Executive Education
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Technical Writing for End Users
Date: Tuesday, July 30, and Thursday, Aug. 29
Time: 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Location: Online
Price: $300
This course equips participants with essential technical writing skills, emphasizing the importance of writing for the end user. They will learn to use templates to structure documents and follow a streamlined writing process from planning to finalization. Participants will apply standard writing practices for clarity and enhance document readability using Word's Readability Statistics feature. The course culminates in an exercise where participants create a structured technical document showcasing their writing proficiency.
I think the course provided good information about the organizing and formatting of policies and procedures. Even thought I am not in an executive position or a position of writing policies, the techniques for applying consistent formatting and concise language to technical writing is useful to my work
Class participant
Level Up Leadership: Elevating Fundamentals from Good to Great
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By the end of this series, leaders will have a strong understanding of how values-based leadership and emotional intelligence can positively impact their teams. They will be equipped with practical strategies they can immediately apply in their daily interactions. With elevated leadership capabilities in these areas, participants can effectively lead their teams toward success.
Elevate your project management skills with our advanced course focusing on ISO standards, risk management and earned value management. This intensive program is tailored for project managers seeking to deepen their understanding of traditional and waterfall methodologies and agile practices, including the seamless integration of agile principles into waterfall projects.
Participants will earn 80 Professional Development Units (PDUs) recognized by the Project Management Institute. The course covers techniques for tracking, interpreting and predicting costs and schedules during the execution of a project. It also provides hands-on opportunities for participants to practice the tools and techniques of performance management using earned value management and earned schedule management techniques.
Unit 1: Introduction and Contest
- Project controls terminology
- Governance and management
- ISO processes for schedule and cost
- Techniques for project control
Unit 2: Precedence Diagramming
- Precedence diagramming method
- Critical path management
Unit 3: Earned Schedule Management
- Earned schedule concepts, calculation, interpretation
- Applying earned schedule
Unit 4: Earned Value Management
- Earned value concepts, calculation, interpretation
- Applying earned value
Unit 5: The Art of Project Control
- Project manager’s role
- Tracking and reporting project progress
- Resource management
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: New Solutions for Employee Learning
Date: Friday, Aug. 30
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m. CST
Location: Online
Cost: $49
This class is part of a speaker series, and participants will learn more about solutions for learning in their organization. Instructor is Lisa Toenniges, CEO of Innovative Learning Group in Michigan.
Toenniges will give a high-level picture of augmented and virtual reality, which learning situations are best suited for AR and VR and how you and your clients' organizations can develop these capabilities.
Objectives:
* Describe AR and VR, while developing familiarity with the most-used hardware and
software development tools
* Showcase common training use cases through specific industry examples of successful
implementations
* Highlight the set of skills required to effectively implement AR and VR at different
levels of immersion, interactivity and scalability
* Guide development of AR and VR capabilities and organizational experience through
a detailed roadmap from “Discovery” to “Pilot” to “Scale”
Unleashing Team Superpowers: Navigating Strengths and Challenges Together
October 14: 1-3 p.m. Remote via Zoom
October 16: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Hardy Hall, Gulf Park, Long Beach
Cost: $675
This course is based on the "Five Dysfunctions of a Team." It begins with a self assessment through Wiley Publications and navigates group work through activities to overcome the challenges of unwanted behaviors.
Communication
- Visual storytelling of technical data to a nontechnical audience
- Executive speaker series
Science and Technology
- AI awareness
- Excel
- Knowledge harvesting
Leadership
- Level-up leadership series
- Forming a board of directors
- Government contracting
Industry Certification Training
- Project management
- Agile
Financial and Wealth Management
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