EVENTS

Target Group
This Seminar is by invitation only and is dedicated to corporate learning and corporate HR practitioners from companies.

What is about?
How can companies set on long-term strategies in an uncertain future while dealing with immediate challenges of disruption and competition? That’s why today’s companies need leaders that can build resilience coupled with agility.

EFMD has launched the Innovation in Leadership Special Interest Group (SIG) to take a fresh look at what their leaders do, what makes them effective, and what kind of talent development will shape the leaders of tomorrow.

The group brought together 12 companies who have analysed 8 beliefs, which constitute the building blocks for Innovation in Leadership, based on business and academic literature and the direct experience of the group.

Why should I attend?
The group has been active since March 2018 and the fruits of their work are valuable knowledge, ideas and good practices, accumulated over these past couple of months. The SIG members will be delighted to share their findings with you through this one-day seminar.

Target group

The webinar is dedicated to companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies) who have explicitly expressed interest in submitting a case-study for the Excellence in Practice Award 2019 (or later).

Scope and objectives

Although this webinar will give a quick overview on the EiP Award, it is our intention to mainly concentrate on the Q&A where participants can raise questions specific to their case. It is therefore recommended to read the EiP Brief and Submission Guidelines prior to the webinar. All material is available on www.efmd.org/eip.

Registration

Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
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Scope and Objectives:

Faced with unique and unprecedented challenges and opportunities redefining the boundaries of its industry, Daimler – the inventor of the automobile – embarked on a journey to lead the reinvention of mobility once more. Through a learning and development intervention that transcended barriers of hierarchy, continents, divisions and functions, Daimler entered a learning journey of cultural self-renewal.

An open invitation was sent out at Daimler, inviting leaders to engage in a community of pioneers and innovators that would contribute to an open-ended process, unlock the full organizational potential and invite to think outside the box. ‘Leadership 2020’, an open and agile process, started in early 2016.

In order to bring the project to life, and in particular to devise a learning journey that would ensure a common understanding of the purpose, nature and reach of Leadership 2020, Daimler Corporate Academy partnered with Wolff Olins. The learning experience that was created was a massive open online course (MOOC), tailored to Daimler’s learning requirements emerging from the Leadership 2020 initiative.

In this session, Daimler and Wolff Olins will be sharing their success stories and also point out some of the interesting challenges they came across during these last years.

Daimler & Wolff Olins were granted the Silver Award in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2018 in the ‘Organisational Development’ category.

Following reading are available prior to the webinar: Global Focus article

Target group:

This webinar is dedicated to learning professionals from both companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies).

Registration:
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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Scope and Objectives:

TELUS, Canada’s fastest-growing telecommunications company, was facing a conundrum. Changes in the telecommunications industry and technology-driven advancements in education delivery were leading the company to reimagine its professional development strategy. It decided to create customized master level training for its future leaders.

The collaborative nature of the partnership between the Gustavson School and TELUS played a critical role in the success of this Corporate MBA Programme. Senior leaders at TELUS participated as executives- in-residence, mentors, project champions and guest lecturers. These executives shared their leadership knowledge throughout the two years, complementing the academic perspective offered by Gustavson professors. Participants in the TELUS MBA continued to work full-time with allowances provided by the company to accommodate the face- to-face residencies.

Dan Pontefract, TELUS Chief Envisioner, said: “the TELUS MBA has exceeded our wildest expectations. To realize economies of scale is one thing. To recognize a return on investment is another. But to witness the incredible transformation of team members in parallel with the significant impact they have created across the entire TELUS organization is a testament to the unique value, creativity and dedication that the Gustavson School has brought to the program”.

In this session, TELUS and Gustavson School of Business speakers will be sharing their success stories and also point out some of the interesting challenges they came across during these last years.

TELUS and Gustavson School of Business (University of Victoria) were granted the Silver Award in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2018 in the ‘Talent Development’ category.

Following reading are available prior to the webinar: Global Focus article

Target group:

This webinar is dedicated to learning professionals from both companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies).

Registration:
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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Scope and Objectives:

The Hanken & SSE Integration Program Business Lead® is a fast-track for unemployed educated immigrants and refugees into business life. The programme is offered in collaboration with the largest Social Impact Bond in Europe.

Finland received over 30,000 asylum seekers in 2015. Among them were educated professionals with substantial language skills. However, even with a higher education, language barriers, difficulties comparing matriculations and for some negative encounters in society, integration into working life can be very difficult. Would not a swift integration into Finnish working life benefit everyone involved, the individual, Finnish business and society at large?

