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The Center for Management Development has introduced several new programs.  We've heard your suggestions and designed a new line of highly-focused, technical programs that give you essential tools needed to remain current with most effective and useful practices in business today.

Here are a few of the topics the Center for Management Development will be offering this year:

• Budgeting: From Creation to Application - Industry trends have caused companies to become much leaner than they have been in the past. This has driven employees to broaden their areas of expertise and amplified the need to understand numerous functional areas of business. This essential course in budgeting will give you the ABC's of putting together a workable budget, walk you through the successful methods for projecting revenues and expenses.

• Business Modeling and Data Analysis: Using Data to Make Better Decisions - Many of us collect mountains of data and information at work, yet we aren't quite sure how to put that information to work to make better business decisions.  This program gives you the tools and understanding you need to put to use the data you're probably already gathering, but have no idea how to leverage.

• Effective Project Management: Techniques for Executing On-Time, On-Budget Projects - Designed specifically to deliver proven Project Management tools in a condensed two-day format. You'll gain hands-on experience and real-life applications for many of the most widely recognized project management methods in business, including Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt charts, and an Earned Value Analysis. You are sure to come away  from this seminar better prepared to confidently manage porjects of any size using the most effective techniques available. 

• Essential Skills for Effective Leaders - This course offers proven and effective leadership techniques that are practical and useful. Dr. Graham will emphasize the role of leadership, decision-making and communication in coordinating a team that enthusiastically supports your vision and mission. His lively use of exercises, examples and humor gives you management techniques that equip you with the skills necessary to begin your transition from manager to effective leader.

• Establishing & Managing Successful Records Management Programs - This seminar provides in-depth information on improving productivity by planning and establishing an organization-wide records management program.  This content-filled and media illustrated seminar focuses on recent developments in records management and proven approaches to establishing effective records management programs.

•  Lean Healthcare -  Lean Healthcare is a set of management tools that empower healthcare professionals to improve the efficiency of processes and flow of information in Healthcare environments.  Lean management principles have been adopted by hospitals, clinics, laboratories and specialty hospitals to enhance quality, lower the cost of care and create more efficient systems. 

• Managing Project Teams - Keeping a project team on schedule and focused on goals is a necessary, but difficult task at its least. This program will equip you wilth practical, hands-on techinques you can immediately apply to any project environment to help ensure successful outcomes and more effective project teams.

• Manufacturing Operations Management: A Supply Chain Focus - If you are a business owner, business partner, director, manager, supervisor, or operator of a company that produces, manufactures or builds products of any type, you’ll want to attend this program.  Whether you are new to this profession or you have plenty of experience in the field, you will benefit from getting an up-to-date overview course in the art of operations management with emphasis on the supply chain. You will come away with concrete ideas you can use to improve the way your business works.

• Market Based Management® (MBM) - Market Based Management® is, in a nutshell, the set of practices employed by Koch Industries Chairman and CEO Charles Koch which he credits with the success of Koch Industries. This set of practices lead employees to continuously discover and apply the beneficial and innovative aspects of the market process within an organization. By applying the market concept internally to guide transactions between business units or basing pay on value creation rather than tenure, sparks innovation and creativity to make your organization more profitable. 

• Principles of Lean Enterprise: Strategies for Streamlining - Lean Enterprise focuses on increasing efficiency to deliver the maximum return-on-investment. In this exciting program participants will not only learn essential skills to undertake a lean initiative, but also gain hands-on experience of how it is implemented.

• Project Leadership & Communication - Leading and communicating the delicate balance of personalities and talent in a project environment requires an astute understanding of the motivations, anxieties and goals of the team members you lead. Without the proper leadership & communication techniques, even the best planned project can end in failure. This useful program will equip project managers with the skills they need to lead and communicate effectively in a project environment, especially in project environments where direct authority is not assigned to the project manager. You'll come away with an understanding of both the technical and practical aspects of leading and communcating in a project environment.

• Project Management for IT Professionals - A program uniquely tailored to the needs of IT professionals responsible for managing any computer related project.  The  information you gain in this program will help you  schedule  realistic time frames, set more accurate budgets and a better  ability to deliver to specification by building quality into every phase.  As a result, you will spend more of your time “creating” rather than “debugging”. The rewards are many - a motivated team, a less stressful environment, and the increased confidence and credibility that comes with successful project management.

• Project Scheduling & Cost Management - Time and cost project pillars cannot be overlooked in project completion. This program gives you the skills you need to establish the timeframe and expenses for the successful completion of projects. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the powerful tools commonly applied in project scheduling and learn cost management methods that will help you ensure project costs don't spin out of control erasing the benefits of your work. This two-day seminar will equip you with the vital, working knowledge you need to put together projects that deliver on-time and within budget!

