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• Understanding the Family Winery: Benefits-Challenges-Best Practices... Fri Aug 4, 2006 (San Francisco). Designed as an open forum, this workshop explores challenges faced, and best winery practices employed, by family wineries.
• Winery Workshop: Branding the Family Winery... Fri Oct 20, 2006 (Napa/Sonoma). Wine consumers, more than any other buyers, are faced with purchasing decisions with seemingly infinite choices. This interactive workshop introduces a new approach to the all-important topic of winery branding.
• Winery Conference (FFI Pre-Conference)... Wed, Oct 25, 2006 (Sonoma). This half-day conference is designed for family wineries, examining issues such as exporting, global competition, wealth management, and family governance.
• FFI 2006 Annual Conference... Oct 25-28 (San Francisco). This is "the" premier Family Business conference and this year is being co-sponsored by SFSU and held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Don't miss it.
• Winery Workshop: Competing in the Global Marketplace... Thur, Dec 7, 2006 (San Francisco). This workshop focuses on effective strategies to enter and compete in lucrative gloabal markets. Topics include effective export models, analysis of emerging and existing markets, regulatory trends, and the value of long-term strategic visioning.
• Winery Workshop: Effective Family Communication... Tues Jan 24, 2007 (San Francisco - SFSU's new downtown campus). This workshop presents effective communication tools, and provides a framework for understanding amd overcoming the challenges of intergenerational and cross-cultural communication.
• Retreat... Decoding the Family Winery DNA: A Unifying Strategy for Prosperity... Feb 23-25, 2007 (San Fracnisco). This retreat engages a proven process to unlock the wealth and performance potential of the family winery, while simultaneously achieving harmoney and prosperity within the family.
• Winery Workshop: Governance Structures for the Family Winery... Wed March 14, 2007 (Napa/Sonoma). This workshop focuses on issues surrounding, and the importance of, winery and family management/governance. We present models explaining the "how, when, and who should participate" in family councils and winery boards?
• Winery Workshop: Successful Exporting... Wed April 4, 2007 (Napa/Sonoma). This 3-hr workshop is designed to help wineries understand and implement effective international export strategies and practices in a rapidly changing and diverse global marketplace.
• Retreat... Decoding the Family Winery DNA: A Unifying Strategy for Prosperity... May 11-13, 2007 (San Fracnisco). This retreat engages a proven process to unlock the wealth and performance potential of the family winery, while simultaneously achieving harmoney and prosperity within the family.
• SFSU Winery Conference on International Trade... Sun May 20, 2007 (San Francisco). This conference is designed to enhance the international trade endeavors of California wineries, as well as enrich the international business expertise of attending faculty and service providers. This conference represents an opportunity for conference participants to share best practices for exporting, global marketing, and gaining access to global markets.