KALAMAZOO ? The University of Notre Dame?s prestigious Certificate in Executive Management program will again be offered at Kalamazoo Valley Community College?s Michigan Technical Education Center (KVCC M-TEC).
The first half of the two-part series, a 10-week session, will begin March 7 and conclude May 9. The second half will run from Sept. 12 to Nov. 14.
Enrollees take part in the program through live, interactive, multi-site sessions with experienced Notre Dame business faculty based in South Bend. The program provides insights into such core areas as executive leadership, management, corporate ethics, strategy, economics, marketing, accounting, finance, and the parameters of international business.
?This program is targeted for owners, partners, key managers, boards of directors, and executives of companies ? from major corporations to smaller organizations to family enterprises ? who want to see their businesses grow and be more profitable,? said James DeHaven, executive director of the M-TEC.
Notre Dame describes the certificate-granting, executive-management program as a resource ?to provide the latest business information to meet the fast-paced challenges of today?s competitive global environment.? Each topic is couched in real-world experience and examples so that what is learned in the evening can be applied on the job the next morning.
Each three-hour session on consecutive Mondays will meet from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Among the topics covered during the full series are:
Problem solving and decision making; marketing; two sessions on negotiations;
financial analysis; global business; financial planning; capital budgeting; a pair of sessions on strategic planning; introduction to financial statements; personality types and team building; the relationships among cost, volume and profit;
budgeting; activity-based costing and federal taxes; macro-economics; human-resources management; managing for results; ethics; and leadership.
?While all of the sessions will be live,? DeHaven said, ?each will be preserved and archived. This will allow participants to review any portion of a presentation, all of which will be indexed and easily accessed. The Notre Dame representatives were highly impressed with our distance-learning capabilities. That played a major part in the university partnering with the M-TEC.?
The full-series fee for instruction, materials, books and refreshments is $5,195. Enrollment is limited and the deadline to apply is March 3. Registration information is available by calling the M-TEC at (269) 353-1253 or Chris Cushman at Notre Dame at (800) 631-3622.
The KVCC M-TEC is located in The Groves along I-94 off 9th Street near the college?s Texas Township Campus. It is only the fourth distance-learning site offered by the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business for earning a certificate in executive management. Notre Dame?s three other distance-learning sites for this program are based in Toledo, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
For more information about the Notre Dame executive-management sessions, call Cindy Buckley, assistant director of training and development at the M-TEC, at (269) 353-1250.
