About Drucker Unpacked

About Drucker Unpacked

For the first time, managers and their teams have the opportunity to master Drucker’s core principles and then turn them into action with Drucker Unpacked, an exciting new offering developed in partnership by the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University; the WildWorks Group, a leading process consultant to Fortune 500 companies; and The Center for Great Management.

Drucker Unpacked is a two-phased approach designed to build your managers’ core capabilities as well as give them the tools to take on some of today’s toughest business challenges. Both phases—which are mutually reinforcing—are delivered through engaging, self-facilitated one- to three-hour sessions that are unlike traditional training programs. With our proprietary process and materials, participants actually drive the learning themselves, sharing their personal experiences and creating their own “aha’s.” Most important, they walk away with real ownership of a concrete plan to turn their insights into results.

One phase of Unpacked, “The Drucker Management Path,” is a fully integrated curriculum that teaches managers how to be more effective and how to lead. The other, “Business in Action,” allows managers to work with their teams to tackle specific business issues.

And underlying it all are 60-plus years of practical wisdom from the most trusted management thinker of our time.

The Drucker Management Path

The Drucker Management Path

We began by asking leading CEOs and accomplished HR executives a simple question: “What do you need to develop your managers?” Time and again, we heard the same answer: “I need my managers to understand the fundamental concepts that are truly paramount to their success—and the organization’s success. And I need them to understand how to apply those concepts each and every day.”

This is what the Drucker Management Path is all about. It utilizes the Drucker Unpacked active-learning method to convey Peter Drucker’s timeless teachings about effective management in a holistic and sequential way.

The Drucker Management Path will be available in 2010.

Business in Action

Business in Action

Whether you have completed the Drucker Management Path or not, Drucker Unpacked’s Business in Action sessions can help teams of up to 15 people in your organization solve problems and exploit opportunities. As with all of Drucker Unpacked, these sessions distill decades of Peter Drucker’s most essential writings and give participants the tools to put them into practice.

Thanks to Drucker Unpacked’s unique methodology, Business in Action sessions also strengthen team spirit and communication, promote individual accountability and create group ownership of results. What’s more, the inherent flexibility of the Drucker Unpacked system allows for easy application to any work environment.

Those managers who have completed the Drucker Management Path will be in a particularly good position to take advantage of Business in Action. Because both tracks use the same underlying process, those who have experience with the Drucker Management Path will be comfortable with the Unpacked system and ready to use Business in Action sessions with their teams. No special training is required.