Wellspring of Learning
The Center for Great Management is the wellspring of continuous learning for the world's best managers. CGM has built a reputation as one of the world's leading management development providers by continually delivering unique, high-impact learning experiences for managers around the globe.
CGM provides a full suite of learning experiences each year. The majority of these experiences are delivered in-house while a select few are available as public events. All of our offerings draw on our extensive research into how the world's greatest managers lead. To remain at the forefront of this effort, we also gather CGM member groups to share key ideas and best practices. Regardless of venue, participants leave every experience armed with the knowledge they need to demonstrate new and more effective behaviors on the job.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter F. Drucker
Transforming Good Managers into Great Ones
In any organization today, managers face a tough road: They must communicate a compelling vision, inspire employees, and drive performance to ever greater heights—all in the face of stiffening competition, dwindling resources, and accelerating change. Great managers achieve this feat by seeking out and putting into action the best ideas, wisdom, and management practices available. That’s not easy: Management development today is long on theory and short on practice. How can managers learn and adopt the meaningful behavioral changes needed to boost their organizations’ performance? This is the key question.
That’s where CGM comes in. We transform merely good managers into great ones—by connecting them with leading thinkers, cutting-edge research findings, and powerful tools of the trade, as well as by spelling out the behavioral changes they must master. Through our customized educational services and products—in-house training, virtual seminars, white papers, and research—we help managers:
See the future before rivals do
Solve their thorniest problems
Discover which management techniques work—and which don't
All our offerings provide managers with easily accessible content that they can immediately put to use in their own organizations.
Serving All Managers
CGM serves managers in all sectors: corporate, government, and not-for-profit. We educate novice managers as well as seasoned leaders transitioning into new roles. And we develop managers from every organizational function, whether it’s human resources, IT, marketing, customer service, finance, or sales.
Companies drawing on CGM to invest in their managers' development include:
| Pfizer | Verizon Wireless |
| Federal Aviation Administration | Xerox Corporation |
| Macy's | Procter & Gamble |
| Kraft | Zappos |
| Honeywell | Phillips |
| Allstate |