Harvard & Other Certificates

Study what budgets are, why they matter, and how budgeting works and most importantly, how to build effective budgets. They will have the opportunity to learn strategies and best practices

Learn the process for creating a strong business case: defining the opportunity, exploring options, analyzing alternatives, assessing risks, creating an implementation plan, and presenting the case to stakeholders.

Learn how to create a business plan, including what material to include and how to develop a compelling presentation that will engage readers and win their approval.

Get a view of career management for those of you who interested in starting or playing a major role in an entrepreneurial venture is presented.

In this course, you will learn that by having a clear vision and a sound plan, they can learn to manage change – instead of change managing them. You will come away with an eight-stage change process that can dramatically improve the chances of change leading to success.

As companies increase their focus on developing employees’ skills and performance, they rely more on formal and informal on-the-job training, including coaching, to develop those capacities. Being a successful coach is based on three components: technical help, personal support, and individual challenge. This course defines coaching and explains the benefits of effective coaching.

In this course, you will learn how crises differ from the ordinary ups and downs of doing business as well as master a disciplined process for preventing avoidable crises and preparing for unavoidable ones that may strike.

In this course, you will learn how to use customer knowledge to deliver value and ultimately boost profitability. You will also discover how to build a customer-focused organization, in which everyone plays a role in serving the needs of current and future customers.

In this course, you will learn how to prepare to make a decision by selecting a decision-making approach and defining objectives while taking into account common decision challenges, including cognitive biases and unproductive group dynamics. You will discover tactics for generating, evaluating, and selecting the best alternative for a decision as well as communicating the decision effectively to the right individuals, and ensuring that the decision is carried out as planned.

In this course, you will learn the benefits and challenges of delegating and signs that suggest they could be under-delegating. You will also discover how to make the right decisions around why to delegate, how to do it, who should take on the assignment, and how to monitor and support the work.

In this course, you will learn strategies to keep high performers challenged and solid employees growing. In addition you will also discover how to address underperformance and learn to develop cross-cultural skills for global work.

No matter your role, technology continues to transform how you do your work. With access to a dizzying array of new tools, customer insights, and data, how do you keep up? In this course, you will learn how to adopt a digital mindset and foster one in others. You will also learn how to nurture a healthy digital culture as well as how to make their team more data-driven.

In this course, you will learn what diversity is, why it matters, and why diverse teams are a competitive advantage for businesses everywhere. You will also discover how to lead inclusively, understand and counter bias, become a diversity advocate, and advance an organization’s diversity efforts.

In this course, you will learn what workplace ethics are – and aren’t. You will investigate how an ethical culture drives business success, explore a practical method for making an ethical decision, and discover how to foster integrity and apply ethics across borders.

In this course, you will learn how to harness the power of feedback, including how to give fair, effective feedback. You will explore the common reasons people fear feedback and ways to make co-workers more receptive to it. Lastly, you will discover ways to seek and use feedback to improve their performance.

In this course, you will gain familiarity with the three most essential financial statements used in business: the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement. You will also discover financial ratios and learn how to use them as indicators of an organization’s health. Furthermore, you will be able to develop a budget using an array of techniques and track actual financial outcomes of operations and investments against the expected outcomes.

This is a collection of asynchronous courses that helps you to develop the most in-demand skills for today’s job market. This offering provides you with access to 40+ courses that summarize critical ideas and advice on essential management topics such as leading teams, project management, strategic thinking, and much more. They feature up-to-date insights from Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review, and other industry experts that you can easily apply to grow professionally and personally

In this course, you will learn how to cultivate their cultural intelligence by carefully observing the people around them and modifying their behaviors accordingly. You will also discover how to negotiate across cultures effectively, overcome language barriers, and transcend the challenges of physical distance.

In this course, you will learn when they set goals, they commit to achieving certain outcomes – and must make a plan for doing so. You will discover how to establish clear goals, have the discipline to reach them, and evaluate their impact.

In this course, you will learn how to develop a job description and clarify who would make the ideal candidate for an open position. You will discover how to recruit candidates using the right channels, evaluate resumes, and phone-screen promising candidates.

In this course, you will discover what innovation and creativity really are and why they’re more important than ever to sustaining success. You will learn how to build an intellectually diverse team to spark creativity, as well as explore powerful tactics for brainstorming ideas for new products, services, and business processes and models.

In this course, you will discover how to transform a great idea into a new product, service, business process, or model. Then, take it a step further by ensuring an innovative project has the greatest chance of success by learning how to lay a solid foundation of support among key stakeholders early in the implementation process.

