When asked to evaluate the skills most in demand in today’s workplace, companies ranked values, attitudes, and behaviors AHEAD of employees’ experience and technical expertise.
 

Source: In-Demand Skills Survey, December 2004

Today’s realities of leadership now include increasing competition and intensity, pressure to reduce cycle time and costs, improving productivity and growing the business, while at the same time meeting the increasing demands of customers and Wall Street. These pressures require leaders to redefine and redesign how to think, how to lead and how to act, and these new leaders require a new type of education – one that provides them with a practical framework for solving the problems of today’s complex business environment.

The nation’s medical and law schools have long engaged in a more practical model for educating students – providing them with time for theoretical exercises and research, but also with emphasis on necessary practical skills. University of Phoenix was founded on a learning model that emphasized the importance of the theoretical and the practical. The Next Generation MBA program takes this concept even further.

The University provides its business students with a professional and practitioner oriented education environment. Students have the opportunity to develop and refine their practical business skills through a unique problem-based learning approach – identifying potential problems and creating and defending solutions throughout their degree program as they would in today’s complex business world. This innovative approach to learning puts course content in the context of actual business problems – using content to fill the knowledge gap to allow students to then solve the problems.