With an objective to remove obstacles for educated asylum seekers to engage with Finnish local and international businesses, or to set up their own, Hanken & SSE Excecutive education decided to fast-track the integration process, also pushing themselves to get from idea to program launch in less than 6 months. Together with the partners, Hanken School of Economics and mobile learning service provider Funzi, they designed a “micro-MBA” integration program, including mentoring and internships in leading companies.

In this session, Hanken & SSE Executive Education and Epiqus (Social Impact Bond) will  share their success stories and also point out some of the interesting challenges they came across during these last years.

Hanken & SSE Executive Education and Epiqus were granted the Gold Award in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2018 in the ‘Talent Development’ category.

Following reading are available prior to the webinar: Global Focus article

Target group:

This webinar is dedicated to learning professionals from both companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies).

Registration:
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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THEME AND MOTIVATION

Internationalisation is one of the most demanding challenges for Japanese businesses. Highly globalised markets require Japanese firms to meet this challenge in every aspect of its operations. Talent management is a particularly demanding issue in this context, since it is instrumental in bridging cultural divides and in helping to realise the value upside of cultural diversity. Business schools can and should play a pivotal role in the pursuit of these ambitions and actively support the internationalisation agendas of Japanese companies.

Conservative and ethnocentric ways of thinking however still prevail in some parts of Japanese society and, as a consequence, corporate internationalisation efforts do at times not go beyond the superficial level. This conference offers an opportunity for dialogue on how to address this issue. Speakers from industry and business schools will share their views on the importance of internationalisation as a shared interest. Participants from the business community and academia will have the opportunity to develop a joint vision of what it means to be ‘truly global’ and what pathways are available to realise this vision.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This conference is designed to find a promising course of actions for both Japanese firms and business schools in which they can jointly improve their global outreach and footprint. The conference has therefore following three objectives:

• To highlight the achievements in internationalisation of Japanese business schools and chart the way ahead.
• To showcase how successful Japanese corporations are internationalising their operations with particular attention placed on the HR function and the role of management education providers in this context.
• To facilitate a dialogue for the discovery of concrete action points aimed at intensifying the cooperation between business schools and Japanese businesses in resolving issues related to internationalisation.

ORGANISORS

This conference is jointly organised by EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) and Keio Business School (KBS).

EFMD is an international not-for-profit organisation representing business schools and companies around the globe. With offices in Europe, Asia and the U.S.A., it is recognised as the leading provider of accreditation services for business schools and corporate learning units in companies.

Keio Business School has the longest history among Japanese business schools. Since its foundation in 1962, it has always been the forefront of business education in Japan. It has been the first adopter of the case method and has spearheaded the introduction of formalised mobility policies with its international MBA student exchange program. Keio Business School is internationally recognised as one of the leading business schools in Japan and is the only school being awarded the prestigious EQUIS quality label by EFMD.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The organisers invite business school and corporate executives with responsibility or keen interest in the internationalisation of their organisations to enter into a dialogue with organisers and facilitators. The exchange during and after the conference will help to identify avenues for further cooperation and cross-fertilisation between business schools and companies in their effort to expand the global footprint.

Participants will be given the opportunity to contribute with their own reflections, challenges and achievements in internationalisation in order to broaden the learning experience for the audience as a whole.

PARTICIPATION

Regular Fee:          JPY 30,000

Reduced Fee:        JPY 25,000 (applies to alumni of KBS and academics affiliated with an EFMD member institution)

Target group

The webinar is dedicated to companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies) who have explicitly expressed interest in submitting a case-study for the Excellence in Practice Award 2019 (or later).

Scope and objectives

Although this webinar will give a quick overview on the EiP Award, it is our intention to mainly concentrate on the Q&A where participants can raise questions specific to their case. It is therefore recommended to read the EiP Brief and Submission Guidelines prior to the webinar. All material is available on www.efmd.org/eip.

Registration

Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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Scope and Objectives:

How the SKOLKOVO business school and Monocities Development Fund went about solving a nationwide problem and bringing new life to territories long forgotten.

Monocities are small cities and town settlements built around a single plant, mine or enterprise during the era of planned economy in USSR. There is no work and no modern infrastructure, people in those cities have no work and opportunity if something goes wrong with a single enterprise. The problem is huge for Russia – there is approximately 15 million living at the monocities now with little hope to change their lives.

There were some government programs to change the situation before but most of them were not very successful. Even if there were enough funds, the monocities usually lacked team, skills and energy required for a problem as complex as changing the city.

The Monocities Development Fund and SKOLKOVO Business school came up with a large complex education programme for the Monocities. The goal of the programme was to create active and passionate teams in the monocities, so they could change the situation in the city with “grassroots initiatives” and use government assistance in a most effective way.

