Course Description
How you do business is changing fast. Competition is more fierce than ever. How well you can grasp and handle data, reduce risks, and manage people, processes, and new technology is being tested daily. Prepare yourself to innovate, strategize, and lead with success.
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In this one-of-a-kind program, you’ll explore these vital skills and behaviors, guided by leading business experts, and practice applying them in an intensive business simulation. Each new skill you explore will inform and support every other skill. Working alongside peers from a variety of industries, you’ll also develop the leadership skills you need to apply these behaviors on the job. This hands-on, 5-day immersive course, filled with case studies, exercises, and activities, offers you the unique opportunity to experience what every business must do—cut costs, increase revenue, and mitigate risks—with a holistic, game-changing approach that can have a lasting positive impact not only on your career, but your entire future.
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Certificate Programs include additional post-course resources:
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- On demand lessons to reinforce key skills
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How You Will Benefit_x000d_ - Know your numbers to make sounder business decisions fast
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_x000d_ - Apply what you learn in a guided simulation with fellow course participants
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Online Accreditation3 CEU, 31 CPE, 29 PDU
Agenda
What You Will CoverGet a Return on Investment
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- Identify how the relationship between risk and return influences everyday business decisions
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Speak Finance
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- Learn the General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
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Problem Solve, Invest, and Grow
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- Identify and define the key liquidity, leverage, and profitability ratios
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_x000d_ - Apply different methods for evaluating capital expenditures, monitoring project performance and reaching strategic conclusions
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Manage
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- Develop, coach, and motivate individual people
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Communicate
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- Utilize effective speaking, listening, and writing strategies to enhance and expand your interpersonal and organizational communication skills
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_x000d_ - Develop your own mission statement and strategy for success
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Strategize
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- Use the ADEPTT model to analyze the current state of your business and define goals
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Market
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- Use the Five Ps of Marketing: positioning, product, price, place, and promotion
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Create and Innovate
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- Learn various techniques for generating new ideas and uncovering opportunities
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Business Challenge Simulation
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- Collaborate with your team of R&D, Sales & Marketing, Finance, and Operations in an online simulation with real-world business challenges
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_x000d_ - Put your newly acquired knowledge and skills to use along with your leadership and teamwork skills
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Lead
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- Explore the differences between leading and managing
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Special Feature
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On the last day of this workshop, apply your new knowledge, skills, and behaviors in this cloud-based capstone online simulation powered by Abilitie. Engage your leadership, teaming, and business acumen skills, and be ready to hit the ground running when you return to the office.
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_x000d_ Note: Participants are required to bring their own device to the course (laptop or tablet). The course agenda may be updated regularly as required. AMA’s 5-Day "MBA" Workshop does not award a degree.
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Audience
All business professionals who need a well-rounded, practical, actionable set of skills and tools to enhance analytical, personal, professional, and business acumen and make sound business decisions.
Cancellation:Transfer, Cancellation and Refund Policy. For Classroom, Live Online and Webinar programs, you may transfer to a future session, send someone to take your place or cancel without penalty at any time up to three weeks prior to your program. If you provide AMA with less than three weeks’ notice, or fail to attend, you will be liable for the entire program fee. Programs included in AMA OnDemand 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 call us if you have any questions