Elon’s Executive Education program and the Elon University School of Law hosted a strategic planning workshop Oct. 14, exploring the impact the law school will have on the future of downtown Greensboro.
The workshop, titled “Scouting the Future: Strategic Exploration Event for Downtown Greensboro,” attracted about 70 representatives of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Greensboro, Inc., Action Greensboro, the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the North Carolina Bar Association and Elon University.
Participants worked with a computerized strategic planning tool called the Implications Wheel, developed by futurist Joel Barker. The tool was used to explore the impact the law school may have on efforts to develop new businesses and residential areas in downtown Greensboro. The Implications Wheel is designed to identify the positive and negative consequences of new strategies and changing circumstances.
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The Elon University School of Law has opened a downtown Greensboro office and construction of the law school facility, located in the former Greensboro Public Library building on Greene Street, is on schedule. The law school will enroll its first class in fall 2006.
Facilitators for the session included Bob Weston, director of executive education for Elon’s Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, and Leary Davis, dean of the Elon University School of Law.
The workshop was held in downtown Greensboro.