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November 15, 2024

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Better Culture Starts with Better Conversations

The culture of your organization is more powerful than your strategy and more persistent than your vision. It’s the environment that enables performance or undermines it.

Better Conversations Every Day™ (BCE) starts with a simple — yet transformative — premise: that better culture starts with better conversations.

No matter the size of your organization, BCE helps drive business outcomes and create lasting change. Uniquely created for everyone and every single conversation — from the front desk to the corner office — BCE’s impact transcends that of a typical coaching skills program. This scalable, one-day experience creates a common mindset, skillset, and language and equips leaders with the tools to break down communication barriers and bring your business strategy to life.

Everyone wants better outcomes. Build them on a foundation of better conversations.

Here’s what Better Conversations Every Day can do:

• Drive culture change at scale
• Break down silos and communication barriers
• Unlock employee engagement
• Accelerate emotional intelligence at every level
• Address issues with openness and respect
• Transform performance management with everyday conversations that matter
• Ignite a feedback-rich coaching culture

Imagine a workforce with the courage and skill to unearth truth, grapple with difficult issues, unlock collaboration, and create a liberating space for discovery and action — in real-time, while doing real work.

Time: 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Dates: January 31, February 28, March 28, April 25, and May 16

Includes breakfast and lunch, refreshments. 

Inspire teams, drive innovation, and lead with impact in this unique program.

The Women’s Leadership Initiative at Furman offers a unique opportunity for individuals to further develop their leadership skills, broaden their awareness of emerging issues, and expand their professional network.

Program Overview:

Module 1: Self-Awareness for Leaders

This module will help you better understand your unique strengths, the core values that drive you, and the challenges that you may encounter on your leadership journey. 

Module 2: Communication for Leaders

Communication is an essential skill for all leaders. In this module, you will develop skills for conveying your vision and strategy to those around you. Learn storytelling techniques for both in-person and digital communication, while developing your unique leadership story.

Module 3: Leading Teams

Leading successful teams is one of the greatest challenges for all leaders. This module will build your tool kit for having crucial conversations that can unlock greatness in those you lead. Develop your awareness of the formal and informal power structures to deliver important wins for your team. Learn the impact that mentorship and sponsorship can have on the development and retention of high performers.

Module 4: Innovative Leadership

Innovation is a mantra of the modern business world. This module will teach you the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur to drive a culture of innovation at your organization. You will learn design thinking strategies, better understand organizational behavior, and develop skills to be a more adaptive leader. 

Program Takeaways:

• Personalized CliftonStrengths for Leaders report
• A fully developed leadership story pitch
• Individualized leadership development plan
• Three follow-up 1-on-1 virtual coaching sessions
• Connection to a growing network of leaders

Who should participate in this program?

Individuals at all levels of leadership aspiring to be more effective and impactful leaders.

Scholarship Available, and Non-Profit and Government Discount Available, email cil@furman.edu for more information.

If interested in paying via check, please contact cil@furman.edu 

Learn key concepts and processes involved in software development for UX Designers. Build better relationships with developers on your team, create smarter designs with a deeper understanding of technical constraints, and understand the concepts behind coding without needing to code.

Module 1: The software landscape

• Understand the relationship between hardware and software.

Module 2: Layers of software

• Dig into each layer of the tech stack, from the front-end to the back-end.

Module 3: Front-end technologies

• Get up to speed on the roles of HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Module 4: Back-end technologies

• Explore the back-end, APIs and common programming languages.

Module 5: How developers work

• Learn about common development workflows, from waterfall to agile.

Module 6: Effective collaboration

• Get practical guidance on how to work well with development teams.

Purchase both the UX and UI Professional Certificate in this bundle and save. This gives you access to both professional courses.

Build your UX career with a globally recognized, industry-approved qualification. Get the mindset, the confidence, and the skills that make UX designers so valuable.

Become a certified UI designer, and learn the principles, techniques, and craft of designing high-quality user interfaces. Create beautiful, pixel-perfect user interfaces and build an in-demand skill set for one of the fastest-growing professions.

This course is suited to anybody interested in designing beautiful interfaces for digital products.