In this session, Monocities Development Fund and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will share their success stories and also point out interesting challenges they came across during these last years.

Monocities Development Fund and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO were granted the Gold Award in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2018 in the ‘Ecosystem Development’ category.

Following reading are available prior to the webinar: Global Focus article

Target group:

This webinar is dedicated to learning professionals from both companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies).

Registration:
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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About
This webinar will cover details about the EFMD Global Career Service Platform, Highered.

Target Group
This webinar is geared towards career services professionals who are looking to expand the career services repertoire for students at their business school. Other business school administrators, such as Deans and Corporate Relations, with interest in bringing this service to their school are also welcome to attend. EFMD Affiliated Member schools are being offered the opportunity to make use of this service and activate their own dedicated Highered platform for a trial period of one year.

Description
You will get an overview of Highered, EFMD Global Career Services, which can help your students find global opportunities. Highered is a unique addition to the career services you already offer students, welcoming relevant internships, trainee and graduate jobs from EFMD Company Members on a daily basis.

Registration
Attendance is free but requires registration. Number of participants is limited. Click on the registration button below to register.

This session will be moderated by Kendall Brown, Career Services & Marketing Manager, Highered.

If not familiar with Zoom please connect 15 minutes prior to the session. For Zoom to work best we recommend you have the latest version Zoom Client for Meetings downloaded.

Scope and Objectives:
To achieve its vision of becoming a world-class technology company that empowers people to connect, Telstra sought to redefine what leadership means within the company.

Telstra is in the midst of a massive transformation with customer expectations, competitors and technology changing rapidly. As Telstra evolves so does its approach to leadership, one in which leaders take a proactive approach to understanding the current and future needs of Telstra customers and employees, create the environment to drive world-class performance, and effectively deliver the Telstra strategy.

Telstra partnered with LIW to develop a strategic learning solution, made up of a number of programmes and initiatives to support the transformation of the business through leadership.

In this session, Telstra and LIW representatives will be focusing on the Testra Leadership Programme (TLP) more specifically, sharing their success stories and also point out some of the interesting challenges they came across during these last years.

Telstra and LIW were granted the Gold Award in the EFMD Excellence in Practice Award 2018 in the ‘Executive Development’ category.

Following reading are available prior to the webinar: Global Focus article

Target group:

This webinar is dedicated to learning professionals from both companies and L&D providers (Business Schools, Executive Education Centers / Consultancies).

Registration:
Attendance is free but requires registration in advance.
This EFMD webinar will be run using Zoom.
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DETALLES

En asociación con ASCOLFA queríamos hacer algo especial para sus miembros en honor de nuestro convenio. Con eso, queremos anunciar que tenemos un almuerzo y sesión en el programa de nuestra conferencia anual que es gratis de asistir para los miembros de ASCOLFA interesados. Con el almuerzo será posible interactuar con nuestra red y en la sesión hablaremos sobre el proceso de mejora continua para escuelas de negocios.

Aunque la sesión es gratis, registrarse es obligatorio. Espacio es limitado – en el enlace ubicado más abajo en esta pagina se puede registrar.

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What We’re Talking About
This year our steering committee focused largely on the synergies between humans and technology and what it means to use technology responsibly alongside contemplations about that it meant for a business school to act responsibly as an agent for change in their communities and societies at large. Instead of viewing business schools and institutions as passive receivers of change among agents of disruption, we were urged instead to re-imagine business schools as agents of disruption themselves, as actors with power to influence, to shape, to change. What does this power look like to different types of business schools and what can we learn from schools who have had to leverage unconventional demographics, resources, market needs? What does it mean to redefine management education and development outside of its conventional norms?

Target Group
The EFMD Global Network Americas Annual Conference has been designed for all those interested in management education and development. It brings together EFMD Global Network members, companies, educational institutions and other associations that have an interest in the Americas. This includes Deans, Deputy and Associate Deans, International Relations Directors, Programme Directors, Executive Education Directors and other Business School and Executive Development Professionals.

Special Promotions
*ASCOLFA members can register as EFMD full members and take advantage of the exclusive EFMD full member rate.
*La ultima sesión de la conferencia “Empezando y Manteniendo Mejora Continua” (viernes a las 14:30) esta abierta a todos interesados y gratis. Si usted no asistirá la conferencia pero quiere registrase para esta sesión favor de escribir a Zulay Perez.

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These Seminars are offered sequentially, giving participants the opportunity to register for one or both events.
NOTICE: The seminar is fully booked. Registration is no longer possible.

