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Online Management Training
Develop Strategic Leadership and Management Skills Virtually
Take the next step in your career by enrolling in an online certificate program from Michigan State University, in partnership with NAMA. Developed by leading faculty and management researchers at MSU’s Broad College of Business, certificates are designed with you, an emerging leader, in mind.
3 Courses • 12 Weeks • 100% Online
Hear from Keith Bezant Niblett, Assistant Director of Executive Development Programs, MSU Broad College of Business, on the value of the Supervisory Management Program in fast-developing working world.
Professional Certificate in Supervisory Management
Guide Your Team With the Essentials of Management, Leadership and Analytics
12 Week Program
$3000 $3450
Save up to $450 on 3 course package
Professional Certificate in Human Resources and Talent Management
Recruit, develop and connect people to build for performance and create organizational culture.
12 Week Program
$3000 $3450
Save up to $450 on 3 course package
Professional Certificate in Leading Strategy and Innovation
Grow as a strategic thinker and develop agility and resiliency to lead through constant change.
12 Week Program
$3000 $3450
Save up to $450 on 3 course package
Questions?
Please contact Eric Larson, Senior Manager of Education at [email protected] for questions or to schedule an information session.
Supervisory Management Program
Professional Certificate in Supervisory Management
Monthly Classes Ongoing Throughout 2024
$3,000 (full program) • $1,150 (individual course)
NAMA & Michigan State University
3 Courses • 12 Weeks • 100% Online
The next generation of leaders faces a workplace in constant change, from innovations in technology and work processes to younger employees placing a greater emphasis on purpose and engagement in their work. This new reality requires new kinds of managers, supervisors and team leaders. Are you prepared to meet this workplace transformation as a next-generation leader?
Take the next step for your career by upskilling with a Professional Certificate in Supervisor Management from Michigan State University, in partnership with NAMA. Developed by leading faculty and management researchers at MSU’s Broad College of Business, this certificate is designed with you, the emerging leader, in mind.
Course Descriptions
Management Essentials — Management Essentials covers a wide range of fundamental concepts crucial for new managers who are faced with supervising direct reports for the first time. With four primary focus areas, the course will provide you with a toolkit of how to direct and manage, best practices for managing diversity in the workplace, the importance of decision making and communication and the key principles of people management.
Register for Management Essentials Course Only
Leadership Essentials — Leadership Essentials covers a wide range of fundamental concepts, methods and practices designed to help mold leaders responsible for translating the vision, mission, and objectives to an organization’s first-level or departmental employees. With four primary focus areas, the course will provide you with the strategies and techniques for effective leadership in a supervisory role, self- and team-discovery through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Assessment, successfully leading people and processes and using leadership behavior to overcome challenges.
Register for Leadership Essentials Course Only
Essentials Analytical Skills — This course grounds you in the principles of critical thinking and human reasoning for informed problem solving and decision making. The course provides you with the strategies and techniques of critical thinking, how to best utilize thinking and reasoning in the operational environment, methods for leveraging data analytics and turning that data information into the action of effective problem solving.
Register for Essential Analytical Skills Course Only
These courses will be offered multiple times in 2024, beginning February 1st, in the sequence of Management Essentials, Leadership Essentials and Essential Analytical Skills. To receive the certificate, students must complete all three courses. If students do not wish to take all three courses in the sequences below, there is flexibility in scheduling. Management Essentials and Essential Analytical Skills are offered every even-numbered month, and Leadership Essentials is offered every odd-numbered month.
- February, March, April 2024
- April, May, June, 2024
- June, July, August, 2024
- August, September, October, 2024
- October, November, December, 2024
Now is the time to invest in yourself and advance your career! Leadership awaits you.
Questions?
Please contact Eric Larson, Senior Manager of Education at [email protected] for questions or to schedule an information session.
Human Resources and Talent Management Program
Professional Certificate in Human Resources and Talent Management
Monthly Classes Ongoing Throughout 2024
$3,000 (full program) • $1,150 (individual course)
NAMA & Michigan State University
3 Courses • 12 Weeks • 100% Online
The success of any organization lies in its people. True success comes in connecting the people to one another and empowering them to build a high-performing organization and create a culture of openness, engagement and inclusion—a culture that every employee owns. Human resources and talent management teams play a key role in creating this success.
