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Developing Emotional Intelligence Competencies for Leading a Diverse Workforce (1 unit)
MGMT X443.2
Emotional intelligence competencies are increasingly critical for leaders and professionals in today’s organizations. Given that knowledge and relationships serve as the currency of the new economy, professionals and those who serve in leadership roles (team leads, project managers, directors, executives, etc.) must develop the necessary skills and behaviors to manage themselves and the stakeholder relationships that drive success in complex organizations. This course provides participants an invaluable opportunity to rigorously assess their EQ competencies via an assessment tool that has been validated across industry sectors. Course participants will (a) learn key EQ concepts and principles, (b) deepen their understanding of the business case for EQ and its impact on performance outcomes across levels (personal, team, and organizational), (c) comprehensively assess their current EQ competencies via a professionally validated tool, (d) complete a series of experiential exercises to further develop key EQ competencies, and (e) create a development plan for enhancing selected EQ competencies that align with their job challenges for 2018. Participants will learn about the critical intersection of EQ competencies and diversity as they collectively impact the effectiveness of leaders and their work teams. The first half of the course focuses on the critical EQ skills associated with effective self-management and introspection, which centers on improving self-awareness and self-regulation of emotions. The second part of the course addresses key interpersonal EQ skills and behaviors, which include the ability to empathize with others, inspire and motivate others, and positively influence others via strong communication and change management skills.
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Effective Business Writing for Workplace Professionals (1 unit)
MGMT X422.3
Your ability to write effectively is one of your most powerful tools in the business environment. This class will help you organize your thoughts clearly so your ideas can be better understood by your specific audience.
You’ll discover the three primary types of business messages: positive, routine, and persuasive, as well as identify best practices for creating each type of message. Your writing will improve as you learn how to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, choose correct graphic tools, eliminate clutter, and recognize strong business writing.
You’ll also learn to spot and correct the most common business writing pitfalls as you gain valuable experience drafting, writing, and revising your own business writing messages. Finally, you’ll learn the latest trends in contemporary business writing.
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How to Communicate Effectively at Work (1 unit)
MGMT X422.2
Frequently cited research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Institute concludes 85% of job success comes from having well-developed interpersonal skills while only 15% of job success comes from technical skills and knowledge.
It’s a fact: your ability to interact effectively with customers, clients, colleagues, managers, and other stakeholders is essential to your career success and sustainability. In this course, using the Everything DiSC Workplace assessment as a framework, you’ll discover and capitalize on your unique behavioral strengths. You’ll better understand what motivates you and how you can better understand others. You’ll learn the four basic behavior styles and how to communicate effectively with each style. Finally, you’ll explore the three basic interpersonal styles—aggression, assertive, and passive—and learn practical interpersonal problem-solving strategies.
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Presentation Skills (1 unit)
MGMT X422.6
Based on the tools that actors use to bring text and stories to life, participants will learn techniques to craft dynamic and compelling presentations. Proven effective, these tools are a valuable asset in meetings, conferences, and keynote speeches. The course will cover how to overcome nerves, organize content, and connect with an audience. You will learn how to effectively communicate through body language and vocal techniques. Through individual and group exercises, you will create active presentations and connect with your audience.
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Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1.5 units)
MGMT X407.21
In this course gain a better understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have improved general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, financial statements, transaction analysis, and cash flows. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.
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Business Applications of Excel (1 unit)
MGMT X422.8
Get more out of Microsoft Excel 2016: more productivity and better answers for greater success. This intermediate-level course brings together all the intensely useful knowledge you need: insights, techniques, tips, and shortcuts. You will learn to use Excel to successfully tackle financial forecasting, mortgage analysis, purchase order calculations, pro forma financials, capital budgeting and the effects of different economic scenarios on earnings.
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Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1 unit)
MGMT X422.5
Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a better understanding of finance and accounting concepts to better understand financial statements and how company decisions impact them. Upon completion of this course, you will have improved general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the financial impact of decisions in and out of your area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis, budgeting, and cash flows. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.
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| Leadership and Management |
Building a Culture of Collaboration (1 unit)
MGMT X422.4
Connect better with your team. Learn to build and sustain collaborative relationships by getting consistent, stellar results despite changing roles, goals, accountabilities, new structures, or even new team members.
Understand why we and others behave the way we do by completing the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI). The SDI helps provide a base for understanding who we are and what motivates us; providing the same insights into others.
This powerful tool is great for all levels of an organization and provides critical insights to enable leaders and team members to better understand how to influence people who think, behave and communicate differently.
An electronic link to complete the SDI assessment will be e-mailed to participants up to one week prior to the course beginning. Detailed assessment results will be provided at the course meeting.
