Adjunct faculty member Kellie Jenkins shares key lessons on feedback, as well as tips for providing helpful critiques and avoiding pitfalls.
Executive Education Articles
Why Retaining Talent Isn’t About Increasing Compensation
Scott McLagan shares key details on how to increase employee retention, without raising salaries.
Public Safety Leadership Program Celebrates 15 Years of Service
More than 1,200 first responders have graduated from Executive Education’s professional development program.
Becoming a Leader
“Leadership” can have a variable and highly personalized definition.
How to Have Difficult Discussions With Your Employees
There are good models that can help all leaders deliver hard news in a constructive, non-threatening way.
With Yoda-like Wisdom, Professor’s Impact Stretches Beyond
Scott McLagan set to retire after nearly 20 years at Daniels Scott McLagan looks at his career in segments, not dissimilar to stops along a bus route. The first part of his career was in the corporate world, where he spent more than 25 years holding senior executive...
Emotional Intelligence at Work
How to check yo'self before you wreck yo'self—professionally Even rocket scientists can get a little unhinged at work. When NASA adopted “crowdsourcing”—getting input from external sources to solve some of its problems—it worked. Management knew the feedback would...
Actually, it is Rocket Science …
Lockheed Martin Space teams with Daniels to provide customized executive education modules to its highly educated workforce “It isn’t exactly rocket science” is now part of our vernacular for describing mundane jobs or uninspired ideas. But employees at Lockheed...
Philanthropic Faculty
Highlighting the longstanding generosity of two Daniels faculty members and their families For Kerry Plemmons and Scott Toney, Daniels’ vision— pioneering business for the public good—is more than just a phrase. It’s a way of being. A guiding mantra they both take to...