Upcoming Programs

Marketing is every professional's 'business' in the current work environment. Learn to master and implement an effective strategic marketing plan. With this accelerated program you will come away with strong knowledge of data-driven, fact-based strategic market opportunities and buying behavior. Learn to effectively position your new or existing concepts, services, and products in viable markets for success. Get one-on-one professor feedback on your marketing plan. 

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Digitally savvy boards drive better business results. Corporate directors and CEO’s face a wide range of challenges around information technology oversight. This two-day course offers you a unique world-class program in digital and cybersecurity oversight in a collaborative, peer learning environment. You will finish the program with the foundational skills and tools to begin to fulfill your duties as a corporate director around the complex and volatile digital governance risk landscape.

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Learn the art of formulating, defining, implementing, and evaluating policies and decisions that will assist you and your organization in achieving its goals and objectives. This program will present the core areas of business strategy and develop skills for making strategic decisions and translating those decisions into real-world implementation to make revenue-generating decisions.

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Are you looking to improve your leadership skills to be prepared for the next step in your career?  Learn to build and motivate teams that deliver innovation, change, effectiveness, and long-term results in our dynamic two-day program.  Become the confident leader and team coach with the proficiency to take on new challenges and global markets.

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Do you feel overwhelmed communicating about finance and accounting topics in meetings? A manager's performance is frequently measured by how effectively they oversee departmental budgets. This program was designed to be an invaluable resource taught in a practical format to expand your knowledge and confidence.  Learn to communicate comfortably regarding financial data, cash management, banking, planning, budgets, profitability, solvency and liquidity. 

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Learn your leadership style by understanding human behavior and team motivations. This online course shows you the broad methods for establishing guidelines, utilizing talents, allocating personnel and assigning roles, as well as building trust while establishing accountability. Understand the leadership techniques that deliver new ideas and quick execution for individuals, teams and entire organizations.

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Taught by both faculty from USC Marshall School of Business and relevant Food Industry "Subject Matter Experts," this innovative program will enhance the participant's business mindset while providing key knowledge and the latest strategic tools. Be inspired and learn to inspire.

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Learn how to foster diversity and inclusion to increase innovation and collaboration, not just to comply to human resource changes.  Examine how deep rooted human unconscious biases impact organizational and social cultures in potentially unintended ways. You will explore practical ways individuals, teams, and organizations can make conscious decisions to affect impactful change. 

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Gain hands-on experience with this two-day Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation program and nurture your creative potential. Learn the applied creativity tools, like empathy and experimentation, to arrive at innovative solutions. Learn to rethink how you approach work challenges, understand how firms engage in business model innovation to develop game-changing strategies that disrupt industries, design for services and environment, product development processes, create new market opportunities, and break away from your competition. 

An investment in you as a manager, the management development program offers an ideal learning journey to master key management development and practice each skill on the job immediately. Delivered one day each week for six weeks, with a week in between to maximize learning stickiness, you will quickly enhance your business skills to become a more effective manager. Learn to lead, engage, motivate, and develop your team to drive results that directly influence your organization’s success.

Do you feel overwhelmed communicating about finance and accounting topics in meetings? A manager's performance is frequently measured by how effectively they oversee departmental budgets. This program was designed to be an invaluable resource taught in a practical format to expand your knowledge and confidence.  Learn to communicate comfortably regarding financial data, cash management, banking, planning, budgets, profitability, solvency and liquidity. 

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Gain firsthand experience with this two-day Digital Insights for Strategic Decision-making. Learn to leverage technology and data while understanding the advantages and limitations of digital insights and digital transformation. Dig beyond raw data and research to know how to create and apply a multi-dimensional view of your customer and business.