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Foundations of Leadership (1 unit)
MGMT X497.43
Leadership is the process of influencing others in order to achieve organizational goals and bottom line results. Leaders today face many challenges including globalization, coping with rapid change, increased complexity, technological advancements and virtual teams. Yet leaders still need to effectively manage employees, inspire others, and shape organizational culture. This course focuses on the components of successful leadership, which includes both theoretical approaches and practical skills. Students will examine styles of leadership, approaches to leadership, and sources of power. Participants will also determine how to create vision, achieve organizational goals, manage conflict, and promote diversity.
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Managing Organizational Change (1 unit)
MGMT X497.65
Leaders face many challenges when faced with planning, introducing, and implementing organizational change whether it is a simpler change (introducing new technology, change in work processes) or more complex (new leadership, new organizational structure, merger). Employees typically resist change due to the uncertainty and fear that surrounds the potential impact on their jobs and roles in the organization. How, when, and who the change is communicated to has a major impact on whether employees will resist or support the change and whether the change succeeds or fails. This course will focus on best communication practices during both planned and unplanned organizational change, change strategies, and successfully leading an organization through change.
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Developing Your Organization’s Talent Management Capabilities (1 unit)
MGMT X443.3
Across industries, sectors, and organization sizes, recent industry trends and robust research findings provide compelling evidence for the strong impact of talent development and succession planning practices on business performance outcomes. Despite the strong business case for developing talent management practices, an alarming majority of organizations across industries have failed to develop internal capabilities for the inevitable succession of executive talent. Undeniably, the costs of neglecting to prepare for transitions in executive roles are incredibly high, as research estimates that poor or non-existent succession planning cost public companies $112 billion in market value. To effectively prepare for the unprecedented departure of leadership talent while aligning people development practices in an uncertain business environment, organizations across industries must develop talent management capabilities—the talent management and succession planning practices that enhance bench strength in critical leadership positions, ensure smooth transitions in executive roles, and cultivate leadership talent across the organization. Growing research indicates that organizations across industries are now reaping the benefits of proactively investing in the development of talent management capabilities.
Drawing on robust research findings, including national benchmarking surveys, case studies of exemplary organizations, and consulting engagements, this course presents a series of evidence-based strategies for developing talent and sustaining leadership continuity. As part of the course, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your organization’s talent management capabilities via a nationally-validated assessment tool, and craft a development plan that leverages both strengths and development opportunities. The evidence-based talent management strategies and practices addressed in this course include talent review practices, high-potential leadership assessment and
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Management, Leadership and Teambuilding in the Program Environment (1 unit)
MGMT X474.94
Research suggests that in order to make sense of the complexity of modern organizations, those who aspire to leadership must first seek to understand themselves. In this course, you will administer a variety of self-analysis instruments to understand and reflect on your own leadership preferences and behavioral tendencies. This course is a gateway into understanding what it takes to be an effective leader and assessing where you are now relative to those skills and that knowledge.
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Project Management Tool Box (1.5 units)
MGMT X442.34
This project management boot camp will examine the basics of putting together a well-defined, planned, and executed project. The goal is to deliver on time and on budget while meeting customer expectations. Learn the basic components of project management and the project life cycle: project definition; practical and collaborative methods for creating a successful project charter or initiation document; building and managing a project team; perform risk analysis; and project closure. Explore how to develop and lead high performance teams. If you have never managed a project before, this class will give you an introduction and provide tools that you can use for your next project.
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Applied Lean Six Sigma (1.5 units)
MGMT X410.60
Lean and Six Sigma and are process improvement methodologies. Lean reduces process waste and Six Sigma reduces process variation within a process. Combining the two, arms the user with a variety of tools that enable them to make significant improvements within their work processes. Participants in this course will learn and then practice how to apply basic Lean and Six Sigma tools to processes in their workplace. This program, combined with organizational support, will produce quantifiable benefits within the term of the program. The benefits typically are in the form of cycle time reduction, quality improvement, and ultimately lower costs.
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Introduction to Project Management: Principles and Practices (1 unit)
MGMT X442.33
Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products or services within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on course gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget. You will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects. At the end of the course you will be able to identify and manage a project from inception to completion.
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Putting the Bio in Biotech (1 unit)
I&C SCI X430.03
This course is designed to introduce basic cellular biology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology and pharmacology concepts to a non-scientific audience. Students will explore the structure and life of a cell, multi-cellular life and development, genetic engineering and molecular therapies. The course will help students understand these concepts and how they apply to work done in the field of biotechnology.
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