In this course, students will learn how effective leaders inspire trust and motivation in teammates near and far, define and communicate a vision, lead inclusively, and lead without authority. They will discover why emotional intelligence is a leader’s most powerful tool and learn tactics to develop their intuition.

In this course, you will learn how to build, strengthen and sustain effective networks, and the relationships that are their foundation.

In this course, you will find out what “managing your boss” really means and why it matters more than ever. You will learn to diagnose key aspects of a working relationship with their boss – including strengths, weaknesses, work styles, and expectations. Furthermore, you will master the art of communicating effectively with their boss, including tactics for dealing with a variety of “bad” bosses.

In this course, you will learn the basics of marketing to better serve customers inside and outside.You will also discover the forces that influence buying, how to conduct customer research, and how to create an effective marketing strategy.

In this course, you will learn tactics for conducting an effective meeting, including ensuring that everyone at the meeting participates and keeping the discussion focused on the agenda. They will explore common problems that can arise during a meeting, and find out how to resolve them as well as master tactics for ending a meeting effectively and following up.

In this course, you will learn how to successfully negotiate agreements that benefit their future organization. You will also discover how to prepare for a negotiation, conduct tactical discussions, avoid common errors, and overcome obstacles.

In this course, you will learn how to conduct performance appraisals that provide valuable feedback. You will also discover how to prepare for and conduct productive discussions, and how to regularly follow up with your future employees so they can meet your goals.

In this course, you will learn what it means to measure a group’s or organization’s performance and why performance measurement is important. You will explore three common performance measurement systems and master a disciplined process for measuring a group’s performance – including determining what aspects of the group’s performance should be measured; choosing appropriate performance targets for a group; gathering and interpreting performance data on the metrics chosen; and avoiding common mistakes, such as tracking too many metrics or setting unrealistic targets.

In this course, you will learn to appreciate why the powers of persuasion are more critical than ever. You will discover tactics for strengthening your credibility, analyzing key aspects of people they want to persuade including what makes them resistent and making persuasive appeals that win their support.

In this course, you will learn how to analyze an audience and their setting (whether in-person or remote) to more effectively prepare for and deliver a presentation. You will also discover how to gather and use facts, evidence, stories, and media (including visual aids) to support their main messages. As well as explore tactics for rehearsing and managing challenges that can arise while presenting, whether it’s “stage fright” or provocative, tough questions from the audience.

In this course, you will learn what a business process is and how to use business process improvement to enhance efficiency and profitability. You will also discover how to detect signs of trouble, envision a better process, and how to test and roll out the improved process to ensure it delivers the desired results.

In this course, you will understand the skills and activities that effective project management requires. You will also learn how to clarify the project scope, including identifying the project’s stakeholders and key objectives as well as how to build a schedule and budget. The course explores tactics for assembling and managing a project team, as well as managing the risks that can derail the project. Furthermore, you will discover how to monitor the project’s spending, schedule, scope, and quality and how to keep stakeholders informed. Finally, you will learn how to close out the project and extract lessons that can apply to the next project.

In this course, you will learn how to reduce costly turnover and retain the best talent. You will explore the most common reasons employees leave and ways to avoid employee burnout. In addition, you will discover how to hire well and create an appealing culture especially for retaining cultural minorities, women, and young workers.

In this course, you will discover that in order to be successful, you need a clear, sound strategy. You will learn to initiate or contribute to the strategic planning process as well as evaluate the execution of the action plan and reward successful results.

In this course, you will learn the difference between positive and negative workplace stress. You will discover a framework to understand stress and take action to resolve it. Whether it’s managing stress in the moment or in the long-term you will learn tactics on how to keep a healthy work/life balance.

In this course, you will learn how to form a team by bringing together people with the skills and motivations needed to fulfill the team’s purpose and achieve its goals. You will discover the keys to establishing accountability, such as developing clear success measures, a realistic schedule, budget, and a sound plan. As well as how to lay the foundation for effective communication, including mastering communication and document management. And lastly, learn how to foster the right culture, including encouraging collaboration and ensuring that everyone understands what’s expected of them.

In this course, you will learn how to manage a team by building trust, strengthening team identity, and encouraging open communication and participation. You will discover steps to resolve destructive conflict and effective ways to evaluate the performance of individuals and the team as a whole.

In this course, you will discover the secrets to effective business writing, including how to clarify their purpose and audience. You will learn how to organize content using an outline, create a first draft while resisting the urge to edit and explore best practices for revising the first draft. You will also get a refresher on writing skills such as grammar, punctuation, structure, and style.