Meetings and homework
Annual meeting
The three-year NRCA Future Executives Institute (FEI) is built on 10 core areas
essential to small-business operations: management, leadership, strategic planning,
human resources, financial management, sales and marketing, roofing industry issues,
risk management, family relationships/succession and personal-development skills.
Content addressing these areas will be presented throughout the three years. A number
of these disciplines build on one another.
NRCA convention
Students enrolled in the institute will participate in a program during the International
Roofing Expo and NRCA's annual convention. The program will address one or more
of the core areas and provide time to share information about projects that participants
have been working on since their institute meeting in the fall.
Projects and assignments
Participants will be responsible for completing a variety of challenging projects
and assignments. Some will involve individual projects about each participant's
company. Others will be team assignments with other class members. Participants
also will participate in online courses created specifically for the institute.
The expectation is that the entire future executives group will complete the three-year
institute together. Each fall, there will be a four- to five-day, face-to-face program,
and during NRCA's annual convention, the class will reconvene to touch base and
participate in an educational program and group dinner.
Between face-to-face meetings, there will be projects and assignments. Potential
projects will include online courses, short internship opportunities and assignments
related to individual companies. Projects will be tailored to student experience
and company needs.
Three-year schedule
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Year 1
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Year 2
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Year 3
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Family business: Introduction to family business
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Family business: Career development and succession planning
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Family business: Governance for family business complexities
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Finance: Financial concepts
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Finance: Budgets
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Leadership/Human resources: Leadership workshop
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Leadership/Human resources: Culture
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Leadership/Human resources: Conflict management and terminations
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Leadership/Human resources: Recruiting and hiring
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Leadership/Human resources: Motivation and retention
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Legal issues: Introduction to legal issues facing roofing contractors
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Legal issues: Analysis of construction contracts
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Legal issues: Select legal issues posing liability to roofing contractors
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Marketing: Marketing fundamentals
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Marketing: Using marketing strategy to build a business
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Marketing: Building strong brands
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Team building, leadership and decision making: Leadership activities
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Team building, leadership and decision making: Leadership activities
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Team building, leadership and decision making: Leadership activities
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Team building, leadership and decision making: Coaching
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Strategic planning: Introduction to strategic planning
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Strategic planning: Vision and culture
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Business relationships
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Communication workshop
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Presentation skills
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Presentation skills: Speak to persuade: when being informative is not enough
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Risk management
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Risk management: Crisis management
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Note: Course and scheduling subject to change.