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.
Current Executive Management Competencies course offerings include:
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
Learn how to hire the best people to promote your organization's success. Use research-based findings to inform your candidate selection and build a strong team. Discover the best ways to screen candidates, techniques for conducting effective interviews, and how to identify desirable qualities to improve your organization.
This course prepares participants to:
Analyze social science research
Learn effective strategies for identifying and hiring people to improve your organization
Examine all phases of the hiring process from initial recruitment to negotiations
Develop multi-stage hiring practices
Measure a candidate's personality traits and attitudes
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
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."
