WSB Center for Professional and Executive Development

Effective Scrum Masters use the Scrum framework to increase team performance and deliver value to their organizations. Through this fully online, three-week program, you’ll gain the skills you need to help teams rise to increasing levels of learning, quality, and delivery while ensuring that teams maximize the benefits of self-organization. When you ...

How You Will Benefit: Utilize design thinking principles within an entrepreneurial framework to explore underlying customer needs related to lifelong learning Generate ideas and innovations for potential lifelong learning programs to serve executive customers Use collaborative processes to identify and develop high-potential lifelong learning opportunities Identify ...

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In this program, you'll directly experience the challenge of innovation in organizations, uncovering the structural and cultural barriers that hinder creativity. You will see examples of policies and processes to facilitate innovation across the business. You will learn and practice specific tools and systems that you can implement immediately, as well ...

Achieving Operational Excellence in Manufacturing teaches Flow, a continuous improvement model that integrates elements of Lean, Six Sigma, Operations Excellence, Quick-Response Manufacturing, and Theory of Constraints to improve a company’s ability to realize meaningful results across the entire value stream from its continuous improvement efforts. ...

In order to achieve the Emerging Leader Certificate, individuals must complete two required courses and three electives within a five-year timeframe. Required: Leadership Beyond Management | People Development. Electives: Coaching, Mentoring, Feedback | Finance and Accounting for Non-Finance Professionals | Change Management | Business Acumen & ...

You can achieve better career results and become a more productive business contributor when you understand how to leverage capabilities in these critical areas: relationships, business acumen, change management, and strategy. The certificate consists of six courses (four core courses and two electives) which include self-assessments, case studies, ...

Completion of the ADVANTAGE Talent Development Program Master Course

• Develop an understanding of Insurance Company Basics • Strengthen your business acumen and understanding of financial language • Communicate with other departments and executives with more business acumen confidence • Identify areas unique to the insurance industry from a financial reporting perspective

Change is inevitable in business. We can't predict, much less prepare, for all the possible changes that could arise. Instead, companies need to adopt more flexible, creative approaches to problem-solving. Borrowing from entrepreneurship, we'll work to develop an "intrapreneurial mindset." The word "intrapreneur" was coined to describe people who act ...