November 29, 2023

If you are asking questions about 'how to manage a project successfully, best ways to manage a project or what tools can I use for project management', this course is your answer. Aimed at those who are new to project management, this short course is ideal as it will introduce you to the ten...

Leading a team, board or company to success involves making critical decisions, giving sound advice, and evaluating the decisions that produce different outcomes. However, in fast-changing business environments, managers must often make decisions under severe time constraints and with...

How we manage our own emotions and empathise with other people can have a dramatic impact on our effectiveness at leading people and achieving results. This course increases your emotional awareness, giving you the tools to better manage yourself and others. The science is clear; your emotions...

Successful project managers constantly seek out the most effective project management tools, practices, and methods. Obtaining St. Thomas’ Certified Professional Project Manager (CPPM) designation will give you an edge over the competition. With hands-on experience in your toolkit, you’ll be able...

In business, your best idea is only as good as your ability to effectively share it with others. Strong technical analyses, breakthrough insights and sound strategic decisions risk being undervalued, misinterpreted or worse yet — ignored — if they are not clearly and convincingly presented to...

Tried and tested techniques for influencing, engaging and creating impact. This intensive course highlights the importance of strong leadership in bringing an organisation’s vision to life. It provides a valuable opportunity for directors to explore the strategic leadership issues involved in...

Become a better communicator and deliver your message with confidence and purpose through effective voice training. Develop greater confidence, clarity and self-esteem in using your voice. Practice techniques to enhance your communication. Explore the power of your individual voice. ...

This course will introduce and extend VBA programming within Microsoft Excel. Participants will be able to create and manage complicated macros. This course will introduce and extend VBA programming within Microsoft Excel to enable participants to create and manage complicated macros. ...

This two-day Executive PA Programme gives new and experienced PAs all the tools and tricks of the trade they need to excel at what they do. First delivered in 2011, the course is one of the most popular PA courses in the UK, having been delivered in London, South Africa and internationally since...

This highly practical and interactive course will provide you with a clear framework to prepare a successful business plan and to tailor it to the needs of your organisation or business unit. The course examines the key strategic business areas that a successful plan must consider, plus takes...

Introduction to risk management techniques including the use of standard hedging instruments, asset-liability management and integrated risk management. This course is a component of the Risk Management Professional Certificate. Prerequisite knowledge: Basic MS Excel skills Basic...

The United States faces a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Challenges come from numerous factors and actors — including the growing power of China and India, a shift in power from Atlantic to Pacific regions, North Korea’s rogue weapons program, cyberwarfare,...

Executive assistants can play a vital role in the effectiveness of their managers. This course improves your awareness of day-to-day managerial needs and will develop your planning and organisational skills. Executive assistants can play a vital role in the effectiveness of their managers. This...

Complex projects can easily derail due to communication problems, time uncertainties, and lack of coordination among firm resources, thus inhibiting productivity and innovation throughout the organization. This workshop starts with discussion of the merits of parallel development where various...

Maximizing Your Leadership Potential guides participants in making the shift from successful individual contributor to effective manager. Maximizing Your Leadership Potential is a feedback-rich development experience designed to immerse participants in different roles and mindsets of managing...

You have developed significant fundraising skills, and now you have been promoted to lead the fundraising team. Especially for the new leader or the fundraising executive aspiring for a leadership position, in this course, you will learn how to develop and cast vision for your fundraising...

Ignite commitment and help your employees reach their greatest potential. Why does emotional intelligence (EI) matter? Because at the core of every outstanding leader are the abilities to connect, achieve, inspire and act with resilience. Now you can learn to apply the best practices of an...

Take your public speaking to the next level! Speak, present and communicate with poise, power and persuasion. From presentations to public speeches, your effectiveness as an executive and future career hinge on your ability to step up to the podium, command attention and transform every...

When you’re focused on your organization's future every day of every workweek, it's vital that you are well equipped to optimize your company's performance—as well as your own career—with executive leadership training. What does it mean to be an executive leader? It means you’re a visionary, a...

Enhance your performance with management and leadership capabilities. Your immediate takeaway Effectively manage changing responsibilities Communicate and negotiate with confidence Apply management and leadership skills to achieve continuous improvement The support you provide as an...

Set priorities and learn to control chaos in the workplace Welcome to chaos—otherwise known as the world in which we all work today. Attend this seminar and get proven solutions for managing chaos and minimizing its negative impact. First, you’ll discover how you can harness the energy of a...

