Executive Management Institute (EMI)
A setting that accelerates individuals’ development as managers, leaders and change agents so they make an immediate impact on their workplaces and continue to do so for years to come.
Next Scheduled Session
August 5 to 9, 2012
Academic Setting for Practical, Professional Growth
EMI has enhanced the careers of thousands of textile services professionals and earned high praise from participants for nearly 50 years. The program develops the management and leadership skills of participants through team-building, interactive sessions emphasizing information-sharing and problem solving. The five-year EMI program offers 30 hours of interactive classroom training each year including:
- Conflict management and constructive discipline
- Strategic planning
- Delegation and resource management
- Effective communications
- Coaching and performance
- Team building and problem solving
- Personal and interpersonal development
- Ethics and diversity
- Financial management
- Marketing/Sales
- Customer service
EMI's Five Principal Classes
Management Development
Managers rely on innate and learned leadership styles to contend with their everyday workplace challenges. Management Development enables participants to identify their primary and secondary styles and recognize when to apply different management strategies and techniques. They also learn new ways to break down barriers to creative thought that prevent innovation in the workplace, identify errors common to organizational change efforts and apply the eight-stage process of creating major change.
Advanced Management
Leadership effectiveness grows when managers recognize their natural tendencies in communicating. They manage relationships more effectively and fine-tune critical one-on-one discussions. Advanced Management improves participants’ aptitude in adjusting communication approaches in light of colleagues’ needs/motivations, resulting in better coaching, support and accountability. Appreciation grows for team dynamics and characteristics of effective teams.
Personal and Interpersonal Relationships
Heightened self-awareness and greater recognition of personal “blind” spots makes managers more powerful and effective leaders at work and home and in their communities. They break old self-defeating and self-limiting habits, better recognizing their own and others’ self-esteem and how it affects personal and professional effectiveness. Personal and Interpersonal Relationships teaches new techniques to help them and others reduce personal anxiety and become more assertive and confident they can relinquish personal control (delegate tasks).
Human Resources and Finance
Human Resources presentations are designed with today’s work environments in mind, where managers must relate to multiple races, cultures, religions and socioeconomic or educational backgrounds. Attendees become better prepared to recognize and acknowledge cultural differences and openly communicate. The Finance portion improves their understanding of their company P&Ls and more effectively evaluate current accounts and prospects. Subjects covered include accounting fundamentals such as charts of accounts, general ledger, debits, credits, journal entries and accruals.
Marketing and Customer Service
This interactive classroom environment encourages the sharing of best industry practices combined with real-world applications to provide a true understanding of the impact and benefits of Marketing and Customer Service. Participants are inspired to innovate and become exceptional leaders in the effort to grow their companies. They return to their workplaces with new tools to harness the creativity of others to identify and pursue profitable new business targets.
Developing Skills To Drive Organizational Change
EMI provides the management skills employees need to step up to plant, general manager and other executive roles. They become skilled in cultivating work environments that motivate and inspire employees to do what is required for the benefit of all. They study examples of how effective leaders direct the path to business success and let others use their own knowledge and skills to achieve it.
They learn how to become catalysts of change—to manage innovation and conflict to enable their operations to conquer unfamiliar business frontiers. EMI equips them to do this by giving them a more comprehensive understanding of effective management principles and practices.
EMI faculty consists of educators with industry experience who apply and demonstrate basic concepts with real-world application. Some instructors are academics and consultants who work with textile services professionals; others are experienced executives from our business. The event takes place at the main campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, convenient to Washington Reagan National and Baltimore-Washington International airports.
