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Management & Leadership Certificates
Foundations of Management Certificate
Transition from an individual contributor to a manager.
Gain the skills and confidence needed to manage and motivate teams, influence stakeholders, leverage resources, and enhance business processes to meet strategic goals. Refine your leadership skills and ignite your career path.
Advanced Management and Leadership Certificate
Sharpen your skills and confidence.
Achieve better career results and become a more productive business contributor when you understand how to leverage capabilities in the critical areas of relationships, business acumen, change management, and strategy. This certificate will help you expand your leadership skills and prepare for the next phase of your career.
Executive Leadership Certificate
Transform into an innovative executive leader.
Becoming an effective executive leader requires an evaluation of your leadership purpose and skills; an elevated, all-company view of strategy; and a complete grasp of organizational design and development. Build the skills needed to achieve your potential in executive leadership, inspire your employees, and increase organizational performance.
Transition to Executive Management Certificate
The capstone of your executive leadership development.
Success at the highest levels of leadership requires a comprehensive knowledge of business and relationship skills. Learn high-level strategy development, finance, operations, marketing, matrix management, negotiation, and talent management. Develop the practical skills needed to have an immediate and lasting impact within your organization.
Management & Leadership Programs
Accelerating Strategic Innovation
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Executive Leadership, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Overview: Innovation is both the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity that modern businesses face. In this program, you'll directly experience the challenge of innovation in organizations, uncovering the structural and cultural barriers that hinder creativity.
2 Upcoming Sessions
Advanced IT Leadership Academy
Overview: This leadership program will give senior information technology executives, and aspiring IT leaders of the future, the business acumen to manage teams of talented information systems professionals across geographies and the business savvy to be captivating and convincing in the boardroom. This immersive, hybrid program will help you see your role as a catalyst of strategy, innovation, and value creation.
1 Upcoming Sessions
Aligning Strategy for Organizational Growth
Certificates: Executive Leadership
Overview: Ensure your organization is structured for success with Aligning Strategy for Organizational Growth. This self-paced program from the Wisconsin School of Business Center for Professional & Executive Development will help you analyze and implement your strategic vision.
1 Upcoming Sessions
Business Acumen and Strategy
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Executive Leadership
Overview: In this program, you will gain a foundation in core business and strategy. You will explore and practice using the key frameworks to create and execute successful business strategy, as well as polish your financial literacy and leadership skills.
4 Upcoming Sessions
Change Management
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Overview: Most organizations struggle to effectively implement change, often due to resistance to change. Be prepared to effectively manage change within your organization with strategies that will help employees adapt to new realities and adopt behaviors to support growth and development of new initiatives.
3 Upcoming Sessions
Coaching and Motivating in the Workplace
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
Overview: Coaching and Motivating in the Workplace is an interactive and experiential workshop focused on developing the essential skills needed to effectively coach and create conditions that inspire discovery, reflection, and persistence in others.
3 Upcoming Sessions
Effective Meeting Management and Facilitation
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Overview: As you manage more cross-functional projects, you need tools and techniques that will keep meetings running smoothly. At the completion of this program, you will be able to successfully identify, plan for, and mitigate risks using industry leading project management techniques.
3 Upcoming Sessions
Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Professionals
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership
Overview: Want to increase company productivity, employee retention, and profitability? Learn the fundamentals of business and finance, how a company makes money, and what drives financial performance. Plus, gain insights into how you add — or take away — value in your organization.
4 Upcoming Sessions
How To Influence Without Direct Authority
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Masters Certificate in Project Management
Overview: In this program you will learn to use a framework for building your level of influence and effectively applying your influence in your organization. Using a research-based approach, you will practice applying strategies and leave with a formula for influencing to achieve immediate results.
5 Upcoming Sessions
Leadership Beyond Management
Certificates: Executive Leadership
Overview: This program will help busy managers pause to reflect and set goals to increase their effectiveness in the workplace. Engaging instructors will lead participants through ideas, assessments, and activities to help them uncover their motivations and opportunities for growth.
1 Upcoming Sessions
Manager Boot Camp
Certificates: Foundations of Management
Overview: The transition from individual contributor to people manager is one of the most difficult and risky transitions in anyone’s career. This program focuses on the process and principles that characterize excellence in people management and how to successfully make the transition to manager.
8 Upcoming Sessions
Managing Teams Effectively
Certificates: Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Overview: Managing teams requires a different skillset than managing individuals. Team Leaders will learn how to set up their team for success by creating definition around team goals, clarifying how team members work with one another, and encouraging productive, drama free work relationships.
2 Upcoming Sessions
Project Management - Planning, Scheduling, and Control
Certificates: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
Overview: From project scope to stakeholder communication, project managers have a lot to think about. This program will give you a project management process that creates clear objectives and helps you plan and estimate project deliverables, manage scope creep, and keep the project on schedule and within budget.
6 Upcoming Sessions
Transition to Executive Management
Certificates: Transition to Executive Management
Overview: This program will provide you with practical skills needed to have an immediate and lasting impact on your organization. You’ll develop the influence, negotiation, business acumen, and leadership skills you need to excel in a senior management position.
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Custom Programs in Management & Leadership
Ensure leaders get the skills necessary as they transition to higher levels of management and navigate a changing business landscape.
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Organizations who enroll groups of employees in a program are eligible for a team discount.
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