UPDATE
Global capability adds value to partnerships
The AGSM has increased its global networks capacity to deliver executive education and customised corporate learning solutions. AGSM faculty, teamed with leading professors from a range of top international business schools, offer organisations and managers a global perspective in business practice. Recent developments include:
■ A partnership between the AGSM, Stanford Business School and Melbourne Business School to run executive programs in Asia;
■ The first executive program delivered to internationally-based alumni, conducted in Sydney in association with the London Business School; and
“ ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION.”
— Sheena Frenkel, director of corporate education
■ A corporate education program customised for a multinational transport company( comprising modules on negotiation, marketing, implementing change and strategic IT), delivered four or five times a year in various locations in Asia and Australia. The AGSM recently delivered an incompany program for Pricewaterhouse- Coopers in the US, the UK and Sydney. Using its relationship with the Anderson School at UCLA and Templeton College, Oxford, the AGSM was part of a global solution for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ specific executive training requirements.
The AGSM also conducts executive development for the Zurich Financial Services Group through Zurich’ s prestigious Asia Academy, which the AGSM has custom designed for executives working throughout Asia. Attending this program are high-potential middle managers from 10 locations in the region. They attend modules run in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong. The teaching locations rotate and the program is now in its third year.
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS The AGSM has developed a partnership model for the delivery of in-company
GLOBAL PROGRAMMING
Sheena Frenkel( far left), director of corporate education. Pamela Murray-Jones( left), director of executive education, was appointed last December to run the AGSM’ s portfolio of open executive programs.
executive training that enables the School and its clients to work together to determine the content, delivery style, pace and place of learning. The shared objective is to ensure a high level of relevance and the strongest links to workplace issues in order to promote and reinforce behavioural change.
“ Clients are demanding a greater alignment of what’ s in the curriculum to their specific organisational and managers’ needs, and the AGSM is in an excellent position with the depth of knowledge and practical orientation of its faculty and adjunct professors in Australia and worldwide to customise in-company learning,” says Sheena Frenkel, director of corporate education.
One such response to a specific executive development need is a program on Internet protocol recently customised for a major telecommunications group( and taught by professor Michael Vitale, dean).
“ Customised solutions are most appropriate where our clients face larger scale issues, such as restructuring the organisation, creating an entirely new skill set and awareness, building a new executive team, or implementing widespread cultural change,” says Frenkel. ✪
For information about in-company executive training, contact client services on Tel:( 02) 9931 9333.
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