Walsh Business Leadership Center Workshops
HOT TOPICS Workshops cover workplace issues for business owners and managers and are listed below.
Family Business Breakfast
Please join us Thursday, October 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. for the Fourth Biennial Family Business Breakfast at Walsh College.
In past years the Family Business Breakfast at Walsh College has featured:
2004 - Next Generation: Florine Mark, Weight Watchers; Bill Roney, Roney & Co. and Keith Crain, Crain Communications talked about passing along the family legacy.
2006 - Succession Planning: Experts from Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith and Derderian, Kann, Seyferth & Salucci offered the nuts and bolts of passing the business to next generation.
2008 - Couples Working Together: Family Business Psychologist Mary Whiteside led a panel discussion of couples who own and run a business together.
This year's breakfast will cover the issues of siblings, cousins, steps, and other family relationships in owning and managing a family business, including the managing and transferring of wealth. Along with a panel of family members of family businesses, breakout sessions will offer a closer look at resolving some of these issues.
Tickets are free for members, $45 for alumni and partners and $90 for all others.
Register here.
COMING IN NOVEMBER
Michigan Business Success Story: Carhartt
Jennifer Piscopink, Vice President, Human Resources
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 11:30 - 1:30
Novi Campus
Library Policies Seminar
Presented as a partner program with Foster Swift Collins and Smith Attorneys
Register here: https://www-secure.walshcollege.edu/blifreeregistration/
Franchising Forum
The Franchising Forum was held October 1, 2009 at the Novi Campus. It was a great opportunity for individual thinking of starting a business learn about the advantages of franchising from the experts and from practioners themselves. Sponsored by WWJ Newsradio 950.
Social Media for Employers
Thanks to presenters Dan Lohrmann, State of Michigan; Brenda Meller, Walsh College; and Rebecca Davies, Foster Swift Collins & Smith; for their insights on the IT, marketing and employee policy aspects of using social media in the workplace. Brenda made her presentation accessible on her LinkedIn page. Dan's presentation is downloadable here.
Presenters (from left) Rebecca Davies, Brenda Meller, Dan Lohrmann.
TAKE CHARGE Workshops are aimed at skill development for displaced workers.