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Business Essentials Certificate Program

Enhance your business acumen and gain essential skills for career advancement with the Business Essentials Certificate Program at the American Management Association. Develop a customer-focused strategy, interpret financial statements, and master project management to excel in your professional role. Elevate your knowledge and credibility in just three days with this comprehensive program.

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $2,995
  • Live, interactive online classroom
  • 23 hours & 30 minutes over 3 sessions

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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this business training:

A major milestone in every professional’s life is possessing and demonstrating solid business acumen. It’s a way to distinguish yourself as having the knowledge and credibility to earn the trust you need for career advancement. In this fast-track 3-day certificate program, you will learn key skills that are essential to developing business acumen, including the value of an enhanced customer focus strategy to proactively address internal and external customer and stakeholder needs, a basic understanding of financial acumen to interpret and better support your business unit’s goals, and the knowledge to drive your project management approach. Through unique activities, team exercises and a capstone project, you’ll gain a deeper, hands-on understanding of these functions and how they are interconnected so you’ll be ready to demonstrate them on the job.

Your immediate takeaway

  • Interpret financial statements to examine your organization’s performance
  • Learn the essentials of successful project management
  • Create a customer-focused strategy that maximizes relationships with both internal and external customers and stakeholders.
  • Synthesize skills in a special capstone project

In addition, you will earn a special certificate in recognition of your participation in this program.

Certificate Programs include additional post-course resources:

  • On demand lessons to reinforce key skills
  • Best practice skill refreshers
  • Articles offering practical tips and tactics

Who Should Attend

Individual contributors, new or prospective managers, as well as high potentials who would benefit from a comprehensive and compact learning experience that enables them to demonstrate an understanding and facility with business acumen.

How You Will Benefit

  • See the “big picture” of the organization—how the key drivers of business work together to produce profitable growth
  • Develop a fundamental understanding of financial analysis
  • Explore project management basics and demonstrate business acumen in team projects
  • Confidently discuss the finances of a project, division or company—and ask the right questions
  • Recognize the importance of a customer-focused strategy and how to create one
  • Devise and present solutions for increasing a company’s ROI, performing a financial analysis and setting up a project plan
  • Use knowledge to make sound business decisions
  • Create an individual action plan for applying key concepts on the job to help you get recognized for your sense of business acumen

What You Will Cover

  • Learning to assess and explain your organization’s performance using financial statements
  • Asking informed questions about the finances of a company, division, or project
  • Grasping clearer logic underlying business decisions
  • Assessing the quality and completeness of basic project plans and monitoring processes
  • Effectively developing a charter, creating status reports, communicating with stakeholders, and assessing risks
  • Applying techniques to schedule projects; estimate resources, cost and scope; distribute responsibilities; create status reports; and monitor processes
  • Assessing a company’s finances for performance and viability
  • Analyzing your company’s competitive position in the marketplace
  • Applying project management techniques to develop a project plan
  • Capstone—applying key concepts to a sample project and managing reports, assimilating feedback and presenting results
  • Developing an individual action plan for applying key concepts and strategies on the job

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

For Classroom, Live Online, Express Skills Courses and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place, or cancel for a 5% fee up to 23 days prior to your program.

If you provide AMA with less than 23 days’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee.

Programs included in AMA On Demand offerings are not eligible for substitution, transfer, cancellation, return, or refund. We appreciate that this is an important investment for you and your company and would like to accommodate your needs the best we can.

Please email us at [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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