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| Join us to hear Ed Lotterman & Dr. David Vang provide an informed, practical analysis of the current |
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| Date: 07/06/2008 |
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| Join us to hear Ed Lotterman & Dr. David Vang provide an informed, practical analysis of the current state of our economy and what this means for you. Television news’s talking heads sell drama. Beyond their hype, we are all affected and concerned about which way to turn. In such a climate it can be challenging to distinguish fact from exaggeration and reason from speculation. From this discussion you will gain a better understanding of what’s happening to people and businesses in today’s economy – and what you can expect – so you can better plan for your future. Ask our speakers questions and engage with others in a dialogue relevant to all aspects of your life. |
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| Infrastructure Systems Engineering Information Session |
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| Date: 07/10/2008 |
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| The Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and Department of Civil Engineering have partnered to deliver the MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, a program designed for working professionals in civil engineering and construction with a comprehensive, systems-based approach to their discipline. It's also a management program that gives you practical and leading-edge solutions that you can apply the next day.
Who should attend this program?
• Professionals responsible for the health and sustainability of our critical infrastructure
• Engineers looking for the latest technology and best practices to apply at work
• Professionals looking for career enhancement and association with colleagues from a broad range of engineering firms and public organizations
• Organizations seeking leadership and management development for their engineers
For more information about this dynamic opportunity, we invite you—or others in your organization—to attend one of the following information sessions:
• Thursday, July 10, 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 20, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, September 8, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, October 2, 5:30 p.m.
Expand your network, see the big picture, and keep up on the latest technology in the infrastructure field.
For more information or to RSVP for the informational meeting, please call 612-624-4380 or email degrees-cdtl@umn.edu. |
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| Building Winning Working Relationships |
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| Date: 07/15/2008 |
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Program Overview
Maximize your people-reading skills
Within the first several minutes of interacting with other people you tend to "size them up." This natural and instinctive people reading guides your attitudes about and relations with others. However, problems can arise if your people reading is based upon what you believe others should be instead of who they really are. This seminar shows you how to avoid clouding your perceptions with your own behavioral and motivational preferences. It is a must for anyone who wants to get off to the right start in building key work relationships.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand the causes of nonproductive interaction
• Identify your own work behavioral tendencies and motivation satisfiers
• Profile the personal characteristics and needs of others
• Use information about others to customize your approach
• Develop strategies for more productive interaction
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D., J.D., operates his own consulting company and conducts hundreds of management and professional development seminars world-wide for organizations such as the Carlson School of Management and the College of Continuing Education.
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| Lifescript |
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| Date: 07/16/2008 |
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| You’re the star of your life story. Make it a great one! Award-Winning filmmakers show you how to use Hollywood storytelling magic to attain important goals in work and life. A fun, interactive, and transformational event.
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Leading Yourself Through Change |
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| Date: 07/17/2008 |
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| Leading Yourself Through Change is a program that will help you understand your own reactions to change, manage your reactions to change, then plan and execute actions to move through the change successfully. You will identify consequences that sustain or undermine your efforts, and consider your impact on others as you navigate the change.
Presenter: Norm Schultz |
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| Writing Policies and Procedures |
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| Date: 07/17/2008 |
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Program Overview
Write effective policies and procedures that are easy to understand and apply.
Are you responsible for preparing effective procedures of any type? Or writing clear, valuable policies? This course is designed with your needs in mind. Whether you are preparing full-fledged policy and procedure manuals, or simply a one-page sheet of directions, your readers will understand your materials their first time through! Learn how to plan, write, edit, and publish successful policies, procedures, manuals, and other directives. Users will find your writing easy to understand reference, apply correctly, and care enough to remember and use.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Assess what belongs in your organization's policies and procedures.
• Analyze audiences and align policies and procedures with their values.
• Write, update, and purge your policies and procedures efficiently.
• Spot language "landmines," words that can create legal or organizational troubles.
• Design a highly readable page layout.
Ben Shank, M.A., has taught writing and written professionally since 1975. He has written for newspapers, universities, and corporations. His skill in written communications has been complemented by his experiences as a stage writer and performer in the United States and Europe.
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| Working Assertively |
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| Date: 07/17/2008 |
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Program Overview
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Being appropriately assertive and knowing how to use your influence effectively are both critical components in achieving workplace success. Skill in assertiveness leads to better communication, more confidence, and improved interpersonal relationships.
In this course, you will use the Assertiveness Style Profile to reveal which of four distinct assertiveness styles you favor. You will also learn how to make your style work for you in confronting problem behavior, standing up for yourself, and interacting with authority figures. In addition, you will have the opportunity to discuss specific issues you are dealing with in your own work life.
Following this course you will be able to:
* Recognize the impact of your behavior on others
* Have your ideas and opinions heard and accepted
* Give clear, direct messages
* Deal with criticism
* Make and refuse requests
Jean Morrison ko, is president of a human resource management consulting firm serving the human resource management needs of businesses and public, nonprofit, and educational organizations. She also donates significant time to assisting minority businesses in the area of human resources.
