Data for Decision Making – Online/Asynchronous
OnlineA self-paced, online program that teaches how to effectively use data to guide decision-making.
XLC’s Business Acumen Certificate gives you skills to manage with a strategy that is understood and can be implemented at all levels, along with a strong foundation of how business operates, makes money, and sustains profitable growth.
You will learn tools to effectively manage and engage the workforce. You will gain knowledge in planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the activities of an organization in order to satisfy customers’ needs.
Participants must attend 4 of the following one-day programs within the fall semester:
Creative Problem Solving:
This highly-interactive, fun, and fast-paced session provides a framework for understanding and
applying tools to meet real business needs. You will walk away from this session with increased
confidence to generate creative ideas, techniques to recognize/replace unproductive thinking
patterns, and a methodology to foster creative potential and innovation.
Driving Strategy at Any Level:
In this program, you will learn to design a plan your team can implement, to create a vision that
directs your time and resources, and to decide your priorities. Moving to implementation, you will
also learn tools to transform you and your organization, to work past procrastination and stay
focused on what’s important, and to build assessments to gauge where there is still room for
improvement.
Finance for Non-Financial Professionals:
In this one-day program, you will develop an understanding of key financial documents, how to interpret them, and why they are important. Financial terms and calculations will be explained in a way that makes sense for non-financial business professionals. Finally, you will also be challenged to apply what you learn in class by analyzing how your work and your decisions are related to the overall performance of the company.
Foundations of Operations Management (Not offered Fall 2022):
Strong operations management includes strategy, planning, implementation, supervision, and
continuous improvement. Therefore, these aspects of operational management effectively become
key elements for ensuring your company manages and improves its profitability. This program will
introduce the key elements of operations along with tools that will help you manage operations to
create improved financial performance. You will also learn ways to measure the outcomes of your
efforts to create optimal processes.
Metrics that Matter:
This interactive program will begin by laying out key aspects of operational and financial
performance and how they relate to one another. We will then focus on key areas such as the impact of bad metrics, the difference between metrics and measures, leading and lagging metrics, aligning metrics with business performance, and designing metrics that can be understood and managed.
The Business of Employee Engagement:
Employees are engaged when they have measurable goals, constructive and relevant feedback, relevant training and professional development, and are connected to the mission of the organization. This program provides key resources and tools for leaders to create an environment that supports employee engagement, connects employees to the mission, and communicates their department’s impact on the bottom line through successful employee development and retention.
Professionals at any level who want to increase their business acumen.
A self-paced, online program that teaches how to effectively use data to guide decision-making.
This online, self-paced program develops the essential skills and real-world practices required for project managers to be successful.
This program will provide participants with a deepened knowledge of financial planning.
This program will provide participants with a deepened knowledge of financial planning.
This program is designed to give women business leaders the perfect opportunity to network and develop a wide variety of business skills.
Gain the foundational leadership and business acumen skills to elevate yourself to more senior positions.
Understand your company's plan for success and how you fit into it to help propel your team towards success.
XLC’s Business Acumen Certificate gives you skills to manage with a strategy that is understood and can be implemented at all levels, along with a strong foundation of how business operates, makes money, and sustains profitable growth.
XLC’s Build Your Own Certificate gives professionals the flexibility they need to improve their desired skills while earning a unique certificate.
This program will empower you to have those difficult, but necessary, conversations.
Sharpen your leadership voice and gain skills to become an excellent communicator by earning this certificate.
This 6-day program will provide current and soon-to-be project managers the foundation to excel.
Professionals become frustrated, aggravated, and discouraged when they feel like they are limited in what they can do, are not being heard, or their ideas are not grasped or appreciated.
Data and numbers have a story behind them. This program will help you find that story and tell it to others.
Build a positive workplace culture to better retain employees.
Trust is the crucial foundation for an organization's success.
Understand finance, the language of business, so you can contribute to conversations and make appropriate decisions.
Telling a powerful story is key to driving innovation.