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Strategic Management & Strategy Formulation
This highly interactive franchise education and training program provides many practical benefits for franchisors. You will participate in senior-level franchisor discussions and activities that will provide many practical benefits for your franchise system. By identifying strategic leadership concepts in the Strategic Management & Strategy Formulation program, you will be able to involve franchisees as partners in strategic management as well as conduct a strategic assessment. The concepts and application skills will help you gain a competitive advantage for your franchise system while tying performance measures to growth management.
Get on the Fast Track in this program, a part of the popular Franchise Mini MBA™ series. Highly regarded instructors, Michael J. Evers, Ph.D., and George Heenan, address strategic thinking, planning, formulation, and implementation issues that contribute to your franchise system's growth and development.
Audience
- C-level executives, CEOs, COOs, founders, owners, multi-unit operators, and entrepreneurs
- Presidents and heads of major divisions, regions and department
Program Dates and Location  top
May 7-9, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
NSU Main Campus, Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus
October 27-29, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
NSU Main Campus, Fort Lauderdale-Davie Campus
Fee top
Fee of $1,525.00 for a single program in the series, $2,535.00 if you register and pay together for any two programs in the series, and $3,745.00 if you register and pay for all three programs together in the Franchise Mini MBA™ series 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 for each stand-alone program 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:
- Determine where your company is on the organizational life cycle
- Measure your organization's strategic success and where you want it to be five years from now
- Examine your organization's strengths and weaknesses in an internal assessment
- Search for new opportunities and threats in the external environment
- Study the criteria for a vision statement, and which criteria are most applicable and important to your organization
- Complete an exercise rating your organization to determine if it is positioned to compete for the future
- Better understand the innovation pipeline and the rules for innovators
- Use the SWOT/TOWS matrix to create new strategies for your organization
- Understand the factors that lead to successful change, divergent and convergent thinking
- Discuss focus, time management, guidelines for action, and developing an effective measurement/monitoring system
Comments from Prior Participants
"I would highly recommend that all franchisors and their management staff take this program in the Franchise Mini MBA."
~ Dick Spohn, President, PuroSystems, Inc.
"One of the most practical and applicable right away trainings I've been to."
~ Ray Fuchs, President, ServCorp, International
"I have an M.B.A. and have been in franchising for over 15 years. If you are really interested in formulating a vision and hearing techniques to achieve your vision, you should attend this training program."
~ J. Peter Posk, Sr. V.P., Business Cards Tomorrow
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 Institute for Certified Franchise Executives has approved each stand-alone program in the Franchise Mini MBA™ series for 450 core/elective CFE credits. You earn 450 CFE credits at the completion of each program. $150.00 of the registration fee for each program goes to the Institute for Certified Franchise Executives.
The Strategic Management and Strategy Formulation program has been awarded 450 CFE Core/Elective credits by the Institute for Certified Franchise Executives. We notify the ICFE after the program 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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