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NEWS RELEASE
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September 12, 2007 |
Release No. MFO-07-07 |
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Steve Milauskas |
phone: | (304) 487-1510 (304) 285-1596 |
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smilauskas@fs.fed.us dwanner@fs.fed.us |
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Wood Education and Resource Center Will Host a Workshop for Business Leaders in the Forest and Wood Products Industries
PRINCETON, WVa— The USDA Forest Service Wood Education and Resource Center and the Sloan Foundation Forest Industries Center will cosponsor a workshop, Managing and Leading Change, October 15 and 16 in Princeton, WVa. Forest industry leaders and managers from primary producers to secondary manufacturers will benefit from attending the workshop.
Leading industry experts and Virginia Tech professors will discuss:
- Specific pressures for change faced by forest industry leaders,
- How to approach changes entrepreneurially,
- Why traditional business models no longer meet the demands of a changing global market and the role of the customer in coping with unknown future forces of change,
- Strategies for leading and managing organizational change,
- Why even well-planned change initiatives can fail,
- How to define visions for change and explore various change initiatives,
- How to effectively implement change initiatives, and
- Recent experiences with change initiatives from the perspective of a wood products manufacturing business manager.
For more information call (540) 231-3095. Online registration is available at www.cpe.vt.edu/reg/mlc.
The Wood Education and Resource Center is located in Princeton, WV, and administered by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry unit of the Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Center's mission is to work with the forest products industry toward sustainable forest products production for the eastern hardwood forest region. It provides state-of-the-art training, technology transfer, networking opportunities, applied research, and information. For more information about the Center, visit www.na.fs.fed.us/werc.