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| The Collaborative 2008 Summer Venture Camp: Session 2 |
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| Date: 07/17/2008 |
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| The Collaborative® Summer Venture Camp returns in 2008 with an expanded schedule – 3 mornings, 12 topics, 50 speakers. Session 2 will be held at Metropolitan State University’s St. Paul Campes, 700 East 7th Street (Auditorium) from 7:15 – 11:15 a.m. Speakers include: Joy Lindsay, StarTec Investments; Ken Holec, Jobs2Web; Steve Mercil, RAIN Source Capital; John Reid, Abbeymoor Medical; Ron Leaf, LFE Capital; David DeGroote, College of Science and Engineering, St. Cloud State University; Kevin Nickels, Celleration; Tom Brady, Digineer; Sandy Layman, Iron Range Resources; Paul Moe, MN Dept. of Employment & Economic Dev; John Fritz, Venture Bank; Steve Schaefer, Fish & Richardson; Jill Radloff, Leonard Street and Deinard; Jim Steiner, Carver Moquist & O'Connor; Alan Thometz, Grant Thornton; Tom Archbold, Fredrikson & Byron; Jeff Sellner, LarsonAllen. $35 for members, $85 for non-members. For more information or to register: 612-338-3828 or www.collaborative.net. |
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| Project Execution |
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| Date: 07/18/2008 |
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Program Overview
Mobilize and execute the project plan
Project managers play a critical role when a project is being executed. The manager is expected to monitor progress, respond to changes, motivate and lead the team, communicate with stakeholders, negotiate with vendors and manage risk. At the same time, they must work within the triple constraints of time, scope and cost.
This course describes strategies for project managers can implement to improve the success rate of projects.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Mobilize and execute the project plan
• Conduct solicitation, source selection, and contract development and administration
• Execute a project plan while working within budget and on schedule
• Track work accomplished against baseline predictions
• Perform quality assurance checks
• Carry out risk response plans
• Distribute information regarding the project progress to key stakeholders
• Motivate and lead the project team
Robert J. Monson , Ph.D., a senior systems manager, has over 20 years experience managing projects in all types of industries. He has been teaching since 1992 and is the author of several articles and presentations in the project management arena.
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| Coaching for Performance |
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| Date: 07/22/2008 |
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| Coaching for Performance prepares first-time managers for their new role. Often, top performers are promoted into management roles without being given the skills necessary to handle their new responsibilities of managing people. This workshop introduces participants to common coaching skills, the types of coaching relationships they could encounter and teaches them to coach as a partnership.
Presenter: Suzanne Murphy |
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| Leading Through Change |
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| Date: 07/23/2008 |
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Program Overview
Learn how to successfully lead your team through change
Change is inevitable. It does not, however, have to be chaotic. Change is a manageable process with definite structures and outcomes that can be reliably anticipated. The goal of this course is to help individuals and organizations understand this, and to become better equipped to adapt to the changes they face daily.
In this course, you will learn the structure of change and how to work with it to make you and your team's transitions smoother and more productive. In addition, you will learn how to help boost your employees' and your own resiliency in the face of change that you didn't initiate.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Describe the predictable phases of change and typical reactions to them
• Identify best practices for managing change, as well as corresponding activities to help move people through their reactions and to build resiliency
• Find opportunities to provide an environment in which people can excel
• Reduce lost productivity due to unmanaged resistance
• Increase others' and your own commitment to proposed changes when you aren't part of the decision making process
• Gain others' trust and commitment to proposed changes
Nan Gesche Larsen, M.A. is a consultant and trainer who guides organizations and individuals through transition while focusing on their strategic goals. Her independent consulting projects include working with diverse organizations on projects such as strategic planning, strategic learning, transition management, as well as working with individuals on career coaching.
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| CEO Forum with Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez July 28 |
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| Date: 07/28/2008 |
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| The Institute for Research in Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, with the assistance of the United States Department of Commerce, invites you to a CEO Forum on Innovation: Drivers and Impediments with Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez.
Moderators:
Carlos M. Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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Rajesh K. Chandy, James D. Watkins Chair of Marketing and Co-Director of the Institute for Research in Marketing
Panelists include:
George Buckley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 3M
William Hawkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, Medtronic
Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairman of the Board, Carlson
Please join us as this distinguished panel discusses innovation in today's enterprises and economies, sharing their lessons and insights on driving innovation and presenting their thoughts on how government policies can help or hinder innovation.
Monday, July 28, 2008
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Free and open to the public
Please RSVP by July 21 at carlsonschool.umn.edu/marketinginstitute/rsvp
3M Auditorium, first floor
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota
321 Nineteenth Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
For more information and updates, please visit carlsonschool.umn.edu/marketinginstitute/events or contact the Institute for Research in Marketing at mktginst@umn.edu |
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| SAVE THE DATE! For the Annual ACRC – UEL BBQ |
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| Date: 07/30/2008 |
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| This year’s annual BBQ will be even bigger (and drier) than the last! Please mark your calendar for Wednesday the 30th of July and join us at the University Enterprise Laboratory for an excellent networking opportunity. More information will be available soon. |
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| Project Leadership |
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| Date: 07/31/2008 |
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Program Overview
Discover strategies for molding and motivating your project team
Influencing and motivating others without formal organizational authority is one of the project manager's biggest leadership challenges. The key to doing so lies in understanding your team members and fostering the idea that everyone is working toward the same goal.
