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Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership
Senior leaders and executives are defined in part by the role they play in shaping their organizations. It is their responsibility to drive performance by ensuring that every facet of the business, from processes to culture, is aligned with core principles and strategic goals. This course focuses on how to attain that alignment.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Executive Leadership
As your leadership responsibilities expand, so does your need to understand the impact of every decision on the strategic and financial goals of your organization.
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
As your leadership responsibilities expand, so does your need to understand the impact of every decision on the strategic and financial goals of your organization.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Businesses don't succeed by standing still - they need to constantly change to address competitive threats, customer requirements, regulatory demands, technology innovation, and much more. Unfortunately, research shows that only about 30 percent of organizational change efforts are successful. The low success rate of these efforts is not because of poor design but because of people-related issues - lack of support for change; people do not believe that change is needed; organizational culture and territorial silos; and a general resistance to change. In this two-day program, you will learn how to personally adapt through change, influence resistant employees, and successfully lead an organizational change effort.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
This course will teach you how to coach, mentor, evaluate, and continuously improve the skills of those you want to advance in your organization.
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. Through effective requirements gathering, you can create the conditions necessary for your projects to succeed. This course teaches a requirements management process.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Business Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
High-performing managers negotiate everyday-with colleagues, among teams, with other departments, and even with other companies and external stakeholders.
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Advisors to business owners often say, “I should get a fee for counseling services”. This sentiment reflects the common experience that the exit/transition process is at its core, a profoundly emotional event. The tangible result of the owner’s emotional angst is often resistance, self-sabotage, deal failure, and the destruction of wealth and legacy.
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Business plans aren't just for startups. Planning is the key to creating a sustainable and growing business. An established business may use a business plan to obtain financing, acquire a business, develop a new product, or entice key partners or employees to join the company. This workshop will explore planning in an existing business and introduce you to various tools that will create the roadmap to guide the growth and success of your business.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership
Financial data is the universal language of business. Quarterly results, cost drivers, cash flow, liquid assets, net profits"”these are terms that reveal key issues facing your company.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Masters Certificate in Project Management
Most managers have less formal authority than they need to carry out their responsibilities. Effective, innovative managers know how to use informal and indirect authority to influence key stakeholders: the boss, peers, associates, customers, suppliers, and staff. This course will show you how to expand your power and positive influence beyond your formal authority in order to get the job done. Learn to understand the sources of informal power and develop the persuasive skills necessary to lead.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
Analysis of quantitative information is important to any business problem, and especially so for Six Sigma projects. This online course gives participants the knowledge and the tools to dissect complicated business problems and provide quantitative analysis to problems instead of relying on intuition and instincts. Part of the course involves role play in which the learner is assigned to be a consultant to a multifaceted resort hotel business. Step by step, this multimedia program gives the participant the knowledge and tools needed to satisfy the hotel manager's demands for information and analysis. Most learners complete the program in approximately 20 to 30 hours, depending on the number of problems performed and previous experience with the topics discussed.
Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership
This professional development program is designed to help you acquire the skills necessary to inspire, motivate, and influence others and transition into your authentic leadership role. Leadership Beyond Management is an empowering, interactive, and self-reflective journey that will give you a 360 degree view of your leadership strengths and developmental needs.
Certificate Areas: Executive Leadership
Managers and directors who want to add value to their career and their organization. Have you considered how your actions and behaviors as a leader impact the kind of organizational culture you want to create?
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Learn the analytical techniques it takes to move from complex data to breakthrough solutions using software tools. This course provides theoretical background while at the same time emphasizing practical, software-based skills that will allow you to analyze data from complex business processes.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Service industries are different. Insurance, banking, information technology, and health care are just a few of the many fields in which companies face a unique set of service-oriented process improvement challenges.
Certificate Areas: Masters Certificate in Project Management
Risk is a given in any project, and the better you understand how to identify and prepare for it, the more likely you are to minimize your exposure to it. In this course you'll learn and practice a systems approach and process for identifying, analyzing, planning, and controlling risk.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Foundations of Management
Being an effective team manager is a critical role in any organization that encourages individuals to work together to accomplish strategic goals. This course will provide you with the skills and tools to lead effective meetings, manage group dynamics, assess and improve team performance, understand individual strengths, and improve team communication.
Certificate Areas: Business Analysis, Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt)
The concepts and tools covered in this course will dramatically improve new product and service success rates, reduce costly lead times, redesigns, and software patches, and eliminate service headaches after launch.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
As a project manager, you rarely have formal authority over your team. To be effective in this role, you must know how to lead and deal with conflict through relationship building and effective communication in the workplace.
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Many business professionals are not interested in becoming a formal project manager, but will benefit from the essential tools needed to get projects done faster, with fewer surprises and problems. Participants will learn the 1-3-5 approach, a clear and easy to understand process for project management success.
Certificate Areas: Advanced Management & Leadership, Business Analysis, Foundations of Management, Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt)
Project managers have much to think about"”from project scope to team member dynamics, from schedule to cost constraints, from dealing with executive stakeholders to identifying future state requirements.
Certificate Areas: Lean Six Sigma (Black Belt), Masters Certificate in Project Management
By choosing the right projects and making sure that there are resources to complete them, organizations gain competitive advantage. But with limited resources and an over-abundance project opportunities, organizations and their project management offices struggle in project and program identification, selection, execution and benefits realization.
Certificate Areas: Foundations of Management
The transition from individual contributor to people manager is one of the most difficult and risky transitions in anyone's career. This course focuses on the process and principles that characterize excellence in people management and how to successfully make the transition from contributor to manager.
Wisconsin School of Business
Center for Professional and Executive Development
601 University Ave
Madison, WI 53715