Designed for both experienced and rising managers, the executive Management Competencies courses explore new techniques to lead your team. Discover new approaches to leading organizational performance and learn valuable insights you can implement immediately. Whether you are looking for a new competency or to enhance your existing skill set, these courses will help you support your team's performance. Learn how to build conflict resolution skills, develop negotiation techniques, understand financials in business, interpret big data, and negotiate in a cross-cultural setting.
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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Extracting Business Value
Learn how to interpret Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to extract the business value. This short course examines how information can impact the business world and your organization and discusses how to use the data to move your company forward. Participants gain a basic understanding of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with interactive and engaging presentations and non-technical approaches.
This course prepares participants to:
Gain an understanding of the basics
Learn the advantages and limitations of each topic
Apply Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in practice
Identify and extract undervalued Big Data
Create strategies to leverage Big Data by using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms
This course focuses on the development of an operating budget, along with how firms use multi-assessment tools to control business and managerial performance. Also explored is the “Balanced Scorecard,” a strategic performance measurement tool that includes four perspectives: Financial, Customer, Business Processes, and Learning & Growth.
This course prepares participants to:
Develop and improve budgeting and performance measurement skills
Gain a better understanding of the relationships among different types of budgets
Discover different strategic approaches to the development of operating budgets
Composing articulate, persuasive, and impactful written communication in the workplace is essential. Research shows nearly 75% of employers are actively seeking professionals with strong written communication skills. This is likely because the written communication created by staff directly affects the reader's views of the organization, as well as the individual. Empower yourself by learning research-driven techniques to deliver clear and concise messages in a professional atmosphere.
This course prepares participants to:
Use writing as an influential tool within the workplace
Understand the essentials of effective writing
Compose memos, emails, executive summaries, etc. using best practices
Discover strategies for effective cross-cultural negotiations within your organization. This course discusses common communication issues and explores approaches for prevention, as well as how to adapt when negotiating in a cross-cultural setting. Discover the strategy and psychology behind negotiations to approach the situation with confidence in a national, regional, or organizational setting.
This course prepares participants to:
Gain foundational skills to negotiate effectively
Effectively negotiate across cultural borders
Understand the features of negotiations that do and do not vary across cultures
Learn the strategy and psychology behind successful negotiations
Discover the ways a culture may influence negotiating strategy, priorities, style, and value systems
Setting a goal is just the first step to achieving it. In this course, participants will learn the psychology behind personal changes and master techniques that will enable them to realize their aspirations. Discover innovative solutions to generate your personal success.
This course prepares participants to:
Set realistic personal and professional goals
Understand and challenge possible setbacks
Create and act upon an approachable plan of action to achieve objectives
The emergence of digital technologies has fundamentally changed the way individuals, businesses, and organizations interact. This has necessitated a shift in how organizations reach, captivate, and convert their target audiences. This three-day intensive program will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the digital marketing landscape, beginning with how digital marketing should fit into the greater marketing communications framework.
This course prepares participants to:
Understand the digital marketing frameworks & business models
Create a comprehensive and cohesive digital strategy
Recognize the best methods for selecting the appropriate tactics, channels & tools
Analyze the different approaches for measuring the performance and return on investment of your digital marketing activities
Understand how to quantify the incremental impact digital marketing programs have on an organization’s bottom line
Make smart financial decisions to help your company invest wisely and grow. The Finance for the Non-Financial Manager course teaches managers how to interpret important financial information and make sound decisions. From capital budgeting to financial statement analysis, learn the tools you need to push your organization forward.
This course prepares participants to:
Understand the basics of financial statement analysis
Project future revenues, costs, and cash flows
Understand capital budgeting
Make smart investment decisions
Evaluate past and current financial positions, risks, and profitability
Understand how to better form teams and make strategic decisions, how to leverage group processes and personal networks to be more effective as a leader, and how to select and motivate the right people to join your team or unit. Foundations of Leadership and Management is the required foundational course for the Management Development Certificate (but open to any Carey Executive Education participant), and it participants to lead with purpose and incorporate core knowledge and skills from research on leadership and organizations into their daily practices.
This course prepares participants to:
Guide teams to efficient and effective decisions
Leverage a professional network for leading more productively in organizations
Motivate others to achieve team or organizational goals
Select and develop the right people for a team or organization
The expectation to “do more with less” in an organization requires leaders to bring out the untapped potential of a workforce. Discover research-based strategies and tools to leverage employee capabilities, drive individual performance and achieve organizational goals. Participants will understand the power of inclusion to attract, motivate and retain human capital while maximizing performance and creating value through people.
This course prepares participants to:
Overcome biases in human resource management
Build and lead diverse work teams to drive performance goals
Learn research-based strategies for tactically and strategically managing human capital
Understand the ways in which people create value in and for organizations
Our Project Management course equips participants with a powerful set of tools to plan, implement, and manage activities to realize specific objectives. Applicable to a wide range of businesses and professions, the ability to effectively manage projects is a skill set actively sought by employers and a career-advancing talent employees will call upon again and again.
This course prepares participants to:
Minimize the potentially damaging effects of workplace conflicts
Understand the root causes of disagreements between individuals
This course provides new insights, based on methodologies, case studies, and data analytics, on how firms can realize significant additional earnings, cost savings, and productivity leveraging existing real estate capital.
This course prepares participants to:
Develop metrics, KPIs, and data analytics on owned and leased real estate assets
Create an Earnings Scorecard that grades and ranks real estate alignment with strategy
Measure the impact of real estate optimization using new apps and IT solutions
Risk Management: A Strategic Approach to Leadership
Help your organization capitalize on opportunities while minimizing risk. This course takes a strategic approach to leadership while introducing a powerful management tool. Enterprise Risk Management enables companies to minimize organizational vulnerabilities by analyzing their internal processes and procedures. During this 2-day course, you'll learn how to use this technique in your own work and improve your management skills.
This course prepares participants to:
Systematically approach opportunities and risks within their organizations
Understand isolation and mitigation of risks
Manage exposures
Prioritize opportunities and risks
Create a roadmap for utilizing ERM management approaches
Conflicts are unavoidable in the business world, and effective resolution is critical to organizational success. Learn strategies for addressing conflicts as they arise, techniques for unifying your organization, and ways to promote strategic change.
This course prepares participants to:
Examine the root cause of conflicts, from small disputes to organizational upheaval
Use techniques rooted in research to manage conflict
Understand the cause of disagreements between individuals
Become a better negotiator with valuable techniques designed to achieve favorable outcomes. Learn the strategic foundation and knowledge needed for effectively negotiating with employers, coworkers, clients, employees, and others encountered in daily business. Gain the confidence you need to overcome uncomfortable negotiation sessions and achieve the best possible result.
This course prepares participants to:
Become a powerful negotiator at all organizational levels
Discover their individual negotiation style
Achieve their goals through strategic negotiation
Develop a systematic approach
Learn to cope with win-lose situations and transform them into win-win situations
The ever-changing world of technology provides endless opportunities for entrepreneurs to capitalize on new ventures. Learn how to turn your raw technology concepts into real-world innovations.
This course prepares participants to:
Determine their personal value proposition
Accurately Analyze the market and target audience/s
Create validated business proposals and apply for grant funding
"I really loved [the Strategic Negotiation] course; it helped me gain confidence when negotiating by giving me specific strategies and tools to understand what my interests are and how I can achieve them."
