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The Innovative Leader Program
You will learn how leaders develop new ideas and foster innovation in the workplace in this highly interactive program. Peak-performing franchise organizations are in the business of creativity. Winning leaders help to stimulate and focus creativity and innovation to be strategically appropriate and personally fulfilling. This program will give you hands-on experience in applying a process for "breakthrough thinking" that guides idea generation and problem solving. Focus will be on exploring personal growth and developing ways to communicate and apply your personal mastery of leadership.
The program is a part of the highly acclaimed The Emerging Leader series designed to help franchise leaders develop the capacity to take on challenges at all levels of the organization. Program focus will be on exploring personal growth and developing ways to communicate and apply your personal mastery of leadership and developing critical thinking skills to promote creative problem solving, to generate ideas that will shape and energize your organization, and to foster continuous innovation in your workplace.
Audience
- Middle to senior-level managers-franchise managers, directors and vice-presidents-who have significant responsibility for managing and leading people
- VP's, Chief Information Officers and directors
- people who are taking the initiative to meet the changing needs of customers across the franchise system
- Leaders and potential leaders who want to learn the critical actions required to create positive energy in their environment
Program Dates and Location  top
May 17-19, 2007
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
NSU Main Campus, Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus
Fee top
Fee of $1,525.00 includes tuition, a comprehensive manual and instructional materials, and continental breakfast, breaks and lunch daily. Multiple registrations from the same company qualify for IIFE Value Pricing. $150.00 of your registration fee is remitted to the Institute of Certified Franchise Executives (ICFE).
Programs can be custom-delivered, in-house at your company. Contact Cheryl Babcock, CFE, by phone at 800.672.7223, ext. 25071, or through email at babcockc@nsu.nova.edu for details.
Registration
You may register by phone, fax, mail or email. Click here to download a registration form.
What You Will Learn top
In this program you will learn to:
- Develop new ideas and foster innovation in the workplace
- Use your beliefs and values to strengthen your leadership position
- Shape your leadership development through character
- Stimulate personal creativity and innovation
- Encourage the practice of innovation in your organization
- Apply a problem-solving process that promotes innovative thinking and brings ideas to fruition
- Get in touch with a highly personal teachable point of view
Comments from Prior Participants
"This is arguably the best class I've taken in my quest for CFE status, and it also has the best instructors. Joanne Smith and George Heenan are formidable."
~ Ann M. Rosenberg, Co-founder & CEO, Let's Make Wine, LLC
"It's impossible not to take away something of significant value from the Innovative Leader program."
~ Dennis A. Ballen, Intelligent Office
Instructors
Joanne Smith is president of Joanne Smith & Associates, a management consulting firm specializing in leadership training and development. She draws from 30 years of experience in corporate counseling, training, human resource management, and organization development to help individuals at all business levels develop critical management and leadership skills. Her clients range from multinationals to start-ups and from business and industry to health care. She holds an advanced degree in training and organizational development from the University of Minnesota. |
George Heenan is chairman and CEO of Excelsius Partners Ltd, a business development company specializing in strategic program implementation. He is a frequent speaker and coauthors a monthly column on strategic management for Minnesota Business. His background includes start-up, emerging growth and Fortune 500 and 200 companies. He has held a number of management and executive positions at organizations that include Medtronic, Inc. and Control Data. |
Stevie Ray is the founder and co-director of Stevie Ray's Improv Company, a company focused on entertainment and training, providing performances, education, and related products and service, and a performer and co director of Stevie Ray's Comedy Troupe, a performance company with more than 350 corporate clients. He is a director of Stevie Ray's Corporate Services division, a nationwide business development program with over 250 clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small organizations. |
Accommodations
Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida, programs take place in the Carl DeSantis Building at Nova Southeastern University, H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. Information will be provided to you prior to the start of the program pertaining to the appropriate room number, parking information, directions, etc.
Hotel information will be provided to participants when they register for a course. When making your hotel accommodations, you must identify yourself as a NSU IIFE program participant and reserve your room 30 days before the program starts to assure special rates and available space.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
We realize that occasionally you need to cancel your registration. You can substitute another individual in your place at any time prior to the first day of a program. If you wish to receive a refund or credit toward a future IIFE program, the following applies: Cancellations received 30 days before a program begins will be issued a refund, less a $150.00 processing fee. Cancellations received six to 29 days prior to the start of a program will get 50 percent of the registration fee refunded.
We are sorry that we cannot provide a refund or credit if we receive your written cancellation in five or fewer business days before the start of the program.
CFE Credits
The Innovative Leader program has been awarded 450 CFE Core/Elective credits by the Institute for Certified Franchise Executives. We notify the ICFE after the conference and tell them who attended. If you want to earn your CFE and have not applied to the program, please link to http://www.franchise.org/content.asp?parid=373&contentid=536 for further information and application materials for the Certified Franchise Executive Program.
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