This course provides project managers with the initial step in a life-long process of developing leadership competency. You will discover strategies for effective team building and for solid decision-making. In addition, you will learn how to balance representing both the client and your team while working on a project.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Recognize the organizational culture and its influence on project teams
• Use a leadership style that positively influences the project team
• Take appropriate action to influence others
• Build team orientation within a project
• Understand at a suitable level all issues associated with a project
• Facilitate solutions across all issues related to the project
Richard DeBlieck , M.B.A., is president of his own management and organizational development consulting business. He specializes in: project management, management skills for physicians, conflict management, situational leadership, and organizational quality improvement.
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| Negotiating for Agreement |
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| Date: 07/31/2008 |
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Program Overview
Achieve mutually satisfying agreements
Since some form of negotiation takes place whenever people interact, developing good negotiation skills is critical for organizational and personal success. This course helps you apply proven negotiation techniques to everyday situations as you learn about the negotiation process, including planning, pre-negotiation preparation, and strategy development. You receive hands-on practice and valuable tips for building on your strengths as a negotiator, overcoming your weaknesses, and controlling your emotions. The goal of the course is to achieve mutually satisfying agreements that leave both sides feeling like winners.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Evaluate your own and others' negotiation styles
• Recognize hidden needs and agendas
• Establish common goals
• Counteract ploys and pressure tactics
• Make concessions without giving in
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D., J.D., operates his own consulting company and conducts hundreds of management and professional development seminars world-wide for organizations such as the Carlson School of Management and the College of Continuing Education.
Information Center
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| One Day to Greater Influence (SP1D) |
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| Date: 08/06/2008 |
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| Influential presence when you need it most! Whether presenting, selling, networking, or leading, this powerful one-day program elevates message and delivery for professional “stage presence”. Put magnetic connection, dynamic delivery, and compelling storytelling to work for you.
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Professional Development: Creativity and Inonovation |
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| Date: 08/06/2008 |
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Program Overview
Consistently develop breakthrough products and services
Innovation is the lifeblood of most organizations. Managers must ensure that their organizations are equipped with the knowledge, skills, abilities, and organizational support to successfully nurture creativity and innovation. We will cover mindsets, processes, terminology, best practices, formal tools, and organizational and cultural issues that can increase the success rate of developing new-to-the-world products and services. Our goal is to give you a framework to allow you to "systematize" innovation.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand the cultural, organizational, and personal drivers that impact innovative thinking and behavior in organizations
• Create a culture of creativity and risk-taking that enables breakthrough thinking
• Draw from a toolkit to facilitate brainstorming and creative thinking
• Learn mindsets and tools to stay ahead of the curve in recognizing and evaluating new product and service opportunities
• Learn how to "systematize" processes for idea generation, concept development, concept testing, and project selection to drive successful innovation
Rod Greder, Ph.D., is founder and president of an international training and consulting firm. Rod consults and trains on innovation, cross-functional communication, NPD metrics, change management, and best practices for discovery, development and launch of new products. He is an adjunct instructor teaching marketing, entrepreneurship and new products management.
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| The Collaborative 2008 Summer Venture Camp: Session 3 |
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| Date: 08/07/2008 |
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| The Collaborative® Summer Venture Camp returns in 2008 with an expanded schedule – 3 mornings, 12 topics, 50 speakers. Session 3 will be held at the University of Minnesota’s 3M Auditorium, Carlson School (321 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis) from 7:15 – 11:15 a.m. Speakers include: Jeff Kiesel, Restaurant Technologies; Thies Kolln, AAVIN Venture Capital; Doug Johnson, University of MN Venture Center; Dan Mallin, SDWA Ventures; Shawn Lyndon, Orasi Medical; Maureen Driscoll, RSM McGladrey; Tim Bianchi, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner; Barbara Nelsen, Office for Technology Commercialization, University of MN; Andy LaFrence, KPMG; Kari Larsen, Stanton Group; Peter Ekberg, Faegre & Benson; David Terry, Deloitte & Touche; John Stavig, Carlson School of Management, University of MN; Mike Roesler, Principal Financial Group; Tom Martin, Dorsey & Whitney. $35 for members, $85 for non-members. For more information or to register: 612-338-3828 or www.collaborative.net. |
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| Successful Manager's Leadership Program |
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| Date: 08/12/2008 |
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Successful Manager's Leadership Program
The University of Minnesota and Personnel Decisions International have partnered to deliver the Successful Manager's Leadership Program; a management training program that will develop managers and equip them with the skills, behaviors, and tools needed to be successful. This program incorporates learning from the popular Successful Manager's Handbook which has sold over one million copies in over 30 countries.
Based on extensive research on hundreds of managers across a variety of industries, this program focuses on the key skills and behaviors that contribute to the success of today's managers and leaders. This program addresses managers' needs for understanding their roles as leaders, applies sound leadership principles, and provides participants with the skills, behaviors, and tools for success. A new feature of this program includes a 360° assessment of each participant.
Who should attend this program?
* Managers and emerging leaders
* Mid-level managers who have recently been promoted
* Prospective managers looking for career enhancement
* Businesses seeking leadership excellence for their management team
Contact Info
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| Project Control and Closure |
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| Date: 08/14/2008 |
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Program Overview
Learn the steps for successfully controlling and then closing a project
Project control is that element of a project that keeps it on-track, on-time, and within budget. Project control begins early in the project with planning and ends late in the project with post-implementation review, having a thorough involvement of each step in the process.
Once a project has been completed, the manager's duties turn from control to closing. During closing, stakeholders must be notified, the project needs to be formally accepted, resources released, file archived, evaluations completed, and reports generated.
