CONCORD, N.H. -- The University of New Hampshire Center for Family Business will present "The Issues, Care and Management of Non-Family Employees - Before, During and After a Family Business Succession" at The Centennial Inn in Concord Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Registration and coffee start at 8 a.m. Lunch and networking will follow at noon.

This highly interactive session will feature a panel of family business experts as well as family business owners offering techniques for identification of problems and sharing their experiences and hands-on strategies for dealing with long-term employees. They will discuss succession planning during management change, how to identify potential problem employees and how to utilize key non-family during succession.

Legal topics covered will include federal and state age discrimination laws, options available when succession planning is met with resistance and a roadmap for managing expectations and the steps to take (or not take) during the termination process.

This event is free to members. There is a special one-time, trial, nonmember registration fee of $99 per person. To register, call Barbara Draper at 862-1107 or barbara.draper@unh.edu.

The Center for Family Business, under the UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics is sponsored by Baker Newman & Noyes; Harvest Capital; Mass Mutual Financial Group; Moitoza Consulting; Management Planning Inc.; Optima Bank and Trust; and Pierce Atwood.  It is a membership program to provide owners and managers of entrepreneurial businesses with an opportunity to exchange ideas and information and to discuss business challenges and solutions. For more information visit http://www.familybusiness.unh.edu

The UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics offers a full complement of high-quality programs in business, economics, accounting, finance, management, information systems and business analytics, entrepreneurship, marketing, and hospitality management. Programs are offered at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive development levels. The college is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for business schools worldwide. For more information, visit paulcollege.unh.edu.

The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,300 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students.