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For Family Business Launches Next Leadership Development Program By Lori Wright, Media Relations The Center for Family Business at the University of New Hampshire invites area companies to participate in its Leadership Development Program for family and nonfamily managers. The program begins Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006, at UNH Manchester. The deadline to sign up is Friday, Jan. 24, 2006. The program consists of eight full-day work sessions and is taught by faculty of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and experts in family business. A certificate in family business leadership will be awarded to those who attend at least six of eight sessions. The program assists owners and managers as well as the next generation of management assume greater leadership roles in family businesses. Participants develop stronger leadership skills, recognize leadership styles of others, and reflect on their own abilities, talents and opportunities in the company. Attendees build confidence, apply new management skills to company projects and problems, and build a peer network of support. Senior generation attendees develop new ideas and approaches to leadership and also have the opportunity to improve their skills in assessing the leadership potential of those people who report to them. “The program introduces traditional and cutting-edge academic concepts to guide thinking; however, the program also applies these ideas to specific settings and encourages participants to think in new ways about their organizational roles. At the most personal level, participants have an opportunity to engage in self-assessment and receive feedback on behavior and style of interaction,” says Stephen Fink, professor emeritus of management and organizational behavior, who teaches the class. Tuition is $1,795 for members and $2,000 for nonmembers. For more information contact Barbara Draper at barbara.draper@unh.edu, or 2-1107. The center, under UNH’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics and the UNH Graduate School, is sponsored by Mass Mutual Financial Group, Thomas Davidow & Assoc., Baker Newman & Noyes, Pierce Atwood, MPI Management Planning, Inc., and Ocean National Bank. It is a membership program to provide owners and managers of entrepreneurial businesses with an opportunity to exchange ideas and information and to discuss business challenges, concerns, and solutions. |
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