Best executive courses in Chicago (United States)

American Management Association

Improving Your Project Management Skills: the Basics for Success

Build a solid foundation of project management knowledge, techniques and tools in this hands-on workshop that covers the entire project life cycle. As the business world grows more competitive, organizations find it necessary to take on an increasing number of projects. Unfortunately, these same...

American Management Association

AMA’s Comprehensive Project Management Workshop

Plan. Execute. And monitor your projects Delays, cost overruns, or quality problems can wreck your project. Keep it on course with this 5-day overview of project management. Aligned with PMI’s PMBOK®, this workshop helps you master the entire project management process. You’ll earn 35...

American Management Association

Sales Management Certificate Program

You’re a new sales manager, taking over a sales team with both rookies and pros. You also have an open territory that needs to be filled as quickly as possible. Where do you start? How do you gain the respect of your team? How can you maximize the skills of each team member? And how do you...

American Management Association

Fundamental Selling Techniques for the New or Prospective Salesperson

Start your sales career the right way—with this intensive introduction to selling. Because of the mounting pressure facing salespersons in today’s tough economy, this challenging profession is becoming even more competitive. But many prospective sales professionals don’t have a solid foundation...

American Management Association

Territory and Time Management for Salespeople

Sell more, earn more, accomplish more! Want to shorten the sales cycle? Target accounts with the greatest growth potential? Balance personal and professional goals? In just two days, you'll learn how to take control of your time and work day so you can increase productivity, maximize your...

Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Developing Major Gifts

Raise more money by receiving more major gifts. Consistent donors can become major donors when you effectively implement the Eight-Step Major Gifts Management Cycle. Identify and utilize your own communication strengths when meeting with donors to develop major gifts and increase your fundraising...

Eli Broad College of Business

Railway Operations

A stand-alone module of our established and highly respected Railway Management Certificate Program, this five-day program covers the strategy and management of railway operations for both freight and passenger railways. We combine classroom presentation of concepts with discussions led by rail...

American Management Association

Extraordinary Productivity: the 5 Choices That Drive Success

Be your most productive self with this course based on the teachings of FranklinCovey’s 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity. By FranklinCovey—now available through AMA. The Extraordinary Productivity: The 5 Choices That Drive Success course is based on ideas and practices accumulated over...

American Management Association

Business Communication Certificate Program

Confident, compelling, authentic and influential. That person could be you. Apply well-honed communication techniques to navigate common work challenges. This distinctive certificate program incorporates skill practice, role-play activities and real-time feedback to help you take your...

Karrass

Effective Concensus

Your everyday interactions with the people you work with—whether casual discussions or formal meetings—are not just interactions. They are important negotiations that impact your career in a very real way. Selling yourself and your ideas is a critical internal negotiation. As is being heard and...