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This program is designed for managers and executives who would like to maximize their potential and that of their subordinates through disciplined coaching and empowerment based on a rigorous assessment of the talents of one's self and others.  As one core aspect of this program, we will be examining how building trust is essential for effective coaching of others, and for empowering others to take action. Participants will learn how trust is used to coach and empower others based on the forthcoming book by Aneil Mishra, Ph.D. and Karen Mishra, Ph.D., Trust Me:  How to Be the Boss You Always Wanted, to be published early 2008.  Throughout the program, a variety of experiential exercises and assessment tools will be used to develop participants' effectiveness as coaches.

For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at wdi_ee@umich.edu.

The Leadership for Experienced Managers provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.

This program is offered in Spanish.

This seminar is aimed at mid- to high-level executives who have operational and/or strategic responsibilities in services organizations, or in goods organizations in which services are becoming an integral part of the product mix It is designed to sensitize participants to the characteristics which distinguish goods and services, help identify the unique strategic challenges of services, and provide a new set of tools for managing these strategic challenges.

This program is conducted Spanish.

 This program is designed for experienced marketing managers, sales managers, and other managers associated with developing and evaluating sales operations. The principles presented are proven to improve sales and performance in corporations of all sizes; industrial, or consumer industries; profit or non-profit companies; product or service providers.

This program will be conducted in Spanish.

This program is designed for sales and marketing managers who must analyze their markets and prepare a marketing plan. This program offers a comprehensive framework for strategic marketing planning and outlines a structured approach to identifying, understanding, and solving marketing problems.  For marketing managers and senior sales managers, this session will present a framework that will help develop a strategy for day-to-day decisions involving product and service design, branding, pricing, promotion, and channel distribution decisions. The session will include a take home set of worksheets that the manager may tailor to his own business.

This program is held in Spanish.

For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at sarnett@umich.edu

This seminar is aimed at mid- to high-level executives who have operational and/or strategic responsibilities in services organizations, or in goods organizations in which services are becoming an integral part of the product mix It is designed to sensitize participants to the characteristics which distinguish goods and services, help identify the unique strategic challenges of services, and provide a new set of tools for managing these strategic challenges.

This program is conducted in Spanish.

The WDI and CNU-Brazil Committee are pleased to invite you to take part in the second international conference “Third Sector Innovation: Sustainability and Social Impact” (2nd TSISSI). The focus this year is to continue to raise the profile of the valuable work of social enterprise leaders across Latin America, to share best practices and cases of social innovations in the areas of Innovative Financing Startegies, Human Resources Strategies,  Sustainable Social and Economic Opportunities through IT and Models of Cross-Sector Partnerships. 

El Comité de WDI y CNU-Brasil están contentos en anunciar la segunda conferencia internacional “Innovación en el Tercero Sector: Sustentación e Impacto Social” (Segundo TSISSI).

Para que obtenga más detalles clic aquí.  

This program is designed for managers who are involved in identifying, developing, and growing strategic accounts within their companies. Participants will develop a structured plan to deliver “win-win” business solutions against these high potential accounts and return with actionable tools to their organizations. It will provide a methodology to build profitable and sustainable relationships with major customers, in order to increase loyalty and satisfaction levels. 

This program will be conducted in Spanish.

For more information, please contact Sharolyn Arnett at sarnett@umich.edu.

HR Professionals Program

The HR field is constantly changing, putting new demands on you as an HR professional. These new demands require new tools and knowledge.

The four-day HR Professionals Program gives you new models and a practical set of tools for enhancing your HR department and making a greater strategic impact in your company.  Best practices in Human Resources will be shared.

The program will allow you to present an HR issue that you’re facing. During the program, you will discuss solutions and suggestions from HR professors and peers across industries.

For more information on this program, please visit: HR Professionals Program