This course describes strategies for project managers to control a project successfully and refreshes the sustainable approach developed during project controlling. It also provides an overview of closing, an often-overlooked component of a project's lifecycle.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Manage integrated change against established baselines: scope, schedule, and budget
• Manage human resources and conduct project performance reporting
• Carry out risk monitoring and control
• Maintain the project database to benefit from on-going lessons learned
• Summarize and classify previously documented lessons learned, including causes of activities leading to schedule changes, types of schedule changes, reasons for selecting specific corrective actions, and classification of schedule change causes for further analysis
• Implement transition activities to return resources to parent organization
Mary Slack is a management consultant in human resource and organizational development. She specializes in the areas of project management, management development, quality improvement and interpersonal skills. Mary has over 15 years of corporate experience in training, administration, course development and project management.
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| Be-Connected to Effective Networking |
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| Date: 08/19/2008 |
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| The most unique and exciting event of its kind! A networking event that also teaches you how to network. Join the Twin Cities’ most requested networking trainers for an extraordinary evening of instruction, coaching, and productive conversation. Complimentary appetizers and beverages!
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Infrastructure Systems Engineering Information Session |
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| Date: 08/20/2008 |
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| The Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and Department of Civil Engineering have partnered to deliver the MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, a program designed for working professionals in civil engineering and construction with a comprehensive, systems-based approach to their discipline. It's also a management program that gives you practical and leading-edge solutions that you can apply the next day.
Who should attend this program?
• Professionals responsible for the health and sustainability of our critical infrastructure
• Engineers looking for the latest technology and best practices to apply at work
• Professionals looking for career enhancement and association with colleagues from a broad range of engineering firms and public organizations
• Organizations seeking leadership and management development for their engineers
For more information about this dynamic opportunity, we invite you—or others in your organization—to attend one of the following information sessions:
• Thursday, July 10, 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 20, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, September 8, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, October 2, 5:30 p.m.
Expand your network, see the big picture, and keep up on the latest technology in the infrastructure field.
For more information or to RSVP for the informational meeting, please call 612-624-4380 or email degrees-cdtl@umn.edu. |
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| Infrastructure Systems Engineering Information Session |
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| Date: 09/08/2008 |
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| The Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and Department of Civil Engineering have partnered to deliver the MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, a program designed for working professionals in civil engineering and construction with a comprehensive, systems-based approach to their discipline. It's also a management program that gives you practical and leading-edge solutions that you can apply the next day.
Who should attend this program?
• Professionals responsible for the health and sustainability of our critical infrastructure
• Engineers looking for the latest technology and best practices to apply at work
• Professionals looking for career enhancement and association with colleagues from a broad range of engineering firms and public organizations
• Organizations seeking leadership and management development for their engineers
For more information about this dynamic opportunity, we invite you—or others in your organization—to attend one of the following information sessions:
• Thursday, July 10, 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 20, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, September 8, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, October 2, 5:30 p.m.
Expand your network, see the big picture, and keep up on the latest technology in the infrastructure field.
For more information or to RSVP for the informational meeting, please call 612-624-4380 or email degrees-cdtl@umn.edu. |
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| Principles of Supervision |
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| Date: 09/09/2008 |
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Program Overview
Effectively manage people and achieve extraordinary results
This course will equip you with core management skills that will help you effectively meet day-to-day challenges and achieve results by bringing out the best in people. Because your style directly impacts motivation and productivity, it is essential that you understand the relationship between style and work environment. The Managerial Style Questionnaire is used to identify which management styles you rely on most, and when they are the most and least effective. Team leaders, supervisors, and managers will all benefit from learning and practicing the management, interpersonal and communication skills required to succeed in today's complex and ever changing environment.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand and leverage your supervisory role
• Discover your authentic style and how it affects others
• Develop a productive work environment
• Build essential communication skills
• Develop, motivate, and coach your work group
Stephanie McGovern, M.A.I.R., is founder and president of an organization dedicated to maximizing individual, team, and organizational performance. She has experience building employee ownership and commitment to organizational goals and managing a department during times of rapid change.
Janae Bower, M.A., is a human resource development consultant specializing in organizational learning and developing human potential through training executive leaders and frontline employees.
Information Center
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| National Assoc. of Seed & Venture Funds Annual Conference |
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| Date: 09/10/2008 |
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| Seed and venture fund managers from all over the U.S. will be gathering in Detroit, Michigan, September 10-12 for the annual conference of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds. For three days, Michigan will be the center of the "innovation capital" investing universe. Over 300 innovation capital investors are expected for this peer-to-peer networking and learning event for investors. If you're a fund manager interested in networking with other leading seed and early stage fund managers from across the country, mark your calendar!
For more information, visit nasvf.org. |
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| Management Fundamentals |
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| Date: 09/10/2008 |
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Program Overview
Understand your role and responsibilities as a manager
Managers need a solid foundation in the key functions of management - planning, organizing, leading, and controlling - to meet management challenges. This practical course examines these functions and translates them into the skills needed to perform successfully. You will learn how to take a "situational approach" to leadership-that is, how to choose a leadership style that is appropriate and effective for the situation. Using the Leader Behavior Analysis II (LBAII), you'll also gain an understanding of how others perceive and experience your style. This course is designed for managers who want to increase their personal effectiveness and the performance of their work groups.
