Executive Skills

• GSM ES 700: Executive Presentation
  A presenter's delivery skills impact the audience's image of the presenter and the clarity of the message being communicated. A combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice and simulation, this course is designed to help you exercise leadership through verbal communication.
• GSM ES 701: Executive Written Communication
  This course is a combination of lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice. It's designed to help you exercise leadership through writing and understand how strategies of written communication are an essential aspect of effective management, working relationships in the network era, and overall business strategy.
• GSM ES 707: Managing Career Growth
  The MBA is simply a step along the path of a career. It provides the skills and tools necessary to take many steps forward, but you must manage where those steps lead and how. Managing Career Growth will provide you the understanding of how to managing your own career going forward. The class will cover: -Career self-assessment (interests, values and skills) -Networking and developmental relationships -Career management/advancement strategies -Developing your career marketing plan and professional portfolio. All with the purpose of providing a foundation to not only manage your next steps but continuously assess, network, market and manage yourself. You are indeed a business of one and you are the one responsible for managing that business. Students who took ES711, ES713, ES715 or ES717 may not take this course.
• GSM ES 740: Career Management
  The Career Management course is jointly sponsored by the faculty, the Feld Career Center staff, and student clubs. This professional development course is designed to assist you in transforming your personal interests into professional goals, and these goals into an MBA level, candidate-driven internship and job search. The Career Management course integrates a set of complementary resources and activities: self-assessment, career management tools, skill building opportunities, and active involvement in a career development community. The overall objective is to help you: 1. Determine your professional goals, 2. Develop and implement a plan for achieving them, 3. Acquire the specific skills and experiences needed to become market ready, and 4. Build your personal brand and professional network.
• GSM ES 741: Career Community I
  Early in semester 1, students will enroll in one section of ES741 that best aligns with their career interests and needs (ES741). There are nine career communities to choose from, as listed in the syllabus for ES740. Each Career Community will have a minimum of two meetings during each semester. Students will enroll in ES742 for second semester, and ES743 for the third semester. Generally, students will sign up for the same Career Community each term, unless they decide that another community aligns better with their evolving career interests and needs. Credit for participation in a Career Community is given for ES743 as students near the end of their MBA program.
• GSM ES 743: Career Community III
  Early in semester 1, students will enroll in one section of ES741 that best aligns with their career interests and needs (ES741). There are nine career communities to choose from, as listed in the syllabus for ES740. Each Career Community will have a minimum of two meetings during each semester. Students will enroll in ES742 for second semester, and ES743 for the third semester. Generally, students will sign up for the same Career Community each term, unless they decide that another community aligns better with their evolving career interests and needs. Credit for participation in a Career Community is given for ES743 as students near the end of their MBA program.

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