More information can be found here

Target Group
Programme Directors, Associate/Assistant Deans of Teaching & Learning, and Senior Program Managers with a complete overview of (though not necessarily direct responsibility for) the entire academic cycle: admissions, programme design & administration, career services, and alumni management.

For each stream intake, the Executive Academy also seeks to accept managers of corporate universities or executives of corporate talent management departments to cross-fertilize group learning. Corporate participants can improve their understanding of and their ability to interact with business schools.

Context
Executive Academy journey starts with a preparatory phase, which includes self-study and a comprehensive 360° feedback exercise administered with the support of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).

The core of the Executive Academy is a face-to-face week in the selected region, with the maximum of 20 participants admitted to each stream.

Participants will:

• Advance through a self-discovery process to better understand their strengths and limitations, which will contribute to the bridging of self-knowledge and self-leadership.
• Learn how to drive a strategy-driven programme design and review process, how to manage different performance layers and how to interlink stakeholder expectations and satisfaction.
• Understand and implement disruptive strategies in business education and map performance metrics to actions and milestones.

The face-to-face week will be followed by a project phase at the participants’ home institutions with support and feedback provided by faculty facilitators and personal coaches.

A rigorous and challenging admission process ensures that peer-to-peer interaction in the Executive Academy will be meaningful and ability-enhancing for all participants.

more information coming soon

Notice: this event is now fully booked!

Target group
We are inviting Senior Teaching & Learning professionals of business schools in charge of degree programmes to participate in a two-day workshop spanning over three days. Target audience is programme managers broadly involved in the entire value chain of degree provision from admission to placement. Programme Directors, Associate/Assistant Deans and Program Managers who already hold or intend to assume transformational roles in their institution and who would like to tackle current challenges in management education would benefit from this offering.

A JOINT EFMD GN/CENTRUM INITIATIVE

THE SELF-LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Learn and experience why balancing your own mind will make you a more effective leader of others.

Este evento será facilitado en español.

CONTENT

Neuroscience expert Dr. Steven Poelmans will facilitate this hands-on workshop introducing the emerging field of Neuroscience of Leadership. It will explain what one can learn from (cognitive, affective, socio-cognitive) neuroscience in order to achieve more efficient ways of working and managing ‘oneself’.

This hands-on workshop introduces the emerging field of Neuroscience of Leadership and explains what one can learn from (cognitive, affective, socio-cognitive) neuroscience in order to achieve more efficient ways of working and managing ‘oneself’.

Participants will be introduced to the “Brain Balance” model which consist of eight paradoxical activities. Combined, they facilitate recovery and brain resilience; they help to maintain focus and improve mental health. Based on this model, participants will be put in the position to optimize their self-leadership, e.g. by adapting their time-management.

Insights from the facilitator’s work in the ‘NeuroTrainingLab™’ will help to demystify a number of clichés about the “brain”. The discussion will lead to concrete actions to better manage stress and harmonize work, family and personal life.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will

• increase their self-knowledge and self-awareness, and understand why these are instrumental for their effectiveness as leaders;
• get acquainted to the “Brain Balance” model, a science-based conceptual framework that enables them to systematically take on the challenge of self-leadership;
• learn easy-to-use techniques to enhance the harmony between work and non-work activities and understand why harmony translates into leadership effectiveness;
• learn how to improve their efficiency at work (“work smarter instead of harder”).

METODOLOGY

To achieve these goals, the workshop employs a variety of pedagogical techniques, diagnostic tools and peer coaching. Participants will be put in a position to develop personal action plans.

TARGET GROUP

Business school and university executives/administrators

PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES

Participants will be requested to complete a set of pre-readings. In addition, participants will be invited to participate in a self-assessment exercise based on an online questionnaire in order to better understand their current positioning with regard to the different components of the “Brain Balance” model. It will serve as the starting point for the personal learning journey that will be initiated by this workshop.

IN-DEPTH NEUROTRAININGLAB^TM ASSESSMENT

Participants can optionally register for a full-scaleNeuroTrainingLab^TM assessment. This is a supplementary offering to reinforce the learning points delivered during the workshop.

Please note that this feature requires a separate registration (please select the option on the workshop’s registration form) and fee payment (USD 600). Assessments will be scheduled individually either the day before or after the workshop. As only a maximum of eight participants can partake in this exercise per day, candidates will be selected on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Participants receive immediate feedback, feedforward, a written report and a video report.

