Custom Education Programs

Why Custom Education is Essential to Your Success

To meet the needs of the marketplace today, managers and employees must rethink their organizations even as they work to improve the bottom line. Human capital is the key source for competitive advantage. Organizations must find ways to support learning, innovation and creativity while improving costs, quality and productivity. At Human Resources Executive Education (HREE), we will show you how to build a better, more engaging and leaner, more efficient organization. We apply research-based, field-tested concepts and tools to your specific challenges and opportunities. These ideas and techniques have been proven across a wide variety of firms, industries, and market conditions. Our ideas and practices can be tailored and refined for immediate application when your people return to work.

We are committed to helping you
make the most of your human capital

How HREE Works with You

Here at Michigan State's Human Resources Executive Education (HREE), we truly work closely with you to develop a learning program that builds on the strengths and talents of your participants and challenges them to overcome the status quo that impairs individual and organizational effectiveness. We will spend the time necessary to understand your capabilities and culture before developing a program that have a mutually agreed-up set of expectations, learning approaches, and performance metrics that will help insure that your investments of time, talents and treasure will be well worth it.

We Can Help You...

• Identify your core strengths and challenges through such assessments as:
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), StrengthsFinder™, FIRO-B, and
  • The Strong Interest Inventory
• Develop a customized program that promotes organizational growth and learning when:
  • Managing rapid growth
  • Implementing humane and effective organizational downsizing and cost-reduction
  • Creating flexible, adaptable, and innovative cultures
• Provide accessible training and on-going coaching in such areas as:
  • Leadership, team development, and interpersonal communication
  • Building trust with key internal and external stakeholders
  • Crafting and delivering effective crisis communications
• Follow-up with your executives to ensure learning continues after training is complete

Our Approach to Custom Education is unique because we have

• Talented faculty from a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise
• The ability to spend time learning about your business before we deliver programs
• A variety of methods for delivering the material to your employees
• Resource materials that employees can take with them for future learning
• A strong network that you and your employees will benefit from

We provide custom education in such areas as...

• Leading Change
  • Leading Through Turbulent Times
  • Building Trust with Key Stakeholders
  • Skills for Success

• Limiting Liability
  • Employment Law
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Labor Relations

• Human Resource Management and Labor Relations
  • Frontline Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Contract Negotiations and Administration
  • Labor Law

Who We Are

Stacy Hickox, J.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. She teaches courses on various aspects of employment law in both live and online courses. Using a grant from the Michigan State Bar Foundation, she developed live and webinar courses on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act for counselors who assist people with disabilities in finding employment. Ms. Hickox practiced law in the area of disability law at Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service prior to coming to SLIR. Ms. Hickox also taught for several years at MSU’s law school, including courses in employment law, civil rights, and disability law. She has written a book on the Americans with Disabilities Act and several law review articles on employment law. Ms. Hickox received her bachelor’s degree from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Aneil Mishra, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of Executive Education for the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. Aneil's teaching and research interests include the dynamics of trust within and across organizations, leading effective organizational change and organizational culture. He has consulted, conducted research, and coached executives on these issues with a number of global and domestic firms. Aneil has taught in several domestic and international executive programs in the U.S., Turkey, and South America and provides custom programs for a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Aneil worked for the General Motors Corporation as a human resource specialist and manufacturing engineer. He earned an A.B, cum laude, in economics from Princeton University.

Tina Riley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education with a concentration in Organizational Communications and a Master of Arts in Labor Relations and Human Resources from Michigan State University. Dr. Riley serves as a management development consultant and develops and teaches workshops on leadership, management development, and a variety of human resource management topics. She administers the MBTI and facilitates individual and group MBTI sessions. Her work incorporates a variety of approaches to enhance the learning experience.

Get Started Today

To bring the MSU HREE faculty to your organization or to discuss how HREE can help you build a better, more engaging and leaner, more efficient organization, contact Dr. Aneil Mishra at mishraa@msu.edu or 517-802-8700. You may also submit your information online and we will contact you.