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    What Is an Allow list, Why Is It Important to UNICON, and How Do I Implement It?

    What Is an Allow list, Why Is It Important to UNICON, and How Do I Implement It?

    An Allow list, also called a Whitelist, is a proactive way to ensure that emails you want are delivered to you. As security threats become pervasive, organizations and individuals have adopted measures to keep unwanted

    UNICON News
    SFU Beedie School of Business, Miami Herbert Business School Join UNICON

    SFU Beedie School of Business, Miami Herbert Business School Join UNICON

    Last month, the UNICON board approved Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and University of Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida, USA for associate membership.   Simon Fraser University

    UNICON News
    UNICON Expresses Gratitude to Three Board Members for Their Service

    UNICON Expresses Gratitude to Three Board Members for Their Service

    Each year two board members complete their terms. This year, those finishing their board term are Peter Methot, Associate Dean of Executive Education at Rutgers Business School, and Devin Bigoness, Chief Client Officer, Executive Education

    UNICON News
    UNICON Welcomes Three New Board Members for 2023-2024

    UNICON Welcomes Three New Board Members for 2023-2024

    Aisha Azhar, Dennis Lanham, and Shaun Rozyn begin their terms on the UNICON Board of Directors. They replace last year's board members Devin Bigoness, Kan Cai, and Peter Methot. Aisha Azhar Director, Rausing Executive Development

    Thought Leadership
    Businessweek: Women Business Deans Meet to Share Challenges, Solutions

    Businessweek: Women Business Deans Meet to Share Challenges, Solutions

    Carol Hymowitz March 9, 2023 Bloomberg Businessweek "The underrepresented group is quickly growing, with about 29% of the deanships of US B-schools now held by women." In a conference room at the University of California

    Research
    Employers See Benefits For Micro-credentials

    Employers See Benefits For Micro-credentials

    If you are offering (or considering offering) micro-credentials, and if you work with (or are considering working with) intermediaries such as OPMs to do so, here is a short collection of articles you will find

    Thought Leadership
    12 Foundations of Values-based Leadership for Sustainability From The 2022 UNICON Team Development Conference

    12 Foundations of Values-based Leadership for Sustainability From The 2022 UNICON Team Development Conference

    Based on a talk by Daniel Skarlicki, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business "For leaders in executive education, aligning our work with personal values

    UNICON News
    New UNICON Community of Practice Forming

    New UNICON Community of Practice Forming

    Salesforce and other CRM Systems Following some table discussions at the Team Development Conference in Vancouver, it was clear that several Schools are implementing or transitioning to Salesforce Education Data Architecture as their CRM of

    Conference Highlights
    Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

    Ten Pieces of Motivation and Inspiration From The UNICON Team Development Conference

    Motivation and Inspiration from UNICON’s Team Development Conference 2022 – from IEDP Many of us were privileged to gather in person for this year’s UNICON Team Development Conference in Vancouver, hosted brilliantly by the team

    Thought Leadership
    Welcome to the Future

    Welcome to the Future

    There are widely varying opinions on the changing landscape of higher education, but many point to opportunity for executive education providers who are ready. Forbes Glenn Llopis, Contributor September 14, 2022 Also available for listening

    Thought Leadership
    How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

    How the Covid Pandemic Might Have Lasting Effects on Executive Education

    The pandemic is known to have changed most organizations in some way, often in quite significant ways. Higher Education is no exception. But which of those changes are of the permanent variety, which are temporary,

    Thought Leadership
    Rankings Still Captivate

    Rankings Still Captivate

    Colleges and universities tend to have a love-hate relationship with rankings of all kinds. And yet they also tend to want to a) do well and b) stay abreast of how they and others are