Cisco Systems: Building Leaders to Create the Future
When: Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Pat Keating will describe how Cisco Systems' worldwide Leadership Education team designed and developed "high-impact" leadership programs that provide strong grounding in leadership foundations and that accelerate major transitions, both business and personal. The Cisco Leadership Series is a set of five programs specifically targeted for high potential managers and executives with significant growth potential. This webinar will describe the methodology Cisco's team employs to design and evaluate their programs for high business impact.
- How to create an award-winning leadership development program (Cisco won a CUX 7th Annual Best Practice Award in this category)
- The reasoning behind the five programs in the Cisco Leadership Series
- How the company’s expertise in the use of learning technology is leveraged for leadership development
- How the nomination and selection process works
- How effectiveness is measured for the various programs
Presenters:
Pat is Director, Worldwide Leadership Education at Cisco Systems. Pat joined Cisco in January 2000 from San Jose State University where he was Professor of Business Administration. After joining Cisco Systems, he and his team built the Finance Learning and Development Group from scratch. Pat’s career in government, industry and academia spans the areas of corporate transformation, financial management, and information technology. He has conducted extensive field research on corporate transformation at a number of Fortune 500 companies and is the co-author of two books on the role of finance and business strategy. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Penn State University and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.