People need to hear what you have to say. No matter how compelling the vision or how brilliant the strategy, without leadership communication, there is no execution. The ability to get buy-in, garner trust and inspire loyalty en masse isn't a skill you have to be born with. Now you can learn to...

To create a more customer-centric organization -- and improve sales, market share, and margins -- you need to know what your customers want. In this course, you'll use the statistical method of conjoint analysis to uncover the product attributes most influential to your customers. By simulating...

With emerging technologies and expanding global marketplaces, it is imperative that organizations become highly proficient in driving their change agenda. Whether diversifying, downsizing, merging, reorienting business, or developing new management structures, organizations must be able to...

In this course, you will gain an overview of real estate financial modeling, focusing on properties with multi-year leases. Using the models and frameworks established as today's industry standards in real estate, you will explore deriving basic valuations and performance calculations. You'll...

What Is CliftonStrengths for Students: Champions? CliftonStrengths for Students: Champions is a six-hour course that gives you the foundation to build a thriving campus. In this course, you will develop a better understanding of CliftonStrengths, engagement and wellbeing. The course also...

What Is Creating an Engaging Workplace Course for Engagement Champions? This two-day course will empower you to be an Engagement Champion in your organization. It will prepare you to integrate employee engagement principles, offer advice, educate leaders and teams, and support engagement efforts...

Applied Project Management for the Federal Government provides the participant with the more advanced concepts of project management in the federal government, with an emphasis on application of tools and techniques to manage a federal acquisition project. This course will include information to...

As the pace of change in healthcare continues to accelerate, managers must be leaders, adept and equipped at navigating the dynamic environment of healthcare, even during a crisis. The online course Hospital Management: The Simulation & The Pandemic provides the unique opportunity of experiencing...

Project Leadership, Management, and Communications provides participants with the tools necessary to enhance and build on their leadership skills. Participants will assess their own leadership competencies and focus on areas for improvement. This course addresses critical issues that arise in...

In order to execute the most informed business analyses, we need the right tools for making predictions from data. Excel provides powerful predictive analytic tools that let the user forecast trends and make predictions with historical data. In this course, you will conduct financial analyses by...

On the surface, project management seems straightforward. However, at best, only 80% of projects end up being economically successful. The remaining 20% of projects usually cost more than estimated, run late, or fail to satisfy goals or meet objectives. In this course, Linda Nozick, Professor...

Research shows that a high percentage of projects take significantly longer than expected and cost more than anticipated. Moreover, if you ask people for an estimate of how long a task will take them to complete, their estimate will usually be overly optimistic. Sometimes, if you bring in extra...

In this course, you will determine the factors of importance in making purchasing decisions in line with your organization's objectives. You will explore purchase specifications and align them with requests for quotations (RFQs) and purchase orders. You will then examine how purchasing supports...

In this course, you will prepare for a supplier negotiation or collaboration by evaluating purchasing decisions for significant expenditures based on various cost models. You will examine various factors that affect costs, such as a supplier's pricing strategy and market conditions. By leveraging...

Subcontract Management in Government Contracting provides a comprehensive overview of the laws, government policies and regulations that apply to subcontracts and subcontract management. With all of the changes that have occurred in procurement, this course is a must for keeping subcontracting...

De-mystify the language of finance. Boost your skills As a manager, it is essential that you use the language of finance and accounting effectively. A good grasp of key finance and accounting concepts is often seen by employers as essential for career progression. Using lectures, worked...

This Agile training course makes agility attainable for all professionals, regardless of their backgrounds because the course materials and examples do not require familiarity with software development. There is more to Agile than simply a different style of programming. That's often the easy...

Organizations are so entrenched in our everyday lives that we often don't notice them. Each of us exists within a unique ecosystem of organizations that include where we work, shop, go to school, volunteer, acquire healthcare, and manage our personal and professional lives. Becoming aware of the...

The Certificate in Healthcare Design & Innovation provides the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to manage the increasing complexities of the rapidly changing healthcare landscape. An interdisciplinary approach offers healthcare professionals the opportunity to retool, advance, and...

Translate strategy into meaningful measurable results Today, fewer than half of organizations declare they are successful at achieving strategic objectives. 30 years ago, the success rate was 90%. What’s changed? And more importantly, how can you beat the odds to move beyond planning and...

Services marketing is often viewed in terms of outcomes, but services marketing is also an ongoing analytic process. In this course, you will learn how to properly analyze frameworks, tools, channels, data sets, customer behavioral data, decision-making factors, and strategies that support...

