About
For business owners who are at or near retirement, a good succession plan is critical to continued prosperity for both the company and the owner. This seminar will focus on the factors to consider and practical steps to planning your business succession:
- Emotionally preparing for succession
- Defining goals and a timeline
- Choosing your target buyer
- Pros and cons: internal vs. external succession
- Family succession issues
- Business valuation
- Preparing company records
- Developing “goodwill” that is saleable
- Tax considerations in a succession deal
- What are you selling? Stocks vs. assets
- Sale vs. installment sale vs. merger
Event Details
November 1, 2018
8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
North Greenville University, Tim Brashier Campus - Greer, S.C.
About
The pace and scale of change continues to increase. It's a dangerous situation if the rate of change outside your organization outpaces your ability to change internally. Therefore, leading successful change projects can be the difference in company success and failure.
That change can come in many forms: a new team, a 'tweak' to the organization, growth, new ideas unfolding constantly...and all of these opportunities come with significant challenges and growing pains.
To get from where you are to where you want to be you need ideas and techniques you can understand and immediately apply. In our one day Leading Change course, we'll help you:
- Understand WHY change is so difficult
- Learn HOW to help people understand the need for and actually embrace change!
- Gain hands on EXPERIENCE using tools that are simple yet powerful
This course will help those from the C-suite to project managers responsible for initiatives. Our disciplined and agile approach is built on experience, benchmarking and research that we'll use together to address the opportunities in front of YOU! During the course you'll be doing hands on work on YOUR project, not a generic test case. If you want to turbocharge your initiative, come to this course and walk out with a new perspective, visible progress and clear next steps of what to do when you get back to your desk.
Workshop Presenter:
Kenneth E. Fields designs, implements, and coaches others to successful organization-wide changes at local family businesses and Global 500 companies. He is a consensus-building leader that can work globally with all levels and functions of the organization. His interest in organizational transformation resulted in his book Visionaries, Builders, and Maintainers about the way people interact and respond to change.
Kenneth received a BS in Chemistry and Computer Science from Furman University (where he and his wife, Kelly, were lab partners) and an MBA from Clemson University. He also has post-graduate education in environmental sustainability from Furman and customer focused innovation from Stanford University.
Johannes Mutzke is an explorer, creative visionary, and purpose-driven leader with a passion for inspiring people and organizations to discover their full potential, create vision and reach beyond their limits to make a difference in the world.
In addition to leading startup teams and being an executive consultant/strategist in a Global 500 company, he enjoys serving people in all walks of life through individual and group coaching, speaking & writing, as well as leading community outreach efforts.
Johannes has IMBA graduate degrees from both Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, Austria and the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business. He also has extensive training in design thinking via course work and coaching from Stanford University’s design thinking institute.
Event Details
Leading Change
Nov. 13, 2018
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
North Greenville University, Tim Brashier Campus - Greer, S.C.
$695 per person
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Successfully managing a project requires effective planning and adherence to the industry's best practices in every step of the process. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to initiate a project in your organization and position it for success. In this seminar, we will identify effective project management practices, processes and learn to apply these recognized practices to successfully manage projects:
- Identify the key processes and requirements of project management
- Initiate a project
- Plan for time and cost
- Plan for project risks, communication, and change control
- Manage a project
- Execute the project closeout phase
Event Details
Coming Spring 2019
About
In our society, professionalism and the ability to engage in civil discourse are declining. This seminar focuses on developing and demonstrating workplace behaviors that lead to excellence in job performance and effective communication:
- Integrity and the consequences of integrity failures
- Identification of professional “gray areas,” and value-driven behaviors
- Drawing the line between personal and professional lives
- Use language to influence and persuade
- Personality styles and communication
- Dealing with conflict
- Written communication practices
Event Details
The Art of Professionalism
Dec. 6, 2018
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
North Greenville University, Tim Brashier Campus - Greer, S.C.
$199 per person
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Women often face struggles as they leave the workplace and feel stigmatized, even to the point of feeling ill-equipped to return to their chosen profession. A GAP in your resume does NOT have to be a negative thing.
- Planning to leave the workforce?
- Looking to return to the workforce after time away?
- Just longing to shift your career?
Connect with other women in a roundtable discussion about how you can plan for your GAP, utilize and maximize your skills while out of the workforce, and successfully reenter the workforce reenergized by your GAP experiences.
Become involved in changing the narrative associated with the GAP for the professional woman. Join us at the “Own Your Gap” Round Table sponsored by North Greenville University in partnership with the SC Department of Commerce.
Event Details
November 8, 2018
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
North Greenville University Tim Brashier Campus - Greer, S.C.
$20 per person (Includes lunch)
On February 22, 2019, hundreds of local and international churches will host the second annual Work as Worship Retreat livestream event. The Retreat will bring together thousands of Christian business professionals from around the world to hear speakers like Jon Acuff (New York Times Bestselling Author), Steve Green (President of Hobby Lobby), and Megan Alexander (Correspondent at Inside Edition) explore the sacred connection between faith and work.
For Christians who also happen to be business professionals, faith and work don’t often intersect. The connection between faith and work is not always obvious, but it is a God-given calling to make them connect. What if all Christians saw work as something holy? And what if work was actually an opportunity to worship God?
The Bible is full of examples of people living their daily lives on an eternal mission, weaving together their faith and work in their everyday lives. Like the men and women of the Bible, God designed Christians to worship AND work together. RightNow Media is passionate about seeing the two brought back together, which is why the Work as Worship Retreat was organized.
EVENT DETAILS
Work as Worship Retreat Livestream Event
February 22, 2019
North Greenville University Tim Brashier Campus - Greer, S.C.
405 Lancaster Avenue, Greer, SC 29650
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.