ANLA announces 2008 Management Clinic program
30 Oct, 2007 LM Direct!WASHINGTON, D.C. — Registration is now open for the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA) Management Clinic, February 8–11, 2008 in Louisville, KY. The Clinic is the Green Industry’s only event focused exclusively on developing the business skills of owners and managers in growing, distributing, landscaping, and retailing. Attendees will experience 48 new sessions with never-before-heard speakers that are new to the industry.
“Not only is it a great learning opportunity, you are immediately made to feel welcome. It’s the best of the best investment that you can make for your self, your employees, customer relationships and so much more. This is my second year and I can’t wait for the return trip in 2008,” says Todd Haines, Christensen’s Plant Center (MI).
This year’s event will launch interactive, “classroom style” advanced learning labs. These newly designed sessions will challenge attendees to be “hands on” during the session, in order to take a plan of action back home to their businesses. Prospective learning lab attendees should be prepared to be tasked with anything from preparing for sessions beforehand, to completing worksheets and spreadsheets during the session, to working on their laptops.
Steve Farber, Eileen McDargh, Carr Hagerman, Mick Lunzer will headline this year’s Clinic, with a special bonus session from “the idea guy” Dr. Alan Robinson. Steve Farber, author of The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, is a recipient of Fast Company magazine's Readers' Choice Award. His book was named one of the 10 best books of 2004 by the online resource, CEO Refresher. In 1989, after having run his own financial services company, Steve devoted his professional life to the field of leadership development and has been at it ever since.
“Last year’s Management Clinic was so successful, with attendance growing by more than 30% that we had to move our dates this year. With the winter trade show season busier than ever, we worked hard to try to avoid direct overlap with any other industry events. This will allow us to ensure there are plenty of hotel rooms and the additional room we will need for the ninth workshop track we are adding this year. That means more than 90 educational sessions for you and your team to choose from,” says Management Clinic committee co-chair, Jon Reelhorn.
For more information about the 2008 ANLA Management Clinic, visit www.managementclinic.org.
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