How can you increase revenue when your restaurant is slow and not performing to capacity? In this course, Professor Kimes will discuss several revenue management tools and techniques you can use to improve your restaurant’s performance when it is slow. First you will consider how to maximize...

Why are some companies successful, while so many other businesses fail? Some organizations may just be lucky, but success based solely on luck probably will not last. For an organization to have sustained success, it must stay competitive in the market; it simply cannot survive without...

Once sustainability issues have been identified and potential solutions have been defined, it's time to work on implementation. Implementing business solutions can involve many different moving parts both within and outside the organization. A business sustainability canvas can help you most...

Since the inception of the artificial intelligence (AI) field more than a half-century ago, researchers have devoted considerable time and energy to studying, collecting, and applying human knowledge. To understand your place in this work, it is crucial to explore these concepts yourself. In...

Since the late 1950s and 1960s, the field of artificial intelligence (Al) has looked to the future. Now more than ever, it is critical to assess where society is heading as these technologies advance and integrate into the lives of people around the world. In this course, you will peer into the...

There are many great ideas in our world, but not all of them qualify as inventions. Of those that do qualify, even fewer have the necessary elements for commercial potential. How can you determine whether an idea can be turned into something more? In this course, you will explore the interplay...

Through facilitated discussion, lively activities, and relevant case study exercises, Driving and Influencing Change invites participants to explore how change has impacted their own lives and to discover what it means to adopt an adaptive mindset. By applying change models in their own business...

Marketing professionals rely on clearly defined goals to determine the course of action when placing a product in the market. Leveraging research to learn more about your target audience is the main subject of this course. In this course, you will learn how to be an intelligent consumer of...

In this course you will apply the core marketing concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning to a product or service. You will then explore the strategic role of pricing and methods for influencing buying decisions. You will also address common pricing errors and identify instances of...

This program provides registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) with proven techniques for refining their counseling skills—a critical component in promoting positive client behavior change. Nutrition professionals can significantly enhance their clinical expertise, along with client satisfaction...

Boss to Coach One is the first half of Gallup’s manager development program that equips managers to make employees, teams and organizations more productive and profitable. Boss to Coach One includes more than 25 hours of content and involves these learning components: Live instruction led by...

Applied Earned Value for Federal Government Projects provides information on financially managing a project throughout the life cycle, using earned value management (EVM) and integrated baseline reviews (IBR). The course will describe the life cycle of an appropriation and will satisfy the...

Marketing in B2B is constantly evolving to meet the needs of customers and make use of technology to improve performance. The latest developments create challenges and opportunities for B2B marketers involved in nurturing and converting leads in high-pressure commercial contexts. This course is...

Acquire essential finance skills in 2 Days Can you demonstrate your value and ROI to your boss? Are you able to interpret financial reports and make decisions based on the data they provide? Can you draft an accurate budget? Can you justify your ideas in dollars and cents? You didn’t get to...

Learn advanced project management skills to help you deliver what your customers want faster and with better quality than ever before! In this Agile Project Management training course, you will learn advanced project management skills to help you, the servant leader of your agile teams, enable...

Take your public speaking to the next level! Speak, present and communicate with poise, power and persuasion. From presentations to public speeches, your effectiveness as an executive and future career hinge on your ability to step up to the podium, command attention and transform every...

When you’re focused on your organization's future every day of every workweek, it's vital that you are well equipped to optimize your company's performance—as well as your own career—with executive leadership training. What does it mean to be an executive leader? It means you’re a visionary, a...

Enhance your performance with management and leadership capabilities. Your immediate takeaway Effectively manage changing responsibilities Communicate and negotiate with confidence Apply management and leadership skills to achieve continuous improvement The support you provide as an...

Maximize the synergy and productivity of your virtual or remote team When it comes to the success of a virtual team, the buck stops with the team leader. If managed effectively, virtual teams can increase productivity, help meet organizational goals and improve quality of work. But there are a...

Strategic marketing focuses on understanding continuously changing markets to build a competitive advantage; maximising opportunities to develop products and services that deliver both customer value and high profit potential. This course will cover: Strategic marketing: define what it is,...

Set priorities and learn to control chaos in the workplace Welcome to chaos—otherwise known as the world in which we all work today. Attend this seminar and get proven solutions for managing chaos and minimizing its negative impact. First, you’ll discover how you can harness the energy of a...

Be a consistently professional communicator—even in difficult circumstances. How well you communicate can make or break your professional image. It directly influences how others view your work and performance—as well as your prospects for career advancement and mobility. Unfortunately, being...