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| EXECUTIVE & MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (4 Weeks) |
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While many volumes have been written about leadership, it remains for many a misunderstood and elusive quality. The capacity for leadership exists in everyone, although most do not pursue it. Developing leaders is significantly different from leadership training. In this course, knowledge is internalized enough to create behavioral changes, expressed as positive, results oriented attitudes that generate the desired actions. This course is a process designed to engage people in a program that results in both personal and professional growth. Individually, each person reflects the behavior of a goal directed leader. Collectively, they form a powerful force that literally assures the achievement of corporate goals.
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| DEVELOP YOUR EXECUTIVE QUOTIENT (2 Weeks) |
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Every day, untold number of bright and efficient managers and professionals check the best of themselves at the door before coming in to work. And this takes a direct toll on all of us. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be this way. Take this course to develop the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, connection, and influence.
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| TAKING THE STEPS TO MANAGER (2 Weeks) |
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Supervisors ready to move up the ranks face one of the most difficult tasks in organizations - changing from overseeing staff to developing other managers. Learn what power really is and how it works, how to develop change contracts with subordinates, what resistance really is and how to work with it, and other powerful techniques. The managerial practices presented here are based on real-world experiences of hundreds of people who successfully lead people and projects. Take this course to bring out the best in yourself and others - then watch extraordinary things happen.
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| FIRST LINE SUPERVISORY DEVELOPMENT (4 Weeks) |
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In today's business, the Supervisor is the "main link" between the organization's goals and the people who must accomplish those goals. Because of the functions and major roles played, it's obvious that good supervisors are the key to success of any organization. Many of the supervisor's daily decisions affect production, attitudes, morale, and profits. Developing supervisors is significantly different from supervisor training. In this course, the knowledge is internalized enough to create behavioral changes expressed as positive, results oriented attitudes that generate the desired actions. It is designed to engage supervisors in personal and professional growth.
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| STRATEGIC THINKING AND BUSINESS PLANNING (4 Weeks) |
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During this decade of constantly changing markets, increasing competition, and rising customer expectations, organizations know they have to change. In this environment, successful organizations are the ones that will the future while others merely react to pressures and changes. The traditional focus of strategic planning has been related to documentation, reporting, and review. Successful planning includes specific plans on where to go, how to get there, what timetables and resources to use, and what contingencies to consider. In this course, participants will learn the importance to creating a clear, concise Vision, the Values that will govern the organization's behavior, the strategy to achieve the Vision, and a Mission that serves as a rallying point for the organization. After the Mission has been determined, participants will learn how to break the Mission down into manageable success factors or goal categories, set priorities for the resultant goals, and how to manage the implementation or the business plan.
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| STRATEGIC THINKING (2 Weeks) |
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If you plan to build a successful, enduring business, you must focus on the building not just the doing. In this course, participants will experience the process of thinking about and envisioning the future to which you aspire and the growth that will have to happen in order to achieve that future state. Participants will create a Vision, a set of Values, a Strategy for the future, and a Mission that shows that progress is being made.
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| BUSINESS PLANNING (2 Weeks) |
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Execution is the most important factor in a successful business plan. This course begins after the Strategic Thinking ends and the Tactical Thinking begins. Creating a vision and strategy and crystallizing your mission creates a solid foundation and a directional beacon for the growth of your business. These critical steps must now be followed by developing a well thought out plan and series of processes which can and will be duplicated regularly by many. Vision without plans and action steps is merely a dream.
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| INTRODUCTORY PROJECT MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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Covers the essential elements for successful project management. Topics include scoping projects, defining Project Management, determining who manages Projects, Agreement of the Methodology of Organizing, Planning, Controlling, Monitoring, and Evaluating the project. Forecasting future performance by historical tracking methods. Part of the course will be hands-on training utilizing the Automated Project Management tool - Microsoft Projects for Windows.
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| PROJECT MANAGEMENT (4 Weeks) |
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Builds on the introductory course by actually working on a project the student needs planned out. Since students will have the opportunity to apply Project Management techniques, methodologies, and tools to their work environment or to projects they are familiar with, they are encouraged to bring an example of whatever Group Work Activity or Project that is most familiar to them.
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| WOMEN IN BUSINESS (2 Weeks) |
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This program will explore the challenges of advancing women in business. A variety of helpful resources will be used to discover the similarities and differences faced by women in the goal of expanding management opportunities for women while simultaneously advancing larger business objectives. Best practices in forward-thinking companies have been used to better leverage the skills and intellect of women workers. Learn to break down the obstacles that stand in the way of female career advancement.