• Project Scope and Definition - Setting the wrong goals for a project will quickly sink it, regardless of how hard you work; it's important that all project stakeholders share common expectations for a projects' outcome. Learning the fundamental steps for determining what the outcome of a project should be and the processes needed to achieve those outcomes is the defining principle in this two-day program. You'll learn to set the key requirements of a project using the most widely recognized Project Management tools.

• Quality Managment Essentials - This program delivers the basics of Quality Management concepts and tools, encompassing the best techniques and methods in application to date. You’ll learn not only what a method is able to accomplish, but also learn when to implement it. By gaining a superior understanding of quality methods and continuous improvement, your organization can improve quality and hence the bottom line.    

• Risk Management - Improve your risk identification and management skills. Project managers often are expected to peer into the future and anticipate risks and problems. The challenge is not to explore risk for a single project, but to predict it consistently and ensure that every project has the same level and depth of risk analysis. This highly interactive, tools-based workshop takes you from the realm of uncertainty to a more predictive and analytical risk posture. You will learn an array of practical management tools to build risk models that you can apply for risk identification, quantification, qualification, response development and risk response control.

• Service Operations Management for Competitve Advantage - If your company or your department delivers a service of any kind, you need to attend this program.  Examples of some services are financial services, health services, design services, delivery services, food services, health services, maintenance services, auto services, program services, hotel services, or service of any type. Whether you are a new manager or a seasoned one, you will walk away with new operations-based skills and tools that you can implement immediately to improve the quality and delivery of your service along the supply chain.

• Strategic Business Management - Implementing Strategy for Success in Business - Succeeding in business is challenging regardless of the industry in which you compete.  The development and execution of strategy is essential in ensuring your company thrives.  This knowledge is gained through hands-on application and the experience of a wide variety of different scenarios gained in this program.

• Strategic Negotiations: Crucial Skills for High Stake Agreements - As companies find themselves negotiating deals that have grown increasingly complex it is clear that employees throughout the management ranks must gain the skills that will help them become outstanding negotiators. Whether you're in engineering, delivery, marketing, sales, or management it is essential you have the skills needed to negotiate winning agreements both for your organization and the companies you work with.

Center for Management Development

Project Management Certificate

Somewhere between the successful completion of the prestigious PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®) certificate and your entry into the field of project managment lays a vast body of knowledge you cannot afford to be without. The CMD has designed an outstanding program that develops a thorough understanding and practical application of the universally recognized tools every project manager needs.

This program will lay a solid foundation of useful project management skills that will help ensure you job of planning, executing and closing projects is successful from start to finish. In addition, the skills you gain compliment your pursuit of the internationally recognized PMP®  credentials sought after by many employers.

To complete your CMD Project Management Certificate you'll need to complete four of the core curriculum courses below and select any two supporting courses from the provided list.

CORE CURRICULUM (select any four)

• Effective Project Management
• Project Scope & Definition
• Project Scheduling & Cost Management
• Project Leadership & Communication
• Managing Project Teams
• Project Management for IT Professionals
• Risk Management

SUPPORTING CURRICULUM (select any two)

• Business Modeling and Data Analysis: Using Data to Make Better Decisions
• Strategic Negotiations: Crucial Skills for High Stake Agreements
• Quality Management Essentials
• Budgeting: From Creation to Application

 

Project Management Institute

PMP^® Certification

 

Project Management Professional (PMP® )

 

If you enjoy the prestige that comes from being the best in your field, then you'll appreciate the professional advantages derived from attaining the PMP, the profession's most globally recognized and respected credential. The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers you have demostrated a solid foundation of knowledge from which you can competently practice project management.

 

To be eligible for a PMP Credential, you must first meet specific educational and project management experience requirmements and agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct. The final step to becoming a PMP is passing a rigorous multiple-choice examination designed to objectively assess and measure your ability to apply project management knowledge in the following six domains: initiating the project, planning the project, executing the project, monitoring and controlling the project, closing the project, and professional and social responsbility. This computer-based examination is administered globally with translations aids in 10 languages.

 

ELIGIBILTY CRITERIA

 

Educational Background	Project Management Experience	Project Management Education
High school diploma or equivalent*	7,500 hours in a position of responsibility leading and directing specific tasks** and 60 months of project management experience	35 hours
*Applicants who hold a baccalaureate degree (or equivalent) are only required to have 4,500 hours leading and directing specific tasks and 36 months of project management experience.