EMBA Program Structure | Dawn McCale

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I'd really like to share with you a bit about the flow of the program. The executive M. B. A. Program began with an opening weekend, which was off site, which was lovely and give the cohort a chance to meet and understand a little bit about each of our backgrounds. We worked on establishing our core values as a person and as an employee, we worked on establishing our value statement as well as our mission statement. We left the weekend with a professional mentor in a new cohort. What would soon become lifelong friends? The first actual week of the program was five days during the weeks on monday through friday. We focused on very basic, very critical professional skills. So we spent two days learning public speaking and how to use your commands effectively while you're speaking and making sure that you're framing your conversation and pointing to the right materials at the right time. There was a lot of fun and we we were very encouraging of each other, which I really appreciate it from the cohort. We also talked about personality profiling and that was interesting to understand if you were a red, blue or yellow or green personality type. We worked with some of the folks that had been part of the NBA program before they came back to the program and they brought their business ideas in and we were able to walk through that with them and identify possibly some gaps in their marketing plans or some areas where we thought they could focus too possibly enhanced their growth. We also did an interesting exercise on conflict resolution, which would be very helpful later on in the program as we worked again on teams to make sure that if there was somebody that wasn't pulling their weight or being as effective as they could be, that we had a way to to speak with them about that. Then we also talked through mindfulness and making sure that um we're really being present in appreciating the experience but not trying to break ourselves in the process. Uh Again basic but very important materials covered. Then we also did more team building, which was really, really helpful. Our first set of courses was analytical decisions or statistics, strategic management and managing organizations and teams. Those three classes provided us with a very, very strong foundation for our future force work. Our next quarter was filled with finance, financial accounting and economics and globalization of business, which we were taking just as the pandemic was starting. I have to say um the only other two times in recent history that could have been more exciting to take that class would have been the Great Depression or the Great Recession. I'm getting goose bumps just talking about it during our spring quarter. We studied marketing, supply chain and ethics and again, what an exciting time to be studying those topics. So that was really a fascinating conversation topic. Our ethics professor open the class by showing us the full video footage, which many of us had not seen yet, of the George boy killings. He led us through a passionate discussion of the death of George Floyd.