Take the next step for your career by upskilling with a Professional Certificate in Human Resources & Talent Management from Michigan State University, in partnership with NAMA. Developed by leading faculty and management researchers at MSU’s Broad College of Business, this certificate is designed for professionals looking to move to a more strategic role in human resources and talent management.
Course Descriptions
Human Resource Talent Strategy — Human Resource Talent Strategy looks beyond the steps of talent recruitment and employee retention to examine how the people are crucial to the design and development of the organization, with human resources at the center. In covering a wide range of fundamental concepts, methods and practices of human resources and talent management, the course is designed to help mold the leaders responsible for an organization’s most valuable asset—it’s people.
Register for Human Resource Talent Strategy Course Only
Building High-Performance Organizations — Building High-Performance Organizations provides you a firm foundation on which to build—the mission, vision and goals of your organization. Through models and real-world case studies, you’ll see how understanding and aligning with your organization’s objectives and strategy guides your methods and practices of human resources in recruiting, managing and developing top talent, both for today’s needs and future growth.
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Developing Organizational Culture — Developing Organizational Culture helps you to better understand how the mission, vision and goals of your organization not only fuel performance, but also serve to establish the values and shape the attitudes that connect your people and create your culture.
Register for Developing Organizational Culture Course Only
These courses will be offered multiple times in 2024, beginning January 1st, in the sequence of Human Resource Talent Strategy, Building High-Performance Organizations and Developing Organizational Culture. To receive the certificate, students must complete all three courses. If students do not wish to take all three courses in the sequences below, there is flexibility in scheduling. Human Resource Talent Strategy and Developing Organizational Culture are offered every odd-numbered month, and Building High-Performance Organizations is offered every even-numbered month.
- January, February, March, 2024
- March, April, May, 2024
- May, June, July, 2024
- July, August, September, 2024
- September, October, November, 2024
Now is the time to invest in yourself and advance your career! Leadership awaits you.
Questions?
Please contact Eric Larson, Senior Manager of Education at [email protected] for questions or to schedule an information session.
Leading Strategy and Innovation Program
Professional Certificate in Leading Strategy and Innovation
Monthly Classes Ongoing Throughout 2024
$3,000 (full program) • $1,150 (individual course)
NAMA & Michigan State University
3 Courses • 12 Weeks • 100% Online
Whether you’re new to management, a first-line or middle manager, a team leader or a seasoned executive, the ability to successfully influence the teams you work with and guide the teams you lead through continuous change and transformation is important for your continued effectiveness as a leader and for the growth of your organization. Through the development and execution of strategy aligned with change management knowledge, you can build resiliency, agility and infuse new thinking within your teams and organization overall to capitalize on change, rather than being disrupted by it.
Take the next step for your career by upskilling with a Professional Certificate in Leading Strategy & Innovation from Michigan State University, in partnership with NAMA. Developed by leading faculty and management researchers at MSU’s Broad College of Business, this certificate is designed for professionals tasked with leading strategy development at multiple levels.
Course Descriptions
External Market Drivers and Disruptors — External Market Drivers & Disruptors takes a deep dive into various disruptors and drivers of change, provides the tools and tactics for you to identify and assess the impact of these drivers and disruptors on your organization and your customers, and create the best change strategy for a competitive advantage.
Register for External Market Drivers and Disruptors Course Only
Developing Strategic Business Models — Developing Strategic Business Models will help you to evaluate your organization’s strategic models and provide the tools and techniques you need to create strategic alignment at every level of the business.
Register for Developing Strategic Business Models Course Only
Transformational and Visionary Leadership — Transformational & Visionary Leadership provides a roadmap for decision making and a plan to improve your leadership effectiveness, adapt to your team and company needs and confidently drive your organization toward positive change.
Register for Transformational and Visionary Leadership Course Only
These courses will be offered multiple times in 2024, beginning January 1st, in the sequence of External Market Drivers and Disruptors, Developing Strategic Business Models and Transformational and Visionary Leadership. To receive the certificate, students must complete all three courses. If students do not wish to take all three courses in the sequences below, there is flexibility in scheduling. External Market Drivers and Disruptors and Transformational and Visionary Leadership are offered every odd-numbered month, and Developing Strategic Business Models is offered every even-numbered month.
- January, February, March, 2024
- March, April, May, 2024
- May, June, July, 2024
- July, August, September, 2024
- September, October, November, 2024
Now is the time to invest in yourself and advance your career! Leadership awaits you.
Questions?
Please contact Eric Larson, Senior Manager of Education at [email protected] for questions or to schedule an information session.