CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS
Our inaugural offerings comprise five seminars: Entrepreneurship Skills and Strategies (November 15, 2009); Growing and Harvesting an Entrepreneurial Venture (December 6, 2009); Understanding and Managing the Family Business Lifecycle (March 14, 2010); Success Strategies for Family Businesses (April 25, 2010); and Leadership in the Not-for-Profit Sector: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Economic Realities (June 6, 2010).
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NOVEMBER 15, 2009
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS AND STRATEGIES
This seminar is designed for those considering transitioning to some form of entrepreneurial enterprise, those who have recently started or are about to start a new venture, as well those engaged in social entrepreneurship. The program will provide attendees with access to a network of business experts and faculty with substantial expertise in entrepreneurship.
Among the issues that will be addressed:
- Deciding whether to pursue an entrepreneurial venture—understanding both risks and upside opportunities
- Understanding the characteristics and myths of the entrepreneur—critical success factors
- Determining whether you have “the right stuff” to be an entrepreneur
- Understanding the alternatives: pros and cons of starting your own, buying, franchising a business
- Identifying and evaluating an entrepreneurial opportunity
- Developing a practical and effective business plan and start-up strategy
This program may be taken alone or in conjunction with the December 6 seminar, Growing and Harvesting an Entrepreneurial Ventures.
Cost: $1,050 for this seminar alone; $1,950 for this and any of the other four seminars. Additional discounts are available for multiple attendees from the same company and for early registration.
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DECEMBER 6, 2009
GROWING AND HARVESTING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURE
This seminar will be of interest to those who have started up an entrepreneurial venture and are facing business challenges or those looking to expand, harvest or transition their venture.
Among the issues that will be addressed:
- Developing a viability assessment for your venture—strengths, weaknesses, resources, competition and strategy
- Improving your business plan
- Choosing a legal structure; Discussion of options
- Funding, financing and attracting investors: debt vs. equity financing; venture capital vs. private equity; angel investors; bootstrapping
- Building the organization and management/leadership team
- Developing a turn-around strategy, harvesting, transitioning and/or exiting venture.
A team of experts in the field of entrepreneurship will lead the seminar.
This program may be taken alone or in conjunction with the November 15 seminar, Entrepreneurial Skills and Strategies.
Cost: $1,050 for this seminar alone; $1,950 for this and any of the other four seminars. Additional discounts are available for multiple attendees from the same company and for early registration.
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MARCH 14, 2010
UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE FAMILY BUSINESS LIFECYCLE
This program is designed for owners and senior executives in small to mid-sized family businesses (those with revenues of $5 million-$50 million).
It will provide attendees with an in-depth understanding of best practices for managing family businesses and different approaches to dealing with growth and transition, including in times of economic challenge.
This seminar will empower owners of family business to:
- Understand current economy and how it is shaping family businesses
- Discussing the business life cycles of family businesses: birth, growth, stability and decline
- Understand the factors that contribute to the success of family business, as well as factors that lead to failure
- Discuss family dynamics and how they impact the management of the business
- Understand the techniques and skills for successfully managing a family business
- Develop family business plans and assessments
Cost: $1,050 for this seminar alone; $1,950 for this and any of the other four seminars. Additional discounts are available for multiple attendees from the same company and for early registration.
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APRIL 25, 2010
SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR FAMILY BUSINESSES
This program is designed for owners and senior executives in small to mid-sized family businesses (those with revenues of $5 million-$50 million). It can be taken alone, or as a follow up to the first Family Business seminar.
This seminar will offer participants:
- Understanding the importance of business strategy and decision making
- Understanding financial challenges facing family businesses and discussing alternative solutions to those challenges
- Discussing marketing and media techniques for family businesses
- Understanding resource and wealth management strategies
- Discussing strategies for improving and restructuring family businesses
Cost: $1,050 for this seminar alone; $1,950 for this and any of the other four seminars. Additional discounts are available for multiple attendees from the same company and for early registration.
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JUNE 6, 2010
LEADERSHIP IN THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT SECTOR: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEW ECONOMIC REALITIES
This seminar is presented in collaboration with Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work.
This seminar is for senior and mid-level leadership in not for profit organizations.
The seminar will help prepare non-profit board members, executive directors, managers, administrators, and professionals to manage more effectively and to develop sustainable strategies that maximize and enhance opportunities for their organization. This seminar also focuses on key aspects of managing in different not-for-profit organizational settings. It identifies some of the new challenges facing the non-profit sector and provides participants with the skills, tools and knowledge necessary to meet the challenges of managing within today’s complex and competitive arena of not-for-profit organizations.
Key topics to be addressed include:
- Developing and maintaining a strategic focus
- Assessing and aligning staffing requirements in light of the new realities
- Creating and sustaining collaborative networks
- Influencing diverse stakeholders, members and other key constituencies
- Managing, motivating and retaining volunteers
- Creating effective, responsible and accountable Boards
- Enhancing your buying power: Financial management: budgeting and reducing overhead costs
Cost: $1,050 for this seminar alone; $1,950 for this and any of the other four seminars. Additional discounts are available for multiple attendees from the same organization and for early registration.
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