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| TIME STRATEGIES (2 Weeks) |
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Does your "To Do" list seem to grow longer and longer regardless of your efforts? Do you feel overworked? Under-appreciated? We are constantly on the move in two forms of travel. We travel daily to and from work and occasionally from city to city or continent to continent. We also travel on a continuous journey through time, but we approach these two forms of travel in completely different ways. Learn the best techniques for traveling through time. Get organized and take control.
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| INTRODUCTORY COMPUTING FOR INCREASED MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVENESS (2 Weeks)
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Each participant will receive a Pentium Color Notebook computer with the latest Microsoft Office Suite (Spreadsheet, Word Processing, Presentation, and Productivity software) and a fax modem. Participants will learn MSDOS, WINDOWS, and WINDOWS 95. Using this tool, participants will hone their presentation skills and learn how to use the Internet. They will be introduced to spreadsheets, graphs, and visual presentations, and the importance correct analysis plays in final results. They will learn how to use a communications modem and how to send and receive fax documents and e-mail directly from their computer.
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| COMPUTING FOR INCREASED MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS (ADVANCED) AND MORE EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS (4 Weeks)
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Each participant will receive a Pentium Color Notebook computer with the latest Microsoft Office Suite (Spreadsheet, Word Processing, Presentation, and Productivity software) and a fax modem. Participants will learn MSDOS, WINDOWS, and the current version of WINDOWS. In addition to the functions covered in the introductory course, participants will learn how to communicate ideas more effectively, how to develop spread-sheets, graphs, and visual presentations, and the importance correct analysis plays in final results. Using their notebook computer, participants will hone their presentation skills through the use of Power Point presentations and practice workshops with direct feedback on their personal presentation styles. They will learn how to use a communications modem and how to fax documents directly from their computer. Additional topics include - Hardware and Software issues, productivity issues, software acquisition, installation, and maintenance. Extensive workshops will assure participant effectiveness with their new computer.
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| BUDGETING AND PLANNING(2 Weeks) |
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This comprehensive course not only includes the basic techniques of expense and capital budgeting, financial forecasting, and appropriate accounting tools, but equally important, participants will integrate strategic planning methods, leadership methods, sales methods (such as selling the budget and plan to the boss), plus management methods to help identify appropriate planning issues in order to turn budgets into true operational plans.
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| TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (4 Weeks) |
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TQM is dedicated to continuously improving Customer Satisfaction. Perfection will never be achieved, but there is room for improvement at every level. Total Quality relies on the capability of the people to identify and find better solutions to meet constantly changing customer requirements. Achieved by blending profitability issues with productivity, employee involvement, bench marking, products, suppliers technology, management, and employee evaluation.
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| PROGRAM IN LEGISLATIVE AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS (2 Weeks) |
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An intensive, high quality two week experience on how government functions. Included is a comparative look at the US and Nigerian systems, legislative procedure - how to run an effective legislative process, communications for maximum results - reversing your risk, intergovernmental affairs - Effectively working with the other branches, and effective leadership - latest techniques and intellectual tools.
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| HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION AND SYSTEMS (2 Weeks)
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This comprehensive course covers most hospital systems management and leadership issues. They include financial management, health care delivery systems, the human factor, organizational behavior in hospitals, legal and ethical issues, process and work flow, and ancillary hospital services. Students will leave with detailed specifications for hospital operations with standards to measure performance for the various hospital operating units.
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| ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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Provides students with comprehensive learning modules focusing on state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and practices used to manage environmental issues for positive results. The program covers the fundamental elements of an effective environmental management framework and provides a flexible, interdisciplinary structure that combines technical know-how with the necessary management skills. Concentration is on developing the skills, capabilities, and knowledge that managers and practitioners need to succeed in today's environmental arena.
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| TECHNOLOGY FOR NON-TECHNICAL MANAGERS (4 Weeks) |
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The importance of technology will be imparted to the attendees and especially the importance of Information and Communications Technologies. The effect of this technology on individuals, business, organization, and society will be demonstrated. The attendees will be afforded solutions to high tech confusion, "techie" misunderstandings and ways to improve relationships. A systematic look at the firm using proven principles of needs analysis with planning and implementation techniques will assist the attendee in shaping the firm's future, provide direction for the Information Systems Department, and linking the firm's future success with the technologies. The communications aspects will provide participants with greater understanding of the current communications environment, the development of policies, and goals of communications technologies in the firm.
