Course Type: Workshop

The Denver Leadership Experience (DLX) is a five-day, transformational workshop designed to challenge you to think and perform differently in order to reach your leadership potential. Developed by faculty from the highly-ranked Daniels College of Business, the award-winning program delivers timely, relevant and innovative leadership development essentials for our ever-changing, increasingly complex business world.

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This one-day, hands-on, workshop will cover the core capabilities of Power BI. Power BI is a free interactive data visualization application developed by Microsoft with a primary focus on business intelligence that gives a single view of your data, that allows you to monitor and report on organizational data in real time. No coding or algorithms are required!

There is a short, 2- to 3-hour assignment that must be completed outside of class time.

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Buying a business is considered one of the top 10 decisions a person might make during their lifetime, including a franchise. We’ll outline the key considerations when making the decision to become a franchisee, then we’ll follow that decision through to the eventual exit. Along the way we’ll examine key milestones, issues and challenges to better understand how to drive success, performance and strong brand value.

Prerequisite: Students must have taken the online course Introduction to Franchising before beginning the workshop.
Certified Franchise Executive CE credits: 16 CFE Education and 3 CFE Participation credits

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You’re Invited: “The Dual Languages of Work and Home for Enterprising Families”

Join us for an enlightening breakfast roundtable event featuring Beatrice Meyer, MSEd, PhD, an organizational and developmental psychologist. Drawing on her diverse skill set, she’ll explore pathways towards fostering healthy communication strategies within the intricate web of family dynamics. You’ll gain valuable insights into navigating the complexities of familial relationships, both in personal and professional contexts. Don’t miss this opportunity to breakfast, network, and engage in a meaningful dialogue that will enhance your communication skills at work and at home.

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Strategic Finance is a three-day multidimensional workshop that uses real simulations and an acquisition case study to map the connections between business strategy, finance and enterprise value creation. The goal of the course is to make you a more intelligent user of finance and strategy, able to ask better questions and make better decisions. You’ll become a more sophisticated manager, particularly when focusing on the interplay and interdependence of strategy, finance and management. 

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In this interactive workshop, participants engage in presentations, case studies and interactive activities that will help them learn how to best support a multigenerational legacy. Topics include intergenerational dynamics, family systems, coaching high net worth families, and conflict resolution skills.

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The Insights Discovery System is a simple yet powerful framework used extensively in organizations worldwide for developing and improving personal leadership, high performing teams and interpersonal communication in the workplace. Understanding self, others and the interactions between the two can be the single most important aspect of personal, team and organizational development. This popular workshop includes the online self evaluation, individual Insights report distributed at workshop, and half-day debrief session with an Insights certified instructor to help you understand your results.

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Strategic Finance is a three-day multidimensional workshop that uses real simulations and an acquisition case study to map the connections between business strategy, finance and enterprise value creation. The goal of the course is to make you a more intelligent user of finance and strategy, able to ask better questions and make better decisions. You’ll become a more sophisticated manager, particularly when focusing on the interplay and interdependence of strategy, finance and management. 

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A picture is worth a thousand words—or a thousand spreadsheets. In today’s complex business world, where the amount of data is overwhelming, being able to create and communicate through compelling data visualizations is a must-have skill for all business professionals. For too long data has been trapped behind scripts, wizards and code. That can change!

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Over the three days, you will learn the language, tools and techniques to become a more intelligent user of finance and accounting reports. Through hands-on learning exercises, we will show you how to simplify, understand and apply data from financial reports and budgets. You will gain the confidence to ask better questions and make more informed financial decisions.

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A picture is worth a thousand words—or a thousand spreadsheets. In today’s complex business world, where the amount of data is overwhelming, being able to create and communicate through compelling data visualizations is a must-have skill for all business professionals. For too long data has been trapped behind scripts, wizards and code. That can change!

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Over the three days, you will learn the language, tools and techniques to become a more intelligent user of finance and accounting reports. Through hands-on learning exercises, we will show you how to simplify, understand and apply data from financial reports and budgets. You will gain the confidence to ask better questions and make more informed financial decisions.

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Planning for strategic growth, successful succession, and purposeful legacy

In this interactive workshop, participants will explore and discover successful practices for advancing family business. Through classroom and experiential learning activities, you will gain the skills and knowledge to improve family systems​ and family-relational dynamics​. The workshop will also prepare you for continued success through succession and wealth planning. Globally-recognized practitioners, renowned professors and family business owners will guide participants, sharing their experiences and inspiring new ways of thinking.  With time for personal reflection and peer bonding, this two-day workshop is valuable for all members of an established family business.

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Being a franchisor comes with incredible responsibility for the brand, the franchisees and the customers of the network. This course will examine each of the stages a franchisor must go through as it develops a valued brand, a powerful network and a cadre of loyal customers along the way.

Prerequisite: Students must have taken the online course Introduction to Franchising before beginning the workshop.
Certified Franchise Executive CE credits: 16 CFE Education and 3 CFE Participation credits

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Delivering best practices and highly applicable team building skills, the Accelerated Leadership Experience (ALX) is a five-week leadership program designed for managers to act as a catalyst for transformation. The result? Successful and fulfilled leaders. ALX includes both classroom and experiential activities and covers topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, coaching, feedback, wellness, stress management, energy management, team effectiveness, people development, diversity and inclusion.

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