How Executive Education Advisors Can Inspire Change

When you agree to serve as an advisor to an executive education program, one of the benefits is your ability to inspire and affect change on a company-wide and even industry-wide level. In this position, there are a myriad of ways that you can inspire and motivate your team. 

Here are a few direct ways that you, as an executive education advisor, can effectively inspire change.

• Show the Connection - Many people learn best with a hands-on approach. One way to increase learning and make sure that new methods, techniques, and skills are applied is to connect an internal project to coursework. This allows new learning to be applied immediately, making it more likely that a new method or skill will be perfected and used long term. Another great way to do this is to get senior leadership sponsorship to link change initiatives to course outcomes.
• Create a Team - Team building has valuable proven benefits in the corporate world. Consider sending interdisciplinary teams through a program and tie their work in the program to a company initiative. This gives you a combination of all of the benefits of team building, as well as a better understanding and more personal ownership of overall business outcomes.
• Share Case Studies - Examples are always a great way to communicate. Sharing case studies allows you to demonstrate what can and should be achieved in any given situation. Showing a problem being overcome is a great way to inspire further problem solving, ideas and solutions.  
• Lead Your Team To Success - One of the best ways to inspire change when you are serving as an advisor to an executive education program is to help make connections. Connecting further education and real life

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