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Becoming Green This Spring — New Sustainability Program

We are pleased to announce a new addition to our open enrollment portfolio at UNC Executive Development — Becoming Green: Effective Strategies for You and Your Organization. The program will be offered for the first time this May.

Carol Seagle
Lisa Jones Christensen
Carol Seagle
Lisa Jones Christensen

Two of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School faculty — Carol Seagle, Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, along with Lisa Jones Christensen, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, will lead this highly topical seminar on May 18-21at the Rizzo Conference Center.

In the words of Dr. Seagle, businesses are vital to the movement of sustainability. “While scientists and the government play an important role in addressing environmental issues, businesses are uniquely equipped with the resources and influence to affect positive change on a global scale within much shorter time spans.”

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School has made a strong commitment to sustainability and business. Our Center for Sustainability was established in 2001 to help executives and future business leaders understand how social and environmental considerations are changing the competitive landscape of business.

Seminar Highlights

  • Understand the connection between sustainability and strategic innovation and how successful companies use innovation to drive results and sustained success
  • Examine the history and relevance of sustainability and how businesses are uniquely equipped to make a substantial impact
  • Learn strategies to grow your business while making a positive impact on the environment and society

New Seminar Discount — Bring a colleague and receive 50% off a second registration. Register by March 30th and receive a $400 voucher!

Learn more about Becoming Green and Sustainable Enterprise Initiatives at UNC

Open Enrollment Survey — We Want to Hear from You!

UNC Executive Development wants to know what topics and programs you would like us to offer to help your team meet your business challenges. Please take a moment to take our short, six-question survey and we will share the survey results in our next newsletter.

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Create Your Custom Business Certificate — Open Enrollment Programs Earn CEUs and Apply Toward Advanced Business Certificates

UNC Executive Development now offers two certificate programs through our open enrollment programs. Participants can choose two tracks — Certificate in Leadership & Acumen or Certificate of Excellence in Strategic Leadership & General Management. Participants of past open enrollment programs are eligible, and completion of any program can be considered for credit toward a certificate. Additionally, our open enrollment programs carry Continuing Education Units that apply toward many professional accreditations. Registration is now open for both spring and fall 2009 programs and we encourage early registration to ensure placement.

Certificate Program Information

Registration Open for 2009 Portfolio

General Management

Executive Development Institute
The Executive Development Institute (EDI) is our flagship management program and provides participants with an intensive learning experience blending the basics of advanced business with the most recent topics in innovation and strategy. This program will give you the essential tools, focus and knowledge to become a strategic leader. Over the course of two weeks, you will learn key concepts to advance your career and build a network with other participants from a variety of industries.

Negotiation Skills for Effective Managers
In this seminar, uncover your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator. You will practice important techniques with others to enhance your skills and become more effective in your daily interactions.

Leadership

Leadership Effectiveness Workshop
Over the course of three days, you will learn about your own leadership style and maximize your strengths as a leader. In addition, you will learn the qualities essential to being a great leader, both on a professional and personal level.

Women in Business: Transitioning to Leadership
During this seminar, you will enhance your ability to make the transition from managing to leading. You will learn practical skills to strengthen your impact as a leader and explore the power of networking and self-marketing.

Human Resource Management

The Business of Human Resources
This program is offered in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management. You will develop the key knowledge and skills that will make you a successful, strategic business partner and more effective with leaders in your organization.

Finance

Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers
Over the course of three days, learn how to interpret financial statements and gauge financial impact across departments to better understand an organization’s financial position. By the end of the seminar, you will be able to analyze accounting statements and annual reports and understand how financial terms such as liquidity and goodwill are realized.

Innovation

Driving Profitable Growth with Strategic Innovation
In this three-day seminar, you will learn about various forms of innovation and their ability to positively impact organizations on many levels. Learn how cultural change is required to make innovation a priority and how you can infuse it into your strategic planning and drive greater, more sustainable results.

Sustainability

Becoming Green: Effective Sustainability Strategies for You and Your Organization (New for 2009)
In this new seminar, learn how to minimize environmental impact, extract value from the increasing prevalence of “green” products and services, and improve your stakeholder relationships inside and outside of your firm. Position yourself and your organization to navigate risks and pursue rewards as you seek sustained success.

UNC Kenan-Flagler Speakers Series: Megatrends in Business in Charlotte

The Megatrends in Business event is a unique opportunity to network and listen to Kenan-Flagler faculty discuss current topics and innovations. At the Charlotte event, Peter Brews, Associate Dean, OneMBA Program, and Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, at Kenan-Flagler, will discuss the impact of the global economic crisis and address what Americans must do to rebalance.

The Megatrends Speakers Series is presented in partnership with the MBA for Executives Program.

When: Wednesday, February 25 – 6:30 PM
Where: The Westin -- Charlotte, NC

Registration: The speakers series is open to the public. There is no registration fee, but pre-registration is required. Please email unc_exec@unc.edu to register.

UNC Executive Development Hosts First Economic Symposium

Symposium

 

On November 20th, UNC Executive Development hosted a symposium at the Rizzo Center to provide an opportunity for our clients and friends to engage with a panel of six faculty and business experts in a discussion of the current economic crisis. The topic discussion centered on the basics of “what happened, what now and what next” for businesses and the panel discussion concluded by opening the floor for the audience to ask questions of the panelists. Look for a second symposium to be announced in early 2009.

A special thanks to our expert panelists who made the Symposium possible -- Jennifer Conrad, Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School; Christian Lundblad, Edward M. O’Herron Distinguished Scholar & Associate Professor of Finance, Kenan-Flagler Business School; Lissa L. Broome, Director of the Center for Banking and Finance, Wachovia Professor of Banking Law, UNC School of Law; William G. Pappas, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP, Partner, Business Law Department/Commercial & International Practice Group Leader;  David Roberts, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kenan-Flagler Business School and Peter Brews , Associate Dean, OneMBA Program, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School

Notice Me: Cutting Through the Marketing Clutter

Kenan-Flagler’s Sridhar Balasubramanian, Roy & Alice H. Richards Bicentennial Scholar and Associate Professor of Marketing and Pradeep Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor of Marketing, recently co-authored an article “Notice Me: Cutting Through the Marketing Clutter” which was published in the Wall Street Journal in October. Balasubramanian and co-author Bhardwaj explore the challenge of achieving and maintaining high visibility in an increasingly competitive marketplace and offer five key marketing points to gain notice. Sridhar Balasubramanian teaches for Kenan-Flagler’s degree programs and is a long-time Executive Development faculty member teaching in both our custom and open enrollment programs.

Kenan-Flagler Habitat for Humanity House Project Update

UNC Executive Development staff recently volunteered for a “build day” on Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Habitat for Humanity project home. "The House that Kenan-Flagler Built," brings together students, faculty and staff across the School to work together in service to the community. The volunteer work on the home was completed this month and the family will be moving in shortly.

Habitat for Humanity House

 

UNC Executive Development and Habitat for Humanity staff members working on the Habitat House Friday, December 12th