The Produce Executive Development Program is an intense five-day program that focuses on issues critical to both personal development and the larger challenges and opportunities faced by today's executives. Each day's sessions are augmented with guest speakers, case study exploration, working groups and discussion. Prior to the program, attendees will complete personal assessment tools to help ensure a customized course experience and personalized feedback.

Some of the topics to be covered in the 2010 course include:

Executive Leadership

• Explore the paradigms of executive leadership and how they differ from management strategies
• Gain first-hand insight into leadership success (and failure) and key challenges that executives face today

Today's Food Retailing & Foodservice Climate

• Examine what's really happening in today's retail and foodservice industries and the potential implications and opportunities for the produce industry

Competitive Strategy

• Learn how strategy is inherently different than operational effectiveness
• Discover why executives must master this concept to ensure sustained, maximized performance

Team Dynamics and Decision Making

• Uncover what it takes to develop a high performance team to maximize a company's effectiveness
• Find out which elements are the most critical for success - and how to avoid pitfalls that stall performance

A Survival Guide to Financial Planning

• Take a step-by-step analysis of key financial areas, including: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and Discounted Cash Flow Analysis, as well as capital decision-making and company valuation
• Discover what the data tells us - and doesn’t tell us - about the financial status of a firm

Work/Life Balance: The Power of Sleep

• Find out what impact sleep - and lack thereof - can have on executive performance, including the 70 million Americans who are sleep deprived
• Learn how to stop making crucial business decisions in an impaired state

Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

• Master negotiation skills and how to make a persuasive case and marshal the resources to carry out the strategy
• Find creative and effective resolutions to conflicts

Leading Through Change

• Change is a normal part of today’s workplace, but can be unnerving to even the most solid employees
• Learn the concepts and skills necessary to lead through change and use it to the greater benefit of the company

Strategies for Growth in Entrepreneurial Environments

• Learn why entrepreneurs take risks, create new markets, and use organizational flexibility to gain market share
• Find out which entrepreneurial strategies are best for produce businesses

Supply Chain Simulation

• Gain firsthand experience managing inventories and how one individual’s decision can impact overall performance
• Learn why rational decision-making can lead to suboptimal performance in an environment where collaboration is absent

Produce Industry Forecast for the Future

• Create a consensus forecast for the future of the industry
• Develop strategies that will allow firms to cope with and be prepared for what's to come

Understanding Your Executive Leadership Style

• Through a customized assessment, analyze your personal type of executive leadership
• Develop a better understanding of your strengths and weaknesses as an executive

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