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News Release CENTER NEWS RELEASE / July 1, 2009 Boise State Center for Professional Development Offers Essentials of Business Certificate for Managers, Leaders The Center for Professional Development at Boise State University invites business leaders, managers and owners to expand their capacity for effective business strategies. The new Essentials of Business certificate is an opportunity to grow personally and professionally through a customized 360-degree feedback tool and the DiSC™ Personality Profile. Participants will gain experience as effective team leaders and team members through group exercises and learn negotiation, conflict management and marketing techniques from world-renowned faculty. Participants also will take on a challenging Web-based business simulation to harness the dynamic interaction of business functions (finance, marketing, operations, human resources, etc.). Sessions on finance, lean operations and streamlined supply chains will support the business simulation. Workshop topics are divided into four sessions that will run Sept. 11-12, Sept. 18-19, Sept. 25-26 and Oct. 2-3 on the Boise State campus, with business simulation briefings taking place by Web conference between sessions. The program fee of $1,995 includes all instructional materials, simulation support and parking. For more information or to register, call (208) 426-3485, send e-mail to lynmoore@boisestate.edu or visit http://cpd.boisestate.edu/essofbus.html. -30- Contact: Sherry Squires, University Communications, (208) 426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu About Boise State University Boise State is an emerging metropolitan research university of distinction and the largest university in Idaho with more than 19,000 students. The campus is home to 11 Idaho Professors of the Year since 1990. The colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Public Affairs offer more than 200 academic programs.
Last reviewed on Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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