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Program Experience
Highlights and Key Outcomes:
In Leading and Managing People: Strategies for a Changing Workforce, you will learn how to:
- Create a more structured and effective hiring process
- Leverage data to make better people-based decisions
- Create a strategy for enhancing employee engagement and addressing attrition
- Develop a coherent strategy for remote and hybrid work
- Discover effective approaches to skill development
- Develop compensation plans that incentivize desired outputs
- Understand the implications of changing technologies for long-term planning
- Hone the requisite skills for positive leadership, including communication, emotional intelligence, delegation, and mentorship
Experience and Impact
This unique program is grounded in cutting-edge research from Wharton faculty who lead the school’s Center for Human Resources and People Analytics Initiative. Through a combination of interactive lectures, small-group discussions, and exercises, you will learn the latest insights and best practices for managing today’s workforce.
Each day will begin with a faculty-led integration session that will help you apply classroom learnings to your specific leadership challenges.
Session topics include:
- Effective Hiring
- Managing the Remote Workplace
- Building a Talent Pipeline
- Coaching and Development
- Engagement and Retention
- Designing High-Performing Pay and Incentives
- Understanding True Performance
- Leading through your Networks
- Navigating Difficult Conversations
Convince Your Supervisor
Here’s a justification letter you can edit and send to your supervisor to help you make the case for attending this Wharton program.
Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.
Who Should Attend
Leading and Managing People: Strategies for a Changing Workforce is designed for leaders and managers seeking to improve talent acquisition, development, engagement and culture, and retention. Its results-oriented, hands-on learning experience will prepare you to meet current and future challenges in people management in any industry. Specific roles and functions may include:
- Successful functional, country, or unit managers preparing to take on broader responsibilities outside their areas of expertise and experience
- People leaders across all disciplines, including marketing and analytics, research and development, accounting and finance, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing and engineering, human resources, and information technology
- Executives who build and lead multi-functional teams
- CEOs and other senior leaders of small and mid-sized companies
Fluency in English, written and spoken, is required for participation in Wharton Executive Education programs unless otherwise indicated.
Plan Your Stay
This program is held at the Steinberg Conference Center located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Meals and accommodations are included in the program fees. Learn more about planning your stay at Wharton’s Philadelphia campus.
Group Enrollment
To further leverage the value and impact of this program, we encourage companies to send cross-functional teams of executives to Wharton. We offer group-enrollment benefits to companies sending four or more participants.
Faculty
Matthew Bidwell, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Academic Director
Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Careers, contingent work, firm boundaries, human resource management, knowledge workers
Iwan Barankay, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Management; Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Political economy, behavioral economics, field experiments, personnel economics
Peter Cappelli, DPhilSee Faculty Bio
George W. Taylor Professor of Management; Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Human-resource practices, public policy related to employment, talent and performance management
Marissa King, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Alice Y. Hung President’s Distinguished Professor; Professor of Health Care Management; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Katherine Klein, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Edward H. Bowman Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean and Director, Wharton Social Impact Initiative, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Innovation and technology implementation, leadership, diversity, teams, and social networks
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, JD, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational theory (political sociology, institutional theory); nonmarket strategy; corporate governance; corporate misconduct and punishment
Samir Nurmohamed, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Adversity, motivation, behavioral ethics, resilience, storytelling, punishment, whistleblowing, cover-ups, socialization, onboarding, injustice, stereotypes, stigma
Prasanna Tambe, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Economics of IT labor, technological change, and labor markets