*Prerequisite for other courses in the Essential Management Certificate
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand your role and responsibilities as a manager
• Set goals, establish standards, and measure performance
• Manage time and meetings effectively
• Delegate to achieve results
• Use situational leadership in your work setting
• Develop and coach your staff
Richard DeBlieck , M.B.A., is president of his own management and organizational development consulting business. He specializes in: project management, management skills for physicians, conflict management, situational leadership, and organizational quality improvement.
Information Center
cceinfo@umn.edu
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| Be-Scripted to Compelling Messages |
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| Date: 09/11/2008 |
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| BE-SCRIPTED TO COMPELLING MESSAGES. Ensure listeners get your intended point and are inspired to decisive action! For presentations to hundreds or “elevator pitches” to key decision-makers. Work with an award-winning screenwriter to instantly improve your most important messages in this engaging, half-day workshop.
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Be-Directed to Powerful Presenting |
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| Date: 09/11/2008 |
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| BE-DIRECTED TO POWERFUL PRESENTING. Unleash the dynamic and powerful speaker inside you! Enjoy instant improvement in your presentations, conversations, and daily interactions. Work with an award-winning film director to shape your performance and maximize your advantage in this interactive half-day workshop.
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Problem Solving and Decision Making |
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| Date: 09/11/2008 |
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Program Overview
Generate solutions that get results
There is no single best way to solve a problem. Your point of view, ethics, and comfort with risk taking, as well as your skill in using various tools, influence your approach to generating solutions. Whether it's a production, customer service, sales, or performance problem, this course helps you assess the effectiveness of your problem-solving techniques and suggests other techniques that may be more practical and productive.
Following this course you will be able to:
* Use a step-by-step process to create the best possible solutions
* Combine creativity and fact-finding to solve a wide range of problems
* Understand how decisions are made
* Apply problem-solving techniques to work situations
* Deal with personal and organizational issues that affect problem solving
Jerilynn Sushko, M.B.A., M.A., is president of her own corporate training and management consulting company specializing in a variety of business education areas. She teaches credit and Professional Development classes at several colleges in the Twin Cities area.
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| Project Management Foundations |
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| Date: 09/12/2008 |
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Program Overview
Build a solid base in the underlying principles of project management
A solid foundation in project management essentials includes understanding the role of the project manager, types of projects and organizations, stages of a project, terminology and the process and interactive skills expected of a good project manager.
This course provides a framework to the discipline of project management for anyone who lacks formal training in the field, but finds themselves involved in a project as a sponsor, manager or team member. It includes an overview of the Project Management Certificate and how each course contributes to your skill as a project manager.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand role of the project manager
• Understand what a project is (temporary, unique endeavor)
• Understand key terms related to project management
• Understand why project management is essential to the success of an organization
• Understand different types of organizations (traditional, weak matrix, projectized, etc.) and how they impact project management
• Understand different types of projects (internal, external, single customer, multiple customers, etc.)
• Understand the 9 knowledge areas described by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in its PMBOK® Guide
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| Minnesota Executive Program |
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| Date: 09/14/2008 |
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| This powerful advanced business strategy and leadership development program is designed for top executives who want to enhance and sharpen their strategic business and leadership skills to manage strategically, leverage technology, gain market share, and effectively engage and lead people. Four, one-week modules are scheduled over four months.
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| The Science of Market Development |
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| Date: 09/16/2008 |
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| This 2.5-day course will provide an in-depth, hands-on experience intended to provide a clear understanding of the roadmap to standard of care for medical technologies. It is designed to deliver key insights and practical tools that participants can use immediately to help accelerate market adoption and growth over the short and long term. This course content is applicable to all medical technologies whether they are at concept, newly released, struggling to grow, seemingly fast tracking, or mature. |
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| High Impact Presentation |
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| Date: 09/17/2008 |
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Program Overview
Take command of your presentation and speaking skills
Powerful speaking and presentation skills are an asset in any organization. This course will prepare you for verbal and visual high impact communication-whether you're speaking to a group, or one-on-one with an employee, a customer, or your boss. You'll learn how to plan a presentation, use supporting materials, and begin and end effectively. You also gain tips for "selling" ideas, personalizing information in your presentation, and projecting believability. The focus is on enhancing your natural speaking style as you improve the content and delivery of your presentations.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Make a positive first impression
• Put energy into your delivery
• Use your body and voice to express yourself confidently and competently
• Capture the attention of your listener and overcome resistance to your message
Jerilynn Sushko, M.B.A., M.A., is president of her own corporate training and management consulting company specializing in a variety of business education areas. She teaches credit and Professional Development classes at several colleges in the Twin Cities area.
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| Board Leadership Training |
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| Date: 09/19/2008 |
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| Accelerate the start-up time to becoming a high-performing board member with this specialized half-day of training. You will learn from trained and accredited association management professionals and will include: how to run and be a part of efficient board meetings; how to build an achievable annual plan; how to read financial statements for your association; how to nurture strong committees and recruit volunteers; and much more! |
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| Building Teamwork and Commitment |
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| Date: 09/24/2008 |
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Program Overview
Help your team live up to its potential quickly
Successful managers and supervisors use proven team-building techniques to turn groups of individuals with diverse interests and skills into cohesive, high-performing teams. You can use these same techniques to build and manage your own winning team and work groups. Focusing on team member satisfaction and commitment, you learn specific approaches to align personal and organizational goals, encourage a shared sense of purpose, and help everyone recognize their importance to the team. You'll also use the Personal Profile System (co-developed by the instructor) to better understand your own behavioral and communication style as well as those of your team members to help you develop more productive team interaction.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand the stages of team development
• Develop more productive team interaction
• Promote information sharing and group problem solving
• Provide a self-motivating environment
• Overcome organizational, management, and employee barriers to teamwork
Michael A. Johnson, Ph.D., J.D., operates his own consulting company and conducts hundreds of management and professional development seminars world-wide for organizations such as the Carlson School of Management and the College of Continuing Education.
