behavioral change
Conduct a Needs Assessment
Conduct a Needs Assessment
The custom education team meets with your key organizational leaders to determine the best learning solution to meet your goals. This needs assessment is targeted to outline your optimal learning experience.
Provide an Organizational Solution
Provide an Organizational Solution
Once the assessment is complete, the Custom team works with you to align on the right program.
Limited Customization: We incorporate an existing Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE) program with your company's examples and processes to enhance abilities and improve performance.
Significant Customization: Company leaders and key stakeholders are deeply involved in creating and delivering an exclusive program to achieve specific business objectives and goals.
Continued Program Management
Continued Program Management
Throughout the process, we teach you to support your new program through:
- Senior management sponsorship and involvement
- Messages from leadership that demonstrate how the program is linked to the company's business priorities
- Clear communication of participant expectations prior to, during and after the educational experience
- Ongoing reinforcement after the program plus opportunities for participants to use the new skills, behaviors and knowledge in everyday responsibilities
- Executive coaching to support and sustain behavioral change
Custom-Designed Learning Solutions
Every organization wants to invest in its leaders (and potential leaders), but few have the in-house resources to create best-in-class development programs. If you are interested in something created specifically for your organization's needs, consider solutions like these examples.
Increase Standard Knowledge Across the Organization
A transportation and logistics service provider wanted to enhance the financial acumen of leaders and individual contributors throughout the organization.
We worked closely with company leadership to define and scope metrics relevant to key groups within the organization. This information was used to develop a series of two-day financial acumen workshops.
Result: a common language was created across the organization.
Talent Development for High-Potential Leaders
A multibillion dollar specialty services organization wanted to accelerate development of its high-potential leaders.
We created a 9-module, 18-month, 27-day high-potential leadership development program that included action learning projects and covered topics like finance, systems thinking, organization transformation and culture.
Result: the program expanded individual awareness and capabilities and has become an integral part of the talent development process.
Elevate Skills and Connections for Supervisors and Managers
A global technology and engineering organization wanted to elevate the skills and create new employee connections for 350 supervisory, managerial and leadership roles through an internal leadership symposium.
Working collectively with the company's symposium developers, we created a series of 90-minute faculty-led workshops that were introduced into the content of the symposium.
Result: an integrated and highly-rated symposium that provided access to networking and skill development for attendees.
Help a New Leadership Team Evolve Quickly
A large manufacturing organization needed its new leadership team to get a "fast start" on collaboration.
We developed and launched a 10-day program to get the new team from "forming" to "performing" in record time. It included individual assessments and coaching, as well as building peer coaching capabilities.
Result: the program created leader self-awareness, enhanced team capabilities, and expanded general business capabilities that ensured a quick start for success.
Take the Next Step
Contact us to start a conversation about your organization's needs and how CAPE can help!
Andrew Claude, Director of Business Development
e: aclaude@stthomas.edu
p: (651) 962-4614