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| HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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Advanced study of selected topics in Personnel Administration, with emphasis given to those of current importance such as Employee Selection techniques, Training and Development issues, Employee Communication requirements, Problem Resolution, Job Evaluation, and Job Descriptions.
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| CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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In these times of (internal as well as external) customer focus, a mastery of Customer Service can mean the difference between success and failure. Treating Service as a Product that needs to be learned inside out and marketed to customers vigorously because it is a direct revenue producer because of its affect on customer attitudes and behavior. This course combines Customer Service Skills with developing a Service Attitude and setting the goals to create an atmosphere that keeps customers, especially internal customers, coming back. These newly developed skills and attitudes pay off with immediate results from the customer and other departments within the firm.
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| INTERNAL CONSULTING (4 Weeks) |
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The critical skills for Internal Consulting are those involving the communicating of ideas and the ability to communicate one's expertise. This course is designed to help add those critical communications skills to the technical and managerial skills already acquired. This course begins with the 2 week Project Management course then continues with accurate analysis of client needs, gaining full cooperation and support, instructing on key ideas, effective organization of oral and written materials, defining and negotiating project requirements monitoring effectiveness, and managing project scope and project "creep".
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| ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (4 Weeks) |
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Experienced exposure to the trends that are shaping the computer and information industries. Focus is on the strategic implications of managing information as a corporate asset at the same time defining emerging technologies that are at the forefront of ERP. Contains ERP principles and the on-going changes to those principles, Information Engineering, newest Development Life Cycles, better ways to meet User Needs, MIS Centers, Technologies, OLAP (on-line analytical processing), Inter-corporate Networking, Strategic Planning and Mission Critical Systems.
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| DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING (2 Weeks) |
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This course covers the means of protecting against the risk of the loss of corporate assets caused by disaster (natural or man-made) and especially Corporate Information Assets. Levels of Emergency, Levels of Contingency, Contingency Planning concepts, Recovery Plan, and the Changing Business Environment.
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| FINANCIAL STRATEGIES (4 Weeks) |
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Financial Management is crucial in all types of businesses. It includes maximizing the organization's investment in assets and profits and the securities it manages. This course in intended to provide an in-depth view of the concepts and techniques of financial management. Topics include the value of money over time, risk and return, valuation methods, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure financial planning, working capital, financial statements and ratios, and the basics of international finance. Other topics include finance functions, financial goals, legal and economic aspects of corporations profit planning, investment analysis techniques, long and short term financing, cash and other asset management.
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| REENGINEERING (2 Weeks) |
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Students will learn about implementing a reorganized organization that achieves ambitious improvements. Implementing increased profitability by dramatically improving measures of performance, cost, quality, service, and speed. Achieved by combining strategies, business plans, management and employee education, industrial engineering techniques, with technology.
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| CYCLE TIME REDUCTION & WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS (2 Weeks) |
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80% of what companies do, the customer doesn't care about, so this course is about eliminating the non-value-adding work that stands between you and your customers. The reason is simple, because every dollar saved in process improvements equals the same profitability as twenty dollars in new sales. In this course, participants will not only learn how to eliminate unnecessary steps in office and plant processes by adding adaptability, flexibility, and speed without sacrificing quality, but will also be able to teach others to straighten out work processes and flows.
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| PROGRAM FOR EXECUTIVES (2 Weeks) |
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This program includes the latest techniques for managing change, developing personal leadership, and developing subordinates in order to deal more effectively with the requirements of running a global enterprise. Key elements are the development of strategic thinking, the management of diverse groups, and, very importantly, the development of personal leadership and communication skills necessary to accomplish critical business goals.
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| GLOBAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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As management of information is critical in accomplishing the goals of global organizations, the program focuses on the strategic nature of information, the integration of strategic thinking with information requirements, providing the understanding required for new ideas in network implementation and other communication imperatives. Key elements are the implementation of one's organization's vision through use of information.
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| MANAGEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS (2 Weeks) |
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This course develops the leadership and management skills necessary to guide technology driven organizations to the accomplishment of their goals and vision. Participants will develop methods of personal leadership and management as well as organizational development, and receive practical management tools to improve their organization's performance. Key elements are the interpersonal management and leadership techniques.
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| GREEN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT (2 Weeks) |
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This program introduces, teaches and develops expertise in the latest GREEN Design tools and methods for cost-effective, front-end Green Design, and shows the importance of a cross-function, integrated systems approach to environmental thinking.
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The Essex Management Center is owned and operated by The Schools Group, LLC. The Houston Petroleum Institute and Infotronix Research Institute are other fine schools managed by The Schools Group, LLC.
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