Workshop Leaders:

• Michel Kalika, Senior Advisor, BSIS Co-Director
• Japhet Law, Senior Advisor, EFMD GN Asia
• Michael Osbaldeston, Associate Director, Quality Services, EFMD

IBSSC 2018

Target group
The 7th International Business School Shanghai Conference, supported by EFMD Global Network, has been designed for all interested in the management education and development. It brings together more than 250 deans from leading business schools, directors from international management education institutions, and leaders from international business education accreditation institutions. They will exchange views and explore the development of business schools, while promoting cooperation between business education in China and other countries

Target Group:
The EFMD GN Annual Conference for Central and Eastern Europe has been designed to tackle the latest challenges in management education and development. It brings together EFMD & EFMD GN members, companies, educational institutions and other associations, offering various perspectives and discussions on the conference theme.

The EFMD GN CEE Annual Conference is also hosting Accreditation Seminar on pre-confrence day, 08th October, from 12:00-15:30 CET. We hereby invite the participants to attend our EFMD Accreditation Seminar that consists of institutional accreditation (EQUIS), degree programme accreditation (EPAS), online course certification (EOCCS), business school impact system (BSIS) and an institutional mentoring scheme (EDAF). The accreditation seminar introduces participants to these offerings with special focus on their commonalities and distinctive features. The seminar is free of charge for conference participants. However, if you would like to attend only the seminar and not the conference, please contact ivana.marinkovic@efmdglobal.org to register with the following fees:

• EFMD GN members: 150 €
• EFMD GN Non- members: 200 €

EFMD Global Network in cooperation with IE Business School organizes the second EOCCS Learning Community Symposium, which will be held on 25th and 26th September 2018 at IE Business School, Spain.

Building a learning community amongst the Institutions with EOCCS certified courses and interested EFMD members is one of the key values of EOCCS and the main goal of the EOCCS Learning Community Symposium which facilitates the interaction between peers and online learning experts.

This year’s edition will represent one-and-a-half-day event where some of the sessions and key notes will be accessible to online attendees as well. However, coming to Madrid will offer you an exceptional opportunity to meet, interact and learn from the experts sharing their own best practices.

This year we will focus on the digital engagement of students, faculty, corporate partners and the technology in management and business education. Furthermore, the potential challenges in online learning delivery formats will be discussed.

Please note that the EOCCS Learning Community Symposium is by invitation only.

A joint international program by EFMD Global Network & Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

Transformational forces are in the process of reshaping higher education and business schools, as professional schools, are at the forefront of this development. As universities are responding to the call of becoming more customer oriented, impactful, technology-embracing, and network focused, hardly ‘any stone will be left unturned’. Everything from content, the role of research, pedagogy to students are credentialed is likely to be affects.

The Leadership Accelerator Academy focuses on these challenges and will help participants to respond to them in their professional roles, as leaders and shapers in higher education.

The Leadership Accelerator Academy enhances the participants’ leadership competencies while at the same time focusing on issues that are high up on the reform agenda of higher education.

More information can be found on https://common.skolkovo.ru/event/efmd-skolkovo/2018-09/en/

About
This webinar will cover details about the EFMD Global Career Service Platform, Highered.

Target Group
This webinar is geared towards career services professionals who are looking to expand or begin the career services repertoire for students at their business school. Other business school administrators, such as Deans and Corporate Relations, with interest in bringing this service to their school are also welcome to attend. EFMD Affiliated Member schools are being offered the opportunity to make use of this service and activate their own dedicated Highered platform for a trial period of one year.

Description
You will get an overview of Highered, EFMD Global Career Services, which can help your students find global opportunities Highered is a unique addition to the career services you already offer students welcoming relevant internships, trainee and graduate jobs from EFMD Company Members on a daily basis.

Registration
Attendance is free but requires registration. Number of participants is limited. Click on the registration button below to register.

This session will be moderated by Kendall Brown, Career Services & Marketing Manager, Highered.

If not familiar with Zoom please connect 15 minutes prior to the session. For Zoom to work best we recommend you have the latest version Zoom Client for Meetings downloaded.

Accreditation processes require schools to collect and report a plethora of information on their faculty teaching and research, and many more. Collecting this data from various sources within the institution can be cumbersome and resource-intensive. In this webinar, we will explore hurdles and best practices for data collection and management and how a faculty management system such as ACADEM can support schools these processes.

ACADEM is a comprehensive web-based software solution for faculty and research data management. It allows institutions to manage all their accreditations and rankings in one place and produce the appropriate statistical reports (e.g. for EQUIS and EPAS). ACADEM also provides modules to manage Syllabus, Assurance of Learning, Faculty Workload, students’ Competencies and ePortfolio. More than 80 business schools in over 23 countries around the world work with ACADEM.