This intensive two-week program provides attendees with an opportunity to address critical business issues, and advance their understanding of key business disciplines concerning corporate strategy, stewardship, entrepreneurship and innovation. The Institute is known for bringing together renowned faculty from Stanford University's acclaimed Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering in addition to heralded faculty from IMD, the University of California at Berkeley and the Keck Graduate Institute.

Executives are applying to attend the 2006 AeA/Stanford Institute at a record pace. To date, leaders from more nearly 30 technology companies including Xilinx, Novo Nordisk, Boeing, MAPICS, BEA Systems, Cymer, National Semiconductor, Kronos, Dolby and Kyocera Wireless will be represented this year.

Apply or nominate your executive team to attend before April 3rd and save $1000. Team discounts available. You may visit www.aeanet.org/stanford or contact Jeannine Seremi-Banayat at 408.987.4276 for more information or to hold seats.

• Striking a New Balance a Global Perspective
• Empowering Health Consumers
• Putting Compensation and Benefits Strategies at the Heart of International Business
• Managing the Strategic Relationship with your Compensation Committee
• Now What? Role of Retained HR After Outsourcing
• Global Equity Program Implementation & Administration Strategy
• Managing the Value Exchange in Your Company
• Important New Compliance Developments for International Stock Programs
• Understanding What Compensation Committees Want
• Leveraging Performance and Business Impact from Training Initiatives
• Profitable Sales Growth: How to Balance Competing Demands
• The State of Electronic Communications and Compensation and HR
• Employees in the News: Role of the Media in Setting/Reinforcing Expectations

Technology companies from Ireland, Canada, Texas, Colorado, California and Washington have already enrolled managers to attend the AeA/Santa Clara Management Development Program, June 12-15. Encourage your new and mid-level managers to apply by March 31st to save $300 off tuition.

Attendees will discuss core business disciplines and learn effective management techniques to lead innovation and high performance work teams. Industry experienced faculty from Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business will provide 30+ attending managers with a solid understanding of market strategy, negotiations,
accounting and team leadership. In addition, keynote speaker Barry
Posner, Dean of the Leavey School of Business and co-author of the
award-winning leadership book, The Leadership Challenge: How to
Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations, will introduce
participants to the five practices of exemplary leadership.

Alumnus Rob Woolf, Site Engineering Manager at National Semiconductor shared his experience at the program, "Goes beyond the fundamentals and provides new tools directly applicable to management issues."

Nominate your team to participate in this intensive four-day program which happens only once a year. Enroll before March 31st and save $300. Team discounts available. Visit www.aeanet.org/santaclara or contact Jeannine Seremi-Banayat at 408.987.4276 for more details.

Now more than ever, it is critical that you benchmark your compensation strategy against the industry to ensure you are paying your key talent competitively. If you are not already using the AeA Salary Surveys* and do so by March 31st, you will receive two months of free access to the survey(s) in which you participate.

AeA offers four online surveys, that are designed specifically for the tech industry. They are always current and provide the ability to run custom and dynamic reports. Choose to participate in and access data from any of our four surveys including: Technical Benchmark, Non-Technical Benchmark, Sales & Marketing, and Executive.

• $50 off each Survey ($495 List Price);

• $695 off the Survey Package of 4 - You'll receive the fourth survey FREE + an additional $200 off ($1980 List Price)

Interested in Learning More? Log-in to a Free Webinar, March 9th
Register today to attend the free orientation webinar, March 9th at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET and learn more about how to participate in and access AeA's Salary Surveys. You will gain an understanding for why your participation is key to pulling dynamic reports, how to pull custom reports, how to save search criteria for future use and more! Register Today.