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| Writing Persuasive Business Proposals |
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| Date: 09/25/2008 |
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Program Overview
Write successful business proposals that produce results
Do you find yourself wondering why your proposals aren't accepted or why the "higher ups" don't respond to your recommendations? You can increase your success and effectiveness by learning how to write compelling proposals that meet the needs of the sponsors and stakeholders who will use them. Your messages and goals will be strengthened as you learn how to plan complementary writing processes, integrate useful visuals, and edit your writing for persuasiveness, clarity, and conciseness. You'll have an opportunity to evaluate proposals you have written and to work on current writing projects. Participants are encouraged to bring projects to class.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand the results you want to obtain and "begin with the end in mind"
• Plan and write persuasive proposals that address your audience and their motivations
• Integrate visuals and other evidence to support your key points
• Use a systematic approach to review, revise, and edit proposals
• Apply project management techniques when developing proposals and reports
Barbara K. Mednick, B.A., is an experienced communications consultant who has taught writing and written professionally since 1981. Barbara provides PR/marketing communications consulting, promotional copywriting and communications/writing training services to a variety of local and national clients.
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| Successfully Dealing with Conflict at Work |
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| Date: 09/25/2008 |
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Program Overview
Learn basic methods for resolving interpersonal conflict
Conflict is a normal part of everyone's professional and personal lives. How people handle conflict, anger, and criticism affects their work relationships and productivity. This practical course is designed to help you improve your confidence and effectiveness in managing conflict. Using a self-assessment tool to identify your instinctive approach to conflict, you develop strategies for responding to difficult situations and build valuable skills for positively resolving conflict.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Anticipate, analyze, and diagnose conflict
• Identify factors that influence conflict
• Recognize personal styles and interpersonal needs in conflict situations
• Handle confrontation
• Control your emotions
Jean Morrison, is president of a human resource management consulting firm serving the human resource management needs of businesses and public, nonprofit, and educational organizations. She also donates significant time to assisting minority businesses in the area of human resources.
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| Project Initiation |
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| Date: 09/26/2008 |
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Program Overview
Increase the success rate of proposed projects by gathering the information necessary to evaluate and reach consensus on which are to be selected
The steps you take in the planning stages of your project are critical in its overall success. This course will help you get off to the right start by giving you tips and tricks to navigate this critical pre-implementation phase.
During the course, you will discuss how information is gathered and project feasibility is determined. This includes communicating with stakeholders, analyzing the organization, developing a budget and identifying roles and responsibilities. You will also learn how to garner support and buy-in from all stakeholders in the project, including your customers and your team.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Perform an initial feasibility study and analysis
• Identify your project's needs and determine how it fits into the organization's overall strategy
• Complete stakeholder needs analysis as a guide to the project planning process
• Identify customer expectations with regards to timing of delivery, major milestones, and any schedule and delivery constraints
• Determine quality requirements
• Identify the organizational structure (e.g., strong matrix and weak matrix) in order to determine project effects
Robert J. Monson , Ph.D., a senior systems manager, has over 20 years experience managing projects in all types of industries. He has been teaching since 1992 and is the author of several articles and presentations in the project management arena.
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| Services Operational Improvement |
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| Date: 09/27/2008 |
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| Discover how to achieve operational exellence in all service environments
In this course you will learn how Lean, Six Sigma, Kaisen Blitzes, and other operational improvement approaches can contribute enormously to revenue and profit for service and transactional processes. You'll find out how to eliminate waste, errors, rework, and delays while you make your customers love you. |
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| Presentations: Coaching for Executives |
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| Date: 09/30/2008 |
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| Receive executive-level strategic coaching to further hone presentation skills. Key topics include: analyzing audiences, communicating strategically, managing hostile audiences, and persuading with credibility.
September 30-October 2, 2008 |
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| Ethical Business Decision Making |
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| Date: 10/01/2008 |
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Program Overview
Lead with strength and conviction
Ethics is a hot topic these days. Many times, leaders are forced to decide on issues where there are arguments on both sides - a problem that makes ethical decision-making very difficult. In your role as a leader, your ethical decisions and conduct have a wide impact. This course will provide you with an increased awareness of ethical issues in the workplace as well as aid in developing reasoning skills and processes to make more effective ethical decisions. Through conversations and case studies, you will explore the complexity of a multitude of ethical issues relevant to today's business world including responsibilities to stakeholders, impacts on corporate governance, and individual, organizational, and societal implications of such decisions.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Recognize, understand, and thoughtfully discuss the dimensions of ethical situations and decisions faced as professionals in business
• Employ a systematic decision-making framework in exploring and arriving at ethically sound responses to issues encountered in today's business world
• Understand the context in which ethical principles are applied in contemporary business settings and an appreciation for application of such principles in new and changing organizational and social environments
Rand Park, M.A., J.D., is a Development Officer for The Food Industry Center, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Center based in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Rand has taught as an adjunct professor at Hamline University since 1997.
