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    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

    Conference Highlights
    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

    Thought Leadership
    Higher Ed Dive Interviews Mike Malefakis

    Higher Ed Dive Interviews Mike Malefakis

    The new president of university partnerships at online education company Emeritus talks about growth plans and the direction of the sector Published September 2, 2022 Rick Seltzer, Senior Editor HigherEdDive.com Emeritus, a company focused on

    UNICON News
    A Message from the New UNICON Executive Director Melanie Weaver Barnett

    A Message from the New UNICON Executive Director Melanie Weaver Barnett

    Dear UNICON Membership Community, I walked into my first UNICON conference 23 years ago, brand new to executive education, wondering what this UNICON thing was all about. By the time I left three days later,

    Thought Leadership
    Harvard Business School: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

    Harvard Business School: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

    Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Business Research for Business Leaders "Which universities will step into the void as American colleges decline? In the book Empires of Ideas, William Kirby explores how the history of higher

    Thought Leadership
    Financial Times: What companies really want from executive courses

    Financial Times: What companies really want from executive courses

    "Corporate chief learning officers were surveyed about subjects, spending and the shift online" "Employers around the world plan to step up their spending on executive development programmes this year with a focus on leadership, diversity

    UNICON News
    The Future of UNICON – the Next Fifty Years

    The Future of UNICON – the Next Fifty Years

    "The Future of UNICON - the Next Fifty Years" Peter Hirst, Michael Malefakis "As we all know all too well, making predictions–especially about the future–is a tricky business. After two years of pandemic-induced turbulence and