Walton College Executive Education Announces Fall Lineup of Courses

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Center for Management and Executive Education at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has announced its fall lineup of courses targeted at business professionals.

Registration fees, times and locations vary by program, and more information is available at execed.uark.edu or by calling 479-575-2856. Discounts are available for certain programs for teams from the same organization, nonprofits, and others.

Fall courses that will be offered include:

• Emerging Leaders Program – uses an introspective and experiential approach to examine the leadership capacities of individual attendees, increase their ability to develop robust leadership skills and demonstrate greater organizational understanding.

• Managerial Leadership Program – empowers managers with the tools necessary to be a more effective and proficient leader.

• POS (Point of Sale) and Demand Forecasting – teaches participants to determine the appropriate forecasting method and how to apply it, to identify errors in existing forecasting approaches, to explain and interpret forecasting error, and to compare forecast accuracies.

• Certificate Program in Leadership, Faith and Spirituality – certifies people in the emerging field of leadership, faith and spirituality in this first of its kind program.

• Finance for Non-Financial Managers – helps managers evaluate a unit's financial performance, better communicate with internal and external financial officers, and make sound financial decisions.

• Mentoring in a Day – provides participants with an introductory framework that will help them build a mentoring program and create both internal and external value.

• Transformational Women – inspires women to be bold, courageous leaders of change through the expansion of personal awareness and the development of strategic leadership behaviors that accelerate personal satisfaction and professional success.

“In addition to offering our most popular programs again, we are very excited to add several new programs to our lineup,” said Theres Stiefer, director of the Center for Management and Executive Education.

 “Our programs use the nationally recognized business expertise of Walton College faculty combined with practical knowledge of industry leaders and others to create valuable programs with positive and lasting impact,” said Stiefer. “We never provide ‘off-the-shelf training’ to our participants, so each program is a unique experience. In fact, we have removed the word ‘training’ from our vocabulary and instead focus on education as our approach to development of individuals.”

Founded in 1984, the Center for Management and Executive Education exists to provide today's professional with innovative experiences to enhance abilities in facing a demanding, ever-changing workplace. Programs can be delivered on the University of Arkansas campus using state-of-the-art facilities, on-site at a business, or through the Web.