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| Project Leadership |
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| Date: 10/01/2008 |
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Program Overview
Discover strategies for molding and motivating your project team
Influencing and motivating others without formal organizational authority is one of the project manager's biggest leadership challenges. The key to doing so lies in understanding your team members and fostering the idea that everyone is working toward the same goal.
This course provides project managers with the initial step in a life-long process of developing leadership competency. You will discover strategies for effective team building and for solid decision-making. In addition, you will learn how to balance representing both the client and your team while working on a project.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Recognize the organizational culture and its influence on project teams
• Use a leadership style that positively influences the project team
• Take appropriate action to influence others
• Build team orientation within a project
• Understand at a suitable level all issues associated with a project
• Facilitate solutions across all issues related to the project
Richard DeBlieck , M.B.A., is president of his own management and organizational development consulting business. He specializes in: project management, management skills for physicians, conflict management, situational leadership, and organizational quality improvement.
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| Challenges and Tensions in International Research Collaborations |
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| Date: 10/02/2008 |
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| International research collaborations are expanding rapidly, but they involve certain challenges. How are cross-national collaborations affected by fundamental differences in the way science is organized and funded? in cultural expectations? in laws and regulations? in national systems of graduate education and postdoctoral training? The conference will address these questions in the life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and bioethics.
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| Infrastructure Systems Engineering Information Session |
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| Date: 10/02/2008 |
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| The Center for the Development of Technological Leadership and Department of Civil Engineering have partnered to deliver the MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, a program designed for working professionals in civil engineering and construction with a comprehensive, systems-based approach to their discipline. It's also a management program that gives you practical and leading-edge solutions that you can apply the next day.
Who should attend this program?
• Professionals responsible for the health and sustainability of our critical infrastructure
• Engineers looking for the latest technology and best practices to apply at work
• Professionals looking for career enhancement and association with colleagues from a broad range of engineering firms and public organizations
• Organizations seeking leadership and management development for their engineers
For more information about this dynamic opportunity, we invite you—or others in your organization—to attend one of the following information sessions:
• Thursday, July 10, 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, August 20, 5:30 p.m.
• Monday, September 8, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, October 2, 5:30 p.m.
Expand your network, see the big picture, and keep up on the latest technology in the infrastructure field.
For more information or to RSVP for the informational meeting, please call 612-624-4380 or email degrees-cdtl@umn.edu. |
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| Creating and Executing Strategies: A Strategic-Thinking and Decision-Focused Approach |
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| Date: 10/07/2008 |
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| Get an integrated, flexible framework for strategy development that focuses on what the various approaches to strategy have in common: decision-making. Examine the concepts and tools for taking appropriate riskes while producing enhanced shareholder results.
October 7-9, 2008 |
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| Diversity and Inclusive Work Environments |
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| Date: 10/08/2008 |
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Program Overview
Capitalize on the talents and contributions of all employees
Each of us brings unique perspectives and talents to our work. With a more diverse workforce than ever before, our workplaces are brimming with new ideas and different ways to do things. By fostering a workplace that recognizes and encourages this diversity, we can position ourselves for incredible success and richer lives. Explore the dimensions of diversity, including and going beyond race and gender, and consider how such a wide range of experiences can affect relationship-building in the workplace.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand your role in creating and supporting an inclusive work environment
• Define what diversity and inclusiveness mean in today's culture
• Recognize the advantages diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and opinions bring to an organization
• Contribute to creating opportunities to leverage diversity in an inclusive work environment
• Encourage using the talents of all employees in your work group
Janae Bower, M.A., is a human resource development consultant specializing in organizational learning and developing human potential through training executive leaders and frontline employees.
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| Lifescript |
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| Date: 10/09/2008 |
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| You’re the star of your life story. Make it a great one! Award-Winning filmmakers show you how to use Hollywood storytelling magic to attain important goals in work and life. A fun, interactive, and transformational event.
Presenter: SagePresence |
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| Successful Manager's Leadership Program |
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| Date: 10/14/2008 |
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Successful Manager's Leadership Program
The University of Minnesota and Personnel Decisions International have partnered to deliver the Successful Manager's Leadership Program; a management training program that will develop managers and equip them with the skills, behaviors, and tools needed to be successful. This program incorporates learning from the popular Successful Manager's Handbook which has sold over one million copies in over 30 countries.
Based on extensive research on hundreds of managers across a variety of industries, this program focuses on the key skills and behaviors that contribute to the success of today's managers and leaders. This program addresses managers' needs for understanding their roles as leaders, applies sound leadership principles, and provides participants with the skills, behaviors, and tools for success. A new feature of this program includes a 360° assessment of each participant.
Who should attend this program?
