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Upcoming Events
August 28 - August 29, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
The Fall 2008 HR Network Workshop will held August 28-29 at the Hotel Mercure in Prague, Czech Republic. The workshop will be lead by Professor Wayne Brockbank at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
"The HR Business Proposition"
This workshop will be based on a book published by Professors Brockbank and Dave Ulrich. The book entitled The HR Value Proposition explores their belief that a fundamental transformation of HR starts with a definition of HR value—who the receivers are and a clear statement of what they will receive from HR services.
September 02 - September 05, 2008, Kigali, Rwanda
The Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship Certificate Program is designed for women across Rwanda who are interested in either starting a business or expanding their start-up. The program will equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to launch or expand a successful enterprise in Rwanda.
For more information, please click here.
September 18 - September 19, 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica
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.
The program is conducted in Spanish.
September 22 - September 24, 2008, Kigali, Rwanda
Developing a Business Plan
Dates: September 22-24
The Goldman Sachs Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, Session 2
Facilitators: 1. Valence Mushimwe
2. Ishuheri Bideri
Session Description:
We will begin with general introduction to venturing and questions entrepreneurs must ask themselves before writing a business plan or launching out with a venture. We will then look at the elements of a typical business planning – why it is necessary, what investors and funding institutions look for and how it serves as a useful roadmap for entrepreneurs in achieving their dreams. This will set the context for an in-depth treatment of the various parts that makes up the business plan. Each group will make a presentation of their business plan.
September 30 - October 03, 2008, Punta del Este, Uruguay
The William Davidson Institute and their Latin American partner, Seminarium, present:
Strategic HR Executive Program
an innovative executive education program designed for HR vice presidents, directors, and managers from throughout Latin America.
This program, to take place in Punta del Este, Uruguay from September 30th to October 3rd, will give HR executives the opportunity to strengthen and renew their professional expertise. Participants will explore the most relevant issues facing their organization’s human resource area and develop some cutting-edge approaches to problem solving.
October 02 - October 03, 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica
The Leadership for Experienced Managers provides an integrated leadership framework to enable each participant to identify and formulate a personalized action-development plan.
October 06 - October 07, 2008, Santiago, Chile
In today's fiercely competitive business environment, operations management has become an important competitive tool. This program is designed to introduce participants to cutting edge models and practical tools for effective design and management of operations.
This program is conducted in Spanish.
October 07 - October 09, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
OVERVIEW: Learn how to develop a strategic approach to developing your brand and create a powerful marketing communications plan. Taught by Rajeev Batra, a top marketing professor and leading expert on global branding from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Open to brand managers, marketing communications managers, advertising & PR managers.
October 13 - October 28, 2008, Zagreb, Croatia
The GMP is an intensive 10-day "mini-MBA" certificate program covering 5 key management areas: Marketing, Strategy, Leadership/OB, Finance, and Accounting. The GMP program is taught in English and is open to managers from throughout the entire region.
October 15 - October 18, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
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
October 20 - October 23, 2008, Riga, Latvia
The Marketing Professionals Program is a four-day workshop designed for the advanced marketer who is indeed challenged by this complex, changing, and competitive world. It begins by situating marketing within the broader context of competition. It offers a new definition of marketing which elevates marketing from the tactical to the strategic level, and re-casts it as the organization’s profit center. And it introduces a proprietary 8-Ds framework of strategic marketing management, progressing through this framework step-by-step manner and thereby highlighting the newest tools in marketing.
PAST Events
August 11 - August 12, 2008, Santiago, Chile
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.
August 06 - August 08, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
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.
August 06 - August 08, 2008, São Paulo, Brazil
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.
July 10 - July 11, 2008, Santiago, Chile
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
July 10 - July 11, 2008, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
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.
July 03 - July 04, 2008, Santiago, Chile
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.
June 12 - June 14, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
May 29 - May 30, 2008, Panama City, Panama
Session Title: Empowerment, Engagement and Exceptional Coaching
The “war for talent” has necessitated organizations to charge operating leaders with the responsibility for developing their employees, creating high performance work environments as well as the responsibility for retaining employees. Operating leaders often have not been provided the frameworks and associated skills for achieving these new responsibilities. This session will look at three leadership tools targeted at these challenges: empowerment, engagement and coaching.
May 12 - May 23, 2008, Riga, Latvia
The Strategic Management Program is a two-week program that enables participants to acquire a broad, cross-functional approach to general management. Participants leave with an improved skill set and fresh ideas for approaching critical business issues. Upon completion of the program, participants receive Strategic Management Program certificates issued by the William Davidson Institute and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.
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April 08, 2008, Wyly Hall, Room W2760
Fadi Ghandour, Founder and CEO of Aramex International and Alonzo Fulgham, COO of USAID will be the guest speakers at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series on April 8, 2008. The event will be held at 5:00 pm, Room W2760 of Wyly Hall with a reception to follow.
April 03 - April 04, 2008, Santiago, Chile
Session Title: Empowerment, Engagement and Exceptional Coaching
April 3-4, 2008
Santiago, Chile
War for talent” has necessitated organizations to charge operating leaders with the responsibility for developing their employees, creating high performance work environments as well as the responsibility for retaining employees. Operating leaders often have not been provided the frameworks and associated skills for achieving these new responsibilities. This session will look at three leadership tools targeted at these challenges: empowerment, engagement and coaching.
This program is offered in Spanish.
March 24 - March 25, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
The Big Picture is an integrated framework that emphasizes the dynamic nature of marketing by presenting key marketing topics as a set of interrelated modules as opposed to separate “chapters” representing topics independently. Beginning with the high level strategic topic of business objective, it identifies areas where the marketing manager must prioritize and make key decisions, then highlights how those decisions affect other elements of the framework.
March 05, 2008, Wyly Hall, W2740
Peter Maquera, President and CEO of SPi, will be the guest speaker at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series on March 5, 2008. The event will be held at 4:30 pm, Room W2740 of Wyly Hall with a reception to follow.
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