Barry Perkel serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Professional & Executive Development.
75 Stories – Steve King, CPED Instructor/Past Executive Director
Steve King has served as an instructor for the past 12 years and was previously the Executive Director for the Center for Professional & Executive Development (CPED).
75 Stories – Tim Spice, Software Development Manager
Tim Spice, a community member who has recently completed his third CPED Professional Development Certificate, has propelled his career path by expanding his skillsets with both technical and leadership development.
75 Stories – Jon Kaupla, CPED Executive Director
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development. To kick off the celebration, we sat down with CPED Executive Director Jon Kaupla to learn more about his career and the impact CPED has had on his life.
This 360° Assessment Can Transform Your Leadership Style
Leadership Beyond Management is an empowering, interactive, and transformational program that gives you a clear and unbiased view of your leadership strengths and developmental needs. In this program you become well-equipped with strategies and tools that you can immediately put to use in order to positively impact and influence individuals and teams within your organization.
CPED Celebrates 75 Years of Helping Organizations Move Forward
The Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development was founded in 1944 under the name The Industrial Management Institutes. It was created to fill a need for specialized training of supervisors in industry and prepare WWII soldiers to re-enter the workforce.
Driving Innovation in India
Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs have a great deal to teach nonfamily-owned organizations about innovation. So what can large, publicly held organizations learn from Indian family businesses and entrepreneurs? We observed a few critical lessons.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
One of the fundamental contributors that limits the success rate of changes in the organization is a management philosophy and approach that focuses on productivity and efficiency. This management approach has been the predominant philosophy for the last 100 years, but what has gotten organizations here will not be the key philosophy that will boost organizations for the next 100 years.
Subject Matter Expert to Team Leader
Lack of understanding of the transformative job change is the number one cause of technical team leader failure.
When to Write Use Cases – A Checklist
A use case has been described as a formalized story that illustrates how someone procedurally interacts with an existing or proposed system.