Advanced Management (Formerly Mid-Management)
Most employees focus on developing technical skills in a particular area (manufacturing, IT, marketing, sales, etc.) for the first few years of their careers. The best and brightest who show the most technical competence are promoted into management. These managers struggle in their new roles because the technical skills that originally prompted the promotion are insufficient without skills in three new areas: people management, relationship building and business acumen. Our Advanced Management Development learning track helps managers enhance their skills in these three areas, enabling them to add value to their organization while simultaneously enhancing their career opportunities.
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Courses
Acumen in Action
Take control of a $100 million company in a simulated five-year, increasingly complex business environment to see how simple business decisions can cascade through organizations and markets, bringing huge successes as well as corporate catastrophes.
Business Acumen and Strategy for Managers
“Jump start” the business acumen skills necessary for you to move up in your organization—this course will help you understand the vision of your organization so you can create effective execution and communication plans for your team.
Developing Management Skills
This course provides the best approaches to motivating, communicating, delegating, setting priorities and dealing with organizational change.
Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Executives
You’ll return to your company with a solid base of knowledge about financial statements and concepts so you’ll know the right kinds of questions to ask to accomplish your department’s and company’s goals.
Gaining Commitment: Coaching and Motivating in the Workplace
Getting It Right: Decision Making and Change Management
How to Influence Without Direct Authority
Discover how to expand your power and positive influence and how to establish credibility and rapport beyond your formal authority in order to get the job done.
Leading and Coaching People to Higher Performance
Develop a true-to-you leadership style that motivates your direct reports—this course provides tools and practice for effective coaching of your employees to improve performance.
People Skills for Managers
This course will help you understand your own managerial strengths and the different personality traits that affect team interactions while helping you develop an action plan to capitalize on these and boost your team’s performance.
Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control
In this 3-day course from UW-Madison Executive Education, David Antonioni introduces you the foundational tools of process including Charter, Scope, and WBS. Learn Gantt, Pert, Critical Path and more.
Strategic Talent Management
Learn to recruit and retain talented people by using compensation and performance management systems effectively and how to terminate with minimum disruption.
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