* Managers and emerging leaders
* Mid-level managers who have recently been promoted
* Prospective managers looking for career enhancement
* Businesses seeking leadership excellence for their management team
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| Strategic Planning and Measurement |
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| Date: 10/15/2008 |
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Program Overview
Develop a strategic plan that achieves results
Strategy involves looking up from day-to-day business to look at the future. To make a strategy work, an organization needs managers at all levels who understand the planning process, know what it means to think and act strategically, and can implement the process in their own work units - aligning the work and the workers with the strategic goal. Gain the necessary skills to examine your external environment and driving forces in the near and longer term, and understand how they affect your core business strategy, operational and financial goals, and people-centered processes. Explore measurement systems that provide feedback on internal business processes as well as external outcomes in order to continuously improve strategic performance and results.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Understand strategic planning from both a departmental and organizational perspective
• Use accepted processes to identify and prioritize opportunities to correctly establish a strategic plan
• Develop appropriate measurement frameworks, such as balanced scorecard
• Translate strategic thinking and innovation into implemented plans and programs
• Align action plans with core company processes (strategy, operations, financial, people and systems)
Robert Cummins , M.I.M., is an organizational development consultant who specializes in business and strategic planning. Bob has worked for a number of major Minnesota companies including the Schwan Food Company, Imation and 3M in international marketing, product management, continuous improvement, planning and organizational development.
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| Leading Yourself Through Change |
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| Date: 10/21/2008 |
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| Leading Yourself Through Change is a program that will help you understand your own reactions to change, manage your reactions to change, then plan and execute actions to move through the change successfully. You will identify consequences that sustain or undermine your efforts, and consider your impact on others as you navigate the change.
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| Creating a High Performance Organization |
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| Date: 10/21/2008 |
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| Understand the essential knowledge and skills to drive performance while maintaining an effective work culture. Develop a strong sense of requirements and best practices for effectively leading individuals and teams, and effectively implementing change throughout the organization.
October 21-23, 2008 |
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| Project Risk Management |
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| Date: 10/24/2008 |
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Program Overview
Understand the fundamentals and conditions necessary for conducting successful quantitative project risk analysis
Being able to plan for, identify, and manage risk is crucial to overall project success.
In this course participants will learn how to: identify risks and distinguish which are critical; conduct risk management planning and understand qualitative and quantitative risk analysis; create a risk response plan; and monitor and control risk.
The course departs from a typical threat-based-only view of risk, and also examines favorable occurrences and opportunities that may happen. Practical risk assessment and management processes, tools and techniques are introduced and exercised in a context of organizational cultures, attitudes and behaviors.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Recognize the need for risk and opportunity management
• Identify the organization's risk management policies and risk tolerance levels of stakeholders
• Develop a risk management plan, contingency plans, contractual agreements, risk assessment matrix, and a risk response plan
• Understand fundamentals and conditions necessary for conducting successful quantitative project risk analysis; and operate tools such as spreadsheet and logic network simulations, sensitivity analysis, and decision trees
• Implement a risk response plan, initiate and manage change requests as a response to risk events, and manage change to risk response plans as a result of evolving circumstances
• Monitor the status of all identified risks, identify any new risks, take corrective actions, and update the risk response plan
Keith Hornbacher , M.B.A., president of his own consulting firm, is an experienced project risk management consultant and speaker with more than two decades of hands-on work with international organizations.
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| Operational Excellence: Keys to a Competitive Advantage |
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| Date: 10/27/2008 |
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| Find out how you can increase customer satisfaction and profits while you reduce waste, cycle time, inventory, and cots. Learn to apply lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen Blitzes, benchmarking, change leadership, and other powerful approaches that can immediately improve operations for manufacturing, service, or any other business.
October 27-29, 2008 |
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| Interviewing and Selection Processes for Supervisors |
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| Date: 10/29/2008 |
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Program Overview
How to hire the best candidates
The success of a company is directly related to the quality of people brought into the organization. HR plays a key role in identifying candidates, but it is ultimately up to the supervisor to make sure the best person for the position is hired. You will learn how to identify the most qualified candidates for your organization, while making sure that you are conducting the interviewing and hiring processes both legally and effectively. We will walk you through each step of the interviewing and hiring process and you'll leave with all of the training and materials you need to successfully interview and hire in the 21st century.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Create a performance profile of the ideal candidate
• Learn interview techniques and tips and tools to manage the interview process
• Maximize your recruiting efforts to hire the best candidates
• Understand the legal issues in the interviewing and hiring process
• Determine when you can and cannot conduct pre-employment testing such as personality profiles, physical examinations, and drug testing
James Olney, J.D., a consultant, has extensive experience in the field of employment practices working with a variety of employers on employment related matters; including harassment investigations, human resources audits, affirmative action plans, handbook drafting, and others.
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| Integrated Systems Management |
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| Date: 10/29/2008 |
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Program Overview
Improve management effectiveness
All organizations are made of interrelated and interdependent sub-systems such as employees, teams, departments, divisions, subsidiaries, who all need to work together to achieve organizational goals. The organization also has to interact with various external "systems" such as suppliers, customers, shareholders and government agencies, for example. A manager with a systems view of management will only make decisions after identifying and analyzing how other managers, departments, or customers might be affected by the decisions.
Following this course you will be able to:
• Develop a unified view of how an organization works as a system
• Understand how all processes and tasks within the organization contribute to achieving overall goals
• Implement a high impact, well-integrated and cross-functional systems approach to managing all aspects of the business
• Provide a foundation for a systematic and proactive approach to business process improvement resulting in real and tangible improvements
• Recognize quality standards and regulatory requirements with which you need to comply
Robert Cummins , M.I.M., is an organizational development consultant who specializes in business and strategic planning. Bob has worked for a number of major Minnesota companies including the Schwan Food Company, Imation and 3M in international marketing, product management, continuous improvement, planning and organizational development.
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