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In this course, you will develop an understanding of how hospitality real estate fits into a typical owner's investment portfolio and articulate how your property contributes to the overall ownership investment strategy and goals. You will examine the different approaches to the asset manager role, which often depends on the ownership and property needs. You will determine how the asset manager who works with your property functions in their role. You will review the typical design and contents of an asset management plan and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your hotel from the asset manager's perspective. By the end of this course, you will gain an understanding of the perspective of the hotel owner so you can more effectively collaborate with the owner and asset manager by closely aligning your hotel goals with the goals of ownership.
In this course, you will explore the strategic decisions asset managers make, determining how you can proactively share information that maximizes your influence and helps them make better decisions. You will review the key components of a market assessment and pinpoint the data needed for effective analysis. You will develop an understanding of hold vs. sell decisions and determine how you can help optimally position your property for analysis. You will determine strategies for effectively communicating with the asset manager through periodic status meetings and site visits. After completing this course you will be prepared to influence the asset management strategy for your property and work more effectively with your asset manager.
In this course, you will examine the analytical tools asset managers use to perform critical analyses. You will conduct both a competitive analysis and a SWOT analysis on your property. You will explore benchmarking practices and financial analyses to identify deviations from expected performance. You will also examine best practices for projecting capital expenditures and performing a highest and best use analysis.You will leave this course with an array of helpful techniques that will enable you to provide the data and analysis that asset managers need to perform their jobs effectively.
In this course, you will explore critical aspects of facility maintenance including best practices for various types of maintenance, waste reduction strategies, methods for reducing environmental impact, and computerized maintenance systems that enhance efficiency. You will explore several tools critical to the effective financial and operational management of the facilities department. You will be prepared to make critical outsourcing decisions, to manage overlapping maintenance and housekeeping activities, and to use the best financial analysis tools to effectively manage the financial impact of the facilities department. By completing this course you will gain the skills necessary to effectively and efficiently manage your property building operations and extend the useful life (maximize the value) of the ownership group's physical asset.

Symposium sessions feature three days of live, highly interactive virtual Zoom sessions that will explore today’s most pressing topics. The Leadership Symposium offers you a unique opportunity to engage in real-time conversations with peers and experts from the Cornell community and beyond. Using the context of your own experiences, you will take part in reflections and small-group discussions to build on the skills and knowledge you have gained from your courses.

Join us for the next Symposium in which we’ll discuss the ways that leaders across industries have continued engaging their teams over the past two years while pivoting in strategic ways. You will support your coursework by applying your knowledge and experiences to relevant topics for leaders. Throughout this Symposium, you will examine different areas of leadership, including innovation, strategy, and engagement. By participating in relevant and engaging discussions, you will discover a variety of perspectives and build connections with your fellow participants from various industries.

Upcoming Symposium: June 4-6, 2024 from 11am – 1pm ET

All sessions are held on Zoom.

Future dates are subject to change. You may participate in as many sessions as you wish. Attending Symposium sessions is not required to successfully complete any certificate program. Once enrolled in your courses, you will receive information about upcoming events. Accessibility accommodations will be available upon request.

Symposium sessions feature three days of live, highly interactive virtual Zoom sessions that will explore today’s most pressing topics. The Hospitality Symposium offers you a unique opportunity to engage in real-time conversations with peers and experts from the Cornell community and beyond. Using the context of your own experiences, you will take part in reflections and small-group discussions to build on the skills and knowledge you have gained from your courses.

Join us for the next Symposium, in which we’ll discuss how both day-to-day operations and strategic goal setting in the hospitality sector have rapidly evolved over the past two years, opening up new space for real-time conversations about the future of the industry. You will support your coursework by applying your knowledge and experiences to various areas of the industry, examining the innovations and accommodations you have all had to make throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and strategizing on future directions. By participating in relevant and engaging discussions, you will discover a variety of perspectives and build connections with your fellow participants from across the industry.

Upcoming Symposium: March 12 – 14, 2024 from 11-1pm ET

  • Tuesday, March 12, 2024 11:00AM ET – 1:00PM ET
    • Discover the Gift of a Guest Complaint
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:00AM ET – 1:00PM ET
    • Prisoners’ Dilemma in Hotel Revenue
  • Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:00AM ET – 1:00PM ET
    • Innovation Strategy for the Hospitality Industry

All sessions are held on Zoom.

Future dates are subject to change. You may participate in as many sessions as you wish. Attending Symposium sessions is not required to successfully complete any certificate program. Once enrolled in your courses, you will receive information about upcoming events. Accessibility accommodations will be available upon request.

Why are some companies successful, while so many other businesses fail? Some organizations may just be lucky, but success based solely on luck probably will not last. For an organization to have sustained success, it must stay competitive in the market; it simply cannot survive without effectively differentiating itself from its competitors. What sets your organization apart from your adversaries? A winning strategy will enable you to take on the market, maximize performance, and boost profitability.

In this course, you will work through key activities in the strategy formulation process. First, you will investigate what a good strategy is, how to think like a strategist, and how to identify the foundations of your firm's strategies. You will then analyze the broad and operating environments. A broad environmental analysis forms the context in which the firm and its operating environment exist, as stakeholders also have the potential to exert influence over strategy formulation. Crafting a successful strategy includes the consideration of your organization's internal environment to determine what resources, capabilities, and strengths can be leveraged or developed to form future strategies. Organizations work to create advantage through the development of resources and capabilities. Toward the end of your learning experience, you'll have an opportunity to identify patterns that exist between your internal and external factors, and you will devise possible strategies.

Formulating an effective strategy requires that an organization ask the right questions and then answer them thoughtfully and thoroughly. This course raises and helps you answer some of the most critical interrelated questions, such as: How does my company choose the right strategies to define where and how we will compete? What is my firm's vision and mission? How does my firm create value?

You will begin by exploring the importance of direction setting in the strategy formulation process. You will then examine general business-level strategies focused on creating value, such as cost advantage and differentiation, by answering how your firm competes at the level of the hotel or business unit. In addition, you will examine corporate strategies like diversification, concentration, and vertical integration, which help organizations answer the question of where to compete in related and unrelated industries.

Given that no two strategies are alike, you will classify both business and corporate strategies into common strategic characteristics to help you better identify your own organization's competitive positioning, as well as those of the competitors. What's more, you will explore the structure of an industry as the definition of industries and the competitive playing field continue to evolve and change.

You are required to have completed the following course or have equivalent experience before taking this course:

  • Fundamentals of Hospitality Strategy

You've worked tirelessly to create an effective strategy that takes into account your organization's mission and vision and any related risk factors, as well as the competitive landscape in which you operate. Now what? Implementation is the crucial next step in this process, but there can be many pitfalls along the way.

This course will provide you with the tools to recognize why strategic implementation can fail; how you can create an organizational structure and culture that will support and fit with your overarching strategic goals; and how to establish systems, measures, and incentives to effectively implement your strategy.

You will complete this course with an action plan in hand that will enable you to confidently lead the implementation of your strategy in your organization.

You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:

  • Fundamentals of Hospitality Strategy
  • Formulating Hospitality Strategy

Leaders at every level need to be able to execute on their ideas. In virtually every case, this means that leaders need to be able to persuade others to join in this execution. In order to do so, understanding how to create and utilize power in an organization is critical.

In this course, developed by Professor Glen Dowell, Ph.D., of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, students will focus on their personal relationship with power as well as how power works in their organization and social network.

 

Project Management Institute (PMI®) Continuing Certification: Participants who successfully complete this course will receive 6 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from PMI®. Please contact PMI ® for details about professional project management certification or recertification.

 

This course will introduce you to basic negotiation terminology. You will learn about the difference between distributive and integrative negotiation, and how to use each of these approaches to negotiation to create maximum value. You will then learn how to balance these two approaches in order to further your chances of making a deal and create even greater further value. By the end of the course, you will have the tools to not only split the pie but also grow the pie in a way that would benefit you and your negotiating partner.

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