How is Butler's Corporate and Executive Education group
different? What distinguishes our value
offerings?
Well, it all starts with our point of view . .
. and it ends with translating that point of view
into deep partnerships and valued outcomes that continually exceed
our clients' expectations.
We believe that advances in
organizational resilience and agility - indeed, every advancement
in an organization's value stream and performance capacity -
starts with a conversation. And, at Butler Corporate
and Executive Education, we are interested in a new and
different conversation about how to help our clients advance
their competitive distinction, strategic agility, and economic
hardiness by leveraging their managerial leadership and knowledge
distribution capacities. We are prepared to make a
competitively differentiated offer to help business
managers and leaders deal with the single issue that likely matters
most to them, which is, how to capitalize on the complexity,
volatility, uncertainty, and inherent risk of the real managerial
world so that they can effectively run an organization under
adverse conditions and still achieve their intended results.
What distinguishes BCEE's point of view and our
conversation?
We think differently about management education and leadership
development.
We believe that, for decades,
suppliers of management education have been sending the wrong
message to managers, and the only improvement they've made is that
they've kept trying to say it more persuasively. Executive
educators have been busy collecting facts and inventing methods,
and have told managers that if they want to be effective, they have
to absorb these facts and apply these methods. The reason this
facts and methods approach comes up short, however, is
that it is much more selective about addressing the harsh realities
of real managerial work than the person responsible for running an
organization can ever afford to be.
We avoid easy answers and quick fixes.
At BCEE, we are focused on a core
purpose, and it is this. We help our clients fulfill their
mission and become the organization they intend to be. We do this
by helping them design, deploy and manage the organizational
systems, work processes, functional communities, and distributed
learning networks requisite to meeting business objectives and
advancing long-term viability. We believe that this kind of process
consulting, knowledge networking, and capacity building represent
executive education at its best.
Other Critical Differentiators
Butler Corporate and Executive Education is uniquely positioned
also to offer business management and organizational development
consulting services, leveraging the expertise in the Butler
Business Accelerator (BBA) and in many other parts of Butler
University. Several qualities hallmark our offerings.
Full-Time Professionals
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Butler CEE's team of full-time employees includes business
people, strategy experts, professional educators, psychologists and
coaches, learning technology specialists and a team dedicated to
creating and tailoring learning methods to ensure the impact of
every educational experience. Whether they originate from the
business or university community, our people are passionate about
leveraging education to achieve business outcomes.
Collaborative Development
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In collaboration with our clients, we create programs by
coupling thoughtful and practical educators with engaging learning
methods that suit their objectives, their people and their
budget.
Mix of Experts
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To meet the broad range of needs our clients bring to us, we
augment the quality faculty from Butler University with faculty
from other colleges and universities and with non-faculty
educators.
Mix of Learning Methodologies
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In addition to traditional instructional methods, we make
extensive use of carefully chosen and targeted learning experiences
to create even greater impact. Experiential activities include
action learning projects, simulations, case studies and
team-building exercises.
Blended, Online, Residential
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BCEE uses innovative approaches to reach program participants
wherever they are. We help them move through the process of concept
understanding to behavioral change - right within their real world
workplace. We use internet-based platforms to create learning
spaces that connect participants and faculty with each other in a
process that extends and deepens the learning. As new
technologies emerge, we work to understand what educational value
those tools can bring and how to incorporate them into our
designs.
Immediate Application
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"Real Life, Real Business through BCEE." On-the-job application
is essential to successful executive education. Providing
support before, during and after the learning experience is
essential for executive education to influence new ways of thinking
and behaving at work. Butler Corporate and Executive Education
employs a variety of instrumentation and services to promote
learning transfer, including diagnostic tools, individual and team
coaching, action learning projects, manager briefings and impact
reports.