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Executive Development News Archive

March 2012

  • Review articles and blog posts featuring strategies that can be instrumental in both your personal and your organization's development.
  • Read the featured white paper on the benefits of embracing open-book management which can fuel employee engagement and corporate sustainability.
  • Plus more articles and blog posts, a program spotlight (Change Management), a Tarheel highlight (Dr. Peter Brews) and a calendar of 2012 Open Enrollment executive development programs.

December 2011

  • Learn how to assess your leadership style or how to build a high-performing team or how Kenan-Flagler's STAR program can work with your organization on meeting challenges and solving problems.
  • Read Douglas Ready's white paper on collective ambition which is complete with real-life examples of organizations that are harnessing the power of their collective ambition to achieve growth in tough economic times.
  • Plus more articles and blog posts, a program spotlight (Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers), a Tarheel highlight (Dr. Douglas Ready) and a calendar of 2012 Open Enrollment executive development programs.

August 2011

  • Review two articles that deal with different aspects of the communication styles of leaders.
  • Read the featured white paper on how to close gaps in your organization's leadership development.
  • Plus more articles and blog posts, a program highlight (Leadership Effectiveness Workshop), a Tarheel highlight (on Dr. Mabel Miguel) and a calendar of 2011 and 2012 Open Enrollment executive development programs.

June 2011

  • Take a look at what companies are doing today to successfully on-board their executives in a recently published UNC Executive Development white paper.
  • Learn about the special leadership skills needed when managing virtual teams.
  • Plus more articles and blog posts, a program spotlight (on Strategic Innovation for the New Business Environment), a Tarheel spotlight (on Dr. Al Segar) and a calendar of 2011 Open Enrollment executive development programs.

March 2011

  • Read a white paper discussing various ways to turn the baby boomer brain drain into a brain trust so that your organization does not lose valuable insight and experience as the first wave of baby boomers start to retire.
  • Watch the video of the lecture by David Brooks, noted author and The New York Times columnist, featuring his view on human nature and how people succeed.
  • Plus many more articles and blog posts, a program spotlight (on Leadership Effectiveness Workshop), a Tarheel spotlight (on Dr. Alison Fragale) and a calendar of Open Enrollment executive development programs.

December 2010

  • Read about successful succession plans - real, living programs that combine learning and development opportunities with experiential learning to prepare leaders at all levels for tomorrow's business challenges in our new Executive Development white paper.
  • Learn about the opportunities and challenges associated with culture, infrastructure, and the regulatory environment that companies face as they expand to China.
  • Plus many more articles, a program spotlight (Executive Development Institute), and Tarheel spotlight (Dr. Sridhar Balasubramanian).

September 2010

  • Learn how to build and present a strong business case for launching new learning and development initiatives within your organization with our new Executive Development white paper.
  • Read about Customer Value Creation (CVC), a method that helps companies better manage the value exchange with their customers and suppliers.
  • Plus many more articles, a program spotlight (Project Leadership), and Tarheel spotlight (Dr. David Hofmann).

June 2010

  • Learning from Your Customers – How Product Returns Boost Profitability
  • Program Spotlight – Business and Human Resources: Leading HR and Your Organization into the Future

March 2010

  • Communication Habits of Effective Leaders
  • Program Spotlight – Strategic Innovation for the New Business Environment

December 2009

  • Customized Course Imparts a Powerful Lesson
  • Program Spotlight – Executive Development Institute

October 2009

  • UNC Business Essentials – New Online Business Certificate Launched
  • Register Now – New 2010 Dates for Open Enrollment Programs Announced

January 2009

  • Becoming Green This Spring — New Sustainability Program for 2009
  • Create Your Custom Business Certificate — Open Enrollment Programs Earn CEUs and Apply Toward Advanced Business Certificates