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2008 Fisher Business Education Series

Dates

February - December 2008

Overview Fisher Business Education Series (FBES)

In a competitive market, companies rely even more on managers to make sound business decisions and effectively manage people. Management skills can be learned and improved.
The Fisher College Fisher Business Education Series is a suite of one-day programs designed for managers to develop specific skills and competencies and advance others. Sessions are taught by nationally ranked faculty, with peer learning as an important element in the series. Faculty and experienced training and development professionals selected FBES courses, all of which are geared for improving performance as a manager. The courses are offered separately so managers can choose which courses are of greatest value. Those who complete five or more sessions will receive a certificate listing all completed sessions.

Benefit to the Employee and the Company

The Fisher Business Education Series enables you to create individual learning plans for managers needing specialized training in one or more areas of competency and/or management development. The program’s unique format allows you to send a group to a single session, or send one person to multiple sessions, based on any of the developmental topics being offered in the program.

Program Format

The FBES is a series of independent one-day courses that focus on competency areas critical to managers. These highly-interactive courses are scheduled monthly throughout the calendar year. The distinctive one-day program design enables candidates to practice and perfect skills taught in a single module prior to attending the next course. Or, if your candidate is attending one course they return to the job and may apply learning immediately — which is a powerful form of Level 3-4 ROI (based on the Kirkpatrick Model).
Instruction format includes case study, discussion and lecture, group exercises and role play. Each course is held at Fisher’s Executive Conference Center in Pfahl Hall

Who Should Attend

The Fisher Business Education Series is designed for manager-level individuals who are “rising stars” eager to get ahead and in general, individuals who want to:

Sharpen and update their management skills
Gain new business knowledge
Exchange experiences
Prepare themselves to advance in management positions

Instructors

Fisher College Executive Education faculty are award-winning educators, top researchers and well-published in their respective fields of study. Representing various disciplines, they remain close to practice through relationships with business and industry leaders and by serving as board members and consultants for various businesses. Fisher College faculty, who design and deliver these FBES sessions, leverage their business expertise and research to create an environment where participants can gain new knowledge that applies directly to their work.

Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Fisher College Executive Education second in the world in custom education programming. Fisher College's Executive MBA was ranked 14^th in the world by BusinessWeek. In curriculum, Fisher was ranked first in Strategy, second in Finance, and fifth in Marketing.

FBES Session Topics

Each session in the series provides practical, relevant content that managers can put to use. Some courses require pre-reading. The 2008 Fisher Business Education Series topics include:

Sessions

Date	Topic	Faculty
Rescheduled for 21-May	Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Managers	Rick Murdock
12-Mar	Coaching & Mentoring	Marlene Suter
2-Apr	Presentation Skills	Lillian Zarzar
17-Apr	Marketing Strategy	Leslie Fine
7-May	Branding & Promotion	Shashi Matta
21-May	Accounting & Finance for Non-Financial Managers	Rick Murdock
11-Jun	Talent Management	Ray Noe and Larry Inks
13-Aug	Team Effectiveness	Tony Rucci
12-Sep	Value-Based Pricing	Larry Robinson
17-Sep	Negotiation & Conflict Management	Roy Lewicki & Bob Lount
14-Oct	Marketing Strategy	Leslie Fine
12-Nov	Power, Influence & Leadership Effectiveness	Roy Lewicki & Tony Rucci
10-Dec	Process Management	Peg Pennington & Peter Ward

*Additional sessions may be added for summer/fall. Check this webpage for updates.

How your organization can become a FBES Partner

The FBES Partner program offers various subscription levels of participation. The table below provides a description of the cost by seats purchased and the savings over the base public program fee of $695 per session.

SUBSCRIPTION LEVEL (Number of seats purchased for the series)	Total Cost	Average Price Per Session	Savings Over Non-Subscription Price	Maximum Students per session*
70	$24,500	$350	50%	7-9
50	$19,250	$385	45%	5-7
30	$12,500	$417	40%	3-5
1	$695	$695	(Base price)	1

* Depending on space availability (Partners receive priority)

Enrollment Information

Registration

Registration for individual sessions is available online here.

Cost

$695 per session (see Partner pricing for group discounts).

Cancellation Policy

Prior to the start of the program, registration may be transferred to another colleague without charge. To be considered for a refund, we must receive notification of cancellation in writing no later than 14 days prior to the event.