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Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Operational Excellence is achieved when processes within and among sales, marketing, engineering, supply chain, and production operations are working in harmony. This program will help you optimize performance in order to realize meaningful results from your continuous improvement efforts.
Certificate Areas: Masters Certificate in Project Management
Product Owners are responsible for ensuring that Scrum teams are delivering value to the organization. This online program will give you the tools and skills to understand customer and stakeholder needs, guide teams, and prioritize work to increase organizational value and achieve project success.
Certificate Areas: Business Analysis, Masters Certificate in Project Management
Effective Scrum Masters use the Scrum framework to increase team performance and deliver value to their organizations. In this fully online program, you’ll gain the skills you need to help teams rise to increasing levels of learning, quality, and delivery while ensuring maximum organizational benefits.
Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership
Strategic leaders create a forward-looking enterprise by ensuring all facets of the organization are aligned with the overall strategy. This program will teach you how to successfully attain organizational alignment through analysis, organizational design, and rigorous execution.
Certificate Areas: Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Beyond identifying exclusionary practices and embracing DEI initiatives at the team level, leaders need to implement organizational changes. This program will help you develop strategies that centralize DEI in lasting ways and build external relationships that support your DEI efforts.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Executive Leadership
As your leadership responsibilities expand, so does your need to understand the impact daily decisions have on your organization’s strategic and financial goals. This program will improve your understanding of how all business functions work together to execute a successful business strategy.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Business Analysis, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt), Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
Overly complex business processes create excess handoffs and mistakes. In this program, you’ll learn a step-by-step, data-driven approach to identify real root causes and develop breakthrough solutions that empower employees and customers. You’ll also get access to over two dozen business tools.
Certificate Areas: Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Learn how to identify the most common errors that undermine efforts to create a more equitable business. In this online program, you’ll examine company culture, evaluate hiring and onboarding practices, and develop the skills you need to assemble diverse teams.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Businesses don’t succeed by standing still. Be prepared to effectively manage change within your organization by learning strategies that will help employees and coworkers adapt to new realities and adopt behaviors that support the growth and development of new initiatives.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
Great managers are defined by their desire and ability to grow the people around them. This interactive and experiential program will give you the tools you need to effectively coach those around you while creating conditions that inspire discovery, reflection, and persistence in others.
Certificate Areas: Business Analysis, Masters Certificate in Project Management
Successful projects depend on well-defined and well-understood requirements, including business requirements, product requirements, and specifications. This program will give you the skills needed to effectively elicit, analyze, document, and prioritize these requirements and successfully complete projects.
Certificate Areas: Business Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Two of the most powerful business analysis tools - use cases and process models - help teams communicate and build easy-to-use, high-performing systems. This program will improve your requirements gathering techniques and help you better communicate the needs of your desired future state solution.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Business Analysis
As you manage more cross-functional projects, you need to develop tools and techniques that will keep meetings running smoothly. This program will help you manage common problems with group dynamics for both in-person and virtual teams that can get in the way of gaining alignment.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
High-performing managers negotiate every day to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. In this program, you’ll learn and practice the specific steps of the negotiation process, begin to strategically think through challenging situations, and become a more effective negotiator.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership
Financial data is the universal language of business. To be successful, you need to use financial concepts to better understand your competitors’ operations and drive strategic growth for your organization. This program will help you master the financial language and achieve financial success.
Certificate Areas: Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Even the most well-intentioned allies unintentionally engage in practices that undermine their allyship. This program will help you identify the most common mistakes that people commit while deepening your understanding of how to increase your inclusion efforts in a meaningful way.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Masters Certificate in Project Management, Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Effective, innovative managers know how to use informal and indirect authority to influence key stakeholders. This program will show you how to analyze situations and use positive relationships, influence, and persuasion to develop the influence skills necessary to lead.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Analysis of quantitative information is important to any business problem. Set up as a series of real-world challenges, this program will give you the tools to dissect complicated business problems and provide quantitative analysis to the situation instead of relying on intuition.
Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Professional Certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Organizational culture greatly impacts business results. As a senior leader, you need to understand how your leadership style impacts business performance and profitability. This program will help you become more self-aware, confident, and better equipped to achieve organizational success.
Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership
Inspiring managers lead with purpose, passion, and intent. This program is an empowering, self-reflective journey that gives you a 360° view of your leadership strengths and developmental needs. You will learn strategies to positively impact others in ways that improve business performance.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Data analysis is a critical component of process improvement. This program provides you with the practical skills needed to effectively apply the Lean Six Sigma methodology in your organization. You’ll gain tools and techniques that will have an immediate impact on your continuous improvement initiatives.
Certificate Areas: Foundations of Management
Most managers never receive formal management training. Establish your credibility as an effective leader by learning the processes and principles that characterize excellence in people management. This program will give you the tools to inspire your team and become a great manager.
Certificate Areas: Masters Certificate in Project Management
Risk is inherent in any project. The better you understand it, the more likely you are to minimize the impact. This simulation-driven program provides software tools and techniques to identify, analyze, manage, and mitigate project risks, with an emphasis on estimating the impact that risks have on project success.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
Managing teams requires a different skillset than managing individuals. This program will provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify conditions that achieve successful team performance, accurately diagnose team issues, coach team members, and develop emotional intelligence.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
Project managers rarely have formal authority over their team. To be effective, you must know how to lead and manage conflict through relationship building and effective communication. This program will teach you how to apply research-based techniques to help manage conflict and achieve success.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Business Analysis, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
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.
Certificate Areas: Masters Certificate in Project Management
In the final program of the Master’s Certificate in Project Management, you will work on a complex project from beginning to end in a team environment. You will use all of the skills introduced throughout your certificate program to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close a simulated project.
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Effectively managing projects can save your organization money and prepare you for the next stage of your career. This one-day program will help non-certified project managers learn the skills needed to successfully deliver small and medium-sized projects faster and with fewer surprises or problems.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
Organizations are quickly realizing that having a project management office is not enough to ensure a healthy project pipeline. This program will teach you how to select, prioritize, and prune projects from the pipeline in a way that creates value for the organization and customers.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Value Stream Mapping will provide you with practical knowledge and hands-on workshop exercises for three different beginning-to-end process mapping methodologies and two tools that will help you map an individual process step contained within a larger process.
Wisconsin School of Business
Center for Professional and Executive Development
601 University Ave
Madison, WI 53715