OCCE Workshop: Engaging in Community

Join the OCCE in a series of workshops to develop your strengths as a community-engaged leader! This workshop will focus on defining meaningful engagement, gaining an understanding of the Winston Salem community, and how to get involved in service off-campus.

Deac in a Day

Deac in a Day is an immersive experience that allows prospective students an opportunity to fully engage with the MS in Management, MS in Accountancy, and MS in Business Analytics programs, as well as our Wake Forest Business community. The event provides attendees a comprehensive overview of graduate student life and allows for the opportunity to meet current students, program faculty, career services, and admissions to learn more about these unique Master’s programs. College seniors at any stage of the graduate admissions process are welcome. Registrants are encouraged to submit an application to their program of choice before the event takes place. By doing so, attendees can complete their admissions interview during Deac in a Day and receive an admissions decision on the next business day. Register here.

Executive Education – Leading Effective Change

To stay relevant, teams and organizations must continuously change and adapt to their ever evolving internal and external environments. This makes it imperative leaders understand and possess the skills to effectively lead change. Furthermore, it is also important that leaders know how to shape a learning culture to facilitate continuous adaptation and improvement. Leaders who can effectively lead change gain a competitive advantage for their teams and organizations. This 1-day program will provide the participant with the knowledge and tools to effectively plan and lead change and to shape a learning culture in their organization. Participants are encouraged to bring information (or challenge) regarding an on-going or future change effort in their teams or organizations. Participants can immediately apply the tools from this workshop to enhance change management efforts. Deadline to register: March 26, 2024

Wakeville 2025

Wakeville is an interdisciplinary festival celebrating sustainability and the arts. The event will bring together students, faculty, and organizations across campus for a day honoring the liberal arts. https://wakethearts.wfu.edu/wakeville-2025/

Executive Education – Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation

From Preparation to Execution: Build Essential Skills for Effective, Value-Driven Negotiations. Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation is a one-day session designed to introduce you to the ABCs of negotiation and how to build a strong foundation of how to think about, prepare for, and execute negotiations in a variety of contexts (e.g., client negotiations). Through this session, you will gain greater understanding into the five fundamental questions you should ask before every negotiation to enhance your negotiating effectiveness. Additionally, you will explore different negotiating approaches, assess your own negotiation style, and learn how it may influence your negotiated outcomes. Finally, you will gain practice negotiating in both two-party and multi-party negotiations, much like the ones you might encounter with clients, coworkers, and/or supervisors. Through these experiences, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to negotiate both assertively and collaboratively in order to create greater value-adding agreements. Deadline for registration: April 22, 2025 Register Now

Executive Education – Leveraging a Growth Mindset for Personal, Team, and Organizational Success

Fostering Agility, Innovation, and Performance for Lasting Impact Our view of the skills and capabilities we possess has a tremendous impact on our performance, happiness, and ability to learn. By believing in our potential for personal and professional growth, and pursuing each through communication, collaboration, innovation, and openly addressing challenges and stumbling blocks, we create new opportunities to grow and develop. This one-day workshop will focus on the principles of growth mindset, using the research of Carol Dweck and her colleagues as a foundation. This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well. We will focus on your own development of a growth mindset as well as ways to influence your workplace and team to adopt this way of thinking. The program will be highly interactive, focusing not only on understanding growth mindset and related concepts, but on exercises and discussions to actively develop these skillsets. You will apply program learnings to your real-world environment in consultation with other like-minded participants, as well as develop a personal action plan to take you forward. Deadline for registration: May 8, 2025