ONU Center for corporate engagement

Manager Essentials Certificate
2026-03-11 09:00 - 2026-03-25 16:30 (America/New_York) | The Inn at Ohio Northern University, 401 W College Ave, Ada, OH, 45810, United States
Dates and Times: (2 days)
March 11, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and
March 25, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
When companies can increase their number of talented managers and double the rate of engaged employees they have better financial outcomes than their competition. https://hbr.org/2014/03/why-good-managers-are-so-rare
The Manager Essentials certificate is an interactive and practical program designed for current or prospective managers to create a hands-on approach to management. You will enhance your professional effectiveness and your company’s competitive advantage through development of authentic and sustainable management skills, a manager-focused business acumen lens, and effective coaching and mentoring skills to engage and develop others.
Engage employees: Learn skills to convey the organization’s vision and mission and build important working relationshipsTransitioning from peer to managerImpacting others: Develop the emotional intelligence and self-awareness to manage your impact on othersCoaching and Gaining Reflective Feedback: Get tools for providing coaching to develop others and to gain meaningful and effective feedback for increasing self-awareness Communication: Develop your skills to provide clear and concise messaging and have critical conversations to achieve necessary outcomes for successPrioritization of task for yourself and othersLearn techniques for influencing with or without authority to create collaboration, gain necessary department resources, and capture organizational wins

Surveyor's Workshop - A Look At Surveying From Different Angles
2026-04-09 08:30 - 16:30 | McIntosh Ballroom, ONU, 525 South Main Street, Ada, OH, 45810, United States
CPD Credits: Participants earn 7.0 hours of continuing professional development (CPD).
Sessions:
Surveying Ohio Lands – Joe Fenicle, PS, Professor of Surveying and Mapping, University of Akron
Survey Scans of Dinosaur Bones – Mapping Prehistoric Pathways from Megafauna and the First Peoples in the Americas to Rio Grande Pueblos – David J. Bodo, Bodo Surveying
Prescriptions for Descriptions – Mike Buettner, PS
Riparian Rights – Barry Savage, PLS, Tennessee Valley Authority
Boundary Disputes and Resolution – Barry Savage, PLS, Tennessee Valley Authority
Historical Surveying You Can Still See Today – David Strittmatter, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Ohio Northern University
Surveyors are Entrepreneurs, Too – Becoming Entrepreneurial and Keeping It – Kevin M. Ernst, Assistant Professor of Management, Ohio Northern University
