BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
Learn to inform, persuade and engage for maximum impact. With a focus on the management of people and organizations, you will study techniques to improve verbal and written communication, with an emphasis on the importance of candor and transparency—two skills that are critical to winning.
This certificate course is for you if:
You want to give better, tougher, more constructive feedback
You find candor or transparency difficult
You struggle to boil down your thoughts into short, impactful statements
You want to get better at reading the room and making your business communications count
The Program:
Week 1: Communicating to Win
Week 2: Persuasion and Influence
Week 3: Productive Meetings and Conflict Management
Week 4: Effective Written Communication
Week 5: Presentations with Impact
Week 6: Pulling the Pieces Together
Our Business Communications Executive Certificate course will help you, the communicator, develop applicable techniques to improve the effectiveness of verbal and written communication skills in a business setting.
FINANCE
Effective financial decisions are the lifeblood of any company. This course will expose you to the principles of corporate finance as you learn the fundamental techniques needed to build a business case, manage costs and implement financial controls.
This certificate course is for you if:
You are a manager who uses numbers to make business decisions
You’re in a role in which you build and manage your own budgets and/or analyze or defend the financial picture for your organization
You strive to make better business decisions related to cost objectives
The Program:
Week 1: Course Introduction
Week 2: Recording Financial Events
Week 3: Accounting Styles and Annual Reports
Week 4: Costing Behavior, Budgets, and Break-Even
Week 5: Costing Behavior, Budgets and Break-Even
Week 6: Capital Budgeting
Our Finance Executive Certificate course will help you read business by the numbers, whether you’re a finance professional or not.
LEADERSHIP
Leaders aren’t born; they’re made. In this business certificate course, you will learn how to hire, motivate, coach and inspire with confidence, avoiding the common mistakes made by most managers, ultimately mastering the art of leadership for today and tomorrow.
This certificate course is for you if:
You are a great team player looking to step up to a leadership position
You are in a position of leadership, ready to take your leadership to the next level
You were placed in a leadership position before you were "ready"
The Program:
Week 1: What Great Leaders Do
Week 2: Building your Winning Team
Week 3: Establishing Trust Through Candor, Transparency, and Credit
Week 4: Making Tough Decisions and Building a Learning Organization
Week 5: Taking Risks and Celebrating Success
Week 6: Pulling the Pieces Together
Our Leadership Executive Certificate course will help you, the leader of leaders, develop the essential skills you need to build great teams and drive stellar results. Leaders will leave with new ways to energize a team and communicate goals effectively—gaining an edge in a competitive business landscape.
STRATEGY
Knowing how to lead is essential to success. But, no organization can win without the right strategy to guide its decisions and actions. In this course, you’ll learn how to assess market dynamics, analyze sources of growth and learn to build sustainable competitive advantage as you add valuable skills to your strategic toolbox.
This certificate course is for you if:
You want a timely, current set of tools and frameworks with which to understand the market
You want to improve your ability to align business operations to consumer need
You want insight into the too-often nebulous world of "strategy"
The Program:
Week 1: What is "Strategy"?
Week 2: Understanding Your Playing Field
Week 3: Assessing the Competitive Dynamics
Week 4: Looking Around the Corner
Week 5: Your Next Big Move
Week 6: Putting the Strategy into Practice
Our Strategy Executive Certificate course will help you, the aspiring strategy guru, take this seemingly theoretical subject and and boil it down to a practical model that can be applied at any level of an organization.
