Executive Education Certificates

Certificates: Advanced Leadership Certificate | Certificate in Sales Leadership | Executive Leadership Certificate

Programs: IT Project Management | Six Sigma Certificate Program

Certificates

Advanced Leadership Certificate

Our two-day executive education programs build the leadership skills necessary to develop comprehensive strategic goals and, more importantly, translate those goals into comprehensive plans that energize your company and boost innovation and profitable growth. Best of all, you can put your knowledge to work immediately.

Complete any four classes from the six programs listed below and participants will receive a certificate in Advanced Leadership. Participants have two years to complete course work.

Leading Technical Professionals
Explore the characteristics and experiences that make leading technical professionals and others with training in technical and scientific disciplines a particular challenge. Equip yourself for the challenge by examining your leadership approaches and developing the necessary competencies.

Strategy Execution: The Most Critical Leadership Competency
Examine strategies and mind sets executives use to decide when and what decisions to execute. Develop the ability to execute evenly and risk effectively with a thorough understanding of how to align strategy, operations, and resources.

Managing Innovation and New Product Development
Explore two market-tested drivers of sustainable organic growth: innovation and new product development. Develop an understanding of what leaders need to do to stimulate ideas and develop them into innovations and products in the most cost effective, barrier-free, and risk effective way.

Negotiation Skills: Conflict Resolution & Influencing Others
Focus on negotiation and creating opportunities for mutual gain with respect to valued resources, the ability to maintain and build relationships, and trust. Learn to unite and build trust using conflict management techniques and proven tools of communication. Discuss in-depth negotiation best practices.

Applied Change Management: Effectively Implementing Change
Designed for executives responsible for managing people, this action-learning workshop provides you valuable strategies and tools to effectively plan, communicate, and implement a major change initiative.
Computer Simulation Build on your classroom experience and learn by doing with the ExperienceChange™ simulator. Each team, as change consultants hired by a fictional company, is required to plan and implement a strategic shift necessary to save the company and experience firsthand the dynamics of managing an important project in an environment of rapid change, uncertainty and risk.

Marketing Strategies: Building Brands and Driving Sales
Take an intensive look into the market planning process. Learn how to develop a competitive marketing strategy for existing and new brands and how to best build bridges between marketing and sales.

Certificate in Sales Leadership

Debuting Fall 2008, the Georgia Tech Certificate in Sales Leadership combines targeted sales training with management fundamentals and trust-building skills that will accelerate your sales career. Professionals with significant sales and account management responsibilities will gain functional area training and strategic level insights through the sales track. Upon completion of the four courses listed below, participants will receive a Georgia Tech Certificate in Sales Leadership.

Required Courses

Mastering Management Concepts: Moving from Tactical to Strategic Thinking
Refine and expand your thinking. Explore the latest fundamental leadership and managerial concepts in regard to firm-wide, multi-functional perspectives. This foundation course covers topics including leadership, strategy development, innovation, sustainability and more.

How to Win the Sales You Can't Afford to Lose
Optimize your selling ability as Georgia Tech, in partnership with The Complex Sale, Inc., offers you the best of the best in sales training. Tackle every stage of the sales cycle with a solid strategic plan, stronger communication skills, and in-depth understanding of the competition. Learn to reach the real decision makers and cut costs, in time and money, while raising you numbers and exceeding customer expectations.

Negotiation Skills: Conflict Resolution & Influencing Others
Building negotiation skills will help you create opportunities for mutual gain and cement stronger relationships. Learn to unite and build trust using conflict management techniques and proven tools of communication.

Marketing Strategies: Building Brands & Customer Solutions
Take an intensive look into the market planning process. Learn how to develop a competitive marketing strategy for existing and new brands and craft customer solutions.

Executive Leadership Certificate

Debuting Fall 2008, the Georgia Tech Executive Leadership Certificate equips you to clarify your leadership vision and drive performance by sharpening the skills you need to lead confidently, responsibly, and strategically. The executive leadership track is designed for professionals in or advancing toward the executive level where enterprise-wide views and strategic thinking are not only valued but required. Upon completion of the four courses listed below, participants will receive a Georgia Tech Executive Leadership Certificate.

Required Courses

Mastering Management Concepts: Moving from Tactical to Strategic Thinking
Refine and expand your thinking. Explore the latest fundamental leadership and managerial concepts in regard to firm-wide, multi-functional perspectives. This foundation course covers topics including leadership, influencing, marketing, ethics, sustainability, and more.

Strategy Execution: The Most Critical Leadership Competency
Examine strategies and mindsets executives use to decide when and what decisions to execute. Develop the ability to execute evenly and risk effectively with a thorough understanding of how to align strategy, operations, and resources.

Applied Change Management: Effectively Implementing Change
Designed for change leaders, this action-learning workshop arms you with valuable strategies and tools to effectively plan, communicate, and implement a major change initiative. Through the ExperienceChangeTM simulator, teams will plan and implement a strategic shift necessary to save a fictional company and experience firsthand the dynamics of managing an important project in an environment of rapid change, uncertainty, and risk.

Managing Innovation & New Product Development
Explore two market-tested drivers of organic growth: innovation and new product development. Develop an understanding of what leaders need to do to stimulate ideas and develop them into innovations and products in the most cost effective and barrier-free way.

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Programs

IT Project Management

Project management skills are in the highest demand for the next five to 10 years, states CIO Magazine. Join one of the industry's hottest certificate programs and lead your next successful project with training from Georgia Tech. Develop the strategies and tools you need to manage any project regardless of size, scope, or complexity through Georgia Tech's IT Project Management Program.

Program Benefits

Attend this program and you will return to your organization with:

  • An understanding of how to apply the nine Project Management Body of Knowledge areas
  • The skills needed to effectively manage and complete projects on time, within budget, while ensuring project quality
  • The knowledge to prepare you for the Project Management Professional, or PMP® certification exam

Program Participants

Individuals who typically attend this program include:

  • Project managers
  • Professionals interested in becoming project managers
  • Professionals overseeing IT projects
  • Those preparing for the Project Management Professional, or PMP® certification exam

Program Outline

 

Six Sigma Certificate Program

Discover what world-class organizations such as General Electric, Motorola and Xerox already know: Six Sigma can significantly improve your bottom line. Master the Six Sigma tools and techniques that deliver results through Georgia Tech's Six Sigma Program.

Program Benefits

Attend this program and you will return to your organization with:

  • A deep understanding of the Six Sigma approach
  • Proven tools for implementing the Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control (DMAIC) methodology to a project
  • A Green Belt or Black Belt certification (upon completion of a post-course project)

Program Participants

Individuals who typically attend this program include:

  • Professionals with an interest in Six Sigma methodologies
  • Managers interested in starting a Six Sigma program for their organization
  • Professionals wanting to earn the Green Belt or Black Belt certification

Program Outline

Module I

  • Define
    — The Adult Learning Process
    — Six Sigma Overview
    — Project Definition
    — Minitab Software Tutorial
    — Introduction to Basic Statistics
  • Measure
    — Process Mapping
    — Cause and Effect Tools
    — Measurement Systems Analysis
  • Analyze
    — Graphical Techniques
    — Process FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis)
    — Confidence Intervals
    — Means Testing
    — Statistical Analysis

Module II

  • Improve
    — DOE (Design of Experiments) Introduction
    — Full Factorial Part I
    — 2K Factorials Part I
    — Statapult Exercise Control
  • Control
    — Control Methods
    — Introduction to SPC (Statistical Process Control)
    — Variable SPC
    — Project Closure

Module III (Black Belt Only)

  • Facilitation Skills
  • Change